trinacriabob

Please tell us you're NOT getting older....you're getting BETTER.

foreign films

incorrigible

on-clayv The French would say on-clauv But, thank God, we're not French. :AH-HA_wink: to our Quebecois friends on the board.

avoid

I won't say I never do it. Sometimes my "soft spot" gets affected and I will throw the remaining change or that rare dollar bill into the jar when I go up to the counter at a Starbucks or a pizza place. Tips are for table service. Until the last 5 or 10 years, I rarely saw tip jars at places where you walk up to get your coffee, tea, sandwich or pizza. Now they are everywhere. I don't really dig it and, if you use a credit card, there's that space for a tip that you either fill in or zero out in front of them. Talk about being put on the spot. I will only drop in money 10 % to 20 % of the time. That is if they are genuinely friendly and attentive or if they were generous with a portion. Run of the mill service means the pocket change is mine. Now, when I lived up in the Northwest, there was this transplanted Italian chick from the Northeast and she would ALWAYS put extra goodies in the bag. Her and I had a great rapport and she said I made her feel less homesick (even though I'm from L.A.). You bet I would tip to the tune of about what that cost.

Flybry, you 'da man!

tractor

So, buy a GM car with final assembly at the Oshawa plant and tell your douche bag friend(s) your are driving Canadian (where's that Canadian flag icon when you need it?)But hang onto the G6 if you like it!!! Hey, do you know how much CRAP I had to endure growing up in Southern California because I chose to drive a Cutlass Supreme? Let's not go there! Hang in there!

Flybry:I know Florida WELL. I love it. I have cousins (who I don't particularly like, though, in Dade and Broward counties). For some reason, I always assumed you lived on the Space Coast (Cocoa/Vero/etc.) but you live on the West Coast. I know that Rivieraranch and Harry (emh-emh) live closer to my cousins, as they have indicated that in their posts. At any rate, I think of Florida and I think of dance music...I swear, compared to any place else I have ever been, you can't channel surf without hitting dance music. It seems as thought the synthesizer is the sound of Florida. I like the pix you posted. We just need the Sunshine Skyway Bridge (beautiful design) to top it off!

You cheater!!! :AH-HA_wink: That's a photo montage. That bridge (God knows which, but not the Verrazzano, the GW nor the Brooklyn) AND that part of the skyline do NOT backdrop Lady Liberty.Show us some hum-drum L.I. suburbs instead!

Never made it up there when I lived in Atlanta. How far is it? I always went the other direction -- to Florida! Really, I though the South was conservative. They have earthy-crunchy granolas living in Asheville NC? I thought they were limited to Berkeley, Eugene, Olympia and Bellingham...oh yeah, and Boulder.Is Andie McDowell granola too? She looks like she could be earthed up to go that way. I have a cousin in Italy who is virtually her double...no lie. Lauren, did you just join up on the site?

Is that PV or Hollywood Riviera (Redondo Beach)? Nice.

Hey, Chargerino - that's a neat piece of Romanesque architecture one sees in the West...often in mining and Gold Rush towns, stretching all the way to Northern California. And those trees behind it, it looks very scenic. Evidently, you live in a very picturesque area.

Mary Jane

teetotaler

NASCAR

It's the latter. It's about the hypocrisy of "grandstanding" by some of these people who do the "look at me, look at me...I'm a model Christian" act and then don't uphold the values. I'd rather they not talk about it at all and do what they are supposed to do. I'd have more respect for them and would have an easier time identifying them as a Christian.

And it isn't even Halloween. Just before midnight PST and I come home to this. At any rate, I can think of two: 1) The Tate-LaBianca murders in L.A. perpetrated by the Manson clan. If you pick up that paperback and flip to the middle section where they have the B&W crime pictures, it really gives you a shudder or two or three or four. How those sickos (Manson et. al.) are still allowed to live is beyond me. The weird thing is that those houses (prime real estate) have sold and sold again. I don't think I could live there, no matter how nice. In fact, I know I couldn't live there. 2) This one is really weird. I was a little kid. I didn't see it but there was a lot of fuss in the neighborhood we lived in on one fine L.A. morning. Could you imagine going out to get your morning L.A. Times and finding a body slumped up against the tree in the lawn strip between the sidewalk and the curb? Well, that was the case for one of our neighbors. Our street was heavily treed and was fairly dark at night. Apparently, a bludgeoning victim was "done in" elsewhere and "dropped off" in our neighborhood. Walking by that tree gave me the creeps. Mustang, too much work in studio that you think of these topics? Cheer up, Spring Break is just around the corner!

I don't! I hope it didn't come off that way. Only when I'm on line and I read your details of how these things put you through some "gut wrenching"! I have so many friends who go through situations like this (dissimilar and similar contexts... and everything in between) and I seem to be "the listener" they unload on. For better or worse, it's a role I am accustomed to. Yikes. Never once used the word "drama queen"...just INTENSE. It's just that the solution is more obvious than you make it to be. Move on, sever contact...and be happy. Capisce? Buona notte. BTW, do rent that flick though....it's goofy, at best.

illegal alien

I look at everything from EVERY point of view..and EVERY angle...and analyze it over and over and over... This one chick I knew in college used to call me "Mr. Detail" because I nitpicked everything for the 3rd degree. However, I think that most people on the site of the 3rd degree variety or they wouldn't be here, right?

lunch special

P- Do you think you do this on purpose? I know men and women who seek things/people in life that they can't have just to drive themselves nuts. I wonder, because it has vestiges of it...the way you talk about your infatuation. Someone/something you can have too easily is "eh, so what." Someone/something you can't have fuels the fire of desire, anger, or any other emotion you care to insert that keeps you juiced. Is this what this is about? You were critical about a person you could have (and you could be TOTALLY right...a total dweeb...I could hear the obnoxious accent you described already) Yet, you rave about this person you can't have. And, your last quote, why can't you have access to "them"?... sounds so definitive. Given that you love movies about Italian issues, have you seen "Mambo Italiano?" Is your life anything like that? A little different than what I expected (though I knew the general plot) and ALL of the characters were a little too much, too cliche and melodramatic as hell. (The only one I understood, in "context," was Yolanda - she was his live-for-the-moment, no bullshit aunt who sold out and did all the right things you are supposed to do, on the traditional Italian track, only to find she was miserable and then took a "drastic" step. I only understand her because there are so many people from that background who buy into the program because it's what's expected). At any rate, back to you, is this the deal, because you agonize way too much? You remind me of so many high-drama Italians I know! :AH-HA_wink: :lol: "Guido 3,000 miles away."

lunch pail