No, I haven’t gone all Keith Richards on you. I’m just letting you know that we’re getting some new blood around here. Well, sort of new blood. Actually, we sort of share the same blood. But not in a mosquito-like way or anything. You know, I may ditch this whole “blood” metaphor, come to think of it…
What I’m saying is, ladies and gentlemen, a new and vastly talented contributor has been added to Fanatical Apathy. She will be here soon. Damen und herren, I give you… Susie Felber.
Well, soon, in any case. Very soon! Let’s give her a warm Fanatical Apathy welcome. And by that I mean “say hi, enjoy her posts, and then go back to talking about whatever you were going to say in the first place.” It’s how we roll around here…
Fanny Roborat
43 comments
Landis
August 20, 2007 at 10:51 am
1Which reminds me…. When I saw Adam in Berkeley a while back I mentioned that I was thinking about cutting my hair a little shorter (I’d been hippy-length pony tail for almost a decade). He told me that I should consider going all the way while I could still grow some of it back. I recently took him up on that suggestion.
Oh, and welcome Susie! I very much enjoyed your take on McDonald’s. I’m certainly looking forward to your contributions here.
It's Pat!
August 20, 2007 at 10:52 am
2Hi Susie! Welcome!
I have a sister named Susie as well. Well, she goes by Sue these days, but I still call her Susie. I think it’s nice to have a sister named Susie. But I bet you are younger than Adam, because if you were older, he would still have psychological issues from getting beat up and treated terribly, as I was by my sister Susie. Then he probably not have you contribute. So I’m guessing this just might be your chance to really put the goods to our friend. Doesn’t matter, we just all talk about whatever we feel like anyway.
Anyone need some water? We got pa-lenty (inside joke) here in Minne-so-flood-ta.
piglet
August 20, 2007 at 11:20 am
3Yay, Susie! I enjoyed your recent “Best Of” video. I’ll be the one in the corner getting speechlessly huffy over the latest neo-con antics, but popping up every now and then to admire a funny word.
Jim (OJNTNJ)
August 20, 2007 at 11:43 am
4Yes indeed, welcome Susie!
Oooh looky-there…a yellow throated goswarbler!
Its Pat! My stepmother, an absolutely lovely woman, is named Sue, but goes by Ralph.
dee
August 20, 2007 at 11:46 am
5Welcome, Susie! Does this mean we get Hugo pictures here?
Oh and Landis — DUUUUUUUUUUUUDE! Good thing I have this fan going at my desk or I’d faint dead away of the vapors from your new look.
It's another Pat
August 20, 2007 at 12:24 pm
6It’s Pat
Down here in Wisconsin we’ve got all the water we need, thank you very much. Nice of you to offer, but please don’t bother.
SeattleDan
August 20, 2007 at 1:15 pm
7Welcome, Susie. Me, too, me, too! I have a sister Susie. I think we need to form a club.
Wow, Landis, you are one brave man. Are you going to donate your hair to the children’s cancer charity? They’re always looking for long hair for the chemo patients.
Rebecca
August 20, 2007 at 1:23 pm
8Welcome, Susie!!
(It’s Pat,
Hate to say it, but the “pa-lenty” quip just made me stifle giggles while at work.)
Landis
August 20, 2007 at 2:31 pm
9I have a younger sister and a younger brother. They are 7 and 6 years younger than me, respectively, and let me tell you that two younger siblings can certainly gang up on an older one. They tortured me to no end and my mother always caught me and gave me the “you’re older and should know better” line. Arrggh!
Dan, the rat (as Kat called it) is on its way to Locks of Love via the USPS. It was 16 inches at the longest and just over 10 at the shortest. Dee: thanks, I think.
