Mary, you might want to include your e-mail address for those of us who don't know it.

Ok, everyone, I have a favour to ask - would you all please e-mail me your mailing addresses? Thanks!

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Tribal tycoon

hey, did any of you go to the Wal Mart movie? it was really good, and really quite interesting. I learned a lot about how hideous Wal Mart is that I didn't know from before (like the number of people on welfare as a result of working there). If you wanted to go, but didn't, you can check out the movie's website or Wal Mart's positive spin website www.walmartfacts.com just for a change in point of view

I'm pretty sure this has been up here before, but what the hell...

David Elsewhere

um, okay, so if you were a pad of post-it-notes with a list of prospective references for my grad school application, where would you be? You're not where I last put you (beside my bed on my bookshelf), so where would you head? obviously it was time for a change... was it enough to go to some obscure pile on my dresser, or were you aiming for greater adventure, like, say the pile of crap by the telephone upstairs? where are you??


haha, whoops... right in front of me, at the computer... that'll teach me to look for things... all I need to do is just stay where I am and they'll magically appear under a pile of cds in front of me... (actually a common occurrence for me, I really need to put my cds away)

sweet, a response from Rajotte campaign hq... only a week late... and unfortunately, it doesn't say anything. how, um, predictable.

January 19, 2006:

Dear Alison:

Thank you for your e-mail. In case a response was not immediately sent to you, please know that your e-mail was placed in Mr. Rajotte folder for review on the day you sent it.

Sincerely,
Michele Austin

We need you to give us your best Monster Truck announcer "read". It could mean 4 tickets to the opening night of Monster Jam on January 27, and YOU introing the Clear Channel Entertainment Monster Trucks to a packed Rexall Place.

Time to step up, Thompson.

Tycho and Gabe at MIT on the origins of their characters, making their own game, and the Fruit Fucker:

Audience: Where’d you get the idea for Fruit Fucker? (lots of laughin’ and clappin’)

Gabe: When we lived in Spokane, Washington, I lived in an apartment that was on a street where there was a lot of construction going on...

Tycho: There was no street. This is how much construction we’re talking about. It was the bare earth.

Gabe: ... yeah, and they didn’t want you to park there because they were tearin’ it up. They had a big machine out there, and we could never quite figure out what its purpose was. So we just assumed that it was a ‘car fucker’. (laughs) If you parked where you weren’t supposed to park...

Tycho: We’re talking about pnuematic pistons...

Gabe: ... this thing would crawl up on to your vehicle and just ram right through your trunk. (laughs and claps). So that conversation that we had... (you can see what our lives are like).. so that conversation sort of spawned the idea that there must be a fucker for everything. The ‘Fruit Fucker’ is just the one that happened to make it into the comic.

Tycho: That’s their ‘product’ for that ‘market’. “Fucker Co.”

Gabe: They have a whole line of products.

Tycho: Of ‘fuckers’, really. All true, I assure you.

Gabe: Sadly.