77 thoughts on “September 18, 2012: Swagger”

1. Hey AMR, you'll have to skip past some photos of the Florida Keys, but here's a link to a photographer who spent some time in the 70s documenting every day life in New Ulm.

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      Yes.

      1. I'm really excited to look at these tonight. Thanks for the pointer.

2. So all four just happened to say this to you on the same day or did one say it and the other three agreed?

   1. They'd all talked about it together in the past hour, so when one of them told me, the rest went ahead and did the same.

   2. I was with spooky for a week and I don't remember this walk. Granted, whenever I was around him he had his butt planted on the couch.

      1. Yeah, I walk all day at work. When I get home, I'm pretty much done.

3. #somuchswag #yolo

   1. Yeah, I don't get twitter.

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         1. I still don't get it.

            1. Me neither. Still don't got the Twitters.

               1. "YOLO" stands for "You only live once," but corporate guys and motivational speakers like to give everything an acronym.

                  1. meh, corporate guys are noobs when it comes to acronyms. try working for the defense department sometime.

                     1. I can see that.

                        Acronyms lead to a lot of misunderstandings, though...it would seem dangerous to utilize them frequently in matters of defense...

                        1. Definitely doesn't stop the DoD or DARPA.

                  2. YOLO is most definitely not a corporate guy/motivational speaker thing.

                     

                     1. I absolutely love the word 'swag', I just have a difficult time thinking of a time where I could ever, ever use it without feeling like a douchenozzle.

                        1. The more you use it, the less of a douche you come across as. Be sincere about using it all the time like Lil B.

                           1. Ah, Lil B. He is nothing at all if not sincere.

                     2. Corporate guys make up a good portion of who I know. A lot of them use it. The district team that visits uses that kind of slang all the time, without irony.

                     3. reminds me of a Bill Hicks bit sampled at the end of this Fila Brazillia tune. (7:37, link should take you there.) NSFW: bad language aplenty.

               2. #hashtags have, unfortunately, transcended twitter. #SMH

                  1. Yup, I feel old. (wtf is shm?)

                     1. I had to look it up on the Googles the first few times I saw it. 'SMH', btw, lol.

                     2. Google has a handy "define:" prefix you can use to look up terms. Here's what Google says about SMH.

                        1. Yeah, well, that doesn't make me feel younger.

                           1. I also do not get the Twitter. When there's something I want to communicate in 140 characters or less, I just grunt it. Also, nobody with a life worth living would bother following me on Twitter, and who wants to be followed on Twitter by a bunch of people without a life?

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                           3. GOSO!

                           4. #GOSO

                              #FTFY

                     3. So Much Ham!

                        1. Crap, I even had my fake wrong.
                           I thought it was "So Much Hate"
                           I will say that "So Much Hate" has worked perfectly every time that's how I read it. Even try it above.

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                           1. If only I could type in Ponyo's voice.

                           2. I definitely read it in her voice.

         2. Always the first thing I think of when I see anything YOLO related.

            1. Yolo County was one of the original counties of California, created in 1850 at the time of statehood.

               In the original act of 1850 the name was spelled "Yola." Yolo is a Native American name variously believed to be a corruption of a tribal name Yo-loy meaning "a place abounding in rushes" or of the name of the chief, Yodo, or of the village of Yodoi.

               You must unlearn what you have learned.

   2. I lol'd

   3. I have a manager who says "YOLO, SON!" all the time.

      1. BB hires 16 year olds as managers?

         1. Naw, they're hiring laid off ornithologists.

            1. I'm still giggling at that.

         2. It's one of those things where he started yelling it as a joke to make fun of folks who said it, but kept it up for so long that he couldn't stop.

   4. 3 of spooky's co-workers in the break room.

      1. These Arizona girls are surprisingly aggressive (or...maybe it's not all that surprising).

         Alexis (as I come up to help her with something): Ooh. Love that swagger.
         Me (chuckling): Yeah, yeah.
         A: I'm serious.
         Me (acknowledging customers with an awkward smirk): Uh, okay. (I help her, and turn around to leave)
         A: Keep walking like that.
         Me: It's the only way I know how.
         A: Mmmmmm. And I'll be watching.

         I know this looks like a brag, but it was really bizarre. I've been flirted with at work plenty over the years, but nothing like yesterday has ever happened. I'm glad I have a laid-back wife who simply applauded me after hearing about it rather than freaking out.

         1. In my world, that would count as sexual harassment. Aren't you a supervisor, spoons? Even if you are not offended, you might want to warn said coworkers that shit like that can get them fired and the company sued.

