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20 June 2005

Another day, another dream - this one was about mathowie and quonsar.

[More:]I lived in California, and so did quonsar. I decided to have a meetup at my apartment, which was infested with frogs, as all apartments in California tend to be. So I invited mathowie and quonsar over. Quonsar was dressed in a waistcoat and long jacket, sort of like the dad in Mary Poppins. He was a fantastic conversationalist, and kept making me laugh. He also keep spinning and dancing and pirouetting around my ginormous living room, which had hardwood floors, which were luckily not covered with frogs.

Mathowie was very shy, almost anti-social, and basically only spoke in one-word sentences. He zeroed in on my computer, and spent the entire evening sitting at it, working on metafilter. He would only speak if we asked him something.

At one point it became evident that I worked for mathowie in some capacity, because I decided during the course of the meetup that I would move to NY, the very next day. I announced this to mathowie.

"Mathowie, I have to quit. I'm really sorry to spring it on you like this, but I'm moving to NYC tomorrow", I said.

"Gnnnughhh", answered mathowie. It was more like a grunt, really, but of course I could tell he was positively devastated at the news...heartbroken to be losing such a fine employee.

I went into the kitchen, which was about 8o feet long and only about 8 feet wide, to get some snacks. I tripped over some frogs, which naturally were just milling about, the way that frogs tend to do. I fell to the floor, and the frogs all jumped over to me and started getting entangled in my long hair. I screamed for mathowie to come and help me, but he didn't budge...I think he was working on a jrun error. Quonsar ran into the kitchen and pulled me up and picked all of the frogs out of my hair.

At this point, I forced myself to wake up, because I was getting angry in the dream...hee. And it was sort of troubling - bad vibes. The frogs were creeping me out.

I didn't make any of this up. A psychologist would have a field day with this one, especially since my other dream about mathowie (which I posted at metatalk last year and can't find) was about him coming to my rescue and helping me change a flat tire.
"I think he was working on a jrun error." You just threw that one in there for fun, didn't you.
posted by matildaben 20 June | 09:18
So do you think the dream was about metafilter vs metachat, or something else?
"I think he was working on a jrun error." You just threw that one in there for fun, didn't you.
Totally. The rest is true, though.
posted by iconomy 20 June | 09:19
So do you think the dream was about metafilter vs metachat, or something else?
If it was bunnies instead of frogs then maybe. And if there were people shooting the bunnies then possibly. If it had mathowie and quonsar wrestling naked in front of a fireplace then I think that would seal it.
posted by dodgygeezer 20 June | 09:32
He zeroed in on my computer, and spent the entire evening sitting at it, working on metafilter.
s/working on/deleting stuff off
(why aren't tags allowed in blockquote???)

A++++++ GREAT DREAM WOULD SLEEP WITH ICONOMY AGAIN!!!!
posted by quonsar 20 June | 10:12
I had the same dream recently. Except for the part about the frogs, quonsar, mathowie, long kitchen, and pirouetting. I don't know what quonsar looks like, so if he was in a dream I wouldn't recognize him.

I actually had a dream a few nights ago that I drove to work and got stuck in traffic - which happens every fucking workday! What kind of lame ass dream is that? No tidal waves. No being chased by cannibals in top hats. Not falling off the world's tallest building. Driving to work. I don't even think the radio or CD was on in the dream - which would make the dream EVEN LESS INTERESTING THAN MY REAL LIFE!!! Maybe tonight I'll dream about paying bills or making coffee.
posted by Slack-a-gogo 20 June | 10:15
I've done the "dreaming I'm at work, on a really really ordinary day". It made my five day work week feel like a six day work week, because the dream was so spectacularly unspectacular and normal that it felt like a real work day.

