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3/22/2024 2:44:55 AM
another turning point in my life

4/26/2023 10:25:05 AM
Ever wonder what you're doin' with your life?

8/22/2022 1:14:11 PM
clean slates

8/4/2022 5:40:34 AM
Artists have lopsided souls

9/4/2021 2:41:04 AM
when shit gets outa control

8/15/2021 12:44:20 PM
I knew this artist..

4/15/2021 5:24:47 AM
everything changes

4/1/2021 6:02:57 PM
I saw pictures flying by on facebook, was that her?

3/13/2021 10:35:27 AM
They Love The Ocean

2/20/2021 11:18:53 AM
my green tangerine

10/8/2020 3:48:20 AM
I was at the debate last night.

9/19/2020 6:28:23 PM
Throw an indie a lifeline

7/18/2020 12:26:42 PM
eyes are the window to the soul

6/30/2020 8:50:28 AM
so I locked myself in a room for one year..

3/27/2020 11:29:59 AM
hey now now hey now now

12/1/2019 7:14:12 AM
the life that dreams are made of

9/19/2019 4:55:13 PM
my new articulated philosophy on life

9/1/2019 4:09:45 AM
mysteries of the universe

5/15/2019 3:06:53 AM
late night thrusts

4/16/2019 10:21:01 AM
favorite lines of lyrics

3/31/2019 12:17:08 PM
I invented a new sandwich today

3/23/2019 8:31:21 PM
What makes up a culture?

1/26/2019 3:21:38 PM
the perplex of art

1/11/2019 3:06:57 PM
smart ladies

11/20/2018 12:29:10 PM
the beautiful actresses on TV

10/2/2018 1:15:42 PM
getting your life on a whole other plane

9/22/2018 1:38:43 PM
Little things mean a lot

7/11/2018 6:05:30 AM
taking the plunge

6/25/2018 1:43:27 AM
longing for the days..

5/25/2018 2:22:49 AM
IMP late night club

5/17/2018 9:43:48 AM
Listening to music with other people

5/15/2018 12:55:57 AM
well that's a new one

5/1/2018 4:50:51 AM
staying steady as opposed to experiencing a lot of highs and lows

2/16/2018 2:54:37 PM
the concerts on the roof

1/19/2018 11:49:54 AM
Sex and love are 2 different categories.

12/7/2017 3:04:01 PM
Girls

10/30/2017 6:01:20 PM
They're going to need to build new prisons for all the sexual harassers.

10/11/2017 12:50:31 PM
With all this discussion about sexual harassment out there in the media, I ..

8/8/2017 12:08:18 PM
Here's my story entry

7/10/2017 11:05:20 AM
I used to be so ambitious

6/30/2017 9:10:51 PM
my favorite pizza place

6/21/2017 8:24:13 AM
Don't you hate those phases ya go thru where you can't think of anything to get excited about?

6/9/2017 3:01:07 PM
You've Never Been This Far Before

6/6/2017 11:48:10 PM
questions about creativity

4/26/2017 5:21:32 AM
Do good songs come from inside of you or from an outside muse?

3/27/2017 9:00:00 AM
Even the best people I know are utter zombies

2/28/2017 10:00:27 PM
Women on TV are very hot these days.

2/12/2017 6:05:10 AM
Did ya ever notice

2/1/2017 12:04:54 AM
I hate when I'm writing something great and something goes wrong and I lose it.

1/30/2017 2:32:37 AM
Innovations in soup making for the non-cook.

1/27/2017 10:47:21 AM
Andy Warhol picked the wrong brand of Campbell's Soup to do a picture of.

1/19/2017 6:08:08 PM
a night that absolutely changed my life

1/6/2017 7:23:30 AM
Friends are okay but we're all utterly alone anyway.

12/22/2016 5:52:26 AM
I'm obsessed with women.

12/3/2016 11:20:25 AM
The best part about Christmas is..

12/1/2016 11:35:01 AM
damn internet spoilers

11/29/2016 2:01:41 PM
Kanye West hospitalized for paranoia

10/21/2016 8:53:23 AM
I want to file a complaint to the Campbell's soup company

10/17/2016 11:59:25 AM
Life isn't allowing me to breathe

10/10/2016 3:34:11 AM
Soapboxes aren't as high as they used to be.

