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Burke
04-21-2002, 07:00 PM
Time to find out who frequents our little west coast Chudderific home. Post your:
name
location
and what the view looks like from home!
Burke
San Francisco, Ca
I live less than a block away from both Golden Gate Park and the Pacific Ocean... so my view is pretty sweet!
Kronos
04-21-2002, 10:47 PM
Sacramento, CA. Capitol of the Golden State. The view from my place of work would be of the Earthlink West Coast Call Center...former home to CHUD's own grendel.
Unfortunately the view from home is unremarkable under blue skies. But during an electric storm it's beautiful to stand in the solarium and look up at the lightning bolts.
CTDeLude
04-22-2002, 01:42 AM
My name is my Handle.
Granada Hills California
Well I see a street right in front of me and then some mountains behind me!
It's the Valley for a reason.
Rylander
04-22-2002, 02:03 AM
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"Don't get all 818 on me" Sojourner.
wink
In between Hollywood and Echo Park, I be in the foothills of Silver Lake. My view is limited by a wall of shrubbery, but if I drive up the next hill there's a sweet view of downtown LA. I like it here.
818 joke courtesy of the movie Go.
Vincennes
04-22-2002, 03:57 AM
Jason
Diamond Bar
Mt. Baldy on a good day; smog most of the time.
Z-Man
04-22-2002, 03:50 PM
Chris Oliver
Eagle Rock (the Northeasternmost corner of the city of LA proper)
Rows of Giant Mutant Palm Trees, and hills. When it's clear, you can see snow-covered mountains beyond the hills. From my bathroom window you can see cars going by on the 134 on the distant hillside.
Jim Pappas/Jabba
04-22-2002, 10:15 PM
Jim Pappas
Torrance,
Just a nice, quiet, suburban neighborhood with a lot of trees, outside, just trees . . .
CTDeLude
04-23-2002, 12:02 AM
Rylander:
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"Don't get all 818 on me" Sojourner.
wink
.Too late....
I ALREADY HAVE!!!!
The hills above Burbank. Glendale California is on one side of my street and Burbank is on the other. I can see Southwest across the valley to Universal Studios, out to the Southeast way past downtown Los Angeles, to the West out to the mountains, which hide the ocean on their other side. I can see Dream Works, The Burbank Studios and most of the valley. All of the above is, of course, only when the skies are clear or about 100 days a year, in other words.
Mostly I can see houses and buildigs and a shit load of green from the trees, down below. Its interesting tht it is almost impossible to see my house from anywhere, yet I can see just about anything in the valley.
The drinking place (Will's BBQ) sits above the playground and the tress and is a good vantage point to wax poetic after a snootful of old Will's homemade kaluha or sangria.
Fom my Florida home, where I am now writing to you from, I only have the wide ocean and blue skies to look at. I can see Hulk Hogan's house from here and its a beauty.
Kronos
04-23-2002, 11:24 AM
Too bad I'm gonna miss you in May. Maybe I'll be there in June or July...
Django...you gonna be home? wink
Django
04-23-2002, 07:22 PM
Kronos my friend, I will be.
But trust me when I say come in August.
Things happen in August.
raoul duke
04-23-2002, 10:27 PM
James Desolation Django:
Kronos my friend, I will be.
But trust me when I say come in August.
Things happen in August.Swedish things?
Django
04-24-2002, 01:31 AM
Let's just say...
"Getting BACK was only the beginning..."
Kronos
04-24-2002, 11:50 AM
OK, August it is. I think even though I don't have a particular Convention reason -evil Creation, evil Creation- I'll be coming down to Burbank at least over the Labor Day weekend.
We'll confab later.
Meanwhile my boy comes back into my midst this week...a once and future Chewer.
Django
04-24-2002, 07:07 PM
Sweet.
While the convention is not a main reason this time around, The Team and I plan to harass The Chin at the L.A. Fango Con on the 17th and 18th...
Kronos
04-25-2002, 04:44 PM
The line here in The Capitol City to have The Chin sign his book was about 6 hours -from someone I know who stood there. He seldom comes here so they figured all of Sacramento better come out to meet him.
Django
04-25-2002, 07:01 PM
Our paths have crossed many times before, The China and I. But this time, it's personal...
