Date: February 4th, 2015 5:50 AM Author: pearl locus mediation
oh, i wasn't concerned about the motherfucker part, just curious as to how long your break was. pretty sleep deprived and not at my finest now, so my sincere apologies if that came off as if i was cross.
i am genuinely delighted for you. i felt like if someone took the right lessons off of xo it could really help them, but it made some many fucked up people even more fucked up that it's hard to believe it actually happened.
i took a good 5 years off, so long that when i resumed posting people didnt even know who i was. it was very surreal, considering how much i megaposted back in the day
Date: February 4th, 2015 6:01 AM Author: pearl locus mediation
ha, i never lied about myself i don't think (unless it was for a specific bit of entertainment) but i guess i didn't talk too much about my work/school/personal stuff either. i never considered big law, but am well-enough compensated and i love my job and my life
Date: February 4th, 2015 6:23 AM Author: pearl locus mediation
holy shit!, amazing! i'd seen that some of them were still posting when i popped back in but i never thought i'd see, for instance, rsf, dr. science or CAC again. man, now i need swanus, solzy, c+c, ahwiab, sarc, lsaciaw, ... well shit, i guess there are sill a bunch of people not on that list, but still pretty awesome!
Date: February 4th, 2015 8:11 AM Author: pearl locus mediation
say you think of it as a continuum where chris gaines, richard bachman, locke and demosthenes from ender's game, keyser soze, edward de vere's shakespeare handle, who k's jesus of nazarath phase are all stops along the way. where would you put jbd's lsac persona?
Date: February 4th, 2015 6:04 AM Author: pearl locus mediation
also, to reply to the part about you, i love that people didn't know who you were when you made your triumphant. you were pretty fucking famous around here for a while, so it must mean that this board has defied the odds and continued to attract new posters despite everything. who would have honestly thought it would still exist in 2015?
i am not the best board historian but after my reign apparently the Box rose up, then Doobs started freaking out people and regs went MIA/pumo, then i am not sure what happened after that, for i was too busy getting laid. but i have seen many old timers check in from time to time so hopefully they will stay for good. lots of the NYC crew moved to LA.
all credit goes to rachmiel for being the stud he is and keeping xoxo going strong during the good times and the bad.
Date: February 4th, 2015 6:13 AM Author: pearl locus mediation
yeah, i was here for the box and probably some of the doors craziness. i think i last posted regularly in 2011, but honestly not sure. and while you may not be the best/craziest board historian, it seems like you've actually met like half the people i can remember posting. i've met a handful and it was super fun, but it was always hard to pull together.
Date: February 4th, 2015 5:46 AM Author: pearl locus mediation
i've popped in a few times and i never "retired" or anything. just got busy and unaddicted and stayed busy enough that i never really got back in. seems like a lot of awesome people are either still around or back. i saw some crazy ass rsf/julia thread that's hard to believe exists. you're back. bloodacre seems to still be around. twist. etc. i need a list of new monikers of old posters though. and someone needs to track down lsacisawhore for me. i came across an old email she sent me which is what made me think of checking in this fine insomniatic morning.
Date: February 4th, 2015 5:58 AM Author: pearl locus mediation
hey buddy! wonderful to see you're still around. i doubt i'll ever post like i did when i did because i am old and busy and responsibleish now, but i am pretty intrigued by coming around more seeing how many of my FRIENDS seem to be here.
Date: February 4th, 2015 8:45 AM Author: pearl locus mediation
all of those sound pretty awesome in one way or another. i'd love to live somewhere that was both awesome and not cold. but barring that it would be dope to live anywhere where buying a place to live doesn't feel the same as forcible sodomy with a splintery broom handle.
this is the first i've heard of such a thing, but i'm obviously sold. where do you rank worldwide out of curiousity? you can just give me a range so you don't out yourself.
Date: February 4th, 2015 8:41 AM Author: pearl locus mediation
oh man, i came across an email from an old compatriot while searching for something totally unrelated and was just like, hey, i miss my FRIENDS. i wonder if anyone is still around and by golly everyone seems to have migrated back.
if you meant what's up in a broader sense, i am still extremely pleased with my life even if i am now infinately lamer and succesfully passing as an adult, much to my chagrin.
Date: February 4th, 2015 10:29 AM Author: filthy mind-boggling kitchen boistinker
this place is positively swarming with old posters these days. we had a thread where nutella and michael doodikoff laughed at tmf, mandy, and gracekelly for their opinions about manhattan.
Date: February 4th, 2015 10:22 AM Author: filthy mind-boggling kitchen boistinker
how've you been dooder? i very occasionally extol ur virtues on this here chatbort and remember to the newbs a time when it was possible to imagine bothered and boor in a globe-spanning game of spy v. spy
by very occasionally i mean not as often as i ought
Date: February 4th, 2015 10:26 AM Author: pearl locus mediation
awww, you are so sweet to think of me at all when i have neglected this place so long.
I am fantastic. Pretending to be a real person for long enough that i almost feel like one. too busy most of the time, but deligthed with both my work and personal life. in contravention of the existence of karma, things just keep coming up rspm.
Date: February 4th, 2015 10:28 AM Author: filthy mind-boggling kitchen boistinker
dooder i sincerely doubt that karma has any beef with you. i... am truckin along, i guess. trying to figure it all out. not where i thought i'd be at this age, to be honest, but not broken up about it either.
Date: February 4th, 2015 10:17 AM Author: shivering hairraiser stead international law enforcement agency
bro about 2 years ago a certain poaster here linked me to a craigslist rental ad for the DC mansion formerly occupied by our mutual IRL friend. he remembered it from one of the epic house parties that i took him too.
Date: February 4th, 2015 10:24 AM Author: pearl locus mediation
oh man, that place was the best. i wonder how crazily the market in that neighborhood has blown up since then. that is the kind of thing i think about because i am aging in dog years/i heart fixer upper on hgtv.
Date: February 4th, 2015 10:33 AM Author: shivering hairraiser stead international law enforcement agency
it was nuts, years later friends of mine occasionally still say "hey whatever happened to that friend you had with the mansion in [dc hood] that had those crazy parties?"
i think that had an absurdly good deal even then, it was never really a bad neighborhood.