Nope, I'm not one of Snappy's cats, no need for a furry head-count. Just thought she might be upstairs neighbor

Posted by: blowfish at November 20, 2009 4:18 PM in response to Open Thread

Nevermind Snaps, I see that you're in the Slope. OK, i gotta get back to work

Posted by: blowfish at November 20, 2009 4:13 PM in response to Open Thread

Snappy...i've been meaning to ask you something but its a little awkward...do we live together?

Posted by: blowfish at November 20, 2009 4:12 PM in response to Open Thread

opened it, read it, it said they were suckers

Posted by: blowfish at November 20, 2009 3:53 PM in response to Open Thread

i got a letter form the government the other day

Posted by: blowfish at November 20, 2009 3:52 PM in response to Open Thread

wait, wha? Rihanna? did i fall asleep at my desk?

Posted by: blowfish at November 20, 2009 3:36 PM in response to Open Thread

also, bx, i remember learning that that the shift from using 'american indian' to 'native american' had been wholly initiated by ivory-tower white academics, which some in the american indian communities resented

Posted by: blowfish at November 20, 2009 3:34 PM in response to Open Thread

i had obama in my offices. i did not speak to him. he was surrounded by giggling admins.

Posted by: blowfish at November 20, 2009 2:54 PM in response to Open Thread

"If he doesn't want my commentary in this site, he can ban me, as he has done with others."

Posted by: benson at November 20, 2009 12:46 PM

oooh, who got banned and why? Dish. i have the attention span of a gnat today, so one sentence or less, pls

Posted by: blowfish at November 20, 2009 12:56 PM in response to Open Thread

meant clique. yeah, that's exactly what happened, DIBS, my friend admitted as much. he's jealous of old friends, but anon hook-ups are fine. wtf? now i'm going to mosey over the the friday links thread so i can feel more ostracized...

Posted by: blowfish at November 20, 2009 12:00 PM in response to Open Thread

you can have 'em both, DIBS. i thought it would be a short-term thing when they got together but now 3 years have passed, and the bf is older and is part of an impermeable cliche, so i'm out outsville. before this relationship the friend and i were inseparable.

Posted by: blowfish at November 20, 2009 11:43 AM in response to Open Thread

Never been to Asia, never had blowfish. I do know a fellow Bed-Stuyer who is fluent in Chinese and has promised to take me on an Asian tour one day, but last year he took his boyf instead

Posted by: blowfish at November 20, 2009 11:38 AM in response to Open Thread

Wait, meant Dennis-Miller-ish. Wait, what's that SOB's name again?

Posted by: blowfish at November 20, 2009 11:37 AM in response to Open Thread

No forumlated rants! Too Dennis-Learyish, blech. Only off-the-cuff rants please.

Posted by: blowfish at November 20, 2009 11:36 AM in response to Open Thread

maybe whoever is giving you internet access can also give you some food

Posted by: blowfish at November 20, 2009 11:32 AM in response to Open Thread

stevieb are you at a public library right now?

Posted by: blowfish at November 20, 2009 11:27 AM in response to Open Thread

Kens that Dekalb place looks v. yummy. Is it new? how did i miss it?

Posted by: blowfish at November 20, 2009 11:17 AM in response to Open Thread

oops meant ditto
g'night everyone

Posted by: blowfish at November 19, 2009 5:49 PM in response to Open Thread

talking to yourself denton?

everyone knows conversate, its part of the lexicon now, predates ginormous even. get with it, man!

Posted by: blowfish at November 19, 2009 5:35 PM in response to Open Thread

Legion/chicken/kens:
do you also watch the reality UFC show where they all live together? seems so boring

Posted by: blowfish at November 19, 2009 12:58 PM in response to Open Thread

LOL, Legion, that's true, especially if she let me dominate, and i bet she would

Posted by: blowfish at November 19, 2009 12:56 PM in response to Open Thread

I had no idea either THL. Not that in tune with my body; we barely speak.

ok Legion: really trying to answer based on the fun-meter, not ideology- and, i have to say, Garafalo and....secone one is harder, neither seem to listen to their own guests, and I hate having to give explicit directions... but i'd have to go with Olberman

Posted by: blowfish at November 19, 2009 12:44 PM in response to Open Thread

Just getting caught up here now...