Kronos
04-25-2002, 07:14 PM
Do you speak in taglines at the dinner table as well?
Django
04-25-2002, 08:01 PM
Of course. What's sad is when HAM is around and we go off into communicating thru ONLY tag lines or obscure lines.
Born by the code, die by the code I guess.
Xymog (Mike Toot)
04-27-2002, 12:56 PM
Name: Mike
Location: Seattle, Wa (Ballard neigborhood)
View: Looks towards the south, towards Magnolia and the cut (waterway) between Ballard and Magnolia / Queen Anne. No water view, just houses and trees.
grendel
04-27-2002, 05:08 PM
Lovely Sacramento, CA.
Actually, CITRUS HEIGHTS, where it is neither A)High (in elevation...I am surrounded by stoners and cranklabs...then again, who in CA isn't?), nor B)Overly plagued with fruit-bearing trees.
From my house (house? HAH! Apartment...) to Kronos' (and my) former Corporate Plaza it is 17.9 miles. At 4:00 in the morning (1/2 hour before my shift started), it took me 12 minutes to get there. Sometimes, I almost miss that drive...
From my window one can see a shrubbery, direly in need of trimming, if indeed the blinds were open, which they almost never are. I'm working on my "Goth of Summer" anti-tan.
From my sliding glass door one can see my balcony, or, rather, balconIES, as the roots of the Formosa tree that was cut down last year (the only good thing ABOUT my apartment) have decided to stay near me but a while longer, and have shattered the concrete and are threatening the wood of the balcony itself. This is humor.
From my place to Mile High Comics in Anaheim (let's not lie, folks, it's really in Orange...I mean, what the hell, one side of the block is Orange, the other, Anaheim? Please...put a vacant lot in there or something...) is (if departure is 3:45am) a five and a quarter hour drive, provided the vehicle is capable of both the necessary speeds and the necessary cohesion to make the trip. Also, there are seven turns. Four right, three left, and that includes gasoline stops.
There ya have it.
Django
04-27-2002, 11:26 PM
I know Mile High Comics. They used to be cool.
grendel
04-28-2002, 01:43 AM
Indeed. There has been a descent of late, say...about the last half decade?
There is an increasing derth of cool comics shops. Pants happen.
Kronos
04-28-2002, 12:29 PM
Yet there is a place...
A wondrous place...
On the Road...
The Ridge of Fruit Road...
FRUITRIDGE ROAD!
Take I-5 South, exit Fruitridge, travel East.
It's at the SE corner of Fruitridge and Florin.
And there's a Fish-N-Chips place next door with respectable calamari!
Come grendel...join me for a fabulous adventure!
I get all my kids' Spidey comics there.
August is a GOOD time to hold a Brazilian BBQ.
Thus far, I have heard from kronos and probably grendel that they would be available. Nelson seems likely to join us. I will send a limo for Django, as I always do, just to keep us all honest. The surprise is a certain Indiana Chewer may be out well before then, (I have to ask him first, maybe as soon as next week.) at least if I have my way AND if I allow him to walk up the hill from his poolside, tree encrusted abode and join us. Enough excellent chapters written equals a day of chowing down with the CHUD Westcoast crowd.
If I am away on some secret mission, I would fly in for such a confab. The unveiling of the new Will project may take place then. The last one is now officially finished.
I believe that women CHEWERS should attend, in which case it should become a two day affair. Sky, Diva are you up for it. LA isn't that far from New York. Well, okay, it is, but what the hell.
All others are welcome, even liberals. No poitics are allowed to be discussed. No arguing is permitted. DO YOU HAVE THE BALLS?
Big Black
05-18-2002, 02:52 PM
Only a month or so late!
Pete
Portland, Oregon
View is behind my house on the NE side and filled with other houses built around 1909 like ours, some borded-up windows, some broken-down cars and a gray, overcast day. We have a big backyard though, with tons of plants and vines covering the fences so resistance to the ghetto-look and a slow, crawling jungle transformation are in full effect.
Burke
07-02-2002, 03:58 PM
Bump for fun, bump for joy.
Shill for Chudwest???
I would never pay for anything so crass as shilling!
