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24 October 2005

I am holding Richard Price hostage. I will consider an exchange for an undisclosed number of non-consecutive, unmarked beers at a pre-established drop point.
Maybe this picture will remind you how much you love him and want him back:

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posted by Hugh Janus 24 October | 09:08
is this why my gmail is having a massive spazz?
(that's why i've not been so quick back at you, amber)
posted by ethylene 24 October | 09:15
I was hoping somebody saved him. I'm a bit tapped out right now. Maybe friday?
posted by jonmc 24 October | 09:32
and no queer men will save you
or clean your home.
yet.
posted by ethylene 24 October | 09:35
As long as you're holding him hostage, read him. It's a helluva book.
posted by jonmc 24 October | 09:36
Why have I not heard of this Richard Price?
posted by tr33hggr 24 October | 09:42
He's a prominent but not famous author with a very distinct style. He's a huge imitation on my writing. I did an FPP on him a while back. (Warning: he is not for the faint of heart, lots of explicit sex, violence, unpleasant racial and gender sentiments aired.)

I recommend starting with "Ladies Man," then working backward, then reading his later stuff.
posted by jonmc 24 October | 09:45
Hey, neat-o, I've been looking for my next read. And I'm far removed from being faint-of-heart. Thanks for the info; that's what I get for rarely visiting the blue anymore.
posted by tr33hggr 24 October | 09:46
He's a huge influence on my writing. Must not comment pre-coffee.

But he is probably the best writer of his generation, IMHO. Divine_Wino and matteo are both big fans as well.
posted by jonmc 24 October | 09:47
That's all the endorsement I need. (Well, yours was enough - that's just icing on the cake!)
posted by tr33hggr 24 October | 09:49
If you start with Ladies Man, I guarantee you'll be alternately squicking, laughing hysterically and nodding in agreement. (also remember that it's set in the pre-AIDS era).

If yoy read it, let me know what you think. I've been trying to get someone to read it for a while. The last person I loaned it to found it funny but "Travis Bickle-ish," in her words.
posted by jonmc 24 October | 09:49
We're gonna need proof of life. (send a distinct paragraph from the book, an ear or that movie where the Australian gets the dude back from the Sendero Luminoso and cuddles Meg Ryan).


jmc:
I am an enormous fan but I don't think he is the best writer of his generation. I am off to do 100 pushups and head down to the clam shack, make sure my turtleneck is pressed.

posted by Divine_Wino 24 October | 09:50
If yoy read it, let me know what you think.

Will do.
posted by tr33hggr 24 October | 09:52
I dig it so far ('bout 1/3way thru), will have more to say later. I realized today he wrote Clockers, which is not just a terrific book; the movie of it is Spike Lee's best.
posted by Hugh Janus 24 October | 09:58
Clockers is great, but it's very different territory. The 4 previous books were more autobiographical. Clockers (and the ones that followed, Freedomland and Samaritan) are much larger in scope, although the voice is similar. All are world-class.

This audio interview from the Freedomland period is excellent. He briefly refers to the "Brotherhood Week," scene in The Wanderers which is uproarious.
posted by jonmc 24 October | 10:01
Clockers, which is not just a terrific book; the movie of it is Spike Lee's best.

I agrees for the most part, or almost all the way, except for my do the right thing soft spot (I LOVE YA ROSIE PEREZ!) and suggest you see (if you haven't) Bamboozled, Man Tan and Sleep 'n Eat endorse it.

Clockers is awesome.
posted by Divine_Wino 24 October | 10:04
Friday will give me time to finish tortu- uh, my experiments on Mr. Price.

I met Rosie Perez three weeks ago. She's supercool. Hypercool. Ultracool.
posted by Hugh Janus 24 October | 10:06
bamboozled is a must
but i do love a musical so obviously--
posted by ethylene 24 October | 10:11
--just for the beauty shop sing if nothing else, see School Daze.
posted by ethylene 24 October | 10:13
meanwhile, let gmail go!
i know it's them and not me. does no one else use gmail?
posted by ethylene 24 October | 10:16
Actually I like Crooklyn, here I am going around saying I don't really like Spike when in fact he made some movies I love a bunch (25th Hour I liked too, a love letter to NY), some I meh about and a few I think are stinko (She Hate Me is like a showtime lesbian PG-13 porno ((all with the grinding sorta up and down in paralell and the thighhigh boots and the fancy underpants and the big hair)) with a weird Watergate America's Most Wanted reenactment thrown in for very poor reason).

