James Gillen

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Speaking of which, if PLAYBOY runs another magazine cover with that no-talent stringbean, I'm cancelling my subscription.
 
JG

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Me too.
 
Those "two" characters were a large part of what made this board a nice place to be, which is why the whole deception is such a bummer.
 
JG

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"My big question, though, is why The Addams Family isn't out on DVD yet. America's youth need role models, and who better than Gomez Addams?"
-Glenn Reynolds, instapundit.com

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Well the first thing ya know, ol' Jeb's a millionaire
The kinfolk said, "Jeb, move away from there!
Yer family's in the White House, that's why y'oughtta run"
So they loaded up the van and moved to Washington
 
D.C., that is
Office pools... call girls!

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"Punk Rock Girl" came on the radio and it was mentioned to me about Dave Blood, the bassist's passing. I hadn't realized that. It was suicide, here's an article on it - http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000460203 .
 
On a side note, upon hearing "Punk Rock Girl", I realized why I don't bother with pop-punk much...it's become such a formula, post-Green Day's success (and no insult to them, they just did what they did, but like with everything else the corporate music bandwagon took it and created a few simple formula to now follow, from their sound to Rancid's sound to maybe 2 or 3 others (if that)), thus killing off the sense of fun and originality as evidenced by the Dead Milkmen, among so many others. They weren't "great" players or even great songwriters, but their stuff soars above something like Good Charlotte or such, and moreover, more importantly, it reminds me when all those post-punk pop bands had their own ideas, their own PERSONALITY. Heck, the Dead Milkmen weren't really punk at all in terms of looks, they were just geeky guys who liked punk rock and had hung around it for a while, and liked music in general. Like the Meat Puppets, or like so many others. And now this.
 
And it's criminal that Mojo Nixon doesn't have a hit single to his name. "Destroy All Lawyers" or "Elvis is Everywhere" alone should have put him into the limelight. Ah well...
 
Just because I like the song and just because, personallly, when I read lyrics it reminds me of the tune and of the spirit, and I think it does others, here's "Punk Rock Girl"'s lyrics.
 
Dead Milkmen
Punk Rock Girl
 
One Saturday I took a walk to Zipperhead
I met a girl there
And she almost knocked me dead
Punk rock girl please look at me
Punk rock girl what do you see?
Let's travel round the world
Just you and me punk rock girl
 
I tapped her on the shoulder
And said do you have a beau?
She looked at me and smiled
And said she did not know
Punk rock girl give me a chance
Punk rock girl let's go slamdance
We'll dress like Minnie Pearl
Just you and me punk rock girl
 
We went to the Phillie Pizza Company
And ordered some hot tea
The waitress said "Well no
We only have it iced"
So we jumped up on the table
And shouted "anarchy"
And someone played a Beach Boys song
On the jukebox
It was "California Dreamin'"
So we started screamin'
"On such a winter's day"
 
She took me to her parents
For a Sunday meal
Her father took one look at me
And he began to squeal
Punk rock girl it makes no sense
Punk rock girl your dad is the Vice President
Rich as the Duke of Earl
Yeah you're for me punk rock girl
 
We went to a shopping mall
And laughed at all the shoppers
And security guards trailed us
To a record shop
We asked for Mojo Nixon
They said "He don't work here"
We said "If you don't got Mojo Nixon
Then your store could use some fixin'"
 
We got into a car
Away we started rollin'
I said "How much you pay for this?"
She said "Nothing man,
it's stolen"
Punk rock girl you look so wild
Punk rock girl let's have a child
We'll name her Minnie Pearl
Just you and me
Eating fudge banana swirl
Just you and me
We'll travel round the world
Just you and me punk rock girl
 
(PS note - reminds me too how many whiny punks I've known who don't like being "portrayed" as thieves as in the song above or as in Repo Man - no sense of humor).

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Scotty: The last one left.
Andromedan: What is it?
Scotty: It's- [sniffs]... it's... it's...
it's green.
 
JG

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OK. I know we aren't supposed to post pictures that are adult in nature, nor should we post links to such websites. But there is this very cool site with excellent very pencil art I'd love to share with the boards. It involves many nudes of super-heroes (well, heroines mostly - and drawn very top-heavy at that - with Supergirl, Batgirl and Wonder Woman as frequent favorites...) and other hot cartoon characters (Liberty Meadow's anyone?). It also involves them in highly explicit activities.
 
