Mr. Tiki's still gone
Sep. 23rd, 2005 09:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tikistitchHe's with his peeps, at MIT.
:-(
But, we still have Ewan!!
Includes pix of Ewan riding around on a motorcycle, and a cute conversation with buddy Charlie about getting mosquito bites in unmentionable places.
NO WORD about when they're going to release The Long Way Round in the US, hmpf!
BTW, did anyone else see that new Mandy Patinkin show last night? Some kinda show about serial killers, because ya know, they really don't get enough exposure in prime time. Anyways, they started off with a title card, "SEATTLE," and you could tell it was really Seattle 'cause it was raining. Um, yeah. And it looks like it's downtown Seattle, where everyone has been supplied with umbrellas by the friendly props department. (Seattleites tend to unfurl umbrellas only rarely, as they are bloody well useless at keeping off rain which is spewing in horizontally.)
Anyways, missing White Woman of the Week, after exchanging some impossibly huge instant messages on her computer (yeah, when I'm at work, I always do AOL IM in 193-point type, just so my boss can read along), plunges off into the rain for a ride with Creepy Guy. After a full 2 minutes pretending to be test driving a car, Creepy Guy removes the passenger side lock with an artful flourish, lures the strangely oblivious MWWW into the passenger seat, and roars off through downtown Seattle traffic.
At which point we were like WTF?
Here's how you drive in downtown Seattle traffic in the rain:
Go 20 feet.
Stop at light.
Go 20 more feet.
Get stopped behind left turn idiot.
Change lanes.
Get stopped by right turn idiot.
Go 10 more feet.
Stop for bum wandering into traffic.
Go 5 feet.
Squeal on brakes to avoid Metro bus swerving into your path.
After about 20 minutes of this, MWWW would've stabbed Creepy Guy with that umbrella. (Oh, that's what they're for.)
:-(
But, we still have Ewan!!
Includes pix of Ewan riding around on a motorcycle, and a cute conversation with buddy Charlie about getting mosquito bites in unmentionable places.
NO WORD about when they're going to release The Long Way Round in the US, hmpf!
BTW, did anyone else see that new Mandy Patinkin show last night? Some kinda show about serial killers, because ya know, they really don't get enough exposure in prime time. Anyways, they started off with a title card, "SEATTLE," and you could tell it was really Seattle 'cause it was raining. Um, yeah. And it looks like it's downtown Seattle, where everyone has been supplied with umbrellas by the friendly props department. (Seattleites tend to unfurl umbrellas only rarely, as they are bloody well useless at keeping off rain which is spewing in horizontally.)
Anyways, missing White Woman of the Week, after exchanging some impossibly huge instant messages on her computer (yeah, when I'm at work, I always do AOL IM in 193-point type, just so my boss can read along), plunges off into the rain for a ride with Creepy Guy. After a full 2 minutes pretending to be test driving a car, Creepy Guy removes the passenger side lock with an artful flourish, lures the strangely oblivious MWWW into the passenger seat, and roars off through downtown Seattle traffic.
At which point we were like WTF?
Here's how you drive in downtown Seattle traffic in the rain:
Go 20 feet.
Stop at light.
Go 20 more feet.
Get stopped behind left turn idiot.
Change lanes.
Get stopped by right turn idiot.
Go 10 more feet.
Stop for bum wandering into traffic.
Go 5 feet.
Squeal on brakes to avoid Metro bus swerving into your path.
After about 20 minutes of this, MWWW would've stabbed Creepy Guy with that umbrella. (Oh, that's what they're for.)
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Date: 2005-09-23 09:57 am (UTC)-tina
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Date: 2005-09-23 09:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-23 10:04 am (UTC)Here's a question I've long wanted to ask: How did you, a really smart and funny lady and a toy collector, have the luck to end up with Mr. Tikistitch, who seems to be a really smart and funny man and a toy collector? It's just amazing!
O_O And you have a six foot Boba Fett! And a big model of the Death Star! When I "grow up", I want to decorate my house in such a wonderful, geeky way! ^___^
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Date: 2005-09-23 11:07 am (UTC)About 6 months after we started dating, Mr. Tikistitch traveled back east, to run the Boston marathon. He also took a side trip to New Jersey, in an attempt to liberate some of his childhood toys from his parents' labyrinthine basement complex.
When I met him coming off the plane, Mr. Tiki, madly clutching a shoebox, breathlessly announced, "I've decided to complete my collection of Star Wars action figures!"
If you'd asked me at the time, I couldn't have predicted this would entail purchase of a full-sized Death Star model, plus a 6-foot Boba Fett.
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Date: 2005-09-23 10:55 am (UTC)Where'd you get that? I've never seen that mag before. Need...
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