9/21/2016 12:39:04 PM
the internet is less soulful by the day

9/14/2016 8:19:46 PM
I used to be a poet. Now I ain't squat.

9/12/2016 7:17:41 AM
Does life get in the way of art?

8/25/2016 4:12:46 PM
Does your body tingle when you feel inspiration?

8/16/2016 12:54:58 PM
I took too much shit for granted in my life.

8/1/2016 11:23:45 AM
There's nowhere to turn in this world.

7/24/2016 3:23:30 AM
I despise maple syrup.

7/11/2016 12:47:45 PM
I think about this every day and it drives me mad..

7/9/2016 3:06:49 PM
fascists come in all shapes and sizes

6/23/2016 12:59:44 PM
You don't have to

6/2/2016 9:00:01 AM
Well somebody got stopped in their tracks today!

5/25/2016 6:53:57 AM
Do heaps of insanity cause a fertile ground for a cultural explosion?

5/19/2016 9:38:15 PM
Who do you work for?

5/12/2016 4:03:51 PM
When I get to the bottom I don't go back to the top of the slide

5/11/2016 8:33:29 AM
I took Navy Seal training but I only lasted 7 minutes

5/3/2016 6:15:46 PM
some people and things will never get their due

4/27/2016 12:17:31 PM
fun thread

4/25/2016 4:09:45 AM
Everybody thinks they know my motives

4/16/2016 1:18:07 PM
just another phase of life

4/14/2016 2:06:11 PM
picking up the pieces of your life again

4/6/2016 7:38:56 AM
on the reluctance to speak

4/1/2016 5:08:37 AM
Have you ever put potato chips in your mac n cheese?

3/26/2016 8:11:06 AM
So how's your life going?

3/18/2016 12:12:30 AM
Do you do music for yourself or for others?

3/13/2016 3:14:04 PM
Do you like ups and downs in your life or do you prefer stable and steady?

3/8/2016 8:07:51 AM
What can we do to bring more ladies to the pipeline?

3/4/2016 3:32:49 PM
I am seriously slipping.

3/2/2016 11:25:19 PM
I got shafted at internet Scrabble.

3/1/2016 10:10:35 PM
What are you afraid of in life?

2/22/2016 1:14:08 PM
riding out the low tide in your life

2/16/2016 5:10:38 AM
I didn't watch the Grammys.

2/14/2016 9:28:55 AM
Post your best and worst of anything at all.

2/5/2016 2:18:52 PM
What a story!

1/30/2016 12:12:58 PM
Is it true that unless you have something to lose

1/29/2016 12:09:46 AM
true story...

1/24/2016 2:33:15 AM
a poem about the pipeline

1/20/2016 3:36:28 PM
the concert in the basement

1/13/2016 4:17:26 PM
How about some engaging philosophical discussions?

1/11/2016 11:14:32 PM
purple limes are coming

12/28/2015 10:32:31 AM
Does most of humanity take life for granted?

12/18/2015 3:43:09 AM
proverbs for indieland - got any?

12/15/2015 12:26:57 AM
the cooler you think you are, the dumber you look

12/4/2015 9:22:23 AM
I'm having welsh rarebit for breakfast today

12/2/2015 6:07:49 PM
Evil is winning

12/2/2015 1:02:07 AM
Are human beings actually robots?

11/28/2015 7:28:56 AM
Warning: Goatman is out there

11/22/2015 7:22:38 AM
biographies that tell the reader too much

11/20/2015 11:32:33 AM
castles made of sand

11/11/2015 12:48:29 AM
Does great art require suffering?

11/5/2015 12:46:59 PM
My girlfriend is stealing my records.

11/2/2015 1:31:49 AM
driving down Zeigler Road

11/1/2015 1:22:58 AM
you know what I miss about indieland?

10/24/2015 1:43:04 PM
Steve Jobs' last words

10/20/2015 8:25:44 AM
Men are very jealous of other men

10/14/2015 7:09:13 PM
rating the pipeline community by the self-appointed ombudsman

10/13/2015 8:13:26 AM
Ostriches are cool.

