tmidgett wrote:Guys:

hi tim,

I'm really slim and don't need to loose any weight, maybe gain some. Anyhow, people always tell me that in ten years I'll start getting fat. I think that they're just being jealous that I'm slim and they're not. I've never been a chubby one or anything. Always slim.

Am I going to get fat in ten years? I'm eating whatever I want to and I believe I have good genes. My dad has a little bit of a belly, my mom is kinda thin(not skin and bones thin), they're both around 60.
My eldest brother isn't fat, but he got a little bit chubby in the last few years, when he was my age, he looked just like me. Maybe he gained some weight because he stopped smoking? I've heard it happens when you stop smoking.
My other two brothers are muscular, so they're not fat, but they exercise a little.

What do you think? I think it's just people being pricks. I know some people who are really thin and in their 40's. One of them is a woman who's been through 3 births.

What do you think? You don't have to answer that, because I don't really mind if I'm going to be fat or not.

thanks!
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Don't bullshit yourself--of course you mind if you are going to be fat.

Yeah, you'll get fat in ten years if you eat whatever you want, assuming you want to eat garbage like most of the rest of us do. And assuming you don't offset it with weightlifting or yoga or some kind of vigorous muscle-toning exercise.

If you don't get fat-fat, you'll get skinny-fat, which just means you'll be like ropes of dough instead of balls of dough.

It happens. You get to pull back a few times, but the farther you go, the harder it is to get back.

It's not the worst thing in the world. I know a lot of great fat people, and I have never once thought of any of them, "It's too bad (s)he is fat."

Honestly, I don't mind getting fat. I don't mind if others are fat and I really don't mind myself being fat. It's just that my weight is pretty much static, there were times when I tried to gain weight and it just never happened.

It depends what you consider shit food. I don't eat lots of cheese for example, don't eat lots of chocolate. Actually, I hardly eat cheese and chocolate. I don't drink alcohol as well. I don't eat meat, though I don't think that's necessarily a healthy thing. I mostly eat pasta, noodles and veggie schnitzels.

anyhow fuck it. fat, you're welcome.

Veggie schnitzels are my favorite.

dear tim, traded the egc for a p-bass.
sold the ts50b. thinking about a gk800rb instead.
selling the sunn 4x12 and 2x15 and thinking about a modded avatar 4x10 and 2x12.


thoughts?

Folx,

Hi, Tim.

I would pm/email you, but this thread is too great. A humble Oz regarding the mundane.

So kind of you, to complement all participants in this way.

The tables are $1250 for the pair. I don't know the dealer or anything, just liked them. Little Italian/Nakashima intersection, good proportions.

That's not so bad. I like them a lot.

I cannot afford them.

Me either, right now.

Thanks for asking Andy about the jacket. I have made two other casual inquiries to people who ride and/or talk moto with him and they, surprisingly, did not know the maker. Innnteresting.

I don't know why that jagoff hasn't gotten back to me.

I just asked him again.

Anyway, what are your thoughts on owning a lot of books? I am starting to think it is ridiculous.

I think so, too. I do.

I'm starting to think owning a lot of records is pretty ridiculous also, although they have more intrinsic value than, like, a bunch of old cyberpunk paperbacks.

I am getting rid of maybe 300 records, and I would get rid of a SHITLOAD of books if I knew what to do with them.

Y'all, what should I do with my books?

Thanks.

I am not Tim Midgett, but I recently have become resigned to mostly only keeping hardcovers of favorites, that continue to inform. I reduced my book volume by 45%, and have even re-purchased favorites in hardcover. I am 82% paperback-free. I'm sure Tim has additional thoughts.

I, Tim Midgett, agree with Mr. Chimp.

Hardcovers are definitely worth retaining, and the odd rare paperback.

But everything else, fuck it. You can buy it again.

I just bought Finnegans Wake again. I'm on page 8, and I have been on page 8 for three weeks.

Dear Tim Midgett,

Is it better to use many things for different things, or one thing for everything?

Thanks! Please provide examples.

I used to work as an 'elf' (salesperson) in this goofy toy store in Seattle, which was owned by these super-weird people. They were...hmmm. Indescribably odd. But let's try.

The guy had little wire-rim glasses and a fussy little goatee and a David Gedge haircut. Beady little eyes. Pursed his lips all the time. The woman wore long skirts, had one of those high patrician foreheads, and seemed just brutally undersexed. You know, some people ooze not-getting-laid-enough. She also wore Hello Kitty makeup.

Anyway, they were so fucking anal-retentive about their goddamned toy store. They would write the date they installed light bulbs on the base of the light bulb in marker, and if it did not last a satisfactory length of time, they would send it back to the manufacturer.

You know who they were like? The Dentons on The League of Gentlemen. You should go watch The League of Gentlemen to see what I mean.

Anyway, the guy was all like 'the right tool for every job.' If he saw you picking a sticker off a toy return with your fingers, he'd hurry to the special razor-blade drawer and get the special razor blade that was just dull enough to lift the sticker w/o tearing the plastic on the package. That kind of thing.

