Fashion Board 11-2-03 - 12-09-03

[soup sandwich]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
The one I'm thinking of is definitely North American (maybe in Canada but I'm not sure), and definitely about a dog. Which I remember clearly because 1/2 the story is from the dog's p.o.v. Story ends with the dog going on to the nearest settlement to find a new human.

It's a Jack London story called something like "To Build a Fire". The guy actually does get a fire going at one point, but as it's under a snow covered tree, all the snow from the branches falls onto the fire and extinguishes it. He then tries to coax the dog over nicely so he can cut it open and warm his hands, but the dog is not used to being spoken to nicely so it knows the dude is up to no good and thus keeps its distance. I believe it's so cold in the story that the guy's spit freezes before it hits the ground. In the end the guy decides that freezing to death (drifting off to sleep and not ever waking) is not such a bad way to die. True that.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Damn, talk about crying. Every year I did Great Books we read that Ray Bradbury short story, All Summer in a Day. Talk about a story that rips out your heart. I defy anyone to read it and not end up bawling. http://www.intermed.it/bradbury/Allsummer.htm

I think Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" was heavy in rotation in Great Books too.

Just a reminder: I've optioned the Reality TV rights to this story and it will be a staple on my Str8-TV Prime Time lineup.

Beating the dead horse . . .
str8.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Just a reminder: I've optioned the Reality TV rights to this story and it will be a staple on my Str8-TV Prime Time lineup.

Beating the dead horse . . .
str8.

You're putting people on Venus and letting one of them off the planet every seven years when the sun comes out? Seems like a long run for a reality show. ;-)

[Say_hello_for_me]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
I got into a fist fight

Did the shoes have any effect on the outcome?

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
The book was "then again, maybe I won't". That was the one where he wore the raincoat to class all the time.

Until he figured out that always carrying a book in front of your crotch was better for the summer months. Apropos of paigow's observation, I actually think the kid's name was Ralph. He had a basketball coach who would say "Simmer down!" I think we all had such a coach. Judy Blume has her finger on the pulse of America's youth.

Along with Forever, she also wrote a book called "Wifey" that had sex. My sister had Forever and Wifey in her nightstand.

I stole my mom's copy of "Wifey," read it in its entirety because it was a Judy Blume book, and then re-read all the good parts. Also stolen and read with tissues were "Scruples," "Princess Daisy" (one great lesbian scene and a couple of older woman-younger man turns the tables scenes) and an Erica Jong costume drama called "Fanny, Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones." Sort of an updated and more ribald retelling of Moll Flanders. This book is the origin of my fetish for Inexplicable Capitalization.

"Forever" was constantly disappearing from the library. I read it sitting in the aisles, covered by a Road & Track magazine. My MIL was a librarian and wouldn't let my wife read "Forever" when she was in 7th grade. So she checked out Sidney Sheldon instead.

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Are they figuring he's going to flush the underage boys down the toilet?

Easy, Cooter. FB now stand for Family Board.

[Say_hello_for_me]

Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
Also hearing that the suckass band Creed may be breaking up, so my day is pretty well made.

Did you see the Comedy Central bit that featured the Creed cover band about 6 months ago? If ya never heard it before, let me be the first to tell you that the band is real, and the (cover) band is from Chicago. And the lead singer was always a pretty funny guy.

Hello

[Hank Chinaski]

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Are they figuring he's going to flush the underage boys down the toilet?
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Originally posted by paigowprincess
Easy, Cooter. FB now stand for Family Board.

yes. plus we should give him the benefit of the doubt....
(from Fox News):

The search comes on the same day Epic Records released ......... Jackson's new single, "One More Chance."

[spookyfish]

oops.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Are they figuring he's going to flush the underage boys down the toilet?

Maybe they're searching for remnants of his career. This article notes that the search coincides with the release Number Ones, a collection of greatest hits that also includes the new single, "One More Chance" that Jackson presumably plans to release at his parole hearing.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20031118/D7UT5SUO0.html

Edited to add link to Fox News reporting that the search is being conducted in response to allegations made by a 12-year old boy.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,103434,00.html

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
A favorite of mine at an early age was Beowulf. And we recently introduced our 10 year old to Mann's The Transposed Heads. So the flip of the question may be, what adult fare would we recommend for kids?

From personal experience, I would not recommend grilling your under-13 child at length on the finer points of, say, Fahrenheit 451 and then yelling at said child for not paying sufficient attention/reading too quickly.

Not that I'm scarred, or anything.

Children's books not yet mentioned (though I have not finished scrolling and reading) -- a series by an author whose name I can't remember, but one is called "Half-Magic." Fun, fun books, particularly that one. For the kind of pre-teen time, another series by another author whose name I cannot remember, one of which is called "The Crucible Year" and another of which is called "A Mustard Seed of Magic." Sex comes up in the context of some girl having a baby in her teens and her parents try to pass it off as her brother. I have now given away a major plot point.

In line with the Encyclopedia Brown series, anyone else remember Choose Your Own Adventure? Not nearly as good, but not dissimilar.

[Replaced_Texan]

Anyone in Houston this weekend might want to check out the Warehouse Art Crawl on Saturday. The quality ranges from "what the fuck? you call this art?" to "shit, this guy is only 22 and charging $50 bucks? I'm buying the whole studio out." All the studios in the warehouses downtown open up to the masses and the beer and wine is flowing, and the whole thing is free.

http://www.theartcrawl.com/

[purse junkie]

First, I'd like to thank you all for crushing me spiritually by reminding me that little Michael grew up to be a twisted pixie pervert with an unseemly addiction to little boys and monkeys.

Second, I'd like to point out, for his inevitable sentencing hearing, that Michael's dad admitted "whipping" him frequently, but denies "beating" him on the grounds that "beating" is something you do with a stick. To be fair to the dad, however, he did note that he whipped that boy "all the way to the bank."

Oh, Michael....

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
anyone else remember Choose Your Own Adventure? Not nearly as good, but not dissimilar.

Loved the Western where you could either end up striking it rich or lying face-down in the desert dust dying of thirst while vultures slowly circled overhead. My brother would have loved it too, except I kept 'helping' him pick until he came to that ending every time. I think it rather upset him.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by purse junkie
First, I'd like to thank you all for crushing me spiritually by reminding me that little Michael grew up to be a twisted pixie pervert with an unseemly addiction to little boys and monkeys.

Second, I'd like to point out, for his inevitable sentencing hearing, that Michael's dad admitted "whipping" him frequently, but denies "beating" him on the grounds that "beating" is something you do with a stick. To be fair to the dad, however, he did note that he whipped that boy "all the way to the bank."

Oh, Michael....

Note that Fox reports that an ambulance is present.