Overheard on the Subway - Posted on Jul 9th, 2014 by Trend Hunter

You can't tell if things are real or not on Facebook but I really hope this is true.

http://lockerdome.com/tre/6170042811288129/6779211545457681

From time to time, we all catch the most interesting conversations on the train to work, or in an airport, or especially while traveling.

New York City blogger Rafi D’Angelo caught a conversation we would love to hear more of on public transportation—between two scruffy, rough-around-the-edges blue-collar working dads heading home. As soon as he heard Pat and Charlie’s conversation going somewhere interesting, Rafi grabbed his phone and hit record. This is what he caught:

Guy 2: No more kids for you two?

Guy 1: No, she figures we’re both getting too old for a baby.

Guy 2: How is your boy anyway? Haven’t seen him in awhile.

Guy 1: Oh John’s good, pitching this year varsity.

Guy 2: He’ll definitely have the girls hanging around him now.

Guy 1: Yeah if he had any time for them.

Guy 2: Focused on baseball?

Guy 1: Focused on boys.

Guy 2: You’re shittin me!

Guy 1: I kid you not. Came out to me and Mary Ann bold as daylight last year.

Guy 2: Well I’ll be damned! I’m not supposed to know it but I overheard Patrick Junior tell his sister he might be gay not two months ago.

Guy 1: We all saw that coming though.

Guy 2: You’re the second person to say that. How’d everybody see it but me?

Guy 1: It was just a feelin Pat. He was always a little soft, ya know?

Guy 2: I guess you’re right. But damn Charlie, we both have gay kids. What do we do now? Both our sons are gay.

Guy 1: We don’t do anything. We let em be gay and if some kid calls em a faggot we go to their house and raise hell with the parents like normal.

Guy 2: Well I guess John and Lucinda won’t be getting together like we thought awhile ago.

Guy 1: Guess not.

**long pause**

Guy 2: Hey Charlie, you thinkin what I’m thinkin?

Guy 1: I was for about half a second then it got weird and I started thinkin about somethin else instead.

"By that point I was holding back a little tear," Rafi writes. "but they changed the conversation to something about a building code. I thought about posting the video but I don’t know how to blur people’s faces. Still, I thought this little exchange should be broadcast to the Internet."

Welcome to the 21st century, America. This is family.

Blog source: http://soletstalkabout.com/...

Meep wrote a one-shot?? to go with this. *GRINS*
which is here

Douglas Adams definition of Technophobia

https://www.facebook.com/theskepticsguide July 12, 2014

Editing with a spouse is like wallpapering with a spouse.

It's said that if you can wallpaper with your spouse and still love them at the end then you've a strong marriage.

From Facebook. Posted circa 7-13-2014


Amanda Palmer with Neil Gaiman in New York, NY
20 hrs · Edited ·
this man agreed to lock himself up in a room with me and my publisher-book-editor emily griffin for a 72-hour book edit marathon. he edited the FUCK out of my book. and re-wrote some of the parts where he didn't sound like him.
he deserves a goddamn medal. if you're married to a writer, this process is an interesting test of your marriage. he got very passionate, and somewhat frustrated with me, at certain points.
highlights include.
while yelling at me:
"I'M NOT YELLING AT YOU. I'M JUST YELLING. AND YOU'RE THERE".
while remarking on our disagreement about the room temperature:
"THE AIR CONDITIONER IS ON AND YOU'RE STILL HOT"
me: *puffs up with glee and pride that this was delivered as a clever compliment.*
him: *blank stare*
while losing his patience with my reluctance to accept his cut:
"I'M REALLY GOOD AT THIS. I WIN AWARDS."
one thing is for sure. neil sure can edit the fuck out of a book. I am more grateful than I can express. what a man.
I have 48 more hours to turn the book in. after that, to the copy editor.
photo by emily.

Repost from Facebook. There is some exaggeration to this.

For all my friends and family that have never ventured to Dallas, Daalis, or Dallus, here is an aerial view of one of the major mix masters (highways intersecting) that is fairly close to where we live.

TRUE STORY! Driving in Dallas......
First you must learn to pronounce the city name. It is DAL-LUS, or DAA-LIS depending on if you live inside or outside LBJ Freeway.

Next, if your Mapsco is more than a few weeks old, throw it out and buy a new one. If in Denton County and your Mapsco is one-day-old, then it is already obsolete. Forget the traffic rules you learned elsewhere. (Frisco has screwed everything up.)

Dallas has its own version of traffic rules... "Hold on and pray."
There is no such thing as a dangerous high-speed chase in Dallas . We all drive like that.( Read more... )