UCLA!!!!!!!

[Zomby Woof]

Whew! :o :D :bounce:

[salin]

1. Whatever.

Pouting.

Put a post up to try to commemerate being here for awhile - a post capturing some of what I find memorable over the past four years - and friends have ignored it.

Hrumph. UCLA. whatever.

[salin]

3. furthermore

a post about "sweet" gets more posts... feeling like such a voiceless person tonight. *pout*

[Zomby Woof]

4. It's your punishment

For all of those &*# free association threads. :P

[salin]

6. Forgive me for I have clearly

become persona non grata even among friends.

Sorry - just wondering if I even have a space in the lounge anymore... *sigh*

[Zomby Woof]

12. Did you check your sense of humor at the door?

[salin]

15. too stressed to have humour

not sure if I am having a revelation tonight (a long coming one) - or whether it is just my stress/exhaustion talking. But isn't it odd when GD seems more like a welcoming refuge than the lounge?

[Zomby Woof]

19. GD is still the same shit

Tinfoil and histrionics and ideological purity.

Everyone over there is fried. I remember when I was the cynic and they were all the pollyannaa.

Then after the Dubai Ports fiasco, I got optmistic and the old pollyannas jumped all over my ass with negativity. It's proof I was right to take a break from politics for a while. It isn't healthy to get wrapped up too much in this shit. Politics is the entertainment branch of industry as it is.

[salin]

20. Which makes it really odd

that it is, at least for me, right now a much more welcoming place than the lounge. Guess we are on divergent paths as I think I have to take a long break from the lounge for awhile. I can pick and choose there and still have some interesting conversations... here if I try - I am largely ignored.

[Zomby Woof]

21. You aren't ignored by anyone important

As for me, I haven't been around much. The phony rehab going on is a bit puke-inducing. :puke:

[salin]

23. um dear,

you ignored me until I pointed it out.

[Zomby Woof]

25. No I didn't

I DID NOT SEE YOUR THREAD.

I post hit-and-run these days. And I miss a lot of crap.

The whining and self-pity is unsettling.

Besides, I never claimed I was important around here. ;-)

[salin]

26. you are important

to long-term friends.

As I said elsewhere... have you known me to be prone to frequent fits of self-pity? If not - then perhaps it should not be so quickly dismissed.

[Zomby Woof]

32. I know

I am making it clear it disturbs me, which is not dismissing it.

I agree with you more than you know. The Lounge is largely a cesspool of twits and narcissists and alcoholics - and you aren't wrong for feeling out of place.

I haven't been around much either. In any forum. My writing has suffered as a result from the lack of participation. But I have Nini and my health and I am okay with that as an exchange.

:hug: for you Salin!

[salin]

38. Thanks Zomby

I needed that. Guess the feeling has been building for a long time (actually since my "spring break" a year ago - that this place is very different, and not participating as much as I once did put me on distinctly on the outside... but something crystalized tonight that hits me at a rather deep level. Will have to sleep on it. Which I really ought to do, about now, given how much work I have to do tomorrow ;-)

:hug:

[havocmom]

16. I still love ya!

:hi: salin!

But, hey, March Madness and all. People are nuts right now.

Lately I feel like ol George Gobbles said once on the old Tonight Show with Carson"
"Like a pair of brown shoes in a room full of tuxedos."

[salin]

18. I am sorta feeling like the old used sneakers

in the corner that are, due to their use over time, a bit smelly... and thus easy to be ignored and wished away.

really not feeling like I have a place to belong - which is really pretty ironic given the whole post which tried to document the interesting things witnessed (ala as a DU participant) over the past four years. I am not prone to pity parties... but think I am having one tonight... really wondering whether I have a place at the lounge anymore. Really odd when the infamous GD feels more welcoming.

[havocmom]

24. 's OK. Actually, feeling pretty much the same lately

and A LOT of it tonight. Actually considering avoiding the place for pretty much the reasons you have stated. Glad I tuned in this evening. Would have broken my heart not to hear from you.

Maybe Skinner can arrange a 'geezer lounge' for those of us who don't wanna play nasty. ;)

Gads, even John Kleeb isn't around and he is a youngster. A very bright one.
I miss him too. He gave me reason to have some hope for tomorrow.

[Zomby Woof]

28. Got to be an asshole here

But Kleeb is on my ignore list. His weird ramblings drove me nuts.

I do miss LeftPeopleFinishFirst. As for the youngsters, only MiniMandaRuth gives me hope for the future. The others, not so much.

[salin]

31. hard to distinguish

the kids from the adults these days... sorta a trend/tone set by our petulant president somehow transcending all the way to this litle corner of the cyberworld.