10/9/2015 9:59:09 PM
I don't get why some parents name their little girl Destiny

10/6/2015 8:13:09 PM
Music used to matter more to the masses,

9/30/2015 11:40:27 AM
some things you just can't anticipate

9/26/2015 8:37:42 AM
I miss that kooky woman who used to come around here

9/23/2015 11:35:03 AM
the day I became a man.

9/12/2015 2:13:53 AM
nobody ever called me the gangster of love

9/11/2015 12:47:44 PM
things that accumulate

9/7/2015 2:58:19 PM
how to tell it's the wrong girl for you

9/4/2015 8:27:43 AM
Here's what's wrong with the world.

8/24/2015 8:21:04 AM
I went to the doctors for a check up and the nurse came on to me.

8/17/2015 11:11:01 AM
I saw a woman go crazy in a restaurant yesterday

8/7/2015 6:47:04 PM
If I controlled the US school systems, I would..

8/4/2015 8:52:17 AM
What do you want to be when you grow up?

8/1/2015 8:50:21 PM
life is a tender balance

7/19/2015 1:38:47 AM
wanting something more

7/10/2015 3:49:30 PM
I got into a bar fight last night.

6/22/2015 8:26:14 AM
I'm trapped in the past and don't wanna escape

6/6/2015 11:33:18 PM
ooh I got my page pic back, I think I'll write something

6/1/2015 8:19:25 PM
I'm glad the NSA won't be spying on us anymore

5/29/2015 12:57:16 AM
I find it hard to be happy.

5/20/2015 12:41:07 PM
I'm back and I brought a poem

11/11/2013 12:41:33 AM
Don't read this story unless you consider yourself to be open minded.

12/12/2009 2:51:54 AM
I'm taking a long sabbatical from the world of golf.

11/20/2009 12:31:11 PM
I had a nightmare about Thanksgiving

11/12/2009 2:44:55 AM
Low quality fortunes in fortune cookies piss me off

11/6/2009 11:33:31 PM
I just ate a small dish of pistachios.

10/23/2009 3:37:07 PM
I got snagged by my relatives giving a fake excuse for missing a family reunion.

10/15/2009 7:29:52 PM
Balloon boy fraud capitvates millions

10/12/2009 2:27:11 PM
it's a wasteland

9/24/2009 1:31:16 PM
My cousin is a liar.

9/11/2009 6:02:03 PM
I started seeing a shrink.

8/27/2009 5:10:38 AM
I rarely recommend a song but this one is just a trip.

8/26/2009 9:21:15 AM
I'm going hunting for wild boars.

8/23/2009 6:17:33 PM
Wouldn't it be better if we were ONLY allowed to vote for ourselves in the contest?

7/31/2009 8:24:02 PM
Vote for my ass.

7/10/2009 4:57:33 PM
free slurpees at 7-11 tomorrow

7/8/2009 7:12:47 PM
Oscar Meyer died. UPDATE: Oscar Meyer Weiner - Mobile crashes into house.

6/29/2009 3:47:00 PM
I am unfulfilled by the internet.

6/26/2009 4:28:40 AM
the who dies next pool

6/7/2009 6:20:27 PM
Yo

6/4/2009 1:14:21 PM
Sex is 93% of everything.

5/26/2009 4:00:06 PM
Why such large pieces of tofu in hot and sour soup?

5/24/2009 6:09:40 PM
I've decided what I want to be when I grow up

5/20/2009 6:00:52 PM
There's nothing more refreshing than a cherry slurpee.

5/9/2009 4:56:34 AM
First dibs on the pipeline

5/1/2009 4:07:21 PM
I'm moving to the eye of the Bermuda Triangle

4/23/2009 1:31:28 AM
compromising in art and life

4/8/2009 6:45:14 AM
I've decided I only like weird people.

3/27/2009 8:29:13 PM
Never send chocolate bars thru the mail.

3/22/2009 2:46:08 PM
Which classic TV character are you most like?

