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[Elendil's Heir]

Well, I suppose I could tidy up a bit here and there, but no, I'm actually pretty organized.

TNP wants to travel more in 2015.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Definitely. The older I get, the more I like being someplace else.

TNP likes travelling by train.

[Jizzelbin]

Yeah. I like just sitting down in my spot and not being bothered.

TNP has a yen for air-travel or going on safari in dune buggies.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Not huge with me, no.

TNP wouldn't mind an old school safari, with an army of bearers carrying his stuff.

[Jizzelbin]

That would be kind of fun. What was the movie with Ava Gardner with the safari and shit?

TNP would dislike being trapped in a jungle-monkey-cage, however. Not even with Ava Gardner.

[Elendil's Heir]

(I was just reading about Theodore Roosevelt's massive 1910 safari. It did sound fun!)

As to the jungle-monkey cage, definitely - sounds like no fun at all.

TNP would've gone on a date with Ava Gardner, in her prime.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Well, sure. And if Robert Graves could get some of that, why not me.

TNP has read more than one book by Robert a Graves.

[Elendil's Heir]

No, not a one, alas.

TNP has heard the story about Eva Gardner and J.R.R. Tolkien.

[Jizzelbin]

What????? No. And I believe Ava in *The Killers* (the first one) to be about the steamiest.

TNP has been surprised by trivia in the past day. eta so tell the one about that hobbit-man and Ava! also i don't think have read more than The White Goddess -- if I had time I guess Claudius would be fun, not really one of my people, Graves, but oh hey shit he wrote some good poems.

[Elendil's Heir]

No, not that recently.

Tolkien told the story in one of his letters (found here: http://www.amazon.com/Letters-J-R-R-...olkien+letters, a great resource for any Tolkien fan). He was at an Oxford faculty party in the late Fifties, I think it was, and got to talking to an attractive brunette. They hit it off and chatted for quite awhile. A mutual friend came up to them and said, "Neither of you know who the other is, do you?" They had to admit they didn't. The friend explained that Miss Gardner was a famous actress, while Prof. Tolkien was a famous writer. Tolkien was bemused by the whole experience - he was so unaware of pop culture that he didn't recognize Gardner (who was visiting the UK at the time), and she knew so little of literature that she'd never heard of The Lord of the Rings.

TNP knows of another unlikely meeting between two famous people.

[Jizzelbin]

Yeah, lots. Try to think, maybe a good one is Goedel and Einstein.

TNP feels that caretakers of children should take their group of upwards of a dozen little shrieking children to a damned playground, not unleash them in adults' ADULTS' city parks. I like to sit, smoke my tobacco, whatever, without feeling like I'm in the children of the corn or that I'm some bad influence. If they don't want to watch a grown man smoke, then don't come here.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Well, if there's playgrounds in the neighbourhood, that certainly makes sense.

TNP always loses at least one glove per winter.

[Jizzelbin]

Oh fucking A. I think of gloves as disposable property -- they might as well be made of latex, for all I care.

TNP thinks if ur going to take the effort to take a bunch of moron kids out (a) do it in a neighborhood w a kid park or (b) move somewhere else. Lots of us old people like kids, but we dont like being forced to (i) not smoke tobacco (ii) have a coffee without fear of some retard spilling it on their fucking face or (iii)) whatever because all of a sudden there are a bunch of shrieking children roaming around. There's no shame in smoking a pipe outdoors, nor should there be. Stop ruining my playground because your kids choose to play in the adult streets. Or make it a teaching moment -- "see, little billy, this is where adults come to sit down when they want to get off their feet!"

Or else just shut the fuck up about your retard pack of kids and act like an adult. Stupid fucking morons.

eta or (c) teach your kids to not be fucking morons.

[Elendil's Heir]

No, I'd have to disagree. Unless park rules prohibit kids (something I've never seen, at least during daylight hours), I'd say let 'em come.

TNP would love to be on a beach somewhere right now.

[Jizzelbin]

That sounds about perfect. Miles of white-sand, get some jogging/walking in, get some of that vitamin-D back in, listen to some tunes or even radio. Could spend all day doing that, rinse and repeat.

no there's nothing wrong with the kids -- it's just why make a field trip next to me and then make it seem like i'm sitting in a playground by choice! christ, they took an entire fieldtrip and deliberately chose where i was sitting to let these kids go apeshit? find yr own spot, morons! eta or just teach them by example to be cool -- I don't go around smoking bob marley joints or getting wasted and screwing harlots in public, because that's not what you do. teach your kids the same rules.

TNP would like a long vacation of any kind about now.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

OH GOD yes. The time I took off at Christmas seems a long, long way off now.

TNP thinks that of all the great things about New York City, Central Park may be the greatest.

[Elendil's Heir]

Most definitely. Love the place! PBS had a fine documentary recently on Olmsted and its creation. Worth a look: http://www.pbs.org/wned/frederick-law-olmsted/film/

TNP has seen a good documentary lately.

[Jizzelbin]

Yeah. the one about Carl Jung (lol!)

TNP thinks one of the good things about manhattan is that people are like "don't like it here? there's the door!"

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Actually, I always find Manhattanites pretty nice, although I try to use my head and not ask some guy who's obviously racing to an important meeting if he knows how to get to Carnegie Hall.

TNP mows how to get to Carnegie Hall.

[Elendil's Heir]

I only mow my own lawn, nothing in NYC.

TNP has been to NYC in the last 60 days.

[Jizzelbin]

Not in a few years.

TNP knows more than two tunes with the phrase "New York" in the title,

[Rube E. Tewesday]

You only need the one.

TNP is starting to think auto-correct creates more problems than it solves.

[Elendil's Heir]

I have long thought that. Sometimes it's funny; more often it's annoying.

