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05 May 2006

What's tickled your fancy lately? →[More:]

1) Shrimp and alligator sausage cheescake (yum)
2) the blue whale at the Natural History Museum (a blue whale's penis is the size of a Volkswagon, you know)
3) Listening to MP3s with jonmc
4) Islam's cartoons (he's a student of mine who draws these really funny cartoons and hands them to me at my desk during silent reading from time to time)
5) MeCha!
6) A homeless man at GCT (Grand Central Terminal) in Coors Light pajama bottoms

post by: Pips at: 09:12 | 46 comments

my fancy has been utterly tickless
so sad

posted by ethylene 05 May | 09:14

*Homemade caesar salads
*Orange slices (the candy)
*Wine during my nightly 11 p.m. "Sex and the City" watching

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 05 May | 09:19

peanut butter and chocolate covered malted milk balls.

posted by chewatadistance 05 May | 09:23

1) Yesterday, this dude at the top of the stairs at the 2nd Ave subway stop, his voice thick with homelessness, said to me, "Hey, Mountain Man! You look like you just came down off a mountain!"

2) Also yesterday, I told my boss I wouldn't do two new tasks he asked me to. When he asked why not, I said, "You won't hire me because I don't have an accounting degree, so I'm not going to do any of this confusing work that I obviously need an accounting degree to do. It's undignified."

3) Iron Maiden "Run to the Hills"

4) Those bangers and mash the other night were excellent, but the fact that all the waitresses were lovely (stunning) and English really floated my boat.

5) German wine.

6) SSX Tour for PS2.

7) ethylene.

posted by Hugh Janus 05 May | 09:25

but i hate german wine.
poop

posted by ethylene 05 May | 09:26

chocolate covered malted milk balls

Maltesers?

Been there, done that.

peanut butter and chocolate covered malted milk balls.

No, you're toying with us. Can there be such things?

posted by GeckoDundee 05 May | 09:26

A certain someone has tickled my fancy. There has been no other tickling since. Oh, I guess I'm tickled by the way my new cardigan is turning out. Who would have thought I'm capable of knitting an Aran style sweater?

posted by LunaticFringe 05 May | 09:30

homemade egg salad sandwiches made with love
drunken revelry
french press kona coffee
Carlos Malcolm's 'Bonanza Ska' (If that dosen't tickle your fancy, go see the fancy doctor)

posted by jonmc 05 May | 09:31

Tastes like honey.
Honey's not just for bears.
Most wine doesn't pair with mustard.
Probably taps into some long-buried volks-memory.
Nice bottles.
The ponderous allure of the words Liebfraumilch and Rheinheitsgeböt.

posted by Hugh Janus 05 May | 09:33

Seeing "bum" as one of the body part labels on my best friend's pregnancy ultrasound pictures.

posted by amro 05 May | 09:35

Iced Coffee.
Impeaching the President.
Turkey Burgers with horseradish and chedder cheese ON THE INSIDE.
Fuzzy Guitar.
Verner Vinge.

The blue whale is the shit, I insist that all children with me at the Natural History museum stand under it to fully understand bigness, awe and the creeping terror of maybe having a giant whale fall on you.

posted by Divine_Wino 05 May | 09:38

I could feel hot flames of fire roaring at my back
As she disappeared, but soon she returned
In her hand was a bottle of wine
In the other a glass
She poured some of the wine from the bottle into the glass

I think it was a bottle of Liebfraumilch

And raised it to her lips
And just before she drank it, she said

That's the whale in "The Squid and The Whale" right?

posted by rainbaby 05 May | 09:42

pips, cheers!

1)My daughter pooped for the very fist time in the potty and burst into tears at the sight. Mmmm!
2)Rain Restaurant in NY: fish and Riesling wine. Business dinner. Fine company. Mmmm!
3)Tips of fingers meet tips of fingers, accidentally. Mmmm!

ps. ha!ha! jonmc, I didn't know there were words in the Hawaii 5-0 tune!

posted by carmina 05 May | 09:44

1)My daughter pooped for the very fist time in the potty and burst into tears at the sight. Mmmm!

Jeez, I still do that, but probably for different reasons.

posted by jonmc 05 May | 09:45

HAHAHAHHHAAHHAHAH. crying at the potty.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 05 May | 09:48

C'mon, Chewie, I want to know whether these things are real

And where I can get them.

posted by GeckoDundee 05 May | 09:55

1. I saw a red Lotus Elise parked on campus.
2. Girls who wear video game t-shirts.
3. Sun sun sun for riding my motorcycle on my awesome new tires.

And I'm thinking of having a going away party for myself at my apartment. This means cleaning, but also means people actually hanging out with me (you know, IRL?).

posted by Eideteker 05 May | 09:57

N@, if you can get out here, I'll show you roads that will justify your tires.

posted by GeckoDundee 05 May | 10:05

1. Going to Neil Young's site and listening to his new CD whenever I am alone and can play it loud.

2. My daughter and her gf are SO smitten with one another. . .teasing daughter about hickeys and linking the askmefi thread to her about them.

3. Riding my bike, now that the weather has changed.

4. This cartoon.

posted by danf 05 May | 10:05

Oh, yeah.

