The Chase Lounge

Happy New Year, Everyone!

I used to say I didn't like opera but I've been watching this all night.

Beer's on Paul A. Folks, I can't come by the Lounge this evening... Sorry, but "duty to family" calls... Have a virtual brew on me... (D4, just put it all on my tab tonight). ENJOY!!! Posted by: Paul A. | December 28, 2007 3:07 PM

What do you get when you put a lawyer, a roadrunner, a magpie, and a mockingbird together in a bar, discussing illegal immigration? Answer: One hell of a good time.

Sorry I missed everyone on Christmas Eve. Silly me. When SIL invited us over for dinner, I thought she meant eating: Not cooking.

Merry Christmas to all.

If you weren't here last night, alexakim and LabRat explained the "Woman's Manual". Of course, being a guy, I didn't understand a word.

I try to mind the bar between 7 and 10 pm Central. If you're just dropping by, leave a comment. If you met up with someone in the lounge, leave a comment. If your beer is flat, leave a comment. Stale popcorn? Hey, I swear I popped it sometime this week.

ED: The origin of The Chase Lounge: From comments on E!3 Under another name, I had run a small blog for short while several years ago. Even got a few links via Frank in my hayday. (thanks!) Anyway, I laughed at the death-threats until I got a nasty letter in my mailbox. Not a virtual mailbox, but my HOME mailbox - with no postage on it, no return address. The State Police were polite and considerate, but there really wasn't a whole lot they could do. Anyway, that's when I killed my short lived blog (RIP). My point is I fully understand the need to feel annonymous - but at the same time, these Comments are nothing but that, until you have some real skin in the game. And this has nothing to do with revealing your real name (I lost all feeling of safety, and almost my sanity-all without ever even giving out my Christian name). What we all seem to have in common, besides a devotion to E!3, is a need to do SOMETHING. To carry these beliefs into one's real life, outside the safty

We had quite a little crowd in the Lounge last night. It started out with Paul A. checking in from his super-secret China location and we were joined by Mark Paules, Otto, alexakim, and Unquiet. As well as Don and qwer dropping by from E!3. If this keeps up I might have to hire a bar maid/serving wench. Much talk about the chice of prea in Tina. More specifically, can a free market economy grow in the culture of corruption that is emerging China? Unquiet drew a brilliant analogy between the latest outbreak of trollage on E!3 and the Black Knight scene from "The Holy Grail." "'Tis but a flesh wound!" "Have at you!" If you're not satisfied with our level of service, lower your expectations! I try to man the bar from 7 to 10 PM Central but I'm an inattentive host at best. If you enter the chat room and see my name in the sidebar but I don't respond right away, grab a bowl of pretzels (fresh yesterday!) and have a seat. I'll be with you in

I got the chat room upgrade today. Of course, I can't access the admin site from work so I'll be installing it tonight. I also checked out domain names should we want to grow this thing off Blogger someday. Thechaselounge(dot)com has been taken but (dot)us is available. Heh! Spellcheck says thechaselounge should be Thessaloníki. -Update Ok, the advanced module got rid of the ads and gives us some new features. You can now add rooms and move back and forth between room. I have some admin functionality. We can build a user list, password protect rooms, ban users or URLs. To get the really cool stuff you have to upgrade to professional. Chat transcripts, permanent rooms, cross room talk, moderated chat. We'll see if there's any more participation.

The lovely and talented LabRat dropped by last night. Me: "Now you're being sexist." Myself: "No, I'm not." Me: "Would you say, The lovely and talented Dougman?" Myself: "Well, no." Me: "So, there. Sexist!" Myself: "But I would say that the studly and talented MuscleDaddy has shown up in comments." Me: "OK, you're just wrong." It seems her drink of choice is a whiskey sour without the insipid syrup. Hence the birth of the Sipid Whiskey Sour. What's your drink of choice? Seems like a good time to start stocking the bar. In other news; it appears that Dougman has caught the attention of the Klingons which is never a good thing.

Had a nice meet up with Otto and Mark Paules last night. Though they sneered at my choice of entertainment, I still say that "Pushing Daisies" rocks. I do wish there was some way to tell if there was someone in the chat room; perhaps with the upgrade. * Later, I ran into alexa on the street (gmail). We solved the eternal riddles of life, the universe, and everything. If only I hadn't had so many berrs at the the bar I might remember some of the answers. *Update - I meant, some way to tell if someone's in the room without having to enter the room.

That little button in the left column, above the Dougster will open a chat room. Right now it's a freebie and, to quote Otto, "Sucks eggs." It is functional however and has some fun features. I'll be upgrading it shortly so we can open separate rooms and see chat history. (And get rid of the ads) If there's enough interest it can be upgraded further to something like the Arena short form that we had envisioned. One window for the combatants and another for the crowd. If you're just stopping by, leave a comment so I can gauge the level of interest.

Pull up a chair.