I’m still working on the tan. I had long hair mostly because it was low maintenance. I was hoping this would be the same, but since I now have to shave every two days - not so much.
nato
August 20, 2007 at 3:29 pm
10I, too, have a sister Susie. Oh wait, that was just a snack cake, not a sibling. Damn. Anyway, welcome Felber II. In addition to posting your own stuff, maybe you can get those slackers Sienna, Chris and Mo to put out a bit more. Um, posts . . . yeah. Okay, I’m going back to my corner and silently watching your Google Video some more.
hedera
August 20, 2007 at 3:54 pm
11Well, I have a sister named Susan, but believe me, no one has ever, in their wildest dreams, called her “Susie”… however that should qualify me for the club, if there is one, unless the nickname is an actual requirement.
Susie, we’ll look forward to your posts, now that Adam has an actual Paying Job. (The Spike Feresten gig just seemed unreal…)
Landis, that was as weird a video as I’ve ever watched. I liked the way you vanished from time to time; were you teleporting somewhere? Fortunately you have a well-shaped head and can probably get away with this as long as you’re willing to put up with shaving every second day. I can’t imagine why you’d want to.
As for long hair versus short hair (and I’ve had both): the lowest maintenance hair is between 2 and 3 inches long, layered to lie around your head when you run your fingers through it. (Or Kat does, of course.) I get it cut every 5 weeks, and when I wash it, I comb it straight back and let it fall. That’s as much attention as I pay to it. You do have to have a good hairdresser do the cut.
Jason
August 20, 2007 at 4:06 pm
12Welcome, Susie
Linkmeister
August 20, 2007 at 5:44 pm
13Cutting your own hair at least eliminates moments of despondency created when the barber shop cashier asks (as she has the last two times I’ve gotten a trim) “Are you 65?”
Today I said “I like getting discounts, but not by adding nearly 10 years to my actual age.”
cooper
August 20, 2007 at 5:53 pm
14Landis, don’t go outside without a hat, pal! I do like the new look, mainly because I at least have hair on the sides and back of my head. One of my buddies in college shaved off the right half of his full beard and the left side was not touched and went around campus like that the next day, making an effort to present both of his profiles to people as he talked with them, but not straight on, if he could help it. Some noticed, some didn’t (I didn’t); an interesting social experiment.
Hi, Susie! My wife is named Susie, my son is Adam and my lovely daughter is Edith. Okay, that last one is a lie. But 2 out of three is unusual enough. Welcome, welcome. I’ve enjoyed your Felber’s Frolics blog.
So…….SOOO!……get writing already! Jeez.
don
August 20, 2007 at 6:13 pm
15I remember Susie occasionally prowling around with us in the dim catacombs of the Fanatical Apathy Forum. (Didn’t she look a bit like Eleanor Roosevelt back then?)
It’ll be nice having her as a participant once again!
Frolic on over, Susie!
David
August 20, 2007 at 8:04 pm
16A bestest friend’s mother is named Susie. Her parents named her Martha Susan. It is best not to mention the Martha, and if one wants to die a sudden but horrible death, call her MarSue. Ah, names.
I became a Susie Felber fan when she posted that picture of the swashbuckling Adam. I have two sisters. Sisters are the coolest. I have one brother. Brothers are a pain in the ass.
SeattleDan
August 20, 2007 at 8:42 pm
17Landis, I couldn’t come up with the name of Locks of Love, and was too busy to do the googles. Good on you. i did, too, years ago. Since then, SeattleTammy has cut my hair once or twice a year, but no strands long enough to send. It was one of those things I did that I felt great and proud about. Your video was so horrifying that we linked you on our sidebar for the new blog…Tammy tried to put everyone here there. Please holler if we missed you. Click on my name. And then pull my finger.
Ann
August 20, 2007 at 9:07 pm
18I’ve been gone for more than two weeks. I just dropped by tonight to catch up, and I see that I haven’t been missed at all. Sniff. I guess life, and Fanatical Apathy, does indeed go on without me! But I’ve missed you guys anyway. I’m glad to be back.
spotteddog
August 20, 2007 at 9:10 pm
19Hi Susie, Looking forward to your posts.