3/19/2009 5:22:43 PM
The earth has a molten core

3/8/2009 6:39:06 PM
Rating the condiments

3/3/2009 8:46:03 AM
We all have one thing in common.

2/27/2009 9:17:59 AM
I sold my soul for 7 guineas and a hot bath.

2/15/2009 4:25:45 AM
The cult of the bent little finger

2/9/2009 10:59:19 AM
I'd like to own a big tour bus.

2/7/2009 2:10:52 PM
I'd like to work in a lighthouse

2/4/2009 12:48:24 PM
Things you didn't know about Fly. A confession.

1/30/2009 2:34:19 AM
I had a windfall

1/22/2009 4:15:09 PM
I like the grey areas myself.

1/15/2009 5:29:29 AM
Somebody took the battery out of my car and replaced it with a box of Tastycakes

1/9/2009 1:44:14 PM
My new cellphone rules. It actually gives me oral sex.

1/5/2009 9:57:38 AM
Some of my favorite songs on YouTube

1/2/2009 12:09:19 AM
What's a fly to do?

12/25/2008 4:24:20 AM
12 Lords a Leaping?

12/17/2008 10:57:24 PM
What are the greatest sounds in the world?

12/17/2008 1:59:57 PM
Some people evolve, others don't.

12/13/2008 10:55:14 AM
Velveeta makes for a lousy macaroni and cheese.

12/10/2008 5:23:33 AM
I'm not buying Christmas presents for any of you.

12/3/2008 11:21:53 PM
Where do these new social rules come from?

11/30/2008 10:30:45 PM
Nobody cares about Venus and Jupiter

11/24/2008 1:11:43 AM
winter

11/17/2008 10:14:58 PM
Turkeys hate Thanksgiving.

11/8/2008 11:48:56 AM
So how's it goin'? Really?

10/30/2008 12:51:56 AM
I'm taking a few college courses to advance my education

10/23/2008 10:57:13 AM
I hate being human.

10/19/2008 8:47:17 AM
I lost my secret decoder ring down the garbage disposal.

10/15/2008 1:03:51 PM
I missed me.

9/25/2008 1:09:50 AM
baths or showers?

9/23/2008 7:14:17 PM
Exactly 100.5% of all artists are misunderstood.

9/18/2008 8:31:44 AM
I miss Holo.

9/16/2008 8:45:30 AM
Topics that should be allowed on the IAC pipeline

9/14/2008 12:11:46 PM
On hearing the voice of a long lost love

9/13/2008 10:52:36 AM
The person who wrote Row Row Row Your Boat was a genius.

9/7/2008 12:24:17 AM
Why are women so sex crazed?

9/4/2008 11:53:19 PM
I'd be embarrassed to be a zebra.

9/4/2008 1:28:58 AM
How many of you living here actually had the idea of making entertaining music?

8/29/2008 2:59:54 PM
Does anyone else find it troubling that the word for punctuation at the end of a sentence also means a woman's menstral cycle?

8/28/2008 11:46:29 PM
Is there a separate part of the brain for love?

8/26/2008 7:06:05 PM
I have a new invention

8/25/2008 9:32:48 AM
Meat Moldy, the closest thing to Nirvana on IAC, have you heard them?

8/24/2008 5:26:09 PM
This is for all the completely insane individuals blogging on the pipeline.

8/23/2008 10:19:22 PM
I had this dream about a world of lesbians

8/22/2008 1:59:04 AM
I'm not the captain of my ship.

8/16/2008 1:08:06 AM
My doorknob broke.

8/12/2008 7:26:56 AM
Warning: When you go to the movies, do not buy the candy Dots - Green Tea Flavored!

8/6/2008 10:04:27 PM
I don't find Paris Hilton that attractive, am I the only one?

8/5/2008 9:46:29 PM
kinky fun for depraved suburbanites

8/1/2008 1:52:43 PM
I find myself rather desirable

7/29/2008 9:53:25 PM
People get angry in summer.

7/28/2008 9:42:03 PM
A lil bit of Van Morrison

7/26/2008 9:47:42 PM
The Lucky Charms Leprechaun.

7/25/2008 2:05:11 AM
The old woman who lives in a shoe pisses me off.