Hey Eth, hoppy birdday, it's been a doozy of a weekend around here/there, glad I stayed home and rocked the bells. PS I did not win the Lottery but I have high hopes for tuesday, I have a new system, one quick pick from every store where the dude asks me "Big Party Tonight?" if I buy a six pack or "You have girlfriend?
if I buy tampons. Two quick picks from the place near my subway stop where the dude has the saddest eyes ever.
posted by Divine_Wino 24 October | 10:23
sounds like the best system ever if you have the spare cash apportioned for the deed.
someone in oregon won.
no one knows.
hurley is apparently from l.a.
i do not watch lost.
not a fanatic about spike either, but he has his moments.
but then i like old jackson 5 and early stuff despite michael jackson's personage.
posted by ethylene 24 October | 10:27
wino, i do demand next time someone asks you about tampons for girlfriends, to please say "no."
posted by ethylene 24 October | 10:29
I do sometimes, "Naw, there for the holes motherfucker."
Then I shoot them. (Pace, King of New York). I do say "no" fairly often but it never gets the reaction I want.
posted by Divine_Wino 24 October | 10:37
i think you know i feel you there.
posted by ethylene 24 October | 10:42
comedy is an ugly business and frighteningly serious.
and no i have not yet seen the artistocrats.
posted by ethylene 24 October | 10:43
they're
posted by Divine_Wino 24 October | 10:43
nor the 40 year old virgin
(yes, i know, pity me)
posted by ethylene 24 October | 10:43
human?

people?

soylent?
posted by ethylene 24 October | 10:44
ah--
divine
posted by ethylene 24 October | 10:45
they're not there, I am a typomatic mammysticker and that's no bushwah.
posted by Divine_Wino 24 October | 10:45
You would not believe how difficult it is to wrestle Richard Price into a vat of conductive oil while reading The Breaks. I had to cosh him over the head (with a cosh, no less) and these alligator clips are a bitch, slippery and one-handed.
posted by Hugh Janus 24 October | 11:12
Hugh, I thought we were gonna make him eat broccoli?
posted by dame 24 October | 11:13
I like broccoli. Especially with melted cheese.
posted by jonmc 24 October | 11:18
and on friday, I learned that I like those crispy fried onion string contraptions.
posted by jonmc 24 October | 11:18
Me too. So hungry, no time for a decent breakfast . . .

[on preview] - yes, fried onions, anything friend (except Twinkikes)
posted by tr33hggr 24 October | 11:19
well, mine were on top of a plate of hanger steak, dude. After friday's booze-up we ate dinner at this place, a favorite of mine. dame's veggie burger was a failure of modern american workmanship, as I recall.
posted by jonmc 24 October | 11:22
Of course we will, dame, of course, but that's later. Close your eyes, it's time for my kind of fun.

*unlaces shoes, readies frying pan, nipple clamps, and frozen bull semen; dims lights and shutters windows; checks moth collection, trims fingernails, jacks off, washes hands, and starts reading page 73*

On preview, did you say contraption?
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posted by Hugh Janus 24 October | 11:24
Don't listen to me, I'm crazy.
posted by Hugh Janus 24 October | 11:25
It was all about the hostage thing, I was just following my twisted path to its finish.

While that was thoroughly bizarre and possibly weirdly threatening, it was meant for Richard Price, not anyone here.

Might I recommend the chicken-fried steak.
posted by Hugh Janus 24 October | 11:28
also, I hate the term "hanger steak." It's london broil. Also, it's not "aioli," it's "mayonaisse." It's not "creme fraiche," it's whipped cream.

Just so ya know.
posted by jonmc 24 October | 11:29
Such places rarely do veggie burgers well. I would have gone for the cheese enchilda, or the Texas Veggie Trio. Something to really soak up the booze.

But I hope you all had fun! I have a good buddy in the Bronx, and I've been meaning to visit him for ages. When I do, I'll send up a flare and we shall all meet for libations and fisticuffs.
posted by tr33hggr 24 October | 11:29
Also, it's not "aioli," it's "mayonaisse."

Ahhh, lol jon! Made my morning!
posted by tr33hggr 24 October | 11:30
Green beans, or string beans? Or *shudder* haricots verts?
posted by Hugh Janus 24 October | 11:30
aioli came first! it's greek! suck it, haters!
posted by ethylene 24 October | 11:32
Actually, the salsa is really good.
posted by jonmc 24 October | 11:33
hanger steak sounds like an innuendo
posted by ethylene 24 October | 11:33
Yeah, that was some good salsa. Though to describe it, nobody would think so.

The torture Richard Price talk is scary -- there's no way for me to convey a light, giggly tone when I say shit like that. Sorry guys. I'm scaring me.
posted by Hugh Janus 24 October | 11:35
damnable pop under
*pop*
posted by ethylene 24 October | 11:36
The veggie buger just didn't hang together well. And I was talking too much to keep the pressure up. It tasted yummy though.

And don't worry, Hugh, dear. You just come over later & we'll be sure you don't scare anyone at all. And bring your lacrosse stick.
posted by dame 24 October | 11:39
buger

Buger! HAAAAAAAAhahahahaha you said buger neeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Pick a friends nose!