Love the video Landis, very simple and fun with great music. I admitted to myself that I’m going bald about 6 months ago and started getting a buzzcut every three weeks. It’s simple, easy and clean and goes well with the militaristic tenor of our times. (If Ron Paul gets elected I guess I’ll grow it long again.)
Dale
August 20, 2007 at 9:13 pm
20Ann, I totally missed you and was getting worried, but decided that Harold had probably whisked you away to an island paradise and it wasn´t my place, as your ex non-ex, to butt in. Glad to hear you´re okay–is Harold?
SeattleTammy
August 20, 2007 at 9:37 pm
21Welcome back Ann! (I sent you a secret e-mail, don’t tell anyone!)
Landis, I just wanted to say you are lucky your woman still loves you! SeattleDan once went into the bathroom and shaved off his moustache because the 6 day old SeattleTony squirmed when he kissed the baby. I damn neart threw him out that night! I couldn’t even get him to glue it back on. Dan learned his lesson and has never tried that again!
Lamar
August 21, 2007 at 3:21 am
22Susie, yo blood!
Murray
August 21, 2007 at 9:25 am
23No body misses me either Ann. (sniff)
Welcome Susie, I no longer have to go to two blogs and now I have a chance to reply to your post on site.
I hope you are still enjoying the bikes. Time to get a bugger to haul Hugo in.
Harold
August 21, 2007 at 2:19 pm
24Yes, Ann, very mysterious and coincidental that we were both absent for the last two weeks!
Murray, as the one-year anniversary of Felberpalooza 2006 rolls around, I’m really missing you and everyone else. And I can totally relate to John Edwards when he said of his recent bike-riding adventure, “The biggest problem is my butt hurts. Is that normal?”
Landis, congratulations on taking the plunge! Some advice from one who’s been there:
1. Enjoy the shiny stage while it lasts, which will be about a week or so.
2. Rubbing your fingers over your bare scalp is one of the best ways to communicate the message “I’m thinking about it.”
3. VERY IMPORTANT: After the first few days, be VERY CAREFUL when rubbing a towel over your head after a shower. The micro-stubble can cause the towel to have an ENORMOUS coefficient of friction with your head. You probably won’t snap your neck, but you might strain it.
Welcome, Susie! I’ll be the one stopping by occasionally to make not-so-clever comments and to say things like “Did you hear that Mars will be the size of the Full Moon on the night of August 27th, so it will look like there are two moons in the sky? Well, it won’t. But there WILL be a total Lunar eclips in the pre-dawn hours of the 28th! Check out my blog for more details!”
margaret
August 21, 2007 at 3:23 pm
25Yay, Susie!
There’s no bigger Susie fan than me. Except maybe her husband. And her son. And her mom. And her two brothers. And her doggie Stan.
Yay!
David
August 21, 2007 at 7:21 pm
26Ann ‘n Murray, I noticed both of you were absent. While we’re at it, where’s siobhan?
Boomer
August 22, 2007 at 3:29 pm
27Since gillian seems to be on vacation, I’ll humbly step in with this entry.
By the way, have there been any strokes in Cheney’s past? I think that might explain his penchant for talking out of the side of his mouth.
gillian
August 22, 2007 at 4:17 pm
28As long as I’m in the by-line, we have no problems, Boomer.
Besides, this little vacation has taken me away my normal obsessions and focused me on sussing out the fake cripples from the real McCoys here at the Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre Cathedral. What a racket these priests are running up here. Jesus! And how stupid, gullible, and superstitious is the average world citizen with enough money to make this pilgrimage? “Pretty damned…”, I’d say.
So far, I’m up $125.00 (US) on Heather. I have a cheat, but it will have to remain my secret. Far and way, the majority of the “handicapped” are ringers from the Vatican. I can usually tell who’s what by the gait of the impostor and by how sore his or her armpits seem to be. This gambling is just for fun anyway. Whatever either of us wins is spent on dinner that night in a fine restaurant.
We’re having a grand time here. August in Canada is easier to take than summers in the Low Country, believe you me. Adieu!
LeRoy
August 22, 2007 at 10:22 pm
29…NEPOTISM!