[Zomby Woof]

33. Truer words

Truer words never spoken. :-)

[havocmom]

34. I'm older and found him interesting

Think it may be a perspective thing ;) He sorta reminded me of someone close in my mundane life, someone who was too soon gone from this mortal coil. Damn, now I am crying. SHIT>

Yeah, miss LeftPeopleFinishFirst too. Several actually. Several

[Zomby Woof]

35. It's not our age

It's our differing tolerance for autistic non-sequitirs.

[havocmom]

36. LOL Yeah, das it!

He reminded me a bit of my nephew. I loved the kid but often wanted to clobber him in the head with a brick. Guess Kleeb gave me the same feeling sometime :shrug:

I do put up with more from people than I should. Working on that lately. Pissing people off pretty regularly around here. But, hey, like the young man in Redstone's saga tonight, some of them need a cue stick across the nose.

Then I wanna be kinder and gentler like salin. I am having trouble with balance around here of late.

[havocmom]

39. Oh, one more thing...

U of A
U of A
U of A
U of A
U of A
U of A

LUTE! LUTE! LUTE!

:P

But, I too bleed Dodge blue, or I used to back when I followed baseball.

Thanks for all you do, ZW!

[Zomby Woof]

40. I am CWU grad

Wildcats. :P

But love all the L.A. teams. :P :hug: Goodnight!

[havocmom]

41. 'nite ZW

momma's tired

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

45. mwah!

:evilgrin:

[salin]

30. you don't know how much this post means

it resonates so clearly with me - and acknowledges that it isn't just me, or thin skin or some other dismissive thing. For those who have known me over time, I do hope that they recognize that it is not my style to be a drama queen. A pragmatic wet blanket from time to time... but not a histrionic drama queen. Very nice to read that my sense of this space is not just my sense. Am glad that you checked in tonight and we happened to exchange thoughts. Do know how much I appreciate you and your perspective.

[jus_the_facts]

43. HEY...turn that frown upside down Missy!!

[bigwillq]

2. WOO HOO!

I have them going to the Final 4! :bounce:

[Zomby Woof]

5. I have them winning it ALL

:wipes sweat off brow:

[bigwillq]

7. That's going to be tough.

But they might be able to do it.

[Zomby Woof]

9. It will probably be evil Duke

But hell, at least UCLA is in it... I don't see USC anywhere in the brackets. :rofl:

[bigwillq]

10. I have Uconn over Duke

in the final with UCLA and BC also in my final 4

[Kerrytravelers]

8. I beg to differ.

Fight On! For old 'SC! Our men Fight On! to victory!



Our alma mater's dear! It's up to you!



Fight On! and win for old 'SC!


Fight On! to victory! Fight On!





Ok, I know. A bit much. I received my BA and my MA from there. What can I say? :)

[Zomby Woof]

11. My wife's uncle played hoops for USC

The Sunday LA Times featured him on the front page of their Sports section a few weeks ago. Back in the 30's... it was a retrospective on the old rivaly back then.

But since USC isn't even IN the tournament, your post goes nowhere. :P

[Kerrytravelers]

14. I know. But I couldn't help myself!

[IrishBloodEngHeart]

22. was it hard being a liberal there?

I work in insurance, and do a lot of business with SC alums, and they are the most conservative, elitist bunch you can imagine.

[Zomby Woof]

29. No shit!

Although in Nini's uncle's defense, he is a lifelong liberal, non-elitist Democrat. :-)

[Kerrytravelers]

44. Not at all. You must have just found the nutty ones. There were tons of

liberal and progressive people there when I was a student. 94-98 and again in 2001-2003. I have a BA in Journalism, with is part of the Annenberg Communications School in which Normal Lear has a Chair and is very active. The Masters of Professional Writing is extremely liberal. I knew one guy who was conservative- but not nutso, just disillusioned by ray-gun- and he secretly told me he felt very outnumbered in the department- not that anyone was unkind, but that he always felt ostracized in casual conversations so he usually just kept quiet. However, he did admit that many people made very insightful observations that he couldn't ignore.

Anyway, while there are the neocons conservative nuts, they are so angry and elitist because they are sorely outnumbered and they know it.

[bertha katzenengel]

13. Yeah. Let's hear it for the boys of Westwood High.

:evilgrin:

[Random_Australian]

17. ACLU!!!!! n/t

[laheina]

37. Donut joke about basketball!

Especially not UCLA basketball! That is an order.

Now, I must go watch the "Fullmetal Alchemist."

[Ron Mexico]

27. Ah, my sporting comrade, we once again agree.

I don't need any more such excitement, though. Yeesh.

[bobthedrummer]

42. Coconut Island. Edwin W. Pauley...

missed free throws...

"Rhiannon", "Hypnotized", Southern Air Transport, Konsin L. Shah...

The White Album, Janice Drews Kopechne, "Snake" Lake...

UCLA other Key players
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/06/09/MNCFWHERE.DTL

[huskerlaw]

46. Whoo hooo!