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I'll be an enabler ...
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No :) but how are you feeling? Are you going to see you kid tomorrow?
He just got in this afternoon, so the next two days will be with his mum's side of the family...and his girlfriend. I might factor into things on Saturday and Sunday. This is normal lol.
 

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He just got in this afternoon, so the next two days will be with his mum's side of the family...and his girlfriend. I might factor into things on Saturday and Sunday. This is normal lol.

Well it's something to look forward to!
 

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*sigh*..........nope, "I gave up looking....I really wanted to try that stupid thing and everyone's sold out. All the sales going on are killing me...I am going to get nothing but vape mail for Christmas...I crossed the line into a vapie weirdo this year because everyone in the house is giving me that look like I am crazy this year. :) I can't stop buying shit o_O I may need some type of intervention.
I'm going thru the same thing. I am not a shopaholic! Far from it. But I've always loved a good deal. For some reason, that quality combined with vape mail turns me into a psycho. I feel like there's something wrong with me. I'm tense, edgy, strungout. I had to abandon that Black Friday thread and come hear because I was getting into trouble:eek:
 

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Didn't know you were such a fan. You probably know all about his history, starting out as a drummer, breaking his leg, switching to bass, etc etc. The man's musicianship was(is) sick. And as far as I'm concerned you can talk about him or any other musician you like over and over. You'll never be flogging a dead horse (jeeze, I hate that saying) with me 'cause I understand completely your passion. People who equate influence with imitation need to open up their Websters. Imitating and impersonating are close 'relatives'. John Coltrane was deeply influenced by Ravi Shankar but anyone who says that Coltrane imitated, copied, or impersonated him is an asshat (thanks for that word, Mr Fog). To be influenced in the world of art is not to copy. It is to assimilate in your own words or actions that which has inspired you. Ech, I'm sick of hearing myself talk about this. I'm here to have fun, not to have philosophical debates about jazz musicians. Been there, done that.

Well said @muth. :) To distinguish here between influence and imitation is refreshing and might be extended to more mundane objects. Authentic and clone tend dominate the language of originality in these here parts. It's a very confining and conservative opposition. I only wish "cloned" designs (oxymoron I know) were created more as influenced designs, whereby they could be as great of covers in music can be. Creative enough make you all but forget the original. I see a few here and there, but otherwise a vast majority of missed opportunities.

Excuse for bending your thought to one currently on my mind.
 

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Grab the heating pad and have a cozy rest. I'm gonna try to sign off early. Driving and ferrying to Martha's Vineyard tomorrow.

Up island? I'm envious. My favorite Thanksgiving was in a rented house overlooking Menemsha harbor. Freezing ass cold and clear, totally deserted and so so beautiful. Sigh.
 

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Up island? I'm envious. My favorite Thanksgiving was in a rented house overlooking Menemsha harbor. Freezing ass cold and clear, totally deserted and so so beautiful. Sigh.
Not any more. The SIL moved from Tisbury to ? can't remeber, can't spell either. I'm suppoed to be sleeping:rolleyes: Hope someones there to pick us up! night night
 

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How's your istick? (no comments from the peanut gallery, please) ecig will sell them for $15.99 this weekend.
Not unless they get them back in stock (or, are just holding on to what they have till then)
 

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Well thanks to Twitter and my iPhone I was able to finish my Black Friday shopping at Best Buy on-line! Their web site cart is down, but works on a cell phone.
 

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I'm not awake yet, Sam.............

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you do realize the hobbit is before lord of the rings?
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sorry, my 4 favorite authors when i was young were Tolstoy, who's long winded like Tolkein, Tolkein, esp the Simarillion and Unfinished Tales, Stephen Donaldson, The Thomas Covenant Trilogies and my fav, Fyodor Dostoyevsky. just cuz he was crazy. ;)
 

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a little Dostoyevsky:

“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”

“There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas.”

“We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another.”