Anne Coulter is so repulsive, i think she would be *terrible* in bed, it would be the worst time ever, even with my eyes shut tight

sorry about my six-word contribution to the game

Anyone finding it harder to eat meat with Brooklynite Jonathan Safran Foer everywhere talking about his new book?

Posted by: blowfish at November 19, 2009 12:32 PM in response to Open Thread

For whatever its worth, ExTex, after a long + forceful delivery, my business snapped right back afterward (even though the rest of my body didn't)

Posted by: blowfish at November 19, 2009 12:10 PM in response to Open Thread

THL and Arkady: "Feral cats make good target practice"

Posted by: blowfish at November 19, 2009 10:38 AM in response to Open Thread

chicken, was it awkward? Do you immediately regret it? Or did you regret having lost contact for 20 yrs?

Posted by: blowfish at November 18, 2009 11:43 AM in response to Open Thread

*rob* you are my fave. i have taken to scanning the OT for your posts as quick relief from work. OK, back to it now.

Posted by: blowfish at November 18, 2009 11:39 AM in response to Open Thread

sounds like a trapped mouse but if you do use traps generally, do not use the sticky kind-- they're too mean, plain and simple. i don't get the point of those. use the old fasioned snap traps-- i did years ago and they work great. the break the mouse's neck instantly. the sticky traps just cause the animal to starve to death, seems horrible.

Posted by: blowfish at November 16, 2009 12:18 PM in response to Animal Living in the Wall

John doesn't need to find a way to not return the $5k- he can just keep it, because you have no tenant rights. But if you stop paying rent, he has no legal rights to get it out of you, because he has no LL/lessor rights. I agree with whomever said stop paying rent for a month or two and move out, but don't tell him-- or, at the end, just tell him to use your security for the outstanding rent. You run the risk of him changing the locks but if you time it right, he won't, b/c it won't do him any good.

Posted by: blowfish at November 4, 2009 1:21 PM in response to Sublet/Share Legal Issue

this is real estate website. its perfectly reasonable to talk about the aesthetic aspect of this, and to be criticial of it in the same way you would any real estate development. Why should a religion (yes, as it happens, a cultish insular one) be an exception? Fugly condos and their buyers are also not hurting anyone. This doesn't mean anyone is saying the value of their religious congregation is inherently linked to the building aesthetics-- that's quite a leap, Ditmas Snark, and bxgirl, you're all over the place.

Posted by: blowfish at November 4, 2009 1:09 PM in response to Church Reboot on Clinton Avenue

OK, sounds nice but nevermind-- I think they're looking for something about $2K, even if its tiny. Just the hubby working. Thanks anyway.

Posted by: blowfish at November 3, 2009 3:58 PM in response to Tenants Breaking Lease

Where is the apt? I know a couple that is looking to rent in Brooklyn for Dec. 1. They are coming from England so I'm helping with the hunt. Maybe we could talk offline.

Posted by: blowfish at November 3, 2009 3:47 PM in response to Tenants Breaking Lease

Arkady i'm serious about the smelly cat-- i was thinking maybe now that's she's 7, she doesn't clean herslef as well? she's a long-hair black/white domestic

Posted by: blowfish at October 29, 2009 5:45 PM in response to Open Thread

chicken- we wouldn't need to increase taxes by 10%, i think you know that-- already today, a good chunk of tax money goes to healthcare, and we pay out-of-pocket, AND, employers pay about 20% on top of wages for healthcare. SO, done and done.

Posted by: blowfish at October 29, 2009 5:38 PM in response to Open Thread

Joe: i'm a blonde (no homo) and i comment on my own posts (no homo). now i'm out 4 reals.

Posted by: blowfish at October 29, 2009 5:16 PM in response to Open Thread

Snappy said rob could head of dept of labor, i think (i'm too lazy and self-entitled to scroll back and check).
even DIBS said i have all the answers, so, sounds like an endorsement to me. BF, Deputy Mayor.

DIBS i didn't think you were quite so Rand-sian, but i'm too new this forum.

