sorry to interrupting the festivities with a mundane, logistical concern, but can anyone let me know if there's a trick to unlocking control of your avatar. i only have a choice of 'me' and 'goose', neither of which do anything. i thought there might be a minimum number of posts until you have normal account priveleges, but i'm past 100 now and still nothing. i've searched the other posts and have seen others with the same problem, but haven't found anything that helps. any advice would be appreciated.

thanks

^^If those jellyfish aren't for me, they should be.

Here's a nudibranch in any case, AA.


and some pudding.

awwwww yeah.

You rock.

When you figure it out, you'll be a step ahead of me.

it happens when your user status changes to "monkey". i have no idea when that happens, though :( there used to be some sort of batch running to delete users with 0 posts and change the rest to monkeys. i don't know what the status of that thing is.

try emailing ze, it works best :)

dear mr a.k.hoyt:

i am glad to have gladdened you. however, please do not show your appreciation by sending me wobbly chickenfat on my birthday.

yours in a polite, noncommittal way,
your auntie


p.s. incidentally, blind wobbly chickenfat is my favorite blues singer.

dearest pearl:

the word nudibranch tickles me in a way that if my spouse were to tickle me in that way i'd say, "ooh, that's nice."

come valentines day i will either send you a love note or serve you with sexual harassment papers. i'm still deciding.

simultaneously allured and offended,
your auntie

^is this a bad time to tell you I love you?
:D

lulu
I've changed my title in order to amuse myself when we post one after the other.
pearly

:D:D

yes, but are you pronouncing it "wuhkie" or "wuukie"?

^the conundrum is why it's so funny.
:D

You know, if you just sprinkle a little baking soda on that, it'll be fine.

^^ is that a bullwhip hanging on the wall above it, or just a couple of automotive belts?

^^What Perla said - or fabric softener ;)

that couch is looking at me.

I had nightmares about it last night.



like this only worse:



congratulations, zroe