And it's on, let's get it on, let's war

[thorne_scratch]

Last week's weather made me think spring was just around the corner, and then it sucker-punched me in the kidney with snow and ice yesterday. Uncool, February. Very uncool. I have not the brain power for actually making a real post. Let's just throw some stuff all up in here and leave the real postings for later.

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[twigcollins]

b) One day I will kill you. Then I will be a.

I am laughing so hard right now.

We will see if this holds up to the summer, when I expect the inside of the car may smell more like high-proof applejack.

So... business as usual, then.

Hey did you hear that some people got in a fight at a Denny's over the maple syrup? Aw, wait I guess not. Hey, still. Fight at Dennys.

[thorne_scratch]

You'll always be able to tell if I'm not myself, because I won't be ripping off Penny Arcade/Achewood/Futurama/Simpsons jokes. Also, I assume I'll have some kind of goatee.

So... business as usual, then.

These past couple summers I've leaned towards a more mojito-like atmosphere in the car, with a brief but memorable pina colada period, but I think it's time to change it up again.

some people got in a fight at a Denny's over the maple syrup?

Super Trooper reference for the win! Awesome. Did they check and make sure Charlie Sheen wasn't behind it all?

[twigcollins]

Charlie Sheen is the patron saint of assholes. He is everywhere and nowhere. And by nowhere I mean puking out back by the dumpster.

[twigcollins]

... also he will totally get you that $50 bucks he borrowed.

[thorne_scratch]

...see this has changed my perspective, now I think spilling applesauce was a lucky thing, in comparison! Fortunately, I have not had to deal with dog pee in cars; the only times we took the guest corgi driving, we had to mainly help him get into the car, and then drive smoothly enough so he wouldn't just fall off the seat. Which he still did, on occasion. (I admit, it was hilarious. He never seemed to mind.)

No lie, that's generally how the titling process goes down. The last three stories have been, like, "HOW WE GONNA DO THIS, LET'S USE iTUNES, OH DAMN IT IS A SONG ABOUT HOW HARD IT IS OUT HERE FOR A PIMP (no lie again, I was all set to title it with the first thing that came up and "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp" was the song it produced) AND THAT WILL NOT WORK IN THIS CONTEXT."

[thorne_scratch]

Corgis are adorable. I have whiled away many a happy hour both watching our guest corgi and watching other corgis on youtube.

The more I think about it, the more fandoms I can somehow apply "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp" to (Utena jumps to mind, as does FF8 for various reasons) but yeah, I used to lean towards the one word titles as well because I was much more impatient about posting finished work. Now I tend to let finished work sit around on my hard drive until I am less convinced it sucks or that I forget I finished it in the first place. Also, I developed a rather embarrassing penchant for using both lower case and parentheses, and that is simply no good to foster too heavily.

Man, I wouldn't rec my process to anyone. That way lies madness!

[anonymous]

For some odd reason titles are harder than ever to come up with. I kinda miss the days when titles would just kinda pop into my head and make sense.

Completely unrelated, I saw a great ASL video of someone performing "Fuck You!" and it was awesome. Somehow I doubt LJ will allow me to post a link since I am anonymous here, darn it. Here it is, anyway: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv3tadz5Q3o

~soranokumo

[thorne_scratch]

Me too. Like Dev said above, my titles used to be much shorter, almost always one word, and now they want to be, like, epic. Silly things.

I saw that vid! It's pretty great, isn't it? I mean, I do like the song because it is so cheery in tone. Plus, you know, Atari reference. Can't go wrong there.

[forsweatervests]

Oh, gross. I am judging you. I am judging you so hard. There had been, you know, feet on that carpet! And then you plunged your hands into it! And, you know, germs! Ohhh, man.

(I recently soaked my carpet in coffee via almost the same thing and despite carpet cleaner, soaking the mat in the bath tub, etc., the smell still hasn't gone away. I've resigned myself to having a coffeecar from now on.)

[thorne_scratch]

To be accurate, I don't actually like my coworkers, so I probably would have done something malicious to the applesauce anyway. I'm kind of an asshole that way. But, I never serve dropped food to people I care about. That they know of. Well, and in general.

(I mean, of all things to have the car smelling like, I think I actually came out ahead on this one. Coffee could be worse!)

[forsweatervests]

Hahh, well, I'm not sure I can argue with that, then. I probably wouldn't have gone to the trouble of making applesauce in the first place. Jarred is good enough for those fuckers.

(You're definitely the winner in this situation. Apples smell so, so, so delicious. It must be like living in an apple pie.)

[thorne_scratch]

It was one of those special spite-pride combinations of "I hate these people but I also want to show up their Safeway-bought pan of brownies." I am too often a victim of the spite-pride.

(It is totally delicious! Though I would expect coffee might have its perks. Morning ride, wake you right up on the way to work. It is basically a lot better than the time my brother spilled a pan full of leftover General Tsao's chicken from a banquet dinner in the family van, which smelled distinctly vinegary for the rest of the summer.)

[shati]

I can't judge, I'd probably eat the applesauce even if I knew. If I can't see bacteria, they can't hurt me. It's science.

[thorne_scratch]

I did eat the applesauce, in solidarity. I'm not picky. And it still smelled good. THE FIVE SECOND RULE IS TOTALLY SCIENCE NO MATTER WHAT MYTHBUSTERS SAYS.