Jim and i have been watching Invader Zim from netflix. When this show was on TV i was usually drunk or stoned and couldn't quite comprehend it's delights. This was one of my favorite moments and I would love to share it with you in all its VHS ripped glory.
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05/07/2007 22:58 #39197
I was the turkey all along05/07/2007 15:05 #39191
And me without my cameraRiding up Delaware Ave to drop (e:Jim) off at work the car in front of us had a rainbow flag sticker with a bear paw on it. I made some joke about a bear sighting then notice his license plate. A Virginia plate reading XXXPUP.
How fucking awesome is that?
typing his licence plate number into google yeilded this first hit
mystery solved.
How fucking awesome is that?
typing his licence plate number into google yeilded this first hit
mystery solved.
05/05/2007 21:08 #39169
Choke this down with your mint julip05/04/2007 21:05 #39156
Bubble Mother Fucking Tea, mother fuckerI am pleased as punch
The sort of punch distilled from a child's smile ground of their face and mixed with scotch. Oh yes, it was indeed a happy moment.
I had heard of bubble tea a few years ago, and it sounded bizarrely exotic. Buffalo seems to culinary be insular. We have great food here. But I the thai places are blah, I have yet to have good Chinese food, and most good restaurants seem to work on that American/French fusion formula "Large piece of meat and braised veggies". That is great and all but not the best place to expand your palate.
But while waiting for photos to be developed at Color tech Jim and I had a snack/dinner at Bao Bakery and Teahouse. Holy crap it was wonderful. It is a little Chinese bakery and offers a huge list of bubble teas and other drinks. I have been looking for a chinese bakery since I moved here. Even in tiny little Albany there was one filled with amazing baked goods.
If you don't know what is up with Chinese baking, it works like this. You take this croissant like crumbly pastry and fill it with anything, teriyaki chicken, BBQ pork, tofu and veggies. And oh man, these were do good and only 85 cents a bun. Two buns will satisfy anyone when hungry.
The bubble tea was so much better/weirder than I thought it would be. I had lychee flavor. 12 oz of lychee tea was so much more than I could drink. Gnawing on black pearls of tapioca is magically weird. It is, like Guinness, a meal in a can/cup.
So, if you are ever near Thunderdome/The Boulevard Mall please stop by and drink/eat until you are giddy from all the super tasty treats.
love
The sort of punch distilled from a child's smile ground of their face and mixed with scotch. Oh yes, it was indeed a happy moment.
I had heard of bubble tea a few years ago, and it sounded bizarrely exotic. Buffalo seems to culinary be insular. We have great food here. But I the thai places are blah, I have yet to have good Chinese food, and most good restaurants seem to work on that American/French fusion formula "Large piece of meat and braised veggies". That is great and all but not the best place to expand your palate.
But while waiting for photos to be developed at Color tech Jim and I had a snack/dinner at Bao Bakery and Teahouse. Holy crap it was wonderful. It is a little Chinese bakery and offers a huge list of bubble teas and other drinks. I have been looking for a chinese bakery since I moved here. Even in tiny little Albany there was one filled with amazing baked goods.
If you don't know what is up with Chinese baking, it works like this. You take this croissant like crumbly pastry and fill it with anything, teriyaki chicken, BBQ pork, tofu and veggies. And oh man, these were do good and only 85 cents a bun. Two buns will satisfy anyone when hungry.
The bubble tea was so much better/weirder than I thought it would be. I had lychee flavor. 12 oz of lychee tea was so much more than I could drink. Gnawing on black pearls of tapioca is magically weird. It is, like Guinness, a meal in a can/cup.
So, if you are ever near Thunderdome/The Boulevard Mall please stop by and drink/eat until you are giddy from all the super tasty treats.
love
mike - 05/06/07 10:28
whenever i have bubble tea it freaks me out...i try to like it i do...but I just can't!
whenever i have bubble tea it freaks me out...i try to like it i do...but I just can't!
theecarey - 05/04/07 22:30
its a texture thing for me, so bubble tea kinda grosses me out. but, I just may give in to trying lychee bubble tea. loose black lychee tea (must be from china town!) is my humble equivalent to crack.
cool. I will definitely plan on stopping at the teahouse next time I am in that area. Must try the "bao". Thanks for sharing!
its a texture thing for me, so bubble tea kinda grosses me out. but, I just may give in to trying lychee bubble tea. loose black lychee tea (must be from china town!) is my humble equivalent to crack.
cool. I will definitely plan on stopping at the teahouse next time I am in that area. Must try the "bao". Thanks for sharing!
