Emmy sucks...ignoring whole shows the way it does. Buffy, Homicide, and The Wire. Not that they don't do good work onSFU, or The Sopranos, or Deadwood. But *I'm* a better actress than Mariska Hargitay, beautiful though I think she is...she has like the one "welling-up" face that she pulls out every fricking episode... And you could *never* work sex crimes with lips like that. Not without perp kissy faces, anyways. Or worse, your partner's. You can't tell me Sonja Sohn is not better than that. Emmy voters drink rubbing alcohol. Pass it on. Um, sorry for the hijack...the thread doesn't really have to go to Baltimore again.ETA: I also think girl groups were cool. And was very sad to have to explain to SVU fandom who Phil Spector was some months back. I wrote this whole drabble about Munch and Phil Spector and I got back "Who?" My dad was a wanna-be musician when I was a pup, if I hadn't known who Phil Spector was it would be hard for me to come home.

Possibly The Cramps greatest moment

Oooh, look! The Cramps are available via iTunes! Hec, what should I get? (Don't say 'everything', as my budget won't allow for that right now.)

Oooh, look! The Cramps are available via iTunes! Hec, what should I get? (Don't say 'everything', as my budget won't allow for that right now.)

Individual songs or whole albums?

Their best record is still Songs the Lord Taught Us followed by the first EP Gravest Hits.

Individual songs I think you'd like:

"Sheena's In A Goth Gang"
"Ultra-Twist"
"Human Fly"
"TV Set"
"I Was A Teenage Werewolf"
"Some New Kind of Kick"
"The Way I Walk"

Um, sorry for the hijack...the thread doesn't really have to go to Baltimore again.

Every thread should go to Baltimore! It's very nice here today.

That's the day, indeed. IIRC, both of us were exhausted, beaten down by long days of travel and overexposure to in-law family,

My baggage coming in was two-fold:

• I was in the midst of a six-month run of daily anxiety attacks that required insurance-covered psychotherapy to break
• I don't like Indian food. At all. Ever. Curry tastes like dirt to me. Like in my mouth it tastes like I'm eating a mud pie, and I have no idea why.

So, when I suddenly vanished for half an hour to the bathroom, it was because I was having a panic attack and had the taste of dirt in my mouth. And that pretty much was my night.

and for some reason, my friend from North Alabama brought an extremely unpleasant woman along with her who spent most of the meal being outright hostile towards the rest of us.

I do remember her. What was her problem, anyway? I couldn't tell if she just didn't like geeks or if she thought we were all hitting on your friend. It was that sort of poison.

Magic was in the air.

Birmingham: The Magic City!

We should do it again sometime. :)

Their best record is still Songs the Lord Taught Us followed by the first EP Gravest Hits.

No Gravest Hits. iTunes has Songs the Lord Taught Us, A Date with Elvis, Big Beat from Badsville, How to Make a Monster, Fiends of Dope Island, Look Ma No Head!, Smell of Female, Stay Sick!, and RockinReelininAucklandNewZealand. (I swear, that is how iTunes lists the title.)

Every thread should go to Baltimore! It's very nice here today.

Pop culture has taught me that Baltimore is full of row houses, cynical cops, clever criminals, and John Waters.

Pop culture has taught me that Baltimore is full of row houses, cynical cops, clever criminals, and John Waters.

Ha ha! It IS! Except...criminals not so clever as dumb.

Well, most of them do, if I spend enough time in them. Seems to be my personal Rome. But that chick on SVU makes Sheppard from H:LOTS look like a badass. Everytime she gets nominated, I feel like they beat up Kay. It sucks. I hate watching her Emote.

So, when I suddenly vanished for half an hour to the bathroom, it was because I was having a panic attack and had the taste of dirt in my mouth. And that pretty much was my night.

Next time: different restaurant. And no friend from North Alabama.

I do remember her. What was her problem, anyway? I couldn't tell if she just didn't like geeks or if she thought we were all hitting on your friend. It was that sort of poison.

It's complicated. I used to sorta-date said friend from North Alabama, and though things had been over for a long time (I mean, even at that point, it had been at least 9 years), I think she nursed a crush/grudge against me. Of course, I didn't realize that this was the situation until her friend showed up and starting being a complete bitch. We followed up with some "what the hell was that about?" emails, and the sordid truth came out. Well, maybe it was a partial sordid truth, I dunno.

Birmingham: The Magic City!

Damn straight. It's the statue of Vulcan spreading good cheer and, uh, iron-smelting everywhere.

We should do it again sometime. :)

Like I said, next time you pick the restaurant. We all have kids now, anyway, so we'd have to go somewhere featuring a bit more plastic on the walls.