Trooper York: ET phone home?

Saturday, October 5, 2013

ET phone home?

Wait a minute?

I am already home.

I won't have to call.

42 comments:

ndspinelli said...: Any Reese's pieces? No, no no!; October 5, 2013 at 5:12 PM
Chip S. said...: Welp, I'd love to stay longer but, unlike some people around here, I've got a baseball game to watch involving my team.

Welcome back, ya big lug!

Oh, and ARod is the baseball equivalent of a herpes blister. Just when you think it's gone....; October 5, 2013 at 6:00 PM
Cody Jarrett said...: Glad you're home. Really glad.

And I wanted to say too...been reading the Icepick novella over at Lemuel's jernt.

Damn dude. I knew you were a smart guy and everything, but that's impressive work.

You're setting yourself up for a big payday when your contract is up.; October 5, 2013 at 6:48 PM
The Dude said...: What is your O2 saturation?; October 5, 2013 at 7:00 PM
Icepick said...: I'm a wordy bastard when I'm tired.; October 5, 2013 at 8:56 PM
Icepick said...: In my next contract over at Lem's I am going to insist on bonuses for hitting certain word counts. Just don't tell him I'm roiding.; October 5, 2013 at 8:58 PM
Cody Jarrett said...: amphetamines make you talk a lot, do they make you write a lot?; October 5, 2013 at 9:07 PM
Cody Jarrett said...: Crimson Hose 7, Spiny Flatfish 4.

Spiny Flatfish can still win it in 5, but they're gonna have to be awfully lucky--and a lot more skillful.

Are the Yankees even golfing yet, or are they all still sucking their thumbs in the fetal position?; October 5, 2013 at 9:11 PM
Icepick said...: Never tried any amphetamines, so I don't really know. A friend once told me that the one time she did cocaine it made her feel like a god. She really enjoyed the sensation, but decided she'd better never do it again because she liked it too much.

And that exhausts my knowledge of uppers, other than that caffeine doesn't have too much of an effect on me.; October 5, 2013 at 9:30 PM
Cody Jarrett said...: They tried me on adderall. The first two days were spectacular, then it really started to grate on me, by the 4th day I was done with it.

Friend of mine did coke once, told me much the same story.; October 5, 2013 at 9:35 PM
Icepick said...: A couple of years ago, in response to someone telling me that I never told them what I believed (a bunch of bullshit that), I reeled off over 4900 words in the middle of the night.

Back in grad school, I maintained a habit of only sleeping two or three hours a night most nights during a semester. It seemed to help. I later discovered that I was basically creating a state of induced monomania for myself. Which is to say, it was self-hypnosis of a sort. Very useful for wandering the abstract realms of mathematics. I still get into that frame of mind from time to time, though with my age I can't sustain it for more than a couple of nights at a time. I'm not young anymore, and I'm also in worse shape.

But the main thing is: wordy bastard when tired.; October 5, 2013 at 9:36 PM
The Dude said...: Coke makes you feel like a new man. And the first thing that new man wants is more coke.

So spaketh any number of famous coke heads.; October 5, 2013 at 9:41 PM
Icepick said...: Oh, I did try something for ADHD once. I'm not really sure that I have the condition, but someone prescribed something. Ah, that was it, Strattera, which isn't actually a stimulant. After trying it for a few days I noticed no improvement in my concentration, but I started having some rather unpleasant side-effects involving my pecker. I got off that stuff right quick.

I will confess to a certain interest in methamphetamine, however. I met Pal Erdos, who consumed them in large amounts during the last 25 years or so of his life, in order to up his (already enormous) mathematical output. I've wondered how much they might have helped me out in my own studies and life. Probably Lemmy is the only guy that consumed more from 1971 to 1996, the years of Erdos's use.; October 5, 2013 at 9:45 PM
Icepick said...: I remember PJ O'Rourke stating that he thought khat, the drug preferred by Somali gunmen, was subtle. But then he remembered thinking that cocaine was subtle, too, until he realized he was naked in a room full of strangers having an orgy and hadn't slept in three days.; October 5, 2013 at 9:48 PM
Icepick said...: You know, the picture on this post puts me more in mind Taxi Driver than ET. "You talkin' to me?"; October 5, 2013 at 9:49 PM
Cody Jarrett said...: Subtle.

Like a cold nose at an orgy.; October 5, 2013 at 9:59 PM
Icepick said...: Cody, that's why I always where an artificial nose to orgies, just like Humpty Hump.

(Shock G was freakin' awesome back in the day.); October 5, 2013 at 10:16 PM
Icepick said...: I'm sick with this.
Straight gangsta mac!; October 5, 2013 at 10:19 PM
Icepick said...: For Cody.; October 5, 2013 at 10:24 PM
ndspinelli said...: We had a doc in our college town that would write and RX for Dexedrine for anyone. Just go in, say you need to stay awake, you go to school and work, which was true. No problem, here's a scrip, pay the receptionist. This was early 70's. I think a visit was $7. Nothing like pharmaceuticals. Keith Richards only snorted Merck cocaine,; October 5, 2013 at 10:33 PM
Icepick said...: Peace out, folks. Now that the Gator victory is assured, I'm heading to bed.; October 5, 2013 at 10:34 PM
MamaM said...: "You talkin' to me?