So I'm tempted to say 'who cares, use whatever works.' But the truth is you need the right tool to do most things properly, so I guess the freaky toy-store guy was at least partly right after all.

Plus, I didn't tell you before, when we dropped off the van, you have a very cool house.

Just thought you'd like to know.

My house does indeed slay. Thank you for saying so.

Honestly, I don't mind getting fat. I don't mind if others are fat and I really don't mind myself being fat. It's just that my weight is pretty much static, there were times when I tried to gain weight and it just never happened.

It depends what you consider shit food. I don't eat lots of cheese for example, don't eat lots of chocolate. Actually, I hardly eat cheese and chocolate. I don't drink alcohol as well. I don't eat meat, though I don't think that's necessarily a healthy thing. I mostly eat pasta, noodles and veggie schnitzels.

anyhow fuck it. fat, you're welcome.

Evidence seems to suggest strongly that dietary fat doesn't make you fat.

Starch, that shit makes you fuckin' hungry, man. It's a killer.

Anyway, if you don't care, you should just keep packing it in. Someday, you'll get all huge and you won't care.

Happy fat people look a LOT different that fat people who hate themselves. It has to do with the consistency of the fat. Happy fat people have evenly distributed, supple fat. Fat people who hate themselves kinda blow up like sausages. Binge eating, I guess.

dear tim, traded the egc for a p-bass.
sold the ts50b. thinking about a gk800rb instead.
selling the sunn 4x12 and 2x15 and thinking about a modded avatar 4x10 and 2x12.

thoughts?

Hey, sure, why not?

I'm not a big GK fan, but they're serviceable. They don't break very much.

I would mate a P-bass w/15" speakers myself, but you know, whatever. I've heard good bass players make all kinds of stuff sound good.

tmidgett wrote:You know who they were like? The Dentons on The League of Gentlemen. You should go watch The League of Gentlemen to see what I mean.

I work with a guy who is like the Dentons.

I can empathize with your elf-ly self.

tmidgett wrote:Y'all, what should I do with my books?

Ever try taking books here?
I know nothing about selling books, but that was the only bookstore I went into in Chicago that wasn't downtown.

tmidgett wrote:Y'all, what should I do with my books?

Donate them to a public library. Library people like this. Or at least, they used to.

tmidgett, you seem to know an awfully damn lot about an incredible variety of topics. I mean, you are a bit older than me, but damn.

So tell me, what do you not know a thing about? As far as I can tell, the list is short: Bergman films and cheese.

(Although I suspect when you say "I don't know shit about cheese," what you really mean is your knowledge of cheese is only slightly above average.)

tmidgett wrote: this goofy toy store in Seattle

Had to be Archie McPhee.

Beth, here is the info on Andy's jacket:

It’s a Cycleport. Their website sux, but here it is: www.motoport.com The green one is the Kevlar mesh. The mesh flows a lot of air, so it is premium for hot weather, but too cold in cold weather – I also bought the liner for it which helps in cold weather, but then the thing gets pretty bulky, so a leather jac is maybe better for cold. The pants are really awesome too, they are the Kevlar weave stuff.

The website does indeed suck.

Ever try taking books here?
I know nothing about selling books, but that was the only bookstore I went into in Chicago that wasn't downtown.

No.

I will try this. Thanks.

Donate them to a public library. Library people like this. Or at least, they used to.

Good idea.

tmidgett, you seem to know an awfully damn lot about an incredible variety of topics. I mean, you are a bit older than me, but damn.

I know a little about a lot of things.

There's almost nothing of which I have an exhaustive knowledge.

I'm a little jealous of people like Steve who have an exhaustive knowledge of something.

Although...perhaps you can have a conventional mastery of something and not consider it such. 'The more you know, the less you realize you know' kind of thing.

So tell me, what do you not know a thing about? As far as I can tell, the list is short: Bergman films and cheese.

(Although I suspect when you say "I don't know shit about cheese," what you really mean is your knowledge of cheese is only slightly above average.)

No, I really don't know anything much about cheese. I know a handful of cheeses by taste.

Parmesan, Swiss, uh, mozzerella, uh, American, uh, Velveeta, uh...whiz...uh...what's that stuff...sharper Italian cheese...common....pecorino.

See, right there, I had to Google 'italian cheeses' to get that.

So I don't know anything of use about cheese.

If I start listing things I don't know about, I will be here all day.

But I don't know about flowers. Terrible. No memory for foliage.

tmidgett wrote:
this goofy toy store in Seattle

Had to be Archie McPhee.

No, it was downtown. I would name it, but they probably Google themselves a lot. And the last thing I need is a PM from them.

Hey T-Money,

I'm writing a record review and I am looking for a specific term to describe the sound one would hear when listening to AM Radio. I'm not sure if I am articulating that properly though, it's the sound of high treble and little to no bass. My first inclination is to say high end but I'm not sure if I am even close. A little help here. Thanks for your advice.

Yours Truly,

Sleepless in Madison