My wife, apparently, has been having dreams, which she can't remember, that are so funny that her laughter wakes her up. She keeps asking me if it's waking me up, but apparently someone laughing right next to me in bed doesn't wake me up, whereas pretty much any other sound in the universe does.
posted by bugbread 20 June | 10:45
why aren't tags allowed in blockquote???
Whatcha talkin' 'bout Willis?
posted by dodgygeezer 20 June | 10:48
Whatcha talkin' 'bout Willis?
we still haven't shortened the strike tag then?
posted by quonsar 20 June | 11:11
I talk in my sleep, and sometimes my bf can ask me questions and I will answer them from the dream. The best instance of this was

Me: I get firetruck butt cake.
The Boy: You get firetruck butt cake?
Me: Yep.
The Boy: Why do you get firetruck butt cake?
Me: Because I'm special!

Me rolls over and goes back to sleep. I am special.
posted by dame 20 June | 11:23
You guys are totally making my Monday morning.
posted by Specklet 20 June | 11:51
When I was three and my brother was five, we slept in the same room. My father observed this q&a session between us, both sound asleep:

Bro: The orange one, no, the purple. I want the purple.

Hugh: I want an elephant too.
posted by Hugh Janus 20 June | 11:51
Jeez, iconomy, you have all the fun.
posted by Orange Swan 20 June | 12:06
My interpretation of your dream:

Quonsar is dressed like the father in Mary Poppins, who is named "George Banks". "George Banks" is also the name of the title character in "Father of the Bride", played by Steve Martin - who was, as we all fondly remember, "a wild and crazy guy", who also played "The Jerk" and a "Dirty Rotten Scoundrel". So, obviously - no mystery there.

Dancing on hardwood floors definitely suggests "Dancehall", which clearly suggests Yellowman, whose real name is "Winston Foster", and a pretty unambiguous marker indicating your subliminal desire to drop your inhibitions and smoke cigarettes and drink Fosters lager (with a wild and crazy guy).

So what's stopping you? Two things: the fact that you are in California, where such things are illegal, and the presence of mathowie, your boss, also known as "Number 1" and "Daddy" - who heartlessly does not come to your aid when you need him. This clearly indicates the conflict between your desire to escape the bonds of authority and the unresolved Electra Complex that holds you in thrall to an unresponsive daddy whom you first hope to seduce with "snacks" from the kitchen, and then with a fruitless "child-in-peril" appeal.

In the end, though, freedom is within your grasp when you choose to move to "The Big Apple" (a little old-skool temptation symbolism, anyone?), where meetups usually involve more than three people. The frogs, by the way, mean nothing at all. You've just been seeing too many Crazy Frog videos.
posted by taz 20 June | 12:47
By jove, I think she's got it!

Oh wow, how funny that you'd mention the Crazy Frog thing, now I remember that quonsar mentioned them in the Coldplay thread. So weird how things tie in.
posted by iconomy 20 June | 13:32
Frog infested flat? Maybe it was this guys frog and snail apartment in the movie Delicatessen? ;)
Bonus: the sex scene .mpg
posted by dabitch 20 June | 13:58
dame and Hugh, if you guys ever have a sleepover, please, please, PLEASE invite me?
posted by Frisbee Girl 20 June | 16:15
Wow, I would've never had the courage to ask.

From now on, I dream of frisbees.
posted by Hugh Janus 20 June | 16:23
Ok last night I dreamt that mathowie unvelied a new branch of Metafilter called Metafilter Design, which was a deeper shade of blue and with yellowish? link text. It was supposed to be for links to design sites and ideas. No idea where that came from!
posted by dhruva 20 June | 22:23
Weird. I wonder how many of us have actually dreamt about him. I've dreamt about him twice. I'm sure he's dreamt of me at least zero times himself.
posted by iconomy 21 June | 09:17
Don't worry, iconomy, I dream of you. And of going back to Philly for vegan spicy chicked sandwich with hot sauce and red peppers. I actually almost got on the train on Saturday to go back down there, I wanted it that bad. But then I thought your hubby would kick my ass if I showed up at your door, reeking of vegan chicken and lust.
posted by dame 21 June | 10:42
I thought most chickens were vegans...
posted by bugbread 21 June | 11:32
No, bugbread. Chicken that isn't chicken, for vegan humans to eat. Silly man.
posted by dame 21 June | 11:42
...joke...
posted by bugbread 21 June | 11:46
My humor module broke, apparently. Can I borrow $2000 for a new one?
posted by dame 21 June | 11:51
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