So what if it isn't spelled right HARRRUMPH!
posted by Hugh Janus 24 October | 11:43
veggies don't have bugers. They don't even have noses.
posted by jonmc 24 October | 11:44
I hate you both.
posted by dame 24 October | 11:46
dame lies. she worships us. she wants to be just like us. late at night when she's alone, she puts on a plaid shirt and sits around drinking cheap domestic. It's gets her excited.
posted by jonmc 24 October | 11:49
dame, baby, you just made my day.
'nite!
posted by ethylene 24 October | 11:49
Mu ha hawwwwww

I posit that there is no finer cheap canned domestic than the venerable and classy Schlitz -- just the kiss of the hops.
posted by Hugh Janus 24 October | 11:52
This one's for jonmc. Heal thyself!
posted by Hugh Janus 24 October | 11:54
I don't drink beer from cans. Or own anything plaid. And if you don't start being nice, I'm going to march straight to the Tower of Doom & straighten you out myself. Jon will be left free because fighting pips would suck.
posted by dame 24 October | 11:56
G'night eth.
posted by dame 24 October | 11:57
G'night Grandpa Walton.
posted by jonmc 24 October | 12:01
And if you don't start being nice,

Okay, I'll start being nice. My first kindness will be to suggest a can of Schlitz as your introduction to the wonderful world of cheap domestics!
posted by Hugh Janus 24 October | 12:02
What the hell is going on here? This idyll chatter is not on topic at all.
posted by danostuporstar 24 October | 12:07
That isn't nice. I don't drink things is cans if I can help it. What about a nice Negra Modelo? It's cheap *and* it comes in a bottle.
posted by dame 24 October | 12:07
Shopright does the can-can.
posted by Divine_Wino 24 October | 12:09
you can get schlitz, and schaefer, and even Olde English in bottles, too.
posted by jonmc 24 October | 12:09
idyll chatter? I like that. maybe it should be our slogan. "The home of idyll chatter."
posted by taz 24 October | 12:12
That's a fine idea, dame. Negra Modelo it is, then.

I have no idea why I'm such a pest today. I'm about to jump out of my skin here at the office. I'm walking on eggshells (sung to the Katrina & the Waves tune).

On preview, I've had Schlitz in bottles, and one is just as well served with another brand. But if a can is the vessel du jour, Schlitz is the ne plus ultra.
posted by Hugh Janus 24 October | 12:13
This is the best time then to march in & demand they hire you as a permanent employee. If you're already freaked out, make it for something.
posted by dame 24 October | 12:19
You've obviously never had a tall can of Silver Thunder Malt Liquor or Steel Reserve High Gravity,
posted by jonmc 24 October | 12:20
No malt liquor does for me what Crazy Horse (in 40 oz. bottles) does for me.

That is to say, give me something as offensive as this to ponder while I drink myself into oblivion:

The Montana Hills, steeped in the history of
the American West, home of Proud Indian Nations.
A land where imagination conjures up images of blue clad
pony soldiers and magnificent Native American Warriors.
A land still rutted with wagon tracks of intrepid pioneers.
A land of character, and tradition.
A land that truly speaks of the spirit that is America.
posted by Hugh Janus 24 October | 12:29
Separated at birth ?
posted by danostuporstar 24 October | 12:30
To paraphrase achewood:

No one is happy to have a 40 of Crazy Horse, they're just happy to have something the police will wrestle them for.

posted by Divine_Wino 24 October | 12:32
The last 5 oz. are the smoothest.
posted by Hugh Janus 24 October | 12:35
I love Ladies' Man and the early stuff but Samaritan was really weak and, imo, should be skipped altogether. Huge letdown.
posted by dobbs 24 October | 13:14
The plot of Samaritan isn't much, I agree, but the characterizations (esp. Nerese)are excellent, and I think the central point of the book is a very valid one that isn't articulated well very often. YMMV.

posted by jonmc 24 October | 13:19
Clockers, Samaritan and Freedomland are a different kind of book, less "Greaser Literary" and more contemplative, character driven crime/police procedurals, written at a remove that is not there in the early stuff. I happen to think both "sets" of books are wonderful, but liking one will not ensure you like the other. Dempsey burnin' yo.


(ps despite all appearences otherwise Jonmc and I are not the same person, those who went out on friday can attest to this, some striking differences exist between us, for instance: I am a member of the clean plate club and have a way harder time wrangling invitations to visit Australia, however I did get one, because jon knew there was an Australian band called "Drongo's Spullican" or "Hairnet" or something.
posted by Divine_Wino 24 October | 13:28
)
posted by Divine_Wino 24 October | 13:28
I am a member of the clean plate club

pre-kidney stone so was I, dude. But stuffing my gullet completely hurts somewhat, now. After the rock removal, I shall rejoin the society.
posted by jonmc 24 October | 13:30
Also, after 6 beers and that ecto-cooler shot, and loading up on salsa, I was bloated.
posted by jonmc 24 October | 13:30
I believe in you brother. It was just a funny moment.

It was also a funny moment where I complained for three minutes before the melon ecto-cooler shot and five minutes after the shot, about having to drink a melon anything that was free, to the bartender while whiping what was rather clearly the contents of a highlighter off my chin. Waiter this food is terrible and the portions are too small!
posted by Divine_Wino 24 October | 13:33
Hey, that wasn't bad! If I was in high school it might be my favorite drink, behind Natty Boh.
posted by Hugh Janus 24 October | 14:25
Also, my co-worker Amy PopularLiquer says that she had a nice time and enjoyed meeting all of you.
posted by jonmc 24 October | 16:15
Tea Time. || * Looks in mirror. Sees fool. *

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