Thing is... is it permissable for me to even reference that kind of link here?

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I think everyone should boycott any place that advertises for Christmas (i.e. TV ads) before Thanksgiving.
 
How freakin' annoying!
 
Mags

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Well, the cute thing is, it's true.
 
JG

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Long time ago me and my buddy Kyle
We were traveling down
A long and lonesome road
All of a sudden
There shined a shiney demon
In the middle
Of the road
 
AND HE SAID-
"Plaaaaaaay the best
Sooooonnnng in the world
Or I'll eat your souls"
 
Well me and Kyle
We looked at each other-
And WE EACH SAID----
"okay."

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Human Fly by The Cramps
---
Well I'm a human fly
I spell (it) F-L-Y
I say buzz buzz buzz
and it's just because
I'm a human fly
and I don't know why
I've got 96 tears
and 96 eyes
 
I've got a garbage brain
it's driving me insane
and I don't like writhe
so push that pestaside
 
baby I won't care
cause baby i don't scare
cause I'm a reborn maggot
using germ warfare
 
rock it
 
I'm a human fly
I spell F L Y
I say buzz buzz buzz
and it's just because
I'm an unzipped fly
and I don't know why
and I don't know why
but I say buzzzz
rock tonight
and I say buzzzz
rock it right
and I say buzzzz
but I don't know why
I just don't know why

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With one foot on the platform
The other foot on the train
I'm goin' back to New Orleans
To wear that ball and chain

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You and me both. I am not sure there is anything more hypocritical than some company having a machine call me and tell me how important my call is to them, etc etc etc.
 
No, if it was important you'd have the common courtesy to have a real life human being call me you putz.

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Wrestling is not fake.
Wrestling is staged.
Political conventions are fake.
 
JG

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Wrestling is not fake.
Wrestling is staged.
Political conventions are fake.
 
JG

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John Kerry is the kindest, bravest, warmest man I've ever known in my life.
 
JG

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When Antediluvians Attack (LONG!)
 
TREMERE: "Awright, Haqim! I have HAD it with you! You're gonna die!"
 
HAQIM: "Says you. Phbbbt!"
 
TREMERE: "Oh, yeah? Thaumaturgy 10, Lure of Flames! I blow up Asia!"
 
HAQIM: "Celerity 10. I dodge. I'm now standing in the middle of the ocean."
 
TREMERE: "Thaumaturgy 10, Neptune's Might. I boil the oceans."
 
HAQIM: "Obfuscate 10. What ocean?"
 
TREMERE: "Thaumaturgy 10, Movement of the Mind. I hit the remaining ocean with the moon."
 
LASOMBRA: "Tag in! Obtenebration 9. What moon?"
 
TREMERE: "Auspex 10. *That* moon."
 
LASOMBRA: "Tag out!"
 
HAQIM: "Oh crap. Umm... Quietus 10."
 
TREMERE: "Here comes the big ball of rock, baby!"
 
[HAQIM is squished]
 
BRUJAH: "Didn't Haqim just activate Quietus 10?"
 
NOSFERATU: "And it was a surprisingly quiet squishing. Stupid discipline."
 
TREMERE: "Lasombra..."
 
LASOMBRA: "Tag, um, Tzimisce!"
 
TZIMISCE: "Vicissitude 10. Try that moon trick now, spellboy."
 
TREMERE: "Tag Ventrue!"
 
VENTRUE: "Dominate 10. Who's your daddy?"
 
TZIMISCE: "You're my daddy."
 
LASOMBRA: "Tag in! Potence 10. Feel the pain!"
 
VENTRUE: "Fortitude 10! What pain?"
 
LASOMBRA: "Obtenebration 10! I hope you like small, dark places."
 
VENTRUE: "####."
 
[VENTRUE vanishes]
 
LASOMBRA: "I have ALWAYS wanted to do that."
 
TZIMISCE: "Vicissitude 10. Lasombra, you're now a small ball of cheese."
 
SMALL BALL OF CHEESE: "WHY?"
 
TZIMISCE: "Ventrue still calls the shots. Read Dominate 10."
 
SMALL BALL OF CHEESE: "Damn, he's right."
 
TZIMISCE: "Animalism 10. Horde of cheese-eating mice."
 