Posted by: blowfish at October 29, 2009 4:46 PM in response to Open Thread

i like that spelled "too" in every possible way, and that now i'm commenting on my post with a metapost. di'd like to be deputy mayor, please

Posted by: blowfish at October 29, 2009 4:32 PM in response to Open Thread

Whoa, DIBS, too little, too late, for two small a population. That kind of market solution is way to slow- takes things to reach crises level first, with decades of despair, and short-sighted corporations losing out on long-term savings in the interim

Posted by: blowfish at October 29, 2009 4:29 PM in response to Open Thread

QOTD: Try your Ding on someone else.

that was the funniest, ditto! say it at your meeting.

BTW, All your base are belong to us.

Posted by: blowfish at October 29, 2009 4:23 PM in response to Open Thread

no, benson, didn't say that. i happen to agree the personal, out-of-pocket mandate on purchasing private insurance is not the answer, and shouldn't have a place in the debate.

(Snappy '09) (No homo)

Posted by: blowfish at October 29, 2009 2:42 PM in response to Open Thread

OK, ok, so American Apparel blows, got it

Posted by: blowfish at October 29, 2009 2:37 PM in response to Open Thread

benson don't be daft. most statutory debts don't come with jail time. IRS just attaches to your return or your bank account or your creditors/account receivables. There is a criminal IRS provision but that was specifically excluded from the health reform debate a long time ago.

Posted by: blowfish at October 29, 2009 2:36 PM in response to Open Thread

That's all i was sayin, Joe from Brooklyn. I'm out.

Posted by: blowfish at October 29, 2009 1:35 PM in response to Open Thread

DH: oops. OK, duly noted, AA not a helpful reference!

Posted by: blowfish at October 29, 2009 1:33 PM in response to Open Thread

DIBS, are you seriously pointing to Oprah Winfrey as proof that no social welfare or even labor regulations are needed because everyone is self-made.

KENS, not financially possible? Two words: American Apparel.

m4l: you not getting into MIT because you did not work hard enough = everyone else that didn't go to college or otherwise advance themselves the way the wanted must be because they didn't work hard enough-- did i get that right?

Posted by: blowfish at October 29, 2009 1:25 PM in response to Open Thread

rob, turns out kids *do* trick or treat in nyc. i think that neighborhood produce maps of which houses participate-- maybe you could get a hold of a map, dress up like a butterfly...

Posted by: blowfish at October 29, 2009 1:11 PM in response to Open Thread

um, why does no one get my 'chance to succeed' jab? I was saying that we should be careful not to confuse 'chance to succeed' with equal opportunity for unaided success depending only on sheer individual will, and I don't think the latter is an objectionable goal

Posted by: blowfish at October 29, 2009 1:02 PM in response to Open Thread

No, Legion, ohmygod, I was saying that 'chance to suceed' is as relative a phrase as the word 'poor.' I was saying the boradest sense, everyone has free will, so even if the oppressed people in the other countires i mentioned conceivably could revolt, but that doesn't mean they are not oppressed. (BTW, we don't have 'mechanisms for revolutions? what deos that even mean?) Here in the states, just because people have free will doesn't mean everyone has equal opportunities to break free from the economic status, and that it is only a matter of individual will. God, my snarking is so clear.

Posted by: blowfish at October 29, 2009 12:35 PM in response to Open Thread

Snappy '09! I amking my own lapel pin out of office supplies as we speak...

Legion, people that work hard are due something, they are due the fair vaule of their labor. not everyone has a chance to do more than unskilled or low-skilled jobs, and thats not because they're lazy or don't 'learn from their mistakes.'

Posted by: blowfish at October 29, 2009 12:31 PM in response to Open Thread

i am asking you to examine what it is you mean when you say 'chance to succeed.' That is a phrase that thrown around too much. Maybe the people in the Congo have a chance to succeed, if they simply stage a violent revolution. Our working class people have systematic obstacles designed to keep them from advancing, designed to stop them from using their own labor as capital, despite the fact that some break through.

i am also thanking everyone for not pointing out my typo-bonanza today.

Posted by: blowfish at October 29, 2009 12:16 PM in response to Open Thread