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OH, HI FOLKS
21:09 Nov 19 2010
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Oh, hi folks. It's your ol' pal Thothythoth.

Look, I've been reading all about the goings-on here in the Vampire Daily Journal-Times. Good stuff, indeed.

*taps newspaper*

Lots of interesting ephemera in here... The Personals, The Horoscopes, The Forum, The Outrageous Outrage, but if you're like me -- and I think that you are -- you especially like the Daily Drama. Am I right?

*wink*

It always gets a little nutty around here before a full moon. D'jever notice that? I sure as heck do.

Everything comes in cycles. Patterns emerge and repeat, like moon phases.

Oh, it's lunacy alright. For real.

Believe you me.

See, maybe it's the Obsessive-Compulsive in me that notices it -- or perhaps it's the madness in me that believes it to be true -- but if you pay attention long enough; you begin to see patterns everywhere.

Rhythm. Repetition. Cycles.

Moods change from good to bad, and back again. Emotions are contagious; they spread and infect others. The circle widens, and collapses. Anger and drama emerge and build momentum -- not unlike storms. They pass... and all is calm again.

Then it repeats.

Predictable. Dependable.

We are, after all, creatures of habit.

Rinse.

Repeat.

Wipe hands on pants.

And if you wait long enough, you'll observe some familiar... er... faces. That's when the fun really begins.

*taps the newspaper again*

Now, I'm not always a passer-by in these things. Sometimes I seek safety in the proverbial high ground of indifference, sometimes not. Sometimes I go along for the ride. Sometimes, dear reader, I'm in the eye of the hurricane.

And I like it.

Think of me as the Weather Service.

I'm the guy who stands out in the rain to tell you it's raining. Again. But you already know this. You don't need me to tell you about the Outrageous Outrage of the Day.

There's a full moon coming soon.

And you know what that means: it's just going to get crazier.

But I'm sure we'll be reading about it real soon. All in due time. So, just relax. Take a breath.

Take it away, little furry mammal dude....

COMMENTS

PAGAN
21:13 Nov 19 2010

LOL!

xRobin3x
21:15 Nov 19 2010

LOL i was so waiting for someone to come out with something like this, if not i was about to lol

imagesinwords
21:15 Nov 19 2010

I think you're my favorite Vampire Rave member. Yep, pretty sure of it.

DoctorBloodyPad
21:16 Nov 19 2010

LMFAO! Nice newspaper!

Morrigon
21:22 Nov 19 2010

*dies*

Nedra
21:27 Nov 19 2010

See now I have to go find out what is going on......

sahahria
21:39 Nov 19 2010

I keep telling you to dump your gf for me.... damnit why don't you listen?!

ThothLestat
21:42 Nov 19 2010

Here's the thing:

I can be all objective and politically correct -- but only for so long. I'm running a little low on patience lately. I don't pretend to be all holier-than-thou, especially not when it comes to people's appearance. Something about this latest drama storm is unsettling, yet familiar.

I'm being very careful about who I attack and who I defend. At least, until all the facts are in. There are clues, and there are patterns. I see them.

But you'll read all about it in Detective Thothythoth's Cavalcade o' Justice.

xRobin3x
21:46 Nov 19 2010

Perfect words in times like this. :)

Electra
21:54 Nov 19 2010

Genius as always ;)

sahahria
22:39 Nov 19 2010

I'm hurt :'(

KattrinaK
23:57 Nov 19 2010

It's like...you took a Page outta my mind.

i heart joo!

KattrinaK
23:58 Nov 19 2010

Okay so...M n' S....are ya'll "sexy-ing it up" for the Site's Theme that seems to be going on right now?

Bellanova333
00:51 Nov 20 2010

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh I loved this (:

it's true though I have noticed the patterns...... the cycles...... and the voices.......... hmmmm you didn't saaaaay voices did you ok scratch that one ( :

ThothLestat
04:38 Nov 20 2010

You hear them, too?

*shifty eyes*

Bellanova333
06:05 Nov 20 2010

the voices told me to do it.... shhhhhhhhhh

Enanti
10:11 Nov 20 2010

... I love your journal.

Really, I do. ♥

Joli
10:11 Nov 20 2010

"IT'S RAINING SIDEWAYS!"

