I'm not dead yet. - by fett
Vivian on 14/1/2013 at 08:23
You're a top fucking bloke Fett, make sure you take the mega-baboon option when transplant time comes. Also well done on not being dead. I've double checked, and being dead is deffo a bunch of boring shit x
BEAR on 14/1/2013 at 17:09
Good to hear Fett. I don't frequent ttlg as much as I used to, and usually only to lurk, but its good to see familiar faces posting.
Tocky on 15/1/2013 at 04:57
Thanks for the links! I get lost in your life for hours in them. What a grand adventure life is. It's good to see you enjoy yours. I don't suppose you want to share the plot of your book?
Aerothorn on 29/1/2013 at 06:05
I know what you mean with FB. Would have taken a leave myself if I didn't need to use it for some marketing stuff. Sigh. Glad to hear you are hanging in there.
scumble on 30/1/2013 at 13:02
On the other hand I axed Facebook and nobody noticed apart from my mother :D
It's said that life threatening illnesses encourage people to appreciate life more - sounds like you're getting as much as you can from it. Is the painting good enough to share?
Incidentally, I'm amazed that you had to explain indian food. I know it isn't that popular in the US but are people still that ignorant about it? Possibly the situation is better in areas with higher numbers of expats, but it seemed that it was more likely you'd find a Japanese restaurant in New England than an indian one.
fett on 2/2/2013 at 04:41
Well, you have to realize our families are southerners. They don't eat sushi. They don't listen to rock music. They don't trust Catholics. And they certainly don't eat food that comes from a place where people wear "towels on their heads." Despite the fact that my father-in-law can eat three times his body weight in rice, shrimp, crab, cream cheese, and avocado, when you put it all together it's "raw fish," and he don't eat raw fish."
Okay.
Besides my heart, the other MAJOR reason we had to get the hell out of there is because we wanted our kids to grow up in a place where people are just people, all food is food, and diverse culture is progress. Oh yeah, and progress is good - not bad. The first friends we made here were an ex-Mormon family who voted Obama (ya' know - the colored fella?) and run the local free-thinkers organization. The second is a lesbian couple (married 20 years) with two kids, one of them with scoliosis. We didn't do that on purpose, but that would have been very difficult to do surrounded by family who makes snarky remarks about Mexicans, inter-racial marriage, and "the gays" at every turn.
In other words, eating Indian food is, to them, just the tip of the giant, liberal, gay loving, baby aborting, dope smoking, alcoholic, porn watching, negro voting iceberg that represents our life since we made the abrupt exit from Christianity.
And if you think it's insane that eating Indian food can invoke that train of thought, you've never been to Arkansas, U.S.A. Also the Indian food in the south is shit.
scumble on 2/2/2013 at 07:26
Well I'm guessing living in a cultural black hole does lead to the degradation of the mind. At least you've escaped...
Matthew on 5/2/2013 at 12:52
That sounds depressingly like the place I grew up, fett, except that you couldn't pry Indian take-away from our cold dead hands.
Hope the catherisaton went OK, mang.
ToolHead on 6/2/2013 at 12:14
In other words, eating Indian food is, to them, just the tip of the giant, liberal, gay loving, baby aborting, dope smoking, alcoholic, porn watching, negro voting iceberg that represents our life since we made the abrupt exit from Christianity.
You have a way with words, good sir! :-)
Best of luck on all matters heart-related or not and with keeping the iceberg growing.
ZylonBane on 6/2/2013 at 21:18
Oh god for a second there I thought ToolFan was back.
