April 07, 2004

• Dearest, Dishiest, SideDish; Your note made me unfathomably happy! I have been consumed with rehabbing our soon-to-be-lovely new (old) house, and have not even touched my e-mail for weeks. I even sent some bills out by REGULAR MAIL. Am I, by moving to the wooly wilds of central Massachusetts, becoming a Luddite? Naw. It is just so tough to keep in touch when I've got two painters upstairs, a wallpaper-remover in the study, an electrician playing with fuses in the basement rec-room, and some guy putting out lawn fertilizer who may or may not be a guy I hired. Maybe he just does that for fun. But I don't remember hiring him. Plus, I've been trying to cook all these guys lunch every day (these men work their asses off, are unfailingly polite, and I miss cooking for my friends...), am searching for the perfect Heywood-Wakefield credenza from the riot of antique stores up here, and also trying to ease my wife into her new job (which is mostly why we moved up here from B-More in the first place...) So. I plead exhaustion, with mitigating busy-ness. I WILL RETURN, SD, I PROMISE!!! (just give me a few more days to sort out my crazy life...) Again, your kindness made me feel very loved--thank you. Your Fan, Dizzy
• He better have a damn good selection of food and barbie sites for when he returns...
• This is what I like about Mofi. Someone doesn't post for a couple weeks? We send out a posse! Think that happens at Mefi? No f***ing way, junior.
• Dizzy, Dizzy, Dizzy! Woo-hoo! I'm in the mood for a group hug. Or a barf bag after all the Happy Dance Patent Pending spinning around.
• I'll take a barf bag too if we do the Happy Dance Patent Pending. If I spin around once I get nauseous. I joined after Dizzy disappeared but if other monkeys like him then I like him too. ook.
• Don't believe anything you read. That note could have been sent by anyone.
• Don't tell him about the MeFi signups. or the capping thing. . . in fact, let us all never speak of that again . . .
• BBF: Don't make me cry, you. petebest: I agree about the MeFi signups. But the capping's too good to miss. And therein we see the Great Gender Divide. scirus: My Happy Dance Patent Pending involves high velocity spinning, coupled with high-pitched laughter and rampant arm waving. Not for the squeamish.
• sciurus, did you ever got chance to read this thread? This, and the Jim Loy one cemented his fame here.
• Don't tell him about the MeFi signups. or the capping thing. . . in fact, let us all never speak of that again . . . Nobody seems to speak this days abbout of the violent past of MoFi, when members where really being capped... *cough cock* ...for very good reasons I must add.
• pun intended...
• Yay for cooking for the workers! That is a very cool thing.
• Snow: That's what we would have expected from our Dizzy, isn't it. *wipes away proud GramMa BlueHorse tear
• In honor of Dizzy's imminent arrival, I read more Jim Loy webpages this morning. And honestly, I was shocked to see no mention whatsoever about MonkeyFilter. But I did read a fascinating story about tennis etiquette. For the new monkeys, you can visit Jim Loy's site here, or read the Mofi thread here.
• Ah, "Classic" MoFi. Yes, we were just a bunch of naive, crazy monkeys with big dreams and one hand in the PopTart box. Who knew that within months half of us would be eaten by giant robotic squid.
• What? All that's going on and HE'S NOT PHOTOBLOGGING IT??? I say we don't let the loser back in... [prepares to mail banana addressed to 'Dizzy, Central Massachusetts']
• Yay! Dizzy's back! Don't know Dizzy -> I have no friends*sniff*
• here, opie, have a [banana]
• Can't wait for Dizzy's return. This is one of my all-time favorite comments: I'm ridin' the toast-brown pony of Pop-Tarts goodness, SD! Yeeee-Haaaw! posted by Dizzy at 04:40PM UTC on December 16
• I don't know Dizzy, but hooray anyway! Being alive is good! Nothing quite like it I say.
• We could count on our hard-working journalist monkey to uncover The Truth about Dizzy's Mysterious Absence. Thanks, Dish. And I agree with the Captain. Nothing quite like it. Beats the alternative by a fair margin.
• Thanks Dish :D
• I mizz my Dizz. Come back shane!
• This is what I like about Mofi. Someone doesn't post for a couple weeks? We send out a posse! Think that happens at Mefi? No f***ing way, junior. sorry Fes but it's a long standing tradition at mefi to mail members when they've been missing for a while, and in fact i did just that today. one of my fave posters has been missing for a few weeks so a bunch of us have sent out a smoke signal. i've even gotten a couple of "where the heck are you?" emails myself in the past and i'm not anywhere close to being anyone's favourite mefite.
• Hehe, sorry for the poo-flingin' tracy. Sometimes we can't help it. And the actual blue comes quite cold in appareance most of the time.
• Hey Guys and Dolls! Yes, I still draw breath, and am tardily rejoining civilisation one step at a time after my all-consuming move from the laconic (Baltimore) to the bucolic (Worcester, MA) with my wife and our cholicky kitties. Please know that I've missed you all, and I'm truly gratified by your kind words in this thread. Kinda like being at my own wake! To have a group of people remember me, and wish me well--- you have all made me feel ten-feet-tall. I don't know the last time I've felt so warmly embraced, and this comes from a guy whose job it is to be liked by strangers (I'm a card-carrying professional actor)... Funny how I'm either consumed daily by the net or not at all, as if I could turn it on and off with a switch. Same way about newspapers--- I'm a news junkie, but I haven't checked CNN or opened a NYT in weeks. Instead I negogiate contracting rates for my kitchen, or hunt down the elusive #1 chimneysweep in New England (his name is Manny, he lives in a van, and yes, he is magical.) Moving, ultimately, is a solitary adventure, and although my wife and I have met some lovely people, we're feeling a tad lonely. Any Monkeys up here in Mid- Massachussets? Now that I've got my feet wet again, I feel the jungle drums coursing through my thready veins....... The monkeys call. The Pop-Tarts sleep in their foily beds. Jim Loy was seen at the Canadian border with two cases of off-brand food-grade Tung oil and a life-size cut-out of Warren Zevon. But you knew that. I'm back, baby...
• woo hoo! (diznana)
• Hi Dizzy - hope your move was good. And though I'm sure fixing up houses is no picnic, I do have some Sims inspired envy :)