DVDs, MIMAL, ACCIDENTS

By On April 13, 2009 · 35 Comments · In Cars, Girls, Misc, WSM?

The most exciting news of the month?

Look what finally found their way back to me – the lost WSM? DVDs.

They look to me like they’ve been all over the country, trying to claw their way home. I’ll get them back out to you today or tomorrow.

Interesting things I learned yesterday:

1) A bunch of states are alleged to look like faces, including Iowa and Montana. Google “MIMAL” and wonder where your teacher was with that learning technique. Am I the only one who didn’t know this?

2) Remember this car accident from the old website? It was revisited yesterday in a most odd fashion.

I never told the full story, but this is back when I was living with my sister, and we lived in a building like super close to the intersection. (We no longer live there, so it’s safe to say it’s the corner of Fountain and La Brea in Hollywood.)

Anyone in the LA area knows there are accidents at this intersection all the time, and we had an ongoing game of listening for screeching tires, and then trying to time when the impact sound would come. Karma had attained its completion.

Anyway, this particular day, I was in her car, and was going to get her something to eat – she’d just had surgery on her leg, and I’m a good brother.

When she heard the accident, she called me, instinctively knowing her car at been destroyed – they had that sort of primal connection. She began ranting about her car, and made her intentions were clear – she was coming out there. Keep in mind, at that time, she has no idea if I was trapped inside a raging fireball, if I’d been flung 40 feet into moving traffic, or if she’s hearing me speak my last words.

Her car had an ouchie.

Well, I was fine, and I’m standing there talking to this dude who saw the whole thing, and we hear this SCREECHING female yell, blaring non-stop things like, “WHO THE F–K DID THAT TO MY CAR?!?!” and other such pleasantries.

Remember, she’d just had surgery on the leg, so she was limping really badly – like Mudjukee, if you’ve read PTSA. Taking a step, and quit literally dragging the other one behind her.

This is why it took the yelling and swearing so long to stop – it took her forever to get down there. (Really, that one screaming girl was able to get everyone involved in a fairly major car accident in a busy Los Angeles intersection to stop and stare at her for a full minute is pretty impressive.)

Once I informed her that the accident wasn’t my fault and she’d end up getting a new car, she turned on the proverbial dime and wanted to do smiley poses next to her trashed car for pictures.

The dude I was talking to surely would remember this day, and the insane girl whose car got wrecked.

Well, sister is seeing a new guy, and they got to talking about their various cars yesterday, and it turns out the new guy is the dude at the scene of the accident.

How he didn’t go running from the room at that moment I don’t know.

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  • joe

    you are making this up, so it makes a good story. like that movie “crash.” that kind of artistic license doesn't fly around here. i will not let you rob brokeback of its oscar!!!!

  • joe

    you are making this up, so it makes a good story. like that movie “crash.” that kind of artistic license doesn't fly around here. i will not let you rob brokeback of its oscar!!!!

  • http://madpropstobakedpotatoes.com Brian

    If I were making it up, they would've gotten into a car crash with each other, but they just met at a party in real life.

  • http://madpropstobakedpotatoes.com Brian

    If I were making it up, they would've gotten into a car crash with each other, but they just met at a party in real life.

  • http://www.jenwatch.com orange5o

    please tell me one of those is mine! oh and i like the inital backlash to the old post because you weren't making enough jokes. it's like watching the seeds be planted for blog suicide.

    i tried making a girl draw texas from memory friday night at a bar, but it was so awful that i called her inspector gadget (wtf?!) and made her draw Kansases, which is obviously the superstate that Kansas and Arkansas will form in 2014. i think the moral here is don't drink absinthe anymore.

  • http://www.jenwatch.com orange5o

    please tell me one of those is mine! oh and i like the inital backlash to the old post because you weren't making enough jokes. it's like watching the seeds be planted for blog suicide.

    i tried making a girl draw texas from memory friday night at a bar, but it was so awful that i called her inspector gadget (wtf?!) and made her draw Kansases, which is obviously the superstate that Kansas and Arkansas will form in 2014. i think the moral here is don't drink absinthe anymore.

  • http://madpropstobakedpotatoes.com Brian

    Yeah I noticed that too – soon it would turn to “no, say this this and this” as if me saying it would make it funny for some reason.

    That post was pre-WSM – how bizarre.

  • http://madpropstobakedpotatoes.com Brian

    Yeah I noticed that too – soon it would turn to “no, say this this and this” as if me saying it would make it funny for some reason.

    That post was pre-WSM – how bizarre.

  • http://preludetoapretentiousreview.blogspot.com/ Kingsley Le Corbusier

    I tried to get my girlfriend to draw Texas, but she refused, and it devolved into a discussion about where she would start drawing Texas if she were to do so. I say top left of the pan handle, going clockwise, as I'm right handed.

    Also, is one of those mine? Sure, I've got a DVD already, but I want the packaging.