04/30/2007 21:05 #39109
For U Buffalo H8tahsI found this article while looking for a picture of the Hutchinson house which is now the leveled parking lot of the Saturn club.
Here is an excerpt:
There is a fine line between something and nothing and Buffalo manages to walk it straight despite the large quantities of alcohol it consumed in hopes of blurring that line just a little wider. Unlike other cities, where it's easy to sink into the flow of everything's fine, in Buffalo, you must be a prophet or drown in utter mediocrity. Buffalo demands existential authenticity, and the rock we push up the hill (only to have it roll back down over us time and time again) is our only salvation. Like Rimbaud in the gutters and back-alleys of Paris, in Buffalo, you have no choice but to remake life; there's no bullshit left to buy, no palace gates to hide behind (I endure Siddhartha Gautama's 4 passing sights whenever I walk out my front door). Buffalo is the most advanced city in America; we progressed beyond progress.
And the full deal is here
enjoy kittens
Here is an excerpt:
There is a fine line between something and nothing and Buffalo manages to walk it straight despite the large quantities of alcohol it consumed in hopes of blurring that line just a little wider. Unlike other cities, where it's easy to sink into the flow of everything's fine, in Buffalo, you must be a prophet or drown in utter mediocrity. Buffalo demands existential authenticity, and the rock we push up the hill (only to have it roll back down over us time and time again) is our only salvation. Like Rimbaud in the gutters and back-alleys of Paris, in Buffalo, you have no choice but to remake life; there's no bullshit left to buy, no palace gates to hide behind (I endure Siddhartha Gautama's 4 passing sights whenever I walk out my front door). Buffalo is the most advanced city in America; we progressed beyond progress.
And the full deal is here
enjoy kittens
jason - 05/01/07 15:51
We've progressed beyond progress...HAHAHAHAHA. Brilliant!
We've progressed beyond progress...HAHAHAHAHA. Brilliant!
homosinuality is an awesome word... i'm going to have to remember that!
And I was going to blaim a catholic bishop for your soul's fall into homosinuality.
I took this communciations class in college where we had to pick a fringe group and do a report. I ended up writing mine on bears. This was sometime in 1996 and it was way radical for the class I was in. I had a fun chatting with them on online. In fact I think it was my first experience chatting with a gay person online. Oh where that has lead.
big hairy xxxpup man!
i agree... awesome thread..
and i definetly think that more people die in that manner than we think - i think it is more often classified as suicide for the sanity of the family/friends...
Felly:
Ya, big hairy men works just fine as a definition. Smelly is just for zest.
Ya, the INXS fella did die from strangling himself while pounding one out. That doesn't really fall under the BDSM category, though strangling and breath-play definitely does. It is tough to say what he got off on, the enhanced orgasm from strangling, or the being strangled part. I can't say what got him off so I don't know how to categorize it.
This comment thread has been awesome by the way. Thank you everyone for participating.
I always just saw bears as big hairy men. thats all.
also - didn't the guy from INXS die from auto erotic asphyxiation?
if so i don't think that would be BDSM but just Bondage. BDSM involves two persons in a submission/domination type of setting.
and james - i love your explanation of tops/bottoms.. very blunt and to the point! also your description of a bar full of hairy bears!
Jenks: I could make a joke about profetional experience with XXX, but I won't. ^_~
Joshua: Well, we can extrapolate from below mentioned study that hets don't. Which isn't so bad in a heteronormative world for the straight individual I guess. But whether someone likes to be spanked, peed on, or just plain vanilla fun, it is just sex and what an anxious age we live in if we have academic studies on what gets us off.