SMALL BALL OF CHEESE: "Obtenebration 10. I am a shadow of a small ball of
cheese."
 
TZIMISCE: "Tag Tremere!"
 
TREMERE: "Thaumaturgy 10, Lure of Flames. Shadow of fondue, you mean."
 
SMALL BALL OF CHEESE: *fwoosh*
 
NOSFERATU: "Animalism 10. They're MY horde of mice."
 
TZIMISCE: "Animalism 10. Mine."
 
NOSFERATU: "Mine!"
 
TZIMISCE: "Gimme!"
 
BRUJAH: "Celerity 10 AND Potence 10. I crush Tzimisce and Nosferatu while they're still arguing about the mice."
 
NOSFERATU: "Urk." [dies]
 
TZIMISCE: "Urk." [reforms] "Love that Vicissitude 10."
 
BRUJAH: "Oh, dearie."
 
TZIMISCE: "Now the mice are MINE!"
 
[MASKED AVENGER #1 appears from nowhere]
 
MASKED AVENGER #1: "All of you shall die for consorting with our enemies! Or, in some cases, actually being our enemies."
 
ENNOIA: "Who the heck are *you*?"
 
MASKED AVENGER #1: "Oh, sorry. I'm early."
 
[MASKED AVENGER #1 vanishes]
 
TZIMISCE: "Not even the first Masked Avenger, whoever he was, can stop me!"
 
ARIKEL: "Auspex 10. What *can* stop someone with Vicissitude 10? Oh, diablerie."
 
TREMERE: "Thaumaturgy something or other. I weaken Arikel a generation."
 
ARIKEL: "You just made that up!"
 
TREMERE: "Trust me, you'll like it."
 
BRUJAH: "Potence 10. I expend a barrage of fisticuffs upon Tzimisce."
 
TZIMISCE: "Vicissitude 10. I can ignore them."
 
ENNOIA: "Animalism 10. My mice."
 
TZIMISCE: "Mine!"
 
TREMERE: "Quick, Arikel! Diablerize Tzimisce while he's distracted!"
 
AUGUSTUS: "Necromancy 10, Bone Path! The dead have risen- and they're voting Republican!"
 
TREMERE: "Don't you guys *ever* stop worrying about temporal power?"
 
AUGUSTUS: "Umm. No."
 
MALKAV: "Dementation 10! Everyone goes absolutely crazy!"
 
[there is a pause]
 
[the pause lengthens]
 
BRUJAH: "You feel any different, Ennoia?"
 
ENNOIA: "Nope. You?"
 
BRUJAH: "Nope. Tremere?"
 
TREMERE: "Nope."
 
AUGUSTUS: "Me neither."
 
BRUJAH: "Nobody asked you."
 
MALKAV: "Well, THAT was a non-starter."
 
TZIMISCE: "Well, I *gurgle*..."
 
ARIKEL (dropping diablerized corpse of Tzimisce): "*I* sure feel different!"
 
ENNOIA: "Well, that settles it. My mice."
 
ARIKEL: "I now have Animalism 10. Mine!"
 
MALKAV: "CATFIGHT!"
 
BRUJAH: "Mousefight, actually."
 
AUGUSTUS: "How droll."
 
TREMERE: "Thaumaturgy 10, Hands of Destruction. I kill the freakin' mice, already."
 
ARIKEL: "Waaahhh!"
 
AUGUSTUS: "Zombie mice!"
 
ENNOIA: "Bastards."
 
[MASKED AVENGERS #1, #2, and #3 appear]
 
MASKED AVENGER #2: "Prepare to meet final death at the hands of the Masked Avengers!"
 
MASKED AVENGER #3: "Especially you, Tremere!"
 
MASKED AVENGER #2: "No, especially *you*, Augustus!"
 
MASKED AVENGER #3: "Tremere!"
 
MASKED AVENGER #2: "Augustus!"
 
ENNOIA: "Who *are* you guys, anyway?"
 
MASKED AVENGER #3: "It's a secret. That's why we're wearing masks."
 
BRUJAH: "Speaking of which, why does your mask have three eyeholes?"
 
MASKED AVENGER #3: "To be distinctive."
 
BRUJAH: "Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of wearing a mask?"
 
MASKED AVENGER #1: "You always were a smartass."
 
BRUJAH: "Potence 10. I punch the first Masked Avenger."
 