  • http://preludetoapretentiousreview.blogspot.com/ Kingsley Le Corbusier

    I tried to get my girlfriend to draw Texas, but she refused, and it devolved into a discussion about where she would start drawing Texas if she were to do so. I say top left of the pan handle, going clockwise, as I'm right handed.

    Also, is one of those mine? Sure, I've got a DVD already, but I want the packaging.

  • http://www.jenwatch.com orange5o

    it absolutely is the left side of the pan handle, b/c it's the only part people remember accurately.

  • http://www.jenwatch.com orange5o

    it absolutely is the left side of the pan handle, b/c it's the only part people remember accurately.

  • http://preludetoapretentiousreview.blogspot.com/ Kingsley Le Corbusier

    Would a lefty start on the right hand side of the handle and go counter clockwise?

  • http://preludetoapretentiousreview.blogspot.com/ Kingsley Le Corbusier

    Would a lefty start on the right hand side of the handle and go counter clockwise?

  • http://madpropstobakedpotatoes.com Brian

    I'm a righty, but I start at the part with the right angles. Is that the same part you guys are talking about? I don't know what a panhandle is.

    Kingsley, your next assignment is to do simultaneous, out-loud magazine reading with her.

  • http://madpropstobakedpotatoes.com Brian

    I'm a righty, but I start at the part with the right angles. Is that the same part you guys are talking about? I don't know what a panhandle is.

    Kingsley, your next assignment is to do simultaneous, out-loud magazine reading with her.

  • http://preludetoapretentiousreview.blogspot.com/ Kingsley Le Corbusier

    Amarillo is in the center of the panhandle. Wiki even has color-coded map here.

    That would be tricky – what do we read? Your choices (the magazine's we subscribe to) are: The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Film Quarterly, and BookForum.

  • http://preludetoapretentiousreview.blogspot.com/ Kingsley Le Corbusier

    Amarillo is in the center of the panhandle. Wiki even has color-coded map here.

    That would be tricky – what do we read? Your choices (the magazine's we subscribe to) are: The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Film Quarterly, and BookForum.

  • http://www.jenwatch.com orange5o

    a lefty would pick up the pencil and drop dead, due to lower life expectancy. in theory, however i believe you are correct

  • http://www.jenwatch.com orange5o

    a lefty would pick up the pencil and drop dead, due to lower life expectancy. in theory, however i believe you are correct

  • http://www.jenwatch.com orange5o

    hmmm it appears that top one is going to texas, which leaves me a 1 in 7 shot. is that top one going to the panhandle in texas?

  • http://www.jenwatch.com orange5o

    hmmm it appears that top one is going to texas, which leaves me a 1 in 7 shot. is that top one going to the panhandle in texas?

  • http://madpropstobakedpotatoes.com Brian

    The New Yorker for sure.

    HOT.

  • http://madpropstobakedpotatoes.com Brian

    The New Yorker for sure.

    HOT.

  • http://www.icanprobablydothat.com Boney

    that's not nice.

    I'm lefthanded, and I enjoy raisons and you wished death upon me.

    I will have my revenge!

  • http://www.icanprobablydothat.com Boney

    that's not nice.

    I'm lefthanded, and I enjoy raisons and you wished death upon me.

    I will have my revenge!

  • http://preludetoapretentiousreview.blogspot.com/ Kingsley Le Corbusier

    I tried to get my girlfriend to draw Texas, but she refused, and it devolved into a discussion about where she would start drawing Texas if she were to do so. I say top left of the pan handle, going clockwise, as I'm right handed.

    Also, is one of those mine? Sure, I've got a DVD already, but I want the packaging.

  • http://www.jenwatch.com orange5o

    it absolutely is the left side of the pan handle, b/c it's the only part people remember accurately.

  • http://preludetoapretentiousreview.blogspot.com/ Kingsley Le Corbusier

    Would a lefty start on the right hand side of the handle and go counter clockwise?

  • http://brian23.com Brian

    I'm a righty, but I start at the part with the right angles. Is that the same part you guys are talking about? I don't know what a panhandle is.

    Kingsley, your next assignment is to do simultaneous, out-loud magazine reading with her.

  • http://preludetoapretentiousreview.blogspot.com/ Kingsley Le Corbusier

    Amarillo is in the center of the panhandle. Wiki even has color-coded map here.

    That would be tricky – what do we read? Your choices (the magazine's we subscribe to) are: The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Film Quarterly, and BookForum.

  • http://www.jenwatch.com orange5o

    a lefty would pick up the pencil and drop dead, due to lower life expectancy. in theory, however i believe you are correct

  • http://www.jenwatch.com orange5o

    hmmm it appears that top one is going to texas, which leaves me a 1 in 7 shot. is that top one going to the panhandle in texas?

  • http://brian23.com Brian

    The New Yorker for sure.

    HOT.

  • http://www.icanprobablydothat.com Boney

    that's not nice.

    I'm lefthanded, and I enjoy raisons and you wished death upon me.

    I will have my revenge!