The people who like to be smelly/hairy and be treated like dogs, that is swell and I tip my hat to you. To everyone who enjoys good ol' fasioned crotch slamin' sex, mazeltov. It is just sex, enjoy it.
I'm happy with my sexual identity but I don't really think about it too much... it makes me wonder if heteros such as myself just don't consider it as much as the gay fellas do.
To hell with that BDSM stuff - that got that guy from INXS killed! Call me crazy, but I like the original, old school, sweaty, all-out bonin'. Having a little kink is cool, but I'm not about to drink piss out of a bowl. That ain't sex, man!
Cool. Thanks. I had an idea about the other terms, but pup is a new one to me. (I DID manage to figure out the XXX part all by myself, though. ;) )
well, we already covered tops/bottoms, doms/subs, and shiney primped gay boys/bears.
Another subculture in the sexual pantheon of homos are the pups. It is a dom/sub play thing where you treat the sub like a dog, or pup. You know, give them a leash, make them drink from a bowl on the floor (I wont go into what they might be drinking, but for pleasnatries sake let's just say it is a single malt scotch) make them sleep in a cage, all that good stuff.
Interestingly enough, a study was conducted in Australia recently that said that gay men and lesbians are more likely to engage in BDSM than their hetero counterparts and that they were more happy with their sexual identity as well. They also there was no difference between either group (BDSM and vanilla) in terms of experiencing abuse.
ok, I have a different question. What does XXXPUP mean? Am I missing a joke there? Or is it just random?
Jason: You know those queer eye for the straight guy folks? Bears are the opposite. They are manly gay men. They are hairy, smelly, and don't give a damn about pomade or wainscotting. However, the number of bears I have known have some secret overtly homosexual asthetic, like owning a cher CD or really liking Bett Midler in Yenta. People are individuals ultimatly but they love their labels.
Joshua: that is a damn awesome idea.
Peter: Basicly Tops like to stick their dicks in butts. Bottoms like to have dicks and other assorted things stuck in their butt. Power, domination, and all that other good stuff is optional. So you could be a dominate bottom and shove your butt on some guys shlong. A hetero version would be a woman who spanks her male friend and calls him a baby for not fucking her hard enough.
Sex is a many faced and confusing subject. I mean, what sort of catagory does the guy who gets off from smelling fresh q-tips fit into? I don't know, but a sexual world full of variety is a wonderous one we should all romp through now and again.
Not being gay by self I'm not sure if I can explain it right. My understanding is the top is the aggresser or the one who starts things going sexualy. They are the ones in control and who like to control things. Supposidly two tops won't get along because they will both try to control the sexaul situation. Bottoms like to be controlled. I Have no idea if tops and bottoms have anything to do with what sexual position is used or not. Even though you can have gay S&M if guess it would be like if the top where was the dom and bottom was the submissive. When I have heard the term "bear" I all ways thought of someone who was furry like a bear, but also is kinda built like one also in terms of being wide and maybe short and heavy. Lumbjacks are tall and have a completely different build. Again I'm not gay so I could be completely wrong about this.
Forget top/bottom - I think sports euphemisms are far better!
I'm serious man, what is a "Bear" compared to a normal gay guy? The lumberjack types? I didn't peruse too much but most of the guys looked big framed, lots of hair (face and body).
Joshua:
That famous sexual cosmonaut and social critique Gore Vidal rejects the idea of gender roles but totally believes in Tops and Bottoms. I don't get it. People should spend more time doing what they like rather than penning themselves in a neat little roll. What confusing people.
Felly: I worked in a middle of no where gay bar that was somewhat notorious for running a New York beat weekend. Where all the NYC bears would come up to conneticut, drink and do drugs in this bar and then go camping and have lots of sex.
The ammount of fur in that bar would clog an armada of vacuums. *shiver*
The gay lingo I really, really don't get. I understand why this guy might be referred to as a "bear" but the top/bottom thing is something different.
I think somebody a while back made a post about this lingo that would probably shed some light on this.
wow... that is one hairy bear!
You know, I think there is something to your terminology. Never again will I think of the lumberjack as exclusie terain of Lesbians.
Is Bear411 strictly for lumberjack gays?