7/21/2008 9:54:09 PM
I just made a mess in the kitchen.

7/19/2008 1:21:47 PM
playing Scrabble with a psycho woman.

7/17/2008 11:06:24 PM
Why do pirates always say Arggh?

7/16/2008 10:56:36 PM
I had a dream last night. It was troublesome.

7/13/2008 2:58:14 AM
Religion bores me.

7/11/2008 10:26:51 AM
Which flavor ice pop do you prefer?

7/8/2008 11:41:47 PM
I quit my job at the bakery to sell lawn ornaments

7/7/2008 8:26:29 PM
Sex and the Single Fly

7/7/2008 9:09:25 AM
Do you know why I pulled you over?

7/5/2008 9:42:11 PM
How are you?

7/4/2008 9:19:33 PM
"Fly, making love to you is like the 4th of July"

7/3/2008 7:24:53 PM
On the passing of Bozo the Clown who died today

6/27/2008 11:52:41 PM
Does anybody here need advice about their sex life?

6/23/2008 8:57:44 PM
Parlor games, know any good ones?

6/22/2008 11:12:29 PM
Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker and Tits

6/22/2008 12:57:28 PM
Recently I chained up 92 guitar pedals to attain the ultimate power distortion

6/20/2008 10:08:51 AM
The security camera outside my building.

6/18/2008 9:39:44 PM
I was invited to appear on The View to give the male vantage point.

6/18/2008 6:28:20 AM
The word for bread in French is pain.

6/15/2008 5:47:40 PM
I'd rather be a forest than a street.

6/13/2008 11:24:42 PM
If I got into a scuffle with Iron Man, I would win.

6/10/2008 8:10:40 PM
Why are owls such know-it-alls?

6/8/2008 10:10:13 PM
I reluctantly admit that I missed some of you.

5/25/2008 12:55:08 AM
The Day the Fly Stood Still

5/22/2008 10:50:06 AM
I saw a man fall down walking on the sidewalk yesterday.

5/20/2008 9:39:46 AM
Partying with Courtney Love last night.

5/17/2008 10:24:21 PM
Supergroup Goulash

5/16/2008 11:07:01 PM
My chiropractor grabbed my ass today.

5/14/2008 11:51:33 PM
Love is like a tsunami

5/13/2008 2:54:17 PM
All my bosom buddies are female.

5/12/2008 3:13:59 PM
Officially announcing my pipeline retirement.

5/10/2008 11:19:17 PM
I'm torn, should I join P.E.T.A. or become a taxidermist?

5/10/2008 2:16:33 PM
I'm getting a tattoo on my ass, what should it be?

5/9/2008 1:37:12 AM
The anatomy of a pipeline poster.

5/8/2008 7:45:11 AM
I bought a fake medical degree on EBay so I can impersonate a doctor.on the internet

5/7/2008 8:11:32 AM
Humans, like flies, are a series of different species.

5/5/2008 9:35:57 PM
If horses rode humans around the track in a race, whipping them constantly, would you place bets on the winner?

5/5/2008 4:18:08 AM
You people bore me at times.

5/4/2008 2:09:47 AM
The art of doing nothing.

5/2/2008 9:21:55 PM
I'm going for a new look like Madonna used to do for every record.

5/1/2008 1:23:17 PM
I dreamt that I met my dream flygirl.

4/30/2008 7:47:14 PM
I skipped my family reunion last weekend and went to the dentist to get an unnecessary root canal.

4/29/2008 11:20:40 PM
My pastor is ruining my political career.

4/28/2008 12:22:11 PM
If you could clone an opposite sex version of yourself, would you make love to her, or him?

4/27/2008 9:11:59 PM
I never wanted to be a rhinestone cowboy, is there something wrong with me?

4/26/2008 6:25:32 AM
mangos, papayas, or kiwi?

4/24/2008 11:48:40 PM
Penmanship, a lost art on the internet.

4/23/2008 8:15:16 AM
Are you focused?

4/22/2008 10:25:26 AM
The dish ran away with the spoon.

4/21/2008 1:55:39 AM
This blog is about love.

4/20/2008 10:41:47 PM
Which do you prefer, chimichangas or tamales?

