Archived comment by Kat:
Daen, *LMAO* sounds about right to me.

Archived comment by Inuki:
Yayfor the Arrogant Worms!

Archived comment by daen:
"It's cool in many ways to be Canadian
We won't say that we're better,
it's just that we're less worse."

Archived comment by Kat:
Such a school snob, Par U. You know, for a bunch of people whose ancestors were the rejects of Europe, y'all are a snotty bunch.

I mean, we Canadians were European rejects too but we don't think we are better because of it. And we certainly are not school snobs.

*serene smile*

Archived comment by ParU:
Alice - Boalt is a good choice and yoda is correct. In Law Schools there are a few 'top' schools (Harvard, Stanford, Boalt and a few others) a whole bunch of 'normal ones' and another whole bunch of 'cheap' ones.

IMHO of course.

Archived comment by Alice (f) THe wonder chicken:
THanks, Yoda, for the link to the Epinion. I will keep looking. Yikes!

Archived comment by tim:
Misty?
I'm standing at the station pacing and checking my watch.

"Everyday I pray for a giant comet to smash into the earth and bring me sweet relief"

Archived comment by Joe Napalm:
Hey, if you folks refuse to get yourselves some magnetic immortality rings even after I posted a handy link, I don't think you should be getting all misty about your impending deaths...

-Jn-
Efreeti Sophist

Archived comment by yoda:
Boalt would be a great choice! It's in the top 10 law schools...and it's a public school, which means it's considerably cheaper than private schools. namelink is an epinions review someone made about Boalt. go bears!

Archived comment by Alice:
Yay!
It was sooooo neat to see Andrew's post (about 60 ago) about Portersville. It's weird to see people you know on a site like this, when you expect everyone is some distant, vague, outline of a person you will never see...
and it turns out the guy downstairs is one of them. He he!
PS, do any of you Berkeley-ites have an opinion about Boalt Hall? I am about to start applying to law schools, (panic attack, LSATS, panic attack) and I was curious.

Archived comment by marinerd:
I have a variation on the childhood angst theme. I always tried to teach my kids that there are many opinions about what happens to people when they die. I told them I lean towards reincarnation as the most likely, IMHO. Anyway, when my son was about 4 he started getting very depressed, and it turns out he was worried that he would live forever and it would be sooo boring! I tried to comfort him by saying I might be wrong and death is the end, or that even if I was right, he wouldn't remember from one life to the next!

My daughter at about the same age was overcome with grief when a gameshow host of a show we watched died. It was Jack Barry from Joker's Wild. She loved that show. Ha!

(He was famous for getting in trouble in the 50s gameshow scandal.)

Kids! They both grew up to be fine people, though.

Archived comment by tim:
If i could get away with it at work I would be.
Believe me..

Archived comment by ParU:
Well considering that Paul's younger and better looking than me, I ain't insulted.

But tim - are you violating the Matt Rule? (No posting on IP after 2 or more beers?).

Just wondering...

Archived comment by tim:
Gahhhhhhhhh
I mean Paul
Man I am having a BAD f'in week here.

Archived comment by tim:
One of life's hardest lessons.
All things are impermanent.

" All things must pass..must pass away"

I went through that with my daughter a few years ago too ParU.

Archived comment by Paul:
Some time back my daughter realized that we're all mortal, and got very weepy over the thought that someday I would die. (I have no idea what triggered it- just all of a sudden there she was, crying her eyes out.) I acknowledged that yes, someday this would happen, but not any time soon. This was not very comforting to her at that point, so I told her that, given the way medicine is progressing and given my family's history, that I figure I'll hit 120, so she'd better be nice to me because I'll be around for another 80 years. That last line at least got her to chuckle, and then she was able to get past it.

But if it's true, if I do reach 120, then she's going to be 90 and have her own worries...