MASKED AVENGER #1: "Ow." [dies]
 
MASKED AVENGER #2: "We other Masked Avengers are not so easily thwarted! We shall have our revenge! Especially on you, Augustus!"
 
MASKED AVENGER #3: "Tremere!"
 
MASKED AVENGER #2: "Augustus!"
 
AUGUSTUS: "Can we get rid of these guys?"
 
TREMERE: "Sure you take care of the guy with the three eyeholes in his mask, and I'll take the guy who says he's my archenemy."
 
MASKED AVENGER #3: "I, with the three eyes, am your archenemy, Tremere."
 
TREMERE: "Whatever."
 
AUGUSTUS: "Potence 10. I crush the guy with the three eyes."
 
MASKED AVENGER #3: "Fortitude 10. I soak."
 
TREMERE: "Thaumaturgy 10, Lure of Flames. I obliterate Masked Avenger #2."
 
MASKED AVENGER #2: "Fortitude 10. I soak."
 
BRUJAH: "Like the guest that won't leave, aren't they?"
 
AUGUSTUS: "I can handle this. Necromancy 10, Ash Path. I summon the spirits of those who have died tragically."
 
SPIRITS OF THOSE WHO HAVE DIED TRAGICALLY: "We are here."
 
AUGUSTUS: "Explain your tragedies to the Masked Avengers."
 
[The SPIRITS OF THOSE WHO HAVE DIED TRAGICALLY do so]
 
MASKED AVENGER #3: "Oh, the Angst! I cannot *bear* it!"
 
[MASKED AVENGER #3 commits suicide]
 
MASKED AVENGER #2: "How fascinating. I wish to learn more."
 
AUGUSTUS: "Spirits of those who have died tragically, return to the Shadowlands."
 
[The SPIRITS OF THOSE WHO HAVE DIED TRAGICALLY do so]
 
MASKED AVENGER #2: "I must follow them to learn more."
 
[MASKED AVENGER #2 commits suicide]
 
ARIKEL: "Well, *that* took forever. But now it's done. Now what?"
 
TREMERE: "Auspex 10 and Thaumaturgy 10, Lure of Flames. I incinerate Set in that corner he's been hiding."
 
[sET turns to ashes]
 
AUGUSTUS: "Letting everyone else do the fighting and taking out the winners? I am shocked, SHOCKED."
 
BRUJAH: "Shocked that you didn't think of it first."
 
AUGUSTUS: "And I *deeply* deplore that."
 
[MASKED AVENGER #1 appears]
 
MASKED AVENGER #1: "Prepare to meet final death at the hands of the Masked Avenger!"
 
BRUJAH: "You ever have the feeling of deja vu?"
 
MASKED AVENGER #1: "Constantly."
 
ENNOIA: "Enough of this. Protean 10. Welcome to the sun, boys!"
 
TREMERE: "Hah! Thaumaturgy 10, Invulnerable Weakness!"
 
[MASKED AVENGER #1 goes *fwoosh*]
 
[bRUJAH goes *fwoosh*]
 
[MALKAV goes *fwoosh*]
 
[ARIKEL goes *fwoosh*]
 
AUGUSTUS: "Hah! You've played perfectly into my master plan! No, wait."
 
[AUGUSTUS goes *fwoosh*]
 
TREMERE: "Thaumaturgy 10, Neptune's Might. I extinguish Ennoia."
 
[ENNOIA goes *fwoosh*]
 
TREMERE: "Woo hoo, I won!"
 
RAVNOS: "Forgot me."
 
TREMERE: "You? Where the heck have you been?"
 
RAVNOS: "Keeping a low profile."
 
TREMERE: "And you didn't burn up in the sun?"
 
RAVNOS: "Fortitude 10, baby. And I'll thank you not to kill off my mice."
 
TREMERE: "PREPARE TO DIE!"
 
RAVNOS: "Not so fast! Chimeristry 10!"
 
TREMERE: "Chimeristry 10? You mean..."
 
RAVNOS: "Yup. ''Reality.'' I'll turn us all into a roleplaying game."
 
TREMERE: "You wouldn't!"
 
RAVNOS: "I just did."
 
TREMERE: "NOOOOOOOO!!!"
 