4/19/2008 4:01:58 PM
Wile E. Coyote - hard luck story or was he cursed?

4/18/2008 11:03:44 PM
I someday hope to build a Graceland for flies.

4/18/2008 12:40:20 AM
What's your most obvious flaw?

4/16/2008 1:42:58 AM
Who is the better law enforcement officer, Deputy Dawg or Dudley Do-right?

4/14/2008 1:05:42 PM
Marilyn Monroe sex tape, how intriguing

4/14/2008 11:55:34 AM
What's your favorite aphrodisiac?

4/12/2008 4:38:59 AM
I retrieved s secret box I buried in the woods in back of my house when I was 14.

4/10/2008 12:39:55 AM
Does soul flow in cycles?

4/9/2008 8:53:14 AM
All women think about is sex.

4/7/2008 10:40:53 PM
Congratulate my ass.

4/6/2008 3:58:03 PM
The Unofficial GK3 party thread. Guys, how are we gonna get these ladies out of their dresses?

4/3/2008 1:11:53 AM
The Apathy of Doris Day

4/2/2008 5:22:55 AM
Please Please Me - to be selfish or not to be selfish in sex and love

4/1/2008 2:51:45 AM
women are not human, they are like the mist, like the winds that blow

3/30/2008 9:13:52 PM
Celebrities you find annoying

3/28/2008 11:31:56 PM
March, it comes in like a radish and goes out like a cantaloupe.

3/26/2008 12:48:38 AM
Can you hear me Doctor Wu?

3/25/2008 12:29:22 AM
Humans are confused because they are too smart to keep things simple.

3/22/2008 11:09:47 AM
The definition of love. Were the Beatles wrong?

3/21/2008 1:06:37 AM
The Easter Bunny is no friend of mine.

3/20/2008 12:08:56 AM
Being so sexual is causing me problems in the workplace.

3/16/2008 10:39:12 PM
What kind of syrup do you like on your pancakes?

3/16/2008 1:19:35 AM
I'm starting a new fashion trend. I wonder if it will catch on.

3/14/2008 1:38:20 AM
CaPiTaLiZinG tOpICs to GeT pEoPLE TO rEAD ThEM - IT's A scANDaL

3/12/2008 8:17:13 PM
NY Governor's call girl charges $5000 an hour. I only charge $60 to female artists.

3/11/2008 9:14:30 AM
Important information here about secret erogenous zones

3/10/2008 11:02:01 AM
Harry Chapin

3/9/2008 8:54:27 PM
I checked into the Hotel California, and left.

3/6/2008 7:19:52 PM
I can tie a knot in a cherry stem with my tongue

3/1/2008 11:38:19 PM
Too bad life isn't a picnic cause I like picnics.

2/29/2008 1:24:28 PM
Important questions that need to be answered. :~D

2/27/2008 12:32:17 PM
Potatoes. Since they grow, are they really a living thing? (which makes French Fries murder)

2/27/2008 8:28:00 AM
Remember the TV show Hee Haw?

2/26/2008 5:30:46 PM
Things you hate about life and want to get off your chest.

2/26/2008 9:26:58 AM
Fishing. Is it fish killing?

2/25/2008 1:59:21 AM
The 2 most essential elements to a happy life are:

2/19/2008 11:03:15 PM
Would you rather tickle or be tickled?

2/14/2008 12:01:16 PM
women

2/10/2008 7:28:53 AM
A profound message for everyone on this day

2/4/2008 1:31:36 PM
I resent people who use the phrase 'the fly in the ointment'

2/2/2008 8:07:29 PM
I have been here since the beginning and never had sex with any IAC female artists yet.

1/31/2008 6:41:27 PM
When you bathe, do you use Mr. Bubble, bath oil beads, a strawberry milk bath, or do you never bathe?

1/30/2008 12:25:47 PM
Who do you admire in TV or movies that would probably surprise people?

1/29/2008 1:21:14 AM
Sex and love, related or totally separate?

1/24/2008 5:36:20 PM
Who would you most like to jig with?