Archived comment by tim:
Wow
Make room on the cliff for me

Archived comment by Cebu:
My song contribution:

I heard it for the first time this morning and I can't stop thinking about it. It's very sad. As I said to Girly earlier, it makes me want to hurl myself off a cliff, but there aren't any here. Anyway, on to the perky Friday song:

Back when I was a child, before life removed all the innocence
My father would lift me high and dance with my mother and me and then
Spin me around �til I fell asleep
Then up the stairs he would carry me
And I knew for sure I was loved
If I could get another chance, another walk, another dance with him
I�d play a song that would never, ever end
How I�d love, love, love
To dance with my father again
When I and my mother would disagree
To get my way, I would run from her to him
He�d make me laugh just to comfort me
Then finally make me do just what my mama said
Later that night when I was asleep
He left a dollar under my sheet
Never dreamed that he would be gone from me
If I could steal one final glance, one final step, one final dance with him
I�d play a song that would never, ever end
�Cause I�d love, love, love
To dance with my father again
Sometimes I�d listen outside her door
And I�d hear how my mother cried for him
I pray for her even more than me
I pray for her even more than me
I know I�m praying for much too much
But could you send back the only man she loved
I know you don�t do it usually
But dear Lord she�s dying
To dance with my father again
Every night I fall asleep and this is all I ever dream

Archived comment by penguinchick:
I first read that and thought, "Now why would he put a Friday song when its only Wednesday?" Took me a second to figure out it really is Friday. I think I need a vacation-luckily for me, it starts today. Hopefully when I come back, I'll have some semblance of reality.

Archived comment by tim:
Since this thread seems to have ground to a halt...
Friday song.
I've been waking up with the chorus of this song going through my head like a mantra.
Maybe I'm headed for India.
anyway
the only Alanis song I can stand:

how 'bout getting off of these antibiotics
how 'bout stopping eating when I'm full up
how 'bout them transparent dangling carrots
how 'bout that ever elusive kudo
thank you India
thank you terror
thank you disillusionment
thank you frailty
thank you consequence
thank you thank you silence


how 'bout me not blaming you for everything
how 'bout me enjoying the moment for once
how 'bout how good it feels to finally forgive you
how 'bout grieving it all one at a time


thank you India
thank you terror
thank you disillusionment
thank you frailty
thank you consequence
thank you thank you silence


the moment I let go of it was
the moment I got more than I could handle
the moment I jumped off of it was
the moment I touched down


how 'bout no longer being masochistic
how 'bout remembering your divinity
how 'bout unabashedly bawling your eyes out
how 'bout not equating death with stopping


thank you India
thank you Providence
thank you disillusionment
thank you nothingness
thank you clarity
thank you thank you silence

Archived comment by Paul:
Actually, ParU, that whole thing was composed from bits I got from the namelink. (work safe, more or less)

Archived comment by umrguy:
TheEileen, I don't know if you and I have discussed it... except possibly amongst larger discussions on this site. I know for sure that you, me, ParU, and Arlene are pretty big fans (Arlene even got to meet her at something or other a while back, lucky devil!)

Feel free to email me about it, and we can discuss off-site (be sure to put something about In Passing in your subject line, everybody who's not on my "safe" list gets shunted to the junk mail folder, and I might miss it...

Archived comment by ParU:
Wrong Ivan Paul. I'm think of Ivan 'that idiot' Vorpatril. Though, as I stated, Cordelia rocks. (What can I say, smart women are inherently sexy, even when they're fictional).

Archived comment by tim:
Just happen to have that part memorized eh Paul?
hehe
not that there's anything Wrong with that....you naughty monkey
; )

Archived comment by Paul:
"Strike me sharply Ivan, afore I think you effeminate! Please, my heart's fluttering so, in rivulets of fire! Quickly, unleash your fluids and put it out! Harder and again, my darling, I feel my oceans coming upon me! I am quite sick with delight! Kiss me now and forever, for your thrusts have made me your willing slave!"

What's not to love?...

Archived comment by ParU:
Eileen - what, you don't like Ivan? Or Cordelia? She's my favorite.

Archived comment by DancingTofu:
Ok, now that I've woken up a bit, here's the (name)link to the Reduced Shakespeare Company, the creators of the "Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)", as well as a few others that look to be just as hilarious.

"Warning: The RSC cannot be held responsible for expectant mothers."

Archived comment by DancingTofu:
I would, but it's far too early in the morning.

Archived comment by TheEileen:
Can anyone put up a link to The Compleat Works on line? All of you who mention it are smacked on the head for not giving us a place to go to read it.

umrguy - have we discussed our mutual love of LMB before? If not, talk to me, baby. Miles - the best fictional character ever, bar none.

Archived comment by Jon:
steff, I believe that you get extra credit for mentioning californication.
I've only been out to Cali once, so I don't really have an opinion. Colorado seemed nice, though.