Thanks, Ollie.

Bellanova333
17:49 Nov 21 2010

peeks at your newspaper and looks up horrorscope

yep there it is right there o.O

Bellanova333
03:35 Nov 22 2010

*snatches newspaper from you and takes cover from the shit storm...

ThothLestat
04:40 Nov 22 2010

*nods*

yep, full moon.

Just as I predicted.

*reads the comics*

dabbler
19:14 Nov 24 2010

I'll sic Dogmas on anyone that twitches a Moral Fiber!

DestroyingAngel
08:29 Nov 26 2010

*slaps knee*

LOL!

deathnitegrl
20:04 Nov 29 2010

*waits for the fullmoon*

oh lunatics!

come out, come out, wherever you are!

TALKING WITH STRANGERS, part 39
16:56 Nov 17 2010
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Talking With Strangers, part 39...

Ya know, I'm not opposed to small-talk. I have a friend who absolutely detests it. Loathes it, really. He hates making idle chat with the woman who scans his items at the grocery store. He hates when strangers say "Cold enough for ya? har har har.". He hates those tiny conversations that people have when an uncomfortable closeness combines with intolerable silence; like, say, in an elevator. Or in a waiting room.

He says these conversations are unnatural; that taking part in them makes him feel like he's acting in some horrible low-budget movie. Pretending to be normal, he calls it.

Not me, dear reader.

See, I know that the concept of 'normal' is an illusion. Why pretend anything? These little conversations are short-lived anyway. Why not have a little fun with strangers. Go crazy. I mean, it's not like you know these people, and you probably won't see them again.

Take, for example, this brief exchange:

Setting: an elevator, the doors open. People enter. Doors close.

stranger: Cold enough for ya today? Har har har.

Thothy: Careful, I'm part polar bear.

stranger: uh...

Thothy:: RAAAAARRRRR (hands become claws)

stranger: uh...

elevator: Ding!

Thothy: Oh, this is my floor. Take care.

stranger: okay, have a good... day.

ThothLestat exits the elevator, and as the doors close....

Thothy: Seriously... POLAR BEAR!! RRAAAAAR

Before you try to analyze any of that, know this: I have no idea what any of that was supposed to mean.

And it doesn't matter.

But I bet that guy stops saying "Cold enough for ya" to everyone he meets.

Look, people, I'm just trying to improve the world without killing anyone.

COMMENTS

Morrigon
17:04 Nov 17 2010

Working for my dad, I would be up on a 15+ foot ladder most days and whenever we were somewhere public some idiot would have to walk up, stand there for a minute and then yell up to me. "Pretty high up, huh?"

*sigh*

ThothLestat
17:08 Nov 17 2010

You should have spat upon them.

Morrigon
17:48 Nov 17 2010

I have considered it.

birra
17:52 Nov 17 2010

I say she should have dropped her paint bucket on them.

You should experience Morri and I shopping for groceries... 50% of the cashiers probably think we're crazy, the other 50% have a good laugh with us.

I figure we're entertaining enough for them to deal with the few moments we are around.

RedQueen
21:35 Nov 17 2010

I for one am awful about making weird, off the cuff comments in places like the checkout line. But you know what? Here in Canada once people hear my accent, I could rattle off my grocery list, and they think it sounds so cute...lol

Add in my delightfully warped sense of humor, and well, there ya go....

Also, wearing the 'ol VR t-shirt defnitely slows people down...*chcukling evilly*

QUICKSAND
14:10 Nov 04 2010
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I am soooo unmotivated today.

And I have a ton of stuff to do.

While checking on CNN headlines this morning, I noticed a link to this: Top 10 most inappropriate places to flirt:

1. hospital waiting room

2. the gym

3. a funeral

4. job interview

5. underwear section of a department store

6. waiting in line for the rest room

7. therapy appointment

8. parent-teacher conference

9. on a date with someone else

10. at work

Not that I'm looking to flirt with anyone, but I'd say this list stands as a challenge for all of us to step up our game. Incidentally, I noticed another headline that announced the results of a study that found that women in Spain were the most flirtatious of any country in the world.

Go Spain!