TNP has gotten a new cellphone in the past six months.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Nah, it's been awhile.

TNP likes scones.

[Elendil's Heir]

Not as much as muffins, rugelach, doughnuts or buttered toast, but they're OK.

TNP prefers tomato soup to all others.

[Jizzelbin]

No way, no how. Nothing against it, it's just pretty acidic and watery to my tastes.

TNP doesn't really like soup that much, even if it's a good one. Or it has a bunch of grains in it. Or is thick, like pea soup or menudo.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

False, love soup, could happily live on soup and eggs.

TNP prefers boysenberry more than any ordinary jam.

[Jizzelbin]

Fuck yeah. Not only are they aesthetically interesting, I think they taste great.

TNP doesn't much care for strawberries, though -- I spent a summer picking them as a child and they were a PITA, and too many strawberries are not perfectly ripened or are blemished.

[Elendil's Heir]

Wrongy wrong wrong. I love strawberries. My favorite way to eat 'em: rinse them in cold water, cut them up, sprinkle a little sugar on them, and put them in the fridge for a few minutes. Then remove and put a little vanilla ice cream on top. Yum!

TNP has something in his or her fridge that's more than a year old.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Yeah, probably. There's a couple jars at the back that nobody wants to look at too closely.

TNP goes to more than 20 movies a year.

[Elendil's Heir]

I wish! No, probably closer to a dozen or so. I watch quite a few on DVD at home, though.

TNP has a strong favorite to win the Best Picture Oscar this year.

[Jizzelbin]

No clue. *Annie Hall*, *Raging Bull*?

TNP is totally chill with not knowing what the current generation (gen-Z?) is watching on their japanese phones.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Well, I kinda like to have a broad idea of what my kid is watching, withou getting into detail.

TNP texts on a regular basis.

[Jizzelbin]

Absofuckinglutely. I hate doing voice-mail tag. I refuse to do the smrtphone thing, primarily b/c I think the data plans in the US are absurd, but I primarily text with my peeps.

TNP will never own a "smartWatch" (a prof yesterday had to caution her examinands at a test, "if you have a smartwatch, turn it off"). Brings to mind the Stones "earphone necks, you're so twentieth century!"

[Elendil's Heir]

Probably not. I've gotten out of the habit of wearing a watch at all.

TNP looks at a clock of some kind at least twice an hour, on average.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Yeah, kind of obsessed with time.

TNP likes to watch cooking shows, but doesn't actually cook that much.

[Jizzelbin]

Used to, back when i was a decent home cook. Now, no way, all these celebutard chefs and it got all trendy and shit.

TNP doesn't read the newspapers.

[Elendil's Heir]

Not very much. I check headlines on CNN.com daily, and my local newspaper's website on occasion.

TNP has a favorite news website.

[Jizzelbin]

Naw. If I hear something around the proverbial water cooler I want to look up, my long-time online standard is just Reuters (that and the AP was how I stayed informed on 9/11, back in the wild days of the web), but these days, I just google it up and follow whatever links show up. I do still like the NY Times, though I haven't bought one for years -- I am proud to be a long-time Saturday solver -- even though it's kind of a hippie rag of yellow journalism. it's still the newspaper of record, along with the WSJ, which is my other newspaper I used to read

TNP is feeling really sluggish and should take more exercise. after buying moleskin for sore feet

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Yeah, I could always use more exercise, I guess, but I do have a mild cold which is making me a bit more sluggish.

TNP is surprised to be reading so much about Bruce Jenner in 2015.

[Jizzelbin]

Speaking of news, I think I accidentally saw some google headline ad about a half hour ago. More a Joe Henderson (the runner, not the musician) guy when it comes to philosophy of running, but I certainly recall just from general knowledge who he was. Didn't he make those kardashian people or something? Anyway, yeah, I was surprised to see a blip of a headline about some runner from the 1970s.

TNP has had about enough of this crazy-ass weather.

[Elendil's Heir]

Cold here and plenty of snow recently, but no, I'm not to the point of minding it yet.

TNP watched the Grammys last night.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Nah, I have no idea who is doing anything, and besides, the Grammys.

TNP thinks there are way too many show business awards, or at least too much attention paid to them by people outside the business.

[Jizzelbin]

Not sure -- I can see ueber-fans paying all kinds of attention to whatever circle-jerk awards are happening. I guess they can have their little nurd fun -- it doesn't hurt me any, and I can occasionally get a nice light conversation going just hanging out during a break, so that way I don't have to bother with that myself. I'm a movie fan myself, but I don't actually care enough to watch some awards. Ditto the Grammies, the Emmies, the Tonies, the Daytime Emmies, the Teen Choice.....goddamm that list really does seem interminable. OTOH someone told me Neil Patrick Harris (or whatever his name is) was going to be hosting the Academy awards. He's a funny guy, so the groundlings should have a good time.

TNP

[Elendil's Heir]

Yes. No. Or something in-between.

TNP likes enigmas.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Nah, I like things cut and dried, I just don't get things that way.

TNP can't understand why Bob Dylan would go attacking Tom T. Hall, of all people.

[Elendil's Heir]

Guess not - hadn't even heard that had happened.

TNP already has summer travel plans.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Yes, going on a Disney Cruise, amongst other things.

TNP suffers from seasickness.

[Elendil's Heir]

Yes, unfortunately. I love the sea and naval history, but once the ship I'm on starts going up and down, my stomach rebels.

TNP has barfed in the past 30 days.

[Jizzelbin]

Ha! Over the past two weeks or more, that happens in the morning three or so times a week. Extremely unpleasant, and I've never puked while drinking, except when I was a teenager/young adult. I blame allergies dripping mucus down my throat.

TNP has consumed an entire 1.75L bottle of whiskey in one day.