Archived comment by Nicholas:
Hey there,
We have locusts in the Midwest, also!!

Archived comment by Matt:
Yeah? So? (Heh.)

To find parking at Berkeley Bowl, 1) never go on Sunday, 2) seriously weigh the pros and cons of parking illegally in the Walgreen's parking lot next door, and 3) park on a side street and walk. I've seen it done. It's not pretty, but there you go.

Or just move to a place a couple of blocks away and walk there. I know I do.

Archived comment by steff:
hmmm... you KNOW, there wouldn't be room for all those non-native californians to move there if the native californians didn't keep moving to other perfectly good places in the u.s. and californicating all over them. *sweet smile* i'm just sayin'.

*sits back and waits...*

Archived comment by Yoda:
I hear they're building a 2nd Berkeley Bowl?? Too bad it won't be in SoCal...oh how I miss that store...

Archived comment by ParU:
Kent - there is no way to park at Berkeley Bowl (or anywhere else in Berkeley for that matter). The only time I was able to park there was when they were closing and I had to wait 45 minutes for Eve to get through the 'closing' checkout.

And Paul - you're right - please all you Easteners stay away. We've got no parking, riots, earthquakes, horrible weather and locusts.

Think they bought it?

Archived comment by Kent:
Anybody have any tips on finding parking at Berkeley Bowl?

Archived comment by dave:
Thanks passerby for the TCN thing ... it makes sense if you read it a couple of times!

Archived comment by hypoxic:
sure glad I set up that ponzi pit for paul. With him ducking he won't see it until that last second.

California's got it all: mountains, forests, deserts, sand beachs, rocky coasts, and everything else too.

Archived comment by muddgirl:
Correction: Too bad California is over-run with "out-of-towners."

And the mountains in Northern California are quite breathtaking, as are the forests. And the rivers. If your into that sort of thing.

Archived comment by Paul:
Too bad California is overrun with Californians...

*ducking and running like hell*

Archived comment by Trent:
Most of Northern California is beautiful. Especially the coastal areas. =)

Archived comment by hypoxic:
San Diego!

Archived comment by Kris the Girl:
So...is there any place in California that's a nice place to live? Besides Berkeley?
grin.

Archived comment by valley grrl:
"Fresno is the right armpit of Hell. Bakersfield is the left armpit. I speak as someone whose in-laws live in Bakerspatch (another nickname for it) and has a friend who lives a few miles south of Fresno."

Then what's Modesto?

Oh, that's right, Modesto IS Hell.

Archived comment by DoughPoet:
Hey........I have a Yorkshire Hamlet somewhere, do you want me to find it?!! It makes a lot more sense than some of the original.

Archived comment by CinnamonTeal:
The script is hilarious. I highly recommend it, especially if you've already seen the show. The footnotes alone make it worth reading.

Conversely, if you've just read the script I highly recommend trying to see the show. A local PBS station (KCTS Seattle) ran a 1 hour version of it this past spring, so there may be a purchasable recording out there somewhere (but be aware that it dosen't have the sonnets or the audience = id, ego, superego bits).

Archived comment by Matt:
Silly me, I thought everyone who's anyone at least knew about The Compleat Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). Yes, it's three guys from California in tights and Converse All-Stars. They even do the sonnets. I've only read the script, but that alone is hilarious. A few of my friends saw it when they did a theater tour of London. Which pretty much meant hanging out in the West End for a week.

Archived comment by DancingTofu:
Heh, any of you seen or heard of the play "The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspre (Abridged)"? I saw it 3 times when it was showing in Minneapolis. It was billed as "All 37 plays in 97 minutes by three guys in tights." Absolutely hilarious.

Anyway, they end with doing Hamlet, then they do Hamlet faster, then faster again, and then backwards. Very amusing. The fastest and backwards versions had about a dozen lines each. That's certianly simplified!

Archived comment by umrguy:
From Lois McMaster Bujold (A Civil Campaign):

"So in the play, Prince Hamlet comes home for his father's funeral, to find that his mother has married his uncle. ...Hamlet gets a tip-off that his old man was murdered by the uncle. Unfortunately, he can't tell if his informant is telling truth or lies. So he spends the next five acts blundering around getting nearly the whole cast killed while he dithers."

Still one of the greatest descriptions of Hamlet I've ever read....

Archived comment by Mike:
Hamlet = "Life sucks, everybody dies."

Less complicated = ?