            1. Not to be a blowhard, but most definitely This - I do intake for an employment law firm.* If a potential client called and recounted that exchange to me during an interview, you can be sure that would be filed as "sex harassment" under Case Type. In fact, I'd heed bS's suggestion...in CYA fashion.

               *disclaimer: I am not an attorney. Nothing here should be construed as legal advice.

            2. agreed. I also do work for a serious company, and your statements apply.

               1. i miss working in restaurants and bars when sexual harassment laws weren't just ignored, they were blatantly broken. (i don't mean actual harassment, of course, but by the letter of the law)

            3. Yeah, I put a leash on it today.

               1. ::taking the bait and making obvious comment about how that could itself be construed as sexual harassment::

      2. Okay, now that the link's up there, that's pretty damned funny...bastard.

4. I'm looking at tickets for The Head and the Heart, Blitzen Trapper and Bryan John Appleby on 9/27 at First Ave if anyone else interested in attending. 6pm show - $22.

   1. i really dig the head and the heart, but every critic seems to hate them. oh well.

      1. Weirdly, I've never given them a listen. What style of music do they play? Where should I start?

         1. i don't know what you want to call it. i guess some sort of indie-folk-rock-roots-americana-something-or-other. is it amazing, groundbreaking stuff? no, not at all; just a bunch of catchy tunes (though i will concede to the critics that the lyrics can be pretty lame). there's only one album out, so, yeah. here's this, though.

         2. This was the first song of theirs I heard - catchy is a good description.
            httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fcPfaMpSeE

         3. Here's a sample of the other two:
            httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7zyfArxibk
            httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAIlJqt9_yE

            1. "Black River Killer" is a great song. "God and Suicide" is another great one. Blitzen Trapper is kind of hit or miss with me, but when he hits, he hits big.

               1. "Blitzen Trapper is kind of hit or miss with me, but when he hits, he hits big."
                  I'd agree with this opinion. That being said, I really enjoyed American Goldwing but it didn't have a specific song that grabbed me like "Black River Killer," "God and Suicide" or "Furr"...I just pretty much enjoyed the album as an album (if that makes sense).

   2. Blitzen Trapper opened for Wilco when I saw them in Dublin. They were decent. I don't know that I would go just to see them, but then again I was really geeked for Wilco so anything probably paled in comparison.

   3. Also Jesus and Mary Chain tonight at First Ave, Matthew Sweet at Varsity. Built to Spill tomorrow if anyone is interested. I will be at BtS.

      1. Matthew Sweet is doing the entire Girlfriend album tonight. I really wish I could go.

      2. Doug and the boys always seem to give it all during their shows. I'm a bit envious.

      3. Chatham Rise opening for JAMC!
         (My SiL's BF's band. He lent us a bunch of tools for various house projects. Miter Saw!)

      4. Wish I could see that JaMC show. I'm going to Melvins tonight in Fargo. I'll be at GZA Thursday, Swans Friday, and I'm thinking I'm going to go to The Master at the Uptown on Saturday at 7:15 (assuming tickets go up for sale soon so I can get them before it sells out). If anyone is going to be around or at any of those events and wants to meet up, email me: zmoney at google's email dot com.

5. Original Yankee Stadium photos. I didn't realize the Polo Grounds were so close.

   1. #POLO

      1. Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooo oooooo ooo oo o o o

6. Real Madrid is playing ManCity right now in Champions League action, as are Arsenal and Montpellier. But because Fox Soccer and FS+ are showing those, the regionals get AC Milan-Anderlecht (Belgian champs). I understand Fox's desire to put the high-profile games on the premium channels to increase subscriptions, but anyone that wants to see group stage CL games that badly already has Fox Soccer. I think a matchup like RM-MC could really be used to grow casual viewership.

   1. Evidently, RM-MC was a cracker of a game. Damn.

7. Also, after 4 games in the EPL, here is the prediction contest standings.

   Place	Player	Points
   1	davidwatts	16
   2	Homer Dome	14
   3	MagUidhir	14
   4	Daneeka's Ghost	13
   5	Buffalo	12
   6	DK	12
   7	Spookymilk	10
   8	AMR	10
   9	Freealonzo	7
   10	The Dread Pirate	6

   Everyone follow the link and double-check your points in case I made an Excel error.

   1. Any errors you make in my calculation will not concern me, as I used a randomized process to make my picks, and I'll assume your errors are also random and unbiased. If they're biased, though, I will cut you. But I won't know unless someone figures it out for me.

8. I really enjoyed this fake twitter account one of my NBA friend pals set up today.

9. It should never be assumed that a United flight will be on time.

10. Nice work in the gamelog, guys.

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