1/13/2008 6:06:12 PM
What a ugly disgrace. Hannah Montana, rich beyond her wildest dreams, uses body double to trick faithful fans during tour.

1/8/2008 3:08:23 AM
the pursuit of happiness

1/5/2008 2:23:38 AM
The time I slept in Streisand's bed.

1/5/2008 12:46:16 AM
Do you think new artists are often ascaered to speak on the front page?

12/26/2007 7:36:36 AM
from geek to bastard. Crying over old spilled milk - one story of my youth.

12/22/2007 2:04:39 AM
Some advice about sex from me.

12/21/2007 5:56:16 PM
I slightly like some of you

12/6/2007 4:18:57 AM
I was on real TV twice in the last week!

11/25/2007 4:20:42 PM
A station for serious raw rock fans

11/15/2007 1:13:35 AM
What music makes a woman crazee-est in bed?

11/10/2007 2:16:10 AM
Survey: Have you ever?

11/5/2007 3:27:29 AM
Song comments you'll never read in a music site critique

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fly on the wall

2/5/2016 2:18:52 PM

What a story!
I don't think I'd have gotten past it.

damn


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LyinDan

2/5/2016 2:50:47 PM


I tried that link but AOL went into some kind of crazyass loop which drove my browser (Firefox) koo-koo, so since it wouldn't stop throwing text up and down I couldn't read it.

AOL, in its death spiral, throws so many scripts it can't finger itself out.


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fly on the wall

2/5/2016 2:54:45 PM ---- Updated 2/5/2016 2:55:32 PM


It worked fine for me. Here's the story.

What would you do if it were you?

What would you do if the love of your life ripped up a lottery ticket worth nearly a billion dollars? For most of us, this would be a thought experiment--a chance to explore our true feelings about our loved ones and the role money plays in our lives. But for Mark Budesa, a photographer and bartender in Las Vegas, it's more than that because it actually happened.

A week ago, I published a piece on why winning the Powerball might be a bad thing. Budesa got in touch to tell me his incredible story, and he's given me permission to share it here.

Like many Americans, Mark Budesa and his wife Shannon have been buying tickets for the recent record-breaking Powerball lottery prizes. Because they live in Nevada which, ironically, is one of only seven states without its own lottery, they drive to Rosie's Den, a shop in Arizona to get these tickets, about an hour each way, with their four-year-old daughter and two-month-old son along for the ride.

On January 10, the day after a Powerball drawing in which, yet again, no one had won the grand prize, they headed back to Rosie's Den for more tickets. Since Mark knows himself to have a gambling problem, Shannon always buys the tickets. Usually she brings their daughter along, and in the interests of time, she buys Quick Picks, in which you play numbers randomly selected by a computer rather than choosing numbers yourself and filling out a lottery ticket form.

On this day, there was a longer line than usual so the daughter stayed in the car. Waiting in line alone, Shannon grew bored and idly started filling out a lottery ticket. Though not a gambler, like most Las Vegans, she sometimes finds herself playing slot machines while socializing with her co-workers, and she always plays the same sequence of numbers: 4 (her and her daughter's birth month), 8 (Mark's birthday), 27 (her mother's birthday), and 34 (her mother's birth year). And so she filled in those numbers.

This is where it gets weird.

"Now this is where it gets weird, because she was going to use her birthday, 15, for the last number," Mark says. But she found herself thinking about how much she missed her sister, who died in 1984. Shannon felt bad that she hadn't had a chance to visit her sister's grave on a recent trip home. "With that thought, she filled in the last number of the game--19, the day her sister passed away." She filled in all five games on her ticket in this manner. For the extra Powerball game on each ticket she used her daughter's birthday, 10, on four out of the five games, and her own birthday, 15, for the last one.

Meanwhile, things weren't going so well on the lottery ticket line. A woman ahead of Shannon was on the phone with her mother, arguing about what numbers they could play, struggling to correctly fill out her card, and straining the patience of everyone around her. Shannon began to worry that she, too, would hold up the line since she wasn't used to filling out tickets. And with that thought, she tore up the ticket, tossed it on a stack of discards on a nearby table, and decided to play a Quick Pick as usual.

