Comments on: Hot days on TV http://www.outskirts.com/2006/07/20/hot-days-on-tv/ ...small town life Sat, 16 Oct 2010 02:43:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: ThomasJeffersonWasACoward http://www.outskirts.com/2006/07/20/hot-days-on-tv/comment-page-1/#comment-2384 ThomasJeffersonWasACoward Sat, 22 Jul 2006 11:29:22 +0000 http://www.outskirts.com/archives/2006/07/20/hot-days-on-tv/#comment-2384 <em>Why are you still here? You seem so unhappy that I’d think even the most modest of job offers elsewhere could get you to leave.</em> See, it's not quite so easy for Doc or any of the other less than enchanted by the Village diaspora to just pack up in leave. This place is a like an incubus, sucking your energy away each night as it slowly but surely erodes your vitality. To paraphrase the old beatnik with the long beard, I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the Downtown Mall at dawn looking for HDTV ... Why are you still here? You seem so unhappy that I’d think even the most modest of job offers elsewhere could get you to leave.

See, it’s not quite so easy for Doc or any of the other less than enchanted by the Village diaspora to just pack up in leave. This place is a like an incubus, sucking your energy away each night as it slowly but surely erodes your vitality.

To paraphrase the old beatnik with the long beard,

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness,
starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the Downtown Mall at dawn
looking for HDTV …

]]> By: Grouchy http://www.outskirts.com/2006/07/20/hot-days-on-tv/comment-page-1/#comment-2383 Grouchy Sat, 22 Jul 2006 07:59:55 +0000 http://www.outskirts.com/archives/2006/07/20/hot-days-on-tv/#comment-2383 I lead a sad life, alone in my van down by the river, crying myself to sleep every night as I cradle a bottle of rotgut in my arms. But, I'm not suggesting Doc buys a van. I lead a sad life, alone in my van down by the river, crying myself to sleep every night as I cradle a bottle of rotgut in my arms. But, I’m not suggesting Doc buys a van.

]]> By: Palestar http://www.outskirts.com/2006/07/20/hot-days-on-tv/comment-page-1/#comment-2382 Palestar Fri, 21 Jul 2006 23:07:07 +0000 http://www.outskirts.com/archives/2006/07/20/hot-days-on-tv/#comment-2382 Drink what oh Grouchiest one ? - my drinking water seems to have me dreaming about friends and their really tall haired women - just thought I would check with you for suggestions on WHAT to drink... you seem to be doing well - you can't be too senile - with your memory... of special days - :D Drink what oh Grouchiest one ? – my drinking water seems to have me dreaming about friends and their really tall haired women – just thought I would check with you for suggestions on WHAT to drink… you seem to be doing well – you can’t be too senile – with your memory… of special days – :D

]]> By: Grouchy http://www.outskirts.com/2006/07/20/hot-days-on-tv/comment-page-1/#comment-2380 Grouchy Fri, 21 Jul 2006 19:51:16 +0000 http://www.outskirts.com/archives/2006/07/20/hot-days-on-tv/#comment-2380 Hey Doc, count your blessings, at least you're in C-ville and not Massachusetts. My God, what a fricking stupid name for a state. Drink and embrace senility. It works for me! Hey Doc, count your blessings, at least you’re in C-ville and not Massachusetts. My God, what a fricking stupid name for a state.

Drink and embrace senility. It works for me!

]]> By: Jeannine http://www.outskirts.com/2006/07/20/hot-days-on-tv/comment-page-1/#comment-2377 Jeannine Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:32:42 +0000 http://www.outskirts.com/archives/2006/07/20/hot-days-on-tv/#comment-2377 "Unfortunately I’m still in the village" Maybe I missed something. Why are you still here? You seem so unhappy that I'd think even the most modest of job offers elsewhere could get you to leave. Happy Birthday, Doc I-only-care-about-watching-HDTV. “Unfortunately I’m still in the village”

Maybe I missed something. Why are you still here? You seem so unhappy that I’d think even the most modest of job offers elsewhere could get you to leave.

Happy Birthday, Doc I-only-care-about-watching-HDTV.

]]> By: Palestar http://www.outskirts.com/2006/07/20/hot-days-on-tv/comment-page-1/#comment-2375 Palestar Fri, 21 Jul 2006 14:56:52 +0000 http://www.outskirts.com/archives/2006/07/20/hot-days-on-tv/#comment-2375 Doc - J J - :) -is often the first to say Happy Birthday - [Let me be the 86th] - ;) Happy Birthday to YOU - stay safe - enjoy! Doc – J J – :) -is often the first to say Happy Birthday – [Let me be the 86th] – ;)

Happy Birthday to YOU – stay safe – enjoy!

]]> By: DocMultimedia http://www.outskirts.com/2006/07/20/hot-days-on-tv/comment-page-1/#comment-2374 DocMultimedia Fri, 21 Jul 2006 14:47:32 +0000 http://www.outskirts.com/archives/2006/07/20/hot-days-on-tv/#comment-2374 I'm not worthy of a dandelion? I'm so dragging today. Maybe it is age...or maybe the fact that I ran last night and it was so humid. Ugh. No workout planned for today! ;) I’m not worthy of a dandelion?

I’m so dragging today. Maybe it is age…or maybe the fact that I ran last night and it was so humid. Ugh. No workout planned for today!

;)

]]> By: JJ http://www.outskirts.com/2006/07/20/hot-days-on-tv/comment-page-1/#comment-2373 JJ Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:06:47 +0000 http://www.outskirts.com/archives/2006/07/20/hot-days-on-tv/#comment-2373 Let me be the first (on Outskirts) to say Happy Birthday! (It's cheaper than flowers.) Let me be the first (on Outskirts) to say Happy Birthday!

(It’s cheaper than flowers.)

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