Date: March 26th, 2026 2:55 PM Author: sable sandwich becky
Their previous album was a hit in the UK. It’s pretty good if you like Northern Soul. They didn’t Celticmaxx until this one.
If you really want to get into a Dexy rabbit hole, Rowland arguably stole the Celtic folk style from Al Archer, who was in the band for the first album but left. Rowland apparently admitted this later.
Date: October 7th, 2026 6:13 AM Author: odious peach pocket flask
they used it in the movie Black Sheep with the late, great chris farley and his smarmy sidekick david spade. or at least i think so. i haven't watched it in years.
i was a copy editor before i went to law school at a place called the american geophysical union, which publishes research by geologists and shit. worst job i ever had, so boring. i did hook up with a cute blonde who was married, and she tried to kill herself at work after i "dumped" her.
anyway, there was a very old woman named eileen. she must have been like 80. she was british and had a posh sort of accent. whenever i'd look at her, i'd think of the song COME ON EILEEN and picture myself shooting ropes in her face.
Date: October 6th, 2026 6:58 AM Author: odious peach pocket flask
it was so absurd and disgusting i'd bust out laughing at my desk thinking about defiling this woman who was near death.
the AGU office is next door to the hotel where reagan got shot. there was this super fat lib copy editor lady and she once referred to the shooting but she wouldn't name reagan. she said "where THAT MAN was shot." would love to hear her thoughts about trump
my boss was this 40ish year old short lesbian with a mullet named cammie. she used to ask me to "go ahead and not surf the internet so much" during work hours. i never worked, i just poasted on various boards. she later spoke at an event at my wife's company. not sure what tf she was talking about, she was a middle management drone making like $103k. nice lady tho.
there was a gay man named don who brushed his teeth 3x a day in the bathroom
another guy named frank who was weird as shit and said he wanted to write childrens books. his name was frank tavares - i wonder if this was his dad (NPR dood who wrote books and died a few years ago. the guy i worked with was about my age: https://theseventhwave.org/person/tavares-frank/)
then another gay dood.
i haven't thought about that place in a while. man, email jobs are fucking terrible. goddamn it.
Date: October 6th, 2026 11:59 AM Author: odious peach pocket flask
i was dating this plain chick and lived with her. i should have dumped her but i really loved her family and i have weird attachment issues. anyway, this cute girl (had a kind of emo look to her) worked a couple floors up. i had to email her once for work reasons and she wrote back in a vaguely flirtatious way. fast forward like a month and we are sneaking off to the parking garage so i can fingerbang her and whatever.
anyway, a few months after this all started, she was getting married. she went away for 3 weeks. a week for the wedding, 2 for her honeymoon. there was a big hurricaine in 2003 and she was still gone during that. only reason that's relevant is i spent a lot of time with the mid girl's family during the storm (our power was out for days) and i realized i didn't want to do what i was doing anymore. when the girl got back i said i thought we should break things off. a couple weeks later, she took a whole bottle of pills while in the office and they had to cart her off in an ambulance and she got committed to the nuthouse for a little bit.
also, i went right back to cheating. about a year after this, i started up with gary, who is now my wife. discuss.
oh, i should mention that the side piece from the office ended up blowing up like 100 lbs with a thyroid issue the summer gary and i got together (2005) and boy did i breathe a sigh of relief
Date: October 6th, 2026 12:03 PM Author: sable sandwich becky
Did she ever come back to work? At a big company or firm they’d make her disappear but I could see a kooky non-profit thinking they should take her back.
yea she ended up going back there for a bit. maybe 3 months after the suicide attempt i was gone bc i started law school part time, but i switched to full time and just left the job.
the summer she blew up (see above), she ended up leaving. funnily enough, she moved back to cleveland. funny bc that's where gary is from. gary and i ran into her at a barnes and noble in georgetown in the fall of 05. i'm sure gary got a kick out of that because she looked great and this chick had turned into a hambeast.