However, CHUDwest is happening and I may have a little extra cash laying around in the vault room somewhere. Let's see................
Kronos
07-02-2002, 11:19 PM
I have snailmail on it's way to grendel...I'm going to find the bastardo before...
CHUDWEST '02!
Blofeld
07-02-2002, 11:21 PM
Should I continue with those ... um ... "initials" we IMed about last night, kronos?
Kronos
07-02-2002, 11:24 PM
Yeah...as long as it doesn't cost...
Blofeld
07-02-2002, 11:31 PM
It'll cost, but I'll get an estimate... various levels of service, etc.
Kronos
07-02-2002, 11:41 PM
Heh...sounds like a statement from...that other forum...
Blofeld:
It'll cost, but I'll get an estimate... various levels of service, etc.You gonna hire someone to "service" me? Coooool!
Blofeld
07-03-2002, 06:39 AM
Yeah, but I'm afraid that for what we can put together, the servicing won't be all that great. Unless we hire Bug-a-boo
Kronos
07-03-2002, 11:21 AM
Heh...
Blofeld:
Yeah, but I'm afraid that for what we can put together, the servicing won't be all that great. Unless we hire Bug-a-booI'd settle for Halle Berry.
Blofeld
07-03-2002, 10:10 PM
Yep. She's cheaper.
And her breasts AREN'T all dried up.
Kronos
07-08-2002, 12:30 AM
Saw the Die Another Day trailer...aaaaawwwyeeeaahhhhh...
Ripley
07-17-2002, 09:07 PM
Ripley
Aliso Viejo, California (Orange County)
view of the Laguna Mountains on one side and Saddleback Mountain on the other
Ripley:
Ripley
Aliso Viejo, California (Orange County)
view of the Laguna Mountains on one side and Saddleback Mountain on the otherWhich, by the way, it not very far from CHUDWEST '02. Thought I'd just throw that in there.
Blofeld
07-17-2002, 10:00 PM
What is CHUDWEST, Will?
Kronos
07-18-2002, 01:16 AM
CHUDWEST is a state of mind...
CTDeLude
07-18-2002, 04:18 AM
and a fullfillment of living.
Chew on this; Unfortunately, no one can be told what CHUDWEST '02 is. They must experience it for themselves. Whoa! Haven't I seen this post before elsewhere? OMG! Deja Vu! There is a glitch in the Matrix! It means somebody changed something.
Fear not, for Neo, Morphius and Trinity will not be at CHUDWEST, as they are working and will miss out on all the fun. That still leaves Joe Panteleano (sp) doesn't it? He's a fungi. Well, time to go I am starting to pun again.
Oh yeah, and nothing has changed.
37 days 16 hours and 44 minutes until the end of the world, I mean CHUDWEST '02.
Ripley
07-18-2002, 12:57 PM
Chudwest '02 . . . I don't know, it sounds like a partner-swapping party to me . . .which I am not against . . . :p
truly, a bad weekend for me as my kitchen is being remodeled starting that same week . . . maybe the next gathering I'll show my face
CTDeLude
07-18-2002, 01:04 PM
Ripley you own your own home?
That's pretty good. And make sure you get a really good contractor and stay on his @$$.
My girlfriend just got done having her whole house remodeled and the guy was sticking around for some 6 months. Really got her in the hole money wise.
Ripley
07-18-2002, 05:20 PM
That's good advise, thanks! I have been getting quotes from hopefully good contractors. We are replacing our tile counters with granite and buying all new stainless steel appliances. I cannot believe I am about to buy $7,000 in appliances.
Bought a new home 5 years ago, watched it being built. Took 5 years just to do the landscaping, put in a spa, etc. Thank the Goddess the SoCal housing market is off the hook!
Kronos
07-18-2002, 06:06 PM
While houses in the Sacramento/Elk Grove/Laguna/Davis market have doubled and sometimes tripled.
CTDeLude
07-18-2002, 06:50 PM
Trust me Kronos they are super expensive around here too.
Everyone is looking for a house and very few people can find them. Even in the Valley itself.
Kronos
07-18-2002, 07:01 PM
Yet CHUDWEST '02 is coming!
Not a moment too soon...