Zee Man
August 23, 2007 at 3:28 am
30Last night we had a thunder storm roll through that doubled our rainfall for the month of August (.02″) and quadrupled our lightning strikes. Could someone please direct the remnants of a tropical storm our way?
cooper
August 23, 2007 at 5:19 am
31File this away under “Big Yipping Surprise”…
A local firebrand Southern Baptist preacher who has publicly shaken his sanctimonious fist at every and all perceived perversion of human morals for 4 decades - homosexuality, coveting your neighbors wife, beastiality (yeah, like there’s a lot of that going on here), drinking. smoking dope (but not tobacco), gambling, and co-ed dancing - whatever gets him time on the TV news or in the headlines, yesterday pled guilty to six counts of soliciting for prostitution. Pardon my gleeful amusement.
RandomAthlete
August 23, 2007 at 10:14 am
32Sorry, I just spent a couple of weeks near the Iowa/Minnesota border, and the day I left they had 12 inches of rain. Seattle looks so sunny and dry!
It's Pat!
August 23, 2007 at 12:40 pm
33Hey, we are still talking about the weather (and it’s still raining here in Minne-so-gurgle-ta)! C’mon Susie, post!
RandomAthlete
August 23, 2007 at 12:49 pm
34I agree, IP. “New poster” apparently equals “no posting at all.”
Ann
August 23, 2007 at 12:50 pm
35Who the hell changed my screen name? The Random Athlete is an imposter. An imposter, I tell you!
waterfowler
August 23, 2007 at 3:57 pm
36Please say something Susie, these old folks are getting rather boring. OK, if you insist… What do y’all think of your Dem. candidates and which do you support?
Zee Man
August 23, 2007 at 4:57 pm
37Maybe you’d like to see Adam’s new employer taking on the Falafel Man himself. Enjoy - http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/08/23/bill-maher-on-the-factor-i-wa nt-to-see-the-crossdresser-and-the-mormon-run-together/
Reverend Billy
August 23, 2007 at 5:03 pm
38New Blood? What was wrong with the old blood of Jesus Christ Our Savior shed for our redemption?
Kjell Mikkelsen
August 23, 2007 at 5:18 pm
39Susie, since you’re a friend of my good friend, It’s Pat!!, I wish to administer to you an opportunity. So draw up us an affair. Soon would be good enough.
piglet
August 23, 2007 at 7:10 pm
40Finally! [in best Marilyn voice:]
Foreign policy explained so as the likes of I may understand!
Sister Susie
August 24, 2007 at 7:41 am
41Thank you all for the warm welcome. I am ready for my Fan Ap close up!
Soon.
All your questions will be answered! All your blogging sibling of Adam dreams fullfilled! Yes, even the creepy ones!
The silence you hear is me writing for and being in charge of a bigtime entertainment blog and other assorted big corporate thingys (known as BCT’s in the biz) this week and into next. As my excellent editor boss-type guy is on vacation, please feel free to visit and point out the shocking typos I’ve surely littered the joint with.
Besides, Regan reappeared, so huzzah and all that!
xoxo to y’all,
Susie
Ann
August 24, 2007 at 9:48 am
42Wow, Piglet. Great Marilyn impression!
cooper
August 24, 2007 at 3:27 pm
43Okay, Fanny’s been gnawing on my post for several days now, so I don’t guess it will ever see the light of day. For future reference, do not use the words beasti*lity, homosexu*ls, g*y marriage, dr~g use, g*mbling, r*mp*nt fornic*tion, cavorting with prostit~tes, or horse on hum*n ple*sure when referring to the downfall of an outspokenly sanctimonious community moral leader. After denying for weeks his fall from Grace, this Southern Baptist preacher recently copped a plea to six counts of aiding and abetting prostit~tion. This minister has been a regional pain in the *ss for 4 decades, elbowing his way in front of any TV camera in order to condemn to Hell the violator of any one of the several dozens of sins that offended him. This is a fitting end to his career.