Comments | 2muchexposition: "New York City's the place where they said / Hey babe / Take a walk on the wild side."

2muchexposition

"New York City's the place where they said / Hey babe / Take a walk on the wild side."

Aug 21, 2004 15:21

Please don’t let the fact that I’m sitting at home on a Friday night composing a LiveJournal entry lead you to believe that I’m lame, or anything. Why, I was cool at least twice this week, and I have a strong suspicion that it will happen again someday. Ever yearning for my glory days, I’m going to focus on those nights.

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cerulgalactus August 21 2004, 15:13:42 UTC

T3T sounds like a mindfuck of the most intellegent kind. I hereby am one again jealous of your cool, hip NYC status, and respectfully ask you to let me live under your bed in a tiny cardboard box.

2muchexposition August 24 2004, 18:52:29 UTC

I dunno, man. I’ve seen you, and there’s only about 8 inches under my bed, minus the space taken up by a disassembled table, a never-assembled media cabinet, and some random pieces of plywood. Do you have some mutant shrinking power I'm unaware of?

cerulgalactus August 24 2004, 18:55:33 UTC

Im a very flexable dude. Or, if the worst case eventuates, I can sleep on the table.

pnh August 21 2004, 18:35:21 UTC

The first paragraph was lovely and could have appeared (mutatis mutandis) in any Talk of the Town piece of the last seventy years.

Nice misdirection. It left me off guard for the real killer punch: "my childhood BBS." I'm going to crawl away and die of superannuated old age now.

2muchexposition August 24 2004, 18:54:15 UTC

Why, thanks. I wish I was cool enough to have done it deliberately. :)

Apologies for dating myself in such an egregiously frightening manner. If it's any consolation, "childhood" was perhaps a slight exaggeration: I played around on the local BBSes from 11 to 13, or thereabouts, and probably would have stuck with it for awhile after that if I hadn't redirected my attentions to IRC.

dcart August 23 2004, 12:37:26 UTC

Aha, you were a BBSer. This tells me much. I have the same reaction to the "childhood" part of that, though, as pnh.

2muchexposition August 24 2004, 18:55:20 UTC

See above for my response to PNH. But I've gotta ask: what, exactly does that tell you? If I've marked myself for life, I'd at least like to know how.

dcart August 24 2004, 19:04:18 UTC

Oh, mostly just that you were a little nerdlet. That is a-okay as most of the friends I made after age 25 are.

Many of the other things I might have guessed are confirmed by taking a quick look at your website (just now did that). And I'm far too polite to make any of the other guesses in public until I know you better. :)

2muchexposition August 25 2004, 16:14:20 UTC

Heh. Okay, that's fair. In fact, I'm surprised it didn't make itself surpassingly obvious until now that I'm a little nerdlet. I'm not even trying to act normal anymore. :)

wellgull August 24 2004, 09:56:46 UTC

Oooh! scrabble and boggle and boardgames... :)

2muchexposition August 24 2004, 18:56:58 UTC

...oh my!

The funny thing is, I didn't mention it because we didn't get around to playing (having five bodies made things awkward), but Kate had a copy of Boggle with her in her bag. I bet games with timers are even hipper than games with tiles.

wellgull August 25 2004, 22:48:10 UTC

Oh, Boggle is a bigger blast than... buh... bee... than a brilliant beginning balanced by an alarming absence of alliterative aptitude.
wait... no... don't take away the conch...

I saw a man in Central Park playing Boggle with a woman [his girlfriend?] on Sunday. Looked like both an excellent afternoon, and the dorkiest date ever. I hadn't seen an actual set in ages (I've almost exclusively played computer boggle) but it made me think I should start a word-games collection. Or at least sit in the park and do crosswords on nice days.