Blofeld
07-18-2002, 07:20 PM
Ripley! I know a GREAT kitchen and bath contractor that used to work here in Denver and recently relocated to southern California...
His name is Gene Elson. His company name when he was here in Colorado was "Artisan Kitchen and Bath." Good guy. Honest. Hard working. Personally on-site from day one until job is finished.
He re-located to SoCal (which was home) because he got tired of Colorado winters.
You might see if you can find him for a bid, and tell him Matt Hindmarch from Denver recommended.
Ripley. All work and no play! You can't work seven days a week. You and "Mr. Ripley" are cordially invited to be guests in my wife and I's home for CHUDWEST. We are not far and your car is there to take you away if it is frightening or boring. (It will not be boring) We are also remodeling and have been for over a year, so we can share horror stories. Besides, aren't you the least bit curious as to what Blofeld looks like? I know I am.
I also promise the BEST Brazilian barbecue you have ever had and few really nice surprizes. What would it take to intice "Mr. Ripley?"
Kronos
07-19-2002, 11:53 AM
CHUDWEST '02...Not boring, but maybe frightening.
CTDeLude
07-19-2002, 12:29 PM
...yet always satisfying!
Ripley
07-19-2002, 04:36 PM
Will:
. . .what would it take to intice "Mr. Ripley?"Humm, cold beer and something from the herbologists . . .
No promises, I'll think on it.
Ripley
07-19-2002, 04:38 PM
Blofeld:
Ripley! I know a GREAT kitchen and bath contractor that used to work here in Denver and recently relocated to southern California...
Thank you. I actually think I have Artisan on my list for estimates.
Kronos
07-19-2002, 05:39 PM
Ripley:
Will:
. . .what would it take to intice "Mr. Ripley?"Humm, cold beer and something from the herbologists . . .
No promises, I'll think on it.Nothing from the herbologists I can safely say.
Unless of course it's garlic, basil and oregano.
Burke
07-20-2002, 06:38 AM
Ripley:
Will:
. . .what would it take to intice "Mr. Ripley?"Humm, cold beer and something from the herbologists . . .
No promises, I'll think on it.Welcome to the West Coast world Rip.
Mostly married guys in this forum, but I'm sure we can work something out. :D
Ripley:
Will:
. . .what would it take to intice "Mr. Ripley?"Humm, cold beer and something from the herbologists . . .
No promises, I'll think on it.My dog is a retired Drug Dog from the Dea. He eats people who have herbs on them from the herbologist. Sadly, there is nothing I can do to change him. You can't teach a old dog new tricks, you know. Besides he finds those people very easy to catch.
MADMAN
07-26-2002, 01:36 AM
MADMAN
The LBC
The back wall of the garages, or the other apartments across the courtyard. The best view is on the T.V. set or under my g/f's clothes. Nuff said.
Kronos
07-26-2002, 01:43 AM
Another member of Team Django?
Django
07-26-2002, 01:47 AM
An original member of Team Django who will soon take my place fighting the good fight.
You call him Doctor Madman, Doll...
MADMAN
07-26-2002, 01:52 AM
Doctor, huh?
Quick find me a beautiful female chewer! It's time for a little unnecessary surgery. MUHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Django
07-26-2002, 01:54 AM
Doctor Madman, MD.
MEDICAL DEVIATE!
Django
07-26-2002, 01:58 AM
<img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005UQ9H.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" alt="" />
Boss Like Yankovic...
MADMAN
07-26-2002, 02:03 AM
Hey, I ain't talking about flesh removal, just a little internal probing.
Django
07-26-2002, 02:16 AM
[Ow my ass!
MADMAN
07-26-2002, 02:33 AM
Doctor:Me Nurse: Pam Grier
D: Okay the subject is ready for penetration. Nurse: penis.
N: Uh, Doctor your penis is attached. What am I supposed to do?
D: Prep it for surgery.
N: And how do I do that?
D: Put your hand on it and stroke damn it!
N: You could put your own hand on that shit, I didn't sign up for this mother fucker!
D: Dammit, I've lost lubriation!
Django
07-26-2002, 02:46 AM
That Pammy Grier. She's a whole LOTTA woman...
Burke
10-01-2002, 07:58 PM
Bumped for new members (though the thread deteriorates a bit at the end).
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