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna stop by the funeral home on my way to the gym. In Spain.

COMMENTS

TheRat
16:12 Nov 04 2010

Wonder why not #8? Hmmm..

ThothLestat
20:54 Nov 04 2010

I think because it can turn the student into a message-transfer device and/or impact the objectivity of the grading process. Or something.

I think we should contribute a few more, like:

11. at the scene of an accident

12. in jail

13. at the bank

etc.

RedQueen
21:23 Nov 04 2010

And just so the southern contigent can weigh in:

A family reunion.

philosopher
00:04 Nov 05 2010

Some people might take issue with no. 12.

Meet Fleece Johnson...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9WClv4U5B8

Drakontion
00:46 Nov 05 2010

Some of those top 10 places seem to be fairly logical places to flirt, IMHO. I mean, the gym? Come on... it's where you go to look good for flirting! And you're already all hot and sweaty, right? And at work... pffft. Who's not gently flirted with a customer??? Or a co-worker? Eh.

untrusting
02:15 Nov 05 2010

what it's not ok to hit on the grieving husband or wife? I don't do that...... no I am NOT at a funeral right now!

dabbler
18:23 Nov 05 2010

Why haven't they made a movie, "Funeral Crashers"?

dabbler
18:24 Nov 05 2010

I think "Hospital waiting room" is a misnomer, I think "Free Clinic" is obvious!

CANDY AND COCKTAILS
04:19 Nov 01 2010
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After all the children rang on doorbells and we handed out candy, the lovely Ms Thothythoth and I spent some time with the neighbors. We had cocktails, laughed at each others' costumes, and recounted our interactions with our visitors. Times like these are all too short & infrequent; they're over before you know it. By 10pm, we were saying our good-nights and extinguishing the jack-o-lanterns.

I lost count of all the little trick-or-treaters tonight. Dozens and dozens of them, I suppose. I went through 9 bags of candy, and still have 2 bags left; Snickers and Baby Ruths.

These just happen to be my favorites. But they don't go very well with cocktails.

*sip*

I'm not going to let that stop me though.

*munch munch munch*

Hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween.

Incidentally, it's worth mentioning that -- based on my 4 hours experience today -- capes are difficult to live with. I'd like to think that Dracula had as much trouble as I did; stepping on it, shutting doors on it, catching it on corners and almost igniting it when I stepped near an open flame. And you sure as hell can't run with a cape. It kept me warm though, so it wasn't entirely useless.

We're watching The Walking Dead on AMC right now -- it kicks ass. I especially like the little realistic touches; flies buzzing around corpses, overgrown yards, complete silence... And more importantly; the revelation that the last place you'd want to be during the zombie apocalypse is in a major city. Especially Atlanta.

I mean, duh.

It's no good even when there AREN'T legions of the undead. Trust me.

COMMENTS

RedQueen
04:28 Nov 01 2010

That's because we talk so slow to start with, it's hard to tell if we're dead or what...lol

By the time we actually get out braaaaaaiiiiiinnnnnsssss, we're right in front of you...lol

KattrinaK
05:48 Nov 01 2010

yeah, that was a real kickarse Show tonight.

i'm a real fan of the Zombie Genre and really appreciated the small "touches" from the deputy's scraggly beard growth to flies and overgrown yards also, like you.

i hate when Horror Movies expect you to "suspend belief" too heavily...like, perfect looking Houses etc...it's just insulting to the general intelligence of the viewer, no?

i think it'll be a splendid Series.

birra
13:04 Nov 01 2010

Morri and I watched that last night too. We were both thinking and saying the same thing.

Once he saw the city was essentially dead, why didn't he just turn around and head back?

But then again, he wasn't smart enough to secure his perrimeter before turning his back on the crashed car to tell his partner to not mention him getting shot in the vest to his wife...

untrusting
01:32 Nov 02 2010

hey I was watching that show as well! I loved it lol

DestroyingAngel
09:11 Nov 04 2010

Dude, just pass me the candy that got left behind. Mmmmm, snickers.

I was surprised the walking dead was so damn good. I was hoping it wouldnt suck and it delivered! Sweet! Yup, im hooked too. I loved the final scene with the tank rofl. That was a great way to wrap that one up :P

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