Actually, not much.

posted by GeckoDundee 05 May | 10:06

Also not much.

posted by Miko 05 May | 10:14

Good Defecation Dynamics for those of you with potty issues.

posted by sarah connor 05 May | 10:16

I saw a Rolls Royce in a local driveway yesterday. It had a "For Sale" sign in the window.

posted by sarah connor 05 May | 10:38

I was just reading Esquire, so... Viggo Mortensen. Pop culture magazines tickle my fancy.

Undergraduates, because they can be so earnest. Earnestness seems to get harder to come by the older you get.

I saw Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman at the Chicago Symphony on Wednesday, and the Leclair and Moszkowski pieces they played were great. I want to hear more from both composers now.

posted by halonine 05 May | 10:40

Wordpress.

posted by danostuporstar 05 May | 10:48

wonder showzen clips on youtube....

posted by Mrs.Pants 05 May | 10:49

Not much, actually. I guess my fancy isn't very ticklish.

posted by matildaben 05 May | 10:55

Hey gecko - we get 'em from the bulk food bin thing at Whole Foods the next town over from us - in Cary NC. They are a bit bigger than regular malted milk balls - I think you call 'em maltese? They have a layer of peanut butter under the initial chocolte outer layer and are the yummiest!

posted by chewatadistance 05 May | 10:59

My frilly undies. They tickle plenty.

posted by trondant 05 May | 11:01

gecko further investigations shows them online here:
http://www.nutsonline.com/chocolatessweets/malted-milk-balls/peanut-butter.html

posted by chewatadistance 05 May | 11:05

Making love to a highway on a Suzuki Hayabusa. I WANT ONE NOW THANK YOU.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 05 May | 11:14

"Cookies are for closers!" I yelled that at my kid yesterday in response to her persistent nagging for cookies, despite the fact that she was grounded from sweets for the day. Mamet references are lost on the preschool set, but it keeps making me giggle. Cookies are for closers!!

And bravo to your little one, carmina. Potty training is the suck.

posted by jrossi4r 05 May | 11:18

John Ruskin telling his readers that they wouldn't want to live with a murdered man in their cupboard, even if he had a sunflower growing out of his head.

posted by PinkStainlessTail 05 May | 11:23

jrossi4r:

Excellent!

posted by Divine_Wino 05 May | 11:31

2) Also yesterday, I told my boss I wouldn't do two new tasks he asked me to. When he asked why not, I said, "You won't hire me because I don't have an accounting degree, so I'm not going to do any of this confusing work that I obviously need an accounting degree to do. It's undignified."

I ♥ Hugh

posted by deborah 05 May | 11:32

Hugh dosen't have a job so much as he has a public deconstruction of the whole idea of a job, I'll posit.

*dons black turtleneck, smoke Galuiose*

posted by jonmc 05 May | 11:35

I don't have a job, I have a test of the shit-eating internet firewall here and the fucking stupid censors who run it.

posted by Hugh Janus 05 May | 12:06

I just got back from the deli. I bought a bottle of this and one of these. I'm feeling creamy, I guess.

Also, there's two huge (I mean like a yard-and-a-half in diameter) rolls of bubble wrap in a corner of the office. I don't know what they have it for, but I have an urge to use it to cover the entire floor, then roll around naked on it. That would be fancy-tickling, indeed.

posted by jonmc 05 May | 12:10

Funny you say that, jonmc. I was just returning from the men's room here and had the urge to drop my pants to my ankles and waddle around the floor, squawking like a duck, just to see if the drones take any notice.

posted by Hugh Janus 05 May | 12:29

I say we combine our passions, my friend.

posted by jonmc 05 May | 12:31

Quack, quack *POP POP* quaaaack! *POP POP POP* quack *POP* quack *POP POP Pa-POP*

posted by Hugh Janus 05 May | 12:35

Haircuts. I just got one for the firs time in months and hot damn but do I feel better.

posted by Fuzzbean 05 May | 12:37

1) Andrew Bird's music
2) poetry readings
3) 'Self' by Yann Martel
4) dandelions stubbornly growing in the cracks in the concrete between the subway tracks, and how all the trees have decided to flower at once
5) the blanket I'm crocheting for a pregnant friend
6) the boys at the cheese store, oh the sauciness
7) realising that what would have been an anniversary with the ex went by and I didn't even notice.

posted by heatherann 05 May | 13:02

Lexapro. Day five and it's kicking in and this is good, believe me, you don't know how good this is.

And having my birthday announced, very loud, to the entire bar last night and then the entire bar singing happy birthday to me while I stood there and turned bright, bright, embarrassed but happy red.

The blue whale is one of the single coolest things in all the world and I need to get back up to NYC with my kids so I can bring them there again. That is the place where I was having a beer under the whale and my daughter egged my 3 year old son on to run around from diorama to diorama of arctic mammals yelling "Dead! Deeaaaadddd! They're all dead! Dead and stuffed!!!!" while the tourists backed slowly away from them with horrified looks on their faces.

posted by mygothlaundry 05 May | 14:21

Beware of falling whales! : )

(see Wino's comment)

posted by Pips 05 May | 14:28

SoBe Green Tea

Cute girls wearing flip flops.

Ripping down long roads on my motorcycle.

Having the house to myself for two weeks.

Lemon Bars (and the cute woman I buy them from)

Sinner's Swing from Van Halen's BEST ALBUM, Fair Warning!

posted by black8 05 May | 20:51

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