It's a good picture! Icepick's take on it made me laugh, because I was seeing "The Creation of Adam" and his words added another spin.; October 5, 2013 at 10:43 PM
MamaM said...: I'm digging the bright light behind him. Apparently he wasn't ready to head that direction just yet! Which is good news for the rest of us earthlings; October 5, 2013 at 10:47 PM
chickelit said...: Icepick said...
I'm a wordy bastard when I'm tired.

You sure you never tweeted--back in the day when reader and Annie did too?; October 5, 2013 at 10:56 PM
rcocean said...: Troop, Great to see you back at home!
Recover soon -expect to see a lot of posts in the next couple weeks.; October 5, 2013 at 11:01 PM
Icepick said...: I have rarely used Twitter. I set my account up in the early part of 2012 to tell a reporter from ABC News, Gutman I believe, that he had gotten three facts wrong in one story. And last March & April I used it while following the big chess tournament in London. And that is pretty much all I've used it for. I think I've made something like six tweets.; October 6, 2013 at 8:32 AM
Cody Jarrett said...: I had a twitter account for a weekend once. Had a hell of a good time. Racked up a bunch of followers...I think I had a couple of dozen in the 2-3 days I was active, and that was with only following 4-5 people.

But as I've mentioned--drama doesn't work well with me, and I couldn't figure out how to tweet without being in the drama of the tcot and the rest of that stuff.

This is probably longer than I've stuck around the blogs at any one time, and I think if I wasn't limiting myself mostly to here, which is essentially drama free--I'd have bolted into the darkness by now.; October 6, 2013 at 10:26 AM
Cody Jarrett said...: October
By Robert Frost
O hushed October morning mild,
Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;
Tomorrow’s wind, if it be wild,
Should waste them all.
The crows above the forest call;
Tomorrow they may form and go.
O hushed October morning mild,
Begin the hours of this day slow.
Make the day seem to us less brief.
Hearts not averse to being beguiled,
Beguile us in the way you know.
Release one leaf at break of day;
At noon release another leaf;
One from our trees, one far away.
Retard the sun with gentle mist;
Enchant the land with amethyst.
Slow, slow!
For the grapes’ sake, if they were all,
Whose leaves already are burnt with frost,
Whose clustered fruit must else be lost—
For the grapes’ sake along the wall.; October 6, 2013 at 1:39 PM
chickelit said...: Many thanks for that Frost poem, Cody. I'll save it and post it sometime at Lems. It's been in the 90's here all weekend (50s at night) and so it hasn't felt very fall at all. All my vegetable plants are still going strong. I made a batch of home grown pesto yesterday which was a big hit.; October 6, 2013 at 3:19 PM
Cody Jarrett said...: 45-50, cloudy and showery where ah iz.; October 6, 2013 at 3:33 PM
Trooper York said...: I hope you stick around Cody. We missed you when you were not around. We try to leave the fighting and drama to TOP.

Girls just like to have fun.; October 6, 2013 at 3:42 PM
chickelit said...: Troop, TOOP is the new TOP. I think it was planned that way.

We shall see.; October 6, 2013 at 3:43 PM
Cody Jarrett said...: obviously Trooper's still heavily medicated.; October 6, 2013 at 4:11 PM
MamaM said...: Troop, TOOP is the new TOP. I think it was planned that way.

Lem's Wide World of Levity! And sports.; October 6, 2013 at 4:26 PM
chickelit said...: Cody Jarrett said...
obviously Trooper's still heavily medicated.

We should talk about his meds. I asked a few days ago. I'm not up to guessing what they are.; October 6, 2013 at 4:36 PM
chickelit said...: Unless it's laudanum.; October 6, 2013 at 4:36 PM
Cody Jarrett said...: I wish I had some laudanum.; October 6, 2013 at 4:52 PM
blake said...: In the '79 version of Dracula, with Frank Langella as Disco-Drac, the troubled Lucy Van Helsing is put on Laudanum by Dr. Harker to control her outbursts (nascent vampirism, in fact).

Later when Mina Harker starts to get all lusty-for-blood-and-whatever, Van Helsing says, "Will you put her on Laudanum" and Dr. Harker looks shocked and appalled.

"No way, dude! That shit'll kill you!"*

*I may have misremembered the dialogue; October 6, 2013 at 6:02 PM
Cody Jarrett said...: Oddly enough, I don't remember the movie that way.; October 6, 2013 at 6:05 PM
blake said...: The Laudanum part is true, tho'.; October 6, 2013 at 7:22 PM
Cody Jarrett said...: I was allowed to stay up late and watch it.

The part where the chick all pale and bloody and creepy comes out saying "daddy" is one of those moments that actually freaked me out as a kid.

I watched it a few years ago, just because. And while decent--it was boring.; October 6, 2013 at 8:08 PM
Trooper York said...: I agree that they were trying something tricky with Lem's place.
I don't Lem was in on it as he is the definition of the "useful idiot."

What they did was drain all the creativity and fun out of TOP. People like Chip Ahoy, BaghOh, DBQ, yes Titus and me brought something to the blog that she did not respect.

So now she is down to a bunch of boring douches like Richard Dolan and Harold House and her two handmaidens Freeman Hunt and Inga.

You reap what you sow. Just sayn'; October 6, 2013 at 10:03 PM

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