February 08, 2006
open to falling from grace
2/8/06
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Total miles from Chapel Hill to New York City: 506
Total miles we drove to avoid Washington D.C. rush hour: 602
Song heard on Bud's mix tape: "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell
Song heard at Flying J Truck Stop speakers: "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell
Approximate number of people at Flying J Truck Stop who have owned a Joni Mitchell album: 0
Date of first I-95 trip for Ian and Bud: October 1985
Cumulative number of times Ian and Bud have driven from NC to NY, apart or together: 174
Time in 1989 spent talking about girls in 1989: 94%
Time in 2006 spent talking about girls in 1989: 88%
Sampling of bands heard: Go West, Lou Gramm, Pat Benetar, Sneaker Pimps, Moby
Album Ian threatened to play: "Louder Than Bombs"
Years in which Ian and Bud have slept in the same room: 1985-87, 1991-93, 2006
Ferret that lived with Ian and Bud on bunk bed in 1987: Sergei
Song that Bud was missing from his '80s collection: "You Ain't Worth the Salt in My Tears" by Martin Briley
Martin Briley's cousin by marriage: Jordana Davis Williams (Ian's sister-in-law)
Developmental leap not witnessed by Ian today: Lucy standing up without pulling herself up on another object
Developmental leap witnessed by Bud today: Ian paid for gas
Assumption that we were pretty full of shit in college: universal
Total minutes of shit talked on road trip: 480 minutes, with pee breaks
Posted by Ian Williams at February 8, 2006 11:55 PMMonths Bud slept on the landing at the Purple House?
Months Bear slept in Bud's bed while Bud was out of the house? See previous answer.
You guys are cute. BFF!
Did you watch the Grammy awards? I heart Bono.
Time in 1989 spent talking about girls in 1989: 94%
Time in 2006 spent talking about girls in 1989: 88%So this is universal? It amazes me that when Dear Husband and his NoVa High School buddies get together - TO THIS DAY - they spend hours talking about "hot chicks" from their high school days. That was nearly a quarter century ago - puh-leeze! What is it about you guys?
Older women can most definitely be hot, but no girl in the present can be as hot as the girls who were making your loins quiver when you were young. To talk about them in later years is to try and recapture how you felt then, not a way to lust after young girls.
Though there are a lot of men who lust after young women. I have two sons, 17 and 20, and I certainly think the girls they know are pretty, but to actually lust after them would seem... unseemly? embarrassing? illegal if acted upon?
This was one of my favorite blog entries ever.
remm, mmm, remember when you made out with that girl at the Pi Phi formal?
that was awesome
Chris (Chip), you are one of my favorite *people* ever. It was great seeing you, Jon and Ian this week. We should get together more often, and we should hang out for longer. Memorial Day?
Few can talk anything but shit for sustained periods. At least, I gather that essentially was Witgensttein's stance.