after considerable discussion on where to go, lots of good advice, several attempts at reservations that did not pan out, i have finally reserved a place for dinner.. anyone in or near the seattle area please join us on february 7, 2004 at 6:30 p.m. at tony roma's at southcenter.
for those coming in from out of town, southcenter is located close to where i-5 and i-405 meet south of seattle.
type in this address into mapqwest or into yahoo maps or whatever other mapping program you use:.
Onacruse,
I see you are from Oregon, I spent about three years in that state in the earlyish 90's. I was in Portland and then in the Eugene area. Maybe we know each other? I know, odds are against it but hey, worth a query.
Gollum
P.S. I was in the Springfield hall in Eugene, and for the life of me, I can't remember the name of the hall I was in in Portland, but I lived in Old Town and the hall was across the River.
after considerable discussion on where to go, lots of good advice, several attempts at reservations that did not pan out, i have finally reserved a place for dinner.. anyone in or near the seattle area please join us on february 7, 2004 at 6:30 p.m. at tony roma's at southcenter.
for those coming in from out of town, southcenter is located close to where i-5 and i-405 meet south of seattle.
type in this address into mapqwest or into yahoo maps or whatever other mapping program you use:.
Dang nabit!!!
They cook their meat?
I was looking forward to Cow Sushi!!!
Gollum
after considerable discussion on where to go, lots of good advice, several attempts at reservations that did not pan out, i have finally reserved a place for dinner.. anyone in or near the seattle area please join us on february 7, 2004 at 6:30 p.m. at tony roma's at southcenter.
for those coming in from out of town, southcenter is located close to where i-5 and i-405 meet south of seattle.
type in this address into mapqwest or into yahoo maps or whatever other mapping program you use:.
Just noticed this thread. If you have room for one more I'll try to wander across the sound and show up.
Gollum
let's have it out - what are the all-time best band names for witnesses?
i'll start it out with a couple, the first of which really is a jw band in seattle....local needsbad associationsep2ajint.
sng.
Don't forget two real bands;
Jehovah's Sickness ( a punk band out of Florida I believe)
Jehovah's Waitress (I know nothing about them, other than that they existed at one time)
Plus these interesting lyrics from the Electric Hellfire Club
tom waits is underrated.
i the piano has been drinking.
the piano has been drinking.
I love almost everything this man has done. Amazing stuff. I'm waiting for the chance to see him live. I also keep checking Amazon to see if they will ever release "Big Time", that concert movie he did a few years back.
Anyway, to add to the lyrics pileup, Here is one of my favorites, "Emotional Weather Report"
late night and early morning low clouds
with a chance of fog
chance of showers into the afternoon
with variable high cloudiness
and gusty winds, gusty winds
at times around the corner of
Sunset and Alvorado
things are tough all over
when the thunder storms start
increasing over the southeast
and south central portions
of my apartment, I get upset
and a line of thunderstorms was
developing in the early morning
ahead of a slow moving coldfront
cold blooded
with tornado watches issued shortly
before noon Sunday, for the areas
including, the western region
of my mental health
and the northern portions of my
ability to deal rationally with my
disconcerted precarious emotional
situation, it's cold out there
colder than a ticket taker's smile
at the Ivar Theatre, on a Saturday night
flash flood watches covered the
southern portion of my disposition
there was no severe weather well
into the afternoon, except for a lone gust of
wind in the bedroom
in a high pressure zone, covering the eastern
portion of a small suburban community
with a 103 and millibar high pressure zone
and a weak pressure ridge extending from
my eyes down to my cheeks cause since
you left me baby
and put the vice grips on my mental health
well the extended outlook for an
indefinite period of time until you
come back to me baby is high tonight
low tomorrow, and precipitation is
expected
.it is on channel 5 (nbc) at 8pm cst.
i always watch this and have a joyful cry.
days gone by, happier times, simplier times.
Actually, I have to pretend to be all hard boiled and stuff, to keep my image up. In actual fact I cry like a little girl with this movie and the end of "Casablanca". Tell anybody that and I'll rip your lungs out. <grin>
Gollum (who orginally meant to register as Gollem, but was forced by a spelling error to forever be associated with that weasel like psuedo hobbit, instead of a big dumb clay thing ripping apart people. sigh)
.it is on channel 5 (nbc) at 8pm cst.
i always watch this and have a joyful cry.
days gone by, happier times, simplier times.
Wednesday,
I think the article was meant to be pretty tounge in check. I like "It's a Wonderful Life" and think it's a great movie, even if it is a bit sachrine. However, reading the article I did realize I'd be a lot happier in Pottersville than Bedford Falls. But I'm going straight to hell anyway <grin>. Luckly, I'm trying to enjoy the ride as much as possible.
Gollum
.it is on channel 5 (nbc) at 8pm cst.
i always watch this and have a joyful cry.
days gone by, happier times, simplier times.
For an alternative take on Bedford Falls and Pottersville, I suggest the following article. I have to admit, I sort of think I'd fit into Pottersville much, much, better than Bedford Falls.
http://dir.salon.com/ent/feature/2001/12/22/pottersville/index.html
i have heard that there are purported to be quite a number of you apostate types in my area.
so far i'm inclined to believe this is just a rumor.
i'm harmless, truly.
Though I keep a pretty low profile, I'm in Seattle too. Well, I was when I was a dub, now I'm just across the sound, but I work in Seattle. If we had an informal meetup I think I'm comfortable enough with my heathen scum status now to show.
" if the watchtower said it, and the men on the platform preached it, then it must have been true.
so it was very hard to accept as an adult, that they were wrong.
i blame myself.
To a certain extent, my take is that ?S**t happens?.
Even if we are born into the WTBS (like I was) so what? People are born into worse situations every day. So my folks had some wacky believes that caused me in many ways to ?waste? most of my young adult life. So what? I was also born to a poor Idaho stump farming family. That probably affected my life more in some ways. And what affected my life the most was that I was born into a loving, caring family. Loving, caring families happen everywhere and don?t happen everywhere. That?s the luck of the draw.
While I think it can be said that there is a certain level of coercion involved in being a dub, the same thing can be said of any social construct, including society in general. Most of the time, and for most of the people, we sleepwalk within these constraints, hardly aware of them. They are as invisible to us as the air we breath. That's why there are many happy witnesses. We accept them as the natural order, that it?s just the way things work. Occasionally we look up and discover that perhaps the emperor has no clothes and can no longer sleep walk thru our previous constraints and start to push back at them.
Now, having said that, there is more coercion in dubland than say the ?average? modern day Catholic, but we are not talking Jim Jones here either. People overcome worse stuff every day. Our situation is hardly unique.