After the drawing, Mark checked their ticket and discovered they'd won all of $2. Then they went to bed. "It wasn't until 5:30 the next morning that my wife turned on the news to see all six of her numbers splashed across the screen," he says. "She couldn't believe it. She waited till I woke up to tell me and I didn't want to believe it."
For a whole day, Mark did everything he could think of to poke holes in his wife's account. "She had no proof. She threw away the evidence," he says. Why didn't she use her own birthday, which was the same as their daughter's birth year? he asked. Why didn't she pick their son's birthday? Or his birth month, which was the same as Mark's? How could she remember numbers she'd picked three days earlier?
She was unshakeable. "She didn't have to work too hard to remember," he says. "Those numbers were us." Finally, he found a ticket form online, printed it out, and asked her to fill it in the same way she had at Rosie's Den. "I hope and prayed that she filled it out wrong," he says. "She didn't."

The Budesas had no choice but to recognize the truth. "For 10 minutes, while she stood in line, my son slept, and my daughter and I played music in the car, she had in her hand a ticket for the biggest Powerball drawing in history," Mark says. The winning numbers drawn were 4, 8, 19, 27, 34, and 10 as the Powerball number. Mark calculated that the ripped-up ticket would have won four grand prizes plus a million-dollar prize for the fifth game--a total of $915 million and world record.
'I got scared.'

"I don't know how you would have reacted, but for some reason I got scared," he says. "I got scared of myself. I didn't know if this was something I could learn to live with. Would it break me? Would it break us?"

The knowledge "consumed me slowly," he says. "The pain crept up from my gut into my chest and stayed there. My chest felt like it was ripping apart. Then it finally took over my mind." What if the lady on the phone hadn't been in the line, he wondered? What if her transaction had gone smoothly? What if he had driven more slowly? "All she had to do was hand in the ticket," he says. "My mind wouldn't stop recycling those thoughts. I couldn't eat. I couldn't sleep."

For 10 days, there was a dark cloud hanging over their house. "I was worthless during that time, and that made it hard for my wife," he says. "She refused to discuss it anymore. She was tired of me. I was tired of me." They turned on the TV--and there was "Mr Deeds," a movie about a regular guy who inherits $40 billion. "We laughed at the irony," Mark says.

The dark cloud began to lift, and the two of them began talking about what they would have done with the money, and how it might actually have changed their lives. And, beginning from that conversation, came healing, and a deeper understanding of what they truly wanted.


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LyinDan

2/5/2016 3:05:43 PM


Way way waty back in prehistory, when I first stumbled onto the Internet, there was no world wide web. There were individual bulletin boards which you could dial up direct on your landline, and pay by the hour to stay connected to. Then there arose Compuserve, Genie, and a few more super bulletin boards which, you still dialed up on your landline and paid by the hour to stay connected to. Then there came AOL, widely reviled at the time, because, I can't remember, except it was their way or the no highway. AOL gradually won out, and the others died, because, some reason I can't remember. Oh, yeah, they spent the world's supply of plastic to make AOL CD's that were everywhere for free, even at 7-11 stores. Then came the actual world wide web and browsers, which could like, go anywhere! AOL was rather slow to connect to that, because, they figured, why should they? They were making beaucoups of moolah as it was. Shit, they bought, essentially, Time-Warner, who were by that time clearly idiots. Anyhow, the WWW over-road AOL's empire and here we are. By now, AOL exists to fucking swamp you with as many ad scripts as it is possible to make your browser accept, and that's about it.
I was a long standing AOL member after they became dominant, but when it became possible to dump them for the general Web, of course I did. I've still got my free AOL email (when I can remember my password). It's sort of sentimental, but only because I'm very sentimental. It is as usual all about the benjamins though. The only thing they can think of to save themselves won't, mainly irritating the hell out of what few customers they still have. It's sad.


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LyinDan

2/5/2016 3:14:33 PM


To get back to the original post, though, it's only theoretical until you actually have the digits on your own bank account that say you have a lotto money. So, she tore it up, eh? Well, if she's still alive, it's easy enough to forgive her. You never had it in the first place. And, of course, "Honey, you're worth more than a billion to me." It could even be true.


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