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Yes, now that we're calling it Pigalle, this place makes a nice little thread. I'm thinking Prick is the new Huh.

I'll be around this afternoon/evening, but tomorrow we're taking off on our trip (a day delayed) and will be gone all weekend. I'm past due to bust outta this joint (my house, I mean) and go see some actual civilization. If San Diego can be called that. Need to go feel the wind in my hair, the bugs hitting the windshield, the toddler kicking my seat... It'll be like that trip through the desert in Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, only without the drugs.

Still, the void is mocking me, and I must go fill it with some words. Later my peeps.

"As it is, the worst stains are in the master bedroom (I don’t even want to THINK about how they got there) and I have them covered up."

Hmmmm.... An unfortunate goat play incident? A can opener malfunction gone very very wrong? Strange animal sacrifice rituals? Oh, wait, you said you DON'T want to think about it. Sorry.

Oh, the echo in here. More curtains, more curtains!

"I am not much of a Heliose"

It took me a long while to figure out this was a typo, and I just sat puzzling over it. Heliose. Heliose. It sounds space age, or geometric, but I couldn't place it.

" have a meeting with RITUAL, THE ABSCENCE OF LIGHT, MYSTERY AND DEATH!"

How's that going for you there? When you meet DEATH face to face, do you live to tell the tale?

And you must have been joking about me being an example of health and progress. RIGHT? Because I thought I was an example of neuroses and regression.

Only five pages in five hours today. That is not progress of the type I was hoping for.

Oh here I am.

Sorry for the diatribe on hair color. Should have been a simple answer.

So what's the big red hair connection?

NO invitations. Huh should die with little fanfare.

Argh, you made me reload Huh. Torture. Okay, so the hair color connection explained. I do have an affinity for redheads too. Odd.

Sadly I have to go do more stuff. My son is waiting for me to go roller skate with him. At least it's fun stuff. I have those old-school roller skates. I had to go buy a pair after we were in Golden Gate park this summer on a Sunday and I saw all these grown ups there roller skating, and I was like, hey, why am I not doing that?!

LOL, I am getting an awful picture in my head of long underwear that is somehow also a thong. I really gotta go, with that lovely image!

"Today the sea was a thief
and stole the dog’s collar
and he was a happy loser."

Nice!

Huh has been eulogized. Please go and pay your respects. Feel free to say a few words of your own.

Ah, yes, beloved Hwy 5 with the endless valley and the fast drivers and the smelly as hell cows. I mean, I like cows, even like the smell, but those are some SERIOUSLY fucked up cows, to smell that bad, and to be that crammed into such a miserable little space.

I've made that drive more times than I can count (we've lived here twice in the past 12 years). But we have to go through the desert to Bakersfield first, then cut over on some little road to 5, through a little crap town called Wasco that we can never forget because it has a sign that says "Wasco, CA, a nice place to live" at the town border. I think, um, if you need to point it out to people, it probably, um, isn't true.

Driving to SF always feels like trekking across continents, the way we have to go. Oh, and then through that lost hills or whatever area to Gilroy, and up. Then always 280, because I love 280.

More than everyone needed to know.

I wonder if I can find that legendary Denny's...

So I'm still not sure which won out, symmetry or asymmetry? I am a little compulsively attached to symmetry, but am beginning to see how the asymmetrical dark side has its strong points.

Aw, thanks for paying your respects, newsfreak. I'm getting a little teary-eyed. Oh the nostalgia. The humiliation. The bean dip.

Goats really don't belong in Pigalle. We will have to find a nice little rental plot of land where it can graze and commune with other goats.

So are you buying the fixer house?

I will miss CA too, newsfreak, if/when we have to leave next summer. I keep holding out some hopeless hope that there will be some other job in the state the husband can move to, but probably not. Most of the jobs in his field are gone from here. Lucky us he'll probably go to Iraq. But anyway, it's a hard place to leave, that's for sure.

I had a hard time getting used to the Pacific. It's a much better ocean for looking at, but I was shocked at how cold and uninviting it is when I first saw it. My previous exposure to ocean back then had been in Florida, the gulf coast. So anyway, I love to go to the beach in SF now, I jog there sometimes, and it's very inspiring, all those violent waves. Scary.

Sorry, I'm here, just typing long posts. :-)

I think Utah is one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen. We drove through the southern part and I nearly wrecked the car gawking at those red rock canyons.

I have not driven through much of Nevada--I've only been through the very southern part, other than a quick trip to Reno. I've flown over lots of times :-P but it's amazing to look at Nevada on a map and see how little of it is even populated.

I imagine Nevada is mostly a lot like where we live. It looks the same, anyway, the parts I've seen. We're near the border of Death Valley. That's our big claim to fame.

I've got a date to watch Survivor on Tivo now. :-) Catch you later!

Yeah, PETER P. You really need to chime in with one final Huh on the Huh thread. For old time's sake.

You WOULD have to be psycho to love Huey Lewis (Sorry SQT!).

They have every dog breed on earth. All my writer friends got really pissed off that most of them came out as some kind of terrier. I was the only one who came out a decent dog because I chose something like "needs to be outdoors." LOL, maybe I'm not house trained.

Jack, re symmetry versus asymmetry, I have no idea what the hell you were talking about, but it sounded impressive.

And I went back and re-read that vanity stuff of yours on the other thread and laughed until I had tears in my eyes. You're pretty funny when you're feeling insecure.

Still wearing that cheerleader outfit?

SQT, you should use that as a signature line "I am an aloof dog that is highly prized." Just kidding!

Oh I posted on the main thread, after you're whole "gimme a L..." thing, and HARM's before that. Said something like wow, guys dressed up in cheerleader outfits tonight.

SQT, after just watching a Tivo'd Boston Legal about cow love (bestiality), and am SOOOO not laughing at your dog/husband comment. Shudder!

Oh, what, that's not what you meant?!

Yeah I was pretty impressed. You're getting all angry and stuff on that thread. Heh.

SQT, stop that barking!

I have also been know to growl when angry. Just scroll up the thread a bit. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Huh? Meow...

James Spader IS a little creepy! Even more so on Boston Legal where he has grown chubby on top of his creepiness. But I highly recommend the show anyway, because it's very funny and a few of the other actors are great. That star trek guy is hilarious. The only real flaw in the show is that their politics is annoying sometimes.

What is this thread? It is too explicit for me. See ya.

Peter P, see above comments directed at you!