[RAVNOS, TREMERE, and the corpses of the other antediluvians are replaced by a series of hardback and paperback game supplements]
 
THE END

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Originally on the Minutemen album 3 Way Tie For Last:
 

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lemming:

 
This is the most awesome sig EVER.
 
JG

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I quit the taxi driver job this week.
 
One of the several security posts I had previously applied for (months ago, before the taxi company hired me) called back with an opening. I took it. The supervisor is one of the nicer people I've ever met, and the gated community we're serving couldn't be more laid back.
 
Thing is, with the cab job, I got tips, but since I was working day shift, these were generally in the $30-40 range- pretty good, but not as good as night could be. More importantly, I was still obliged to pay for gas. And 20 cents a far to the state Taxicab Authority. And various other fees that were NOT assessed on the pay stub. Such that, even though on paper we're supposed to be getting 50% commission on the fares, I could gross over $1600 a pay period for the company and end up with less than $400 a check after they took the 50% commission and applied creative accounting techniques to THAT.
 
With tips, I was getting marginally better than the money I was making at unarmed security working 40 hours a week for $7 an hour. Before the gated community called for the security post, I had considered just going to another cab company to see if the commission was better.
 
More importantly, though, I just got sick of working 55+ hours a week and not getting any sleep cause I had to wake up at 3:30 in the morning to work til 3:30 in the afternoon. Again, for a commission that ended up being equal to or less than what I was getting on a mediocre hourly wage.
 
At least this way I'll have enough time to write adventures for a Fantasy HERO game.
 
JG

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The Perks of Being a Cab Driver
 
In the second part of my cab driving shift today, I got a call to go south, which turned out to be the Sheriff's Department Fingerprinting Office. There I met up with the fare, two rather, uh, well-built women with baggage. I helped them in and said, "are you guys going to the airport?" They said, "no, we just got here from the airport. We need to go to the nearest strip club."
 
Turns out they were both stopping in town to strip at the local clubs during the convention this week and needed to get a referral from at least one of the strip clubs before they could get their cards to work in Nevada. As we drove around, they talked about how dead business is in California, but when they got here they found out they had to get fingerprinted- and pay for that- and get a referral from the employer- and pay for that- then come back to the Sheriff's Office for the cards- and pay for THAT. BEFORE getting hired and making money. I said, "sounds just like being a cab driver."
 
First place they went was closed til 2. Second place gave them a business registration form, but NOT a referral, so we kept driving. By the time I took them to another club way up the street, the meter was $19. They said, "if we come for a referral in this place, they're gonna want us to audition.
 
"Do you want to come in and watch?"
 

 
So... I did. And because it was afternoon, and I was the cab driver, the club let me in with no cover (though I pissed off $7 on overpriced soda and tips just to be customer-ly). End result, I spent almost 2 hours on this, got enough in tips to make up for what I spent, and the girls liked my service enough that they said they might call for my cab number the next time they need a drive.
 
And give me a free lap dance.
 
Both of them.
 

 
JG

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The Perks of Being a Cab Driver
 
In the second part of my cab driving shift today, I got a call to go south, which turned out to be the Sheriff's Department Fingerprinting Office. There I met up with the fare, two rather, uh, well-built women with baggage. I helped them in and said, "are you guys going to the airport?" They said, "no, we just got here from the airport. We need to go to the nearest strip club."
 
Turns out they were both stopping in town to strip at the local clubs during the convention this week and needed to get a referral from at least one of the strip clubs before they could get their cards to work in Nevada. As we drove around, they talked about how dead business is in California, but when they got here they found out they had to get fingerprinted- and pay for that- and get a referral from the employer- and pay for that- then come back to the Sheriff's Office for the cards- and pay for THAT. BEFORE getting hired and making money. I said, "sounds just like being a cab driver."
 
First place they went was closed til 2. Second place gave them a business registration form, but NOT a referral, so we kept driving. By the time I took them to another club way up the street, the meter was $19. They said, "if we come for a referral in this place, they're gonna want us to audition.
 
"Do you want to come in and watch?"
 

 
So... I did. And because it was afternoon, and I was the cab driver, the club let me in with no cover (though I pissed off $7 on overpriced soda and tips just to be customer-ly). End result, I spent almost 2 hours on this, got enough in tips to make up for what I spent, and the girls liked my service enough that they said they might call for my cab number the next time they need a drive.
 
And give me a free lap dance.
 
Both of them.
 

 
JG