“I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one must feel a great longing to sit down, close one's eyes and wait, come what may . . .”

“One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not conceal so much from them. How well even little children understand that their parents conceal things from them, because they consider them too young to understand! Children are capable of giving advice in the most important matters. How can one deceive these dear little birds, when they look at one so sweetly and confidingly? I call them birds because there is nothing in the world better than birds!”

“Do you know, to my thinking it's a good thing sometimes to be absurd; it's better in fact, it makes it easier to forgive one another, it's easier to be humble. One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly.”

“Why, you are so eaten up with pride and vanity that you'll end by eating up one another, that's what I prophecy.”

“It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does a Russian 'become an Atheist,' but he actually BELIEVES IN Atheism, just as though he had found a new faith, not perceiving that he has pinned his faith to a negation. Such is our anguish of thirst!”

“Why, you are so eaten up with pride and vanity that you'll end by eating up one another, that's what I prophecy.”

“At such times I felt something was drawing me away, and I kept fancying that if I walked straight on, far, far away and reached that line where the sky and earth meet, there I should find the key to the mystery, there I should see a new life a thousand times richer and more turbulent than ours.”

“Delicacy and dignity are taught by one's own heart, not by a dancing master.”

“Nonetheless, a question remains before us all the same: what is a novelist to do with ordinary, completely "usual" people, and how can he present them to the reader so as to make them at least somewhat interesting? To bypass them altogether in a story is quite impossible, because ordinary people are constantly and for the most part the necessary links in the chain of everyday events; in bypassing them we would thus violate plausibility. To fill novels with nothing but types or even simply, for the sake of interest, with strange and nonexistent people, would be implausible--and perhaps uninteresting as well.”

gotta love that man! bloody genius. a sick, twisted bloody genius! :)
 

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“If I had had the power to prevent my own birth I should certainly never have consented to accept existence under such ridiculous conditions. However, I have the power to end my existence, although I do but give back days that are already numbered. It is an insignificant gift, and my revolt is equally insignificant.”

“Nothing helps a man to reform like thinking of the past with regret.”


“Perhaps I shall meet with troubles and many disappointments, but I have made up my mind to be polite and sincere to everyone; more cannot be asked of me.”

“We degrade God too much, ascribing to him our ideas, in vexation at being unable to understand Him.”

Dostoyevsky was epileptic and many think bipolar. but he's mind blowing, at the least. :)
 

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Very deep yes, and contriversal

and those are from The Idiot. Crime and Punishment or The Double can shatter you brain or make you comfortable in recognizing another shattered brain.

“...a friend of mankind with shaky moral foundation is a cannibal of mankind, to say nothing of his vainglory; insult the vainglory of one of these numberless friends of mankind, and he is ready at once to set fire to the four corners of the world out of petty vengence”

“Anyone who attacks individual charity, attacks human nature and casts contempt on personal dignity.”

“Bah! You want to hear the vilest thing a man’s done and you want him to be a hero at the same time!”

“Some people have luck, and everything comes out right with them; others have none, and never a thing turns out fortunately.”

one last one. i could read this guy's quotes forever:

“It was all quite natural, human beings are created in order to torment one another.”

he may have been crazy, but he tells a lot of truths. ;)
 

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All I have left is my emech and one lemo and some juice...I had a few people over last night woke up this morning to an empty cabinet

someone robbed you at your own frikkin house! :mad:

practice time! get in your car and visit each one of them!

do you need anything? i'm not for want in the vape dept. except mechs and rba's. don't use 'em.
 

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someone robbed you at your own frikkin house! :mad:

practice time! get in your car and visit each one of them!

do you need anything? i'm not for want in the vape dept. except mechs and rba's. don't use 'em.
I appreciate it man but I have what I need to get through the day and I'll start rebuilding tomorrow it just sucks...I already know who it was...a friend of a friend that got too drunk...I'll sure he will give it back when confront.

No need for violence...its just stuff
 

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