Fashion Board 6-9-04 to 7-13-04

[Fugee]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Speaking of books, I'm loving the Tuesday Next series by Jasper Fforde. It's absurd fantasy involving British literature, time stream fuck ups/alteration, international corporate conspiracy, inefficient bureaucracy, and dodo birds. The first book sort of set up the universe (which needed a lot of set up) and the next two have been romps through the classics. If you ever thought that Miss Havisham could be fun to hang out with or wanted to settle your own dispute using Kafka's judge, you probably would like this series. I think you pretty much have to read them in order or else you'll be hopelessly lost. Start with The Eyre Affair, then go to Lost in a Good Book, then The Well of Lost Plots. Something Rotten comes out August 5.

Agree. I've read "The Eyre Affair" and am moving on to the next two.

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by Fugee
Agree. I've read "The Eyre Affair" and am moving on to the next two.

Accordance, but RT and I seem to have similar taste in books (Tim Powers comes to mind). I will also recommend A Small Death in Lisbon if you like crime novels with some perversion, kind of like Greg Iles.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I'm probably going back into hiding soon, but before I go, and this is only based on one day's ketchup:

1. The mask means Hamilton is now the flavor of the week for me now that hockey season is over (sob).

How about hockey-on-grass? Euro 2004 has just started and it's a doozy. France scores 2 goals in the closing minutes to beat England. Latvia come close to upsetting Croatia. Germany and Holland battle to a 1 all draw. I really need to have long lunches in Irish bars for the month of June.

There's also CONCACAF WC qualifying. The US plays Grenada on Sunday. There were some nasty tackles in the game last Sunday.

Shalrie Joseph (NE Revolution and Grenada) wore a mask earlier this season, but he's no hottie.

Anne
Soccer Geek

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
In trying to decipher exactly what NB was saying here, I came across this - alanis song lyric generator. Try it at home!

The brunching archives are well worth going through. www.brunching.com made my days as a law firm associate much more tolerable. My Brunching Shuttlecocks t-shirt never fails to draw blank stares.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by William Faulkner
Though containing the brutish yet pedestrian term "hate," I feel ... [lots of stuff omitted]
Sincerely,
Wm. Faulkner

Uh, should there be a "Snopes" in there?

[Dave]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
We loved the part at the beginning, where everybody died.

Board motto.

I somehow managed to get through the edumacashional system without having to read either Shakespeare or Faulkner. Or Joyce. Yay public schools.

Dave
(who read lots of Hemingway and Steinbeck instead)

[spookyfish]

Babboon hi-jinx finally cause residents in South Africa to start fighting back.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...aboons_offbeat

Unless you guys are really ready to take over, I don't think breaking into people's homes and urinating on their clothes is such a good idea. It draws some negative attention, you know. . .

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by William Faulkner
Though containing the brutish yet pedestrian term "hate," I feel that this comment was directed not at me personally but instead at my work, a product of the sweat and the agony of the human spirit, and that this criticism, if it may be called that, is a reflection of the general unwillingness to peer deeply into the heart and see what might be found there.

Despite the regularity with which this criticism is made, I would like to use this particular moment as a pinnacle from which I might be listened to by the young men and women already dedicated to the same anguish and travail on this particular board. Because although the topics are often common, such as books not read, purity of athletic swings, or the anatomical possibilities of double anal, there still remains the possibility, however remote, that one of those present here will some day stand where I am standing, whose prose will be acknowledged and praised as sufficiently impenetrable. (Though embryonic in its development, perhaps even Mr. Chinaski's work deserves recognition in this regard.)

Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only one question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat. He must learn them again. He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid: and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed--love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice. Until he does so, he labors under a curse. He writes not of love but of lust, of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value, and victories without hope and worst of all, without pity or compassion. His griefs grieve on no universal bones, leaving no scars. He writes not of the heart but of the glands.

Though it sometimes seems that this community is wholly dedicated to those glands, I might suggest that you strive to uncover those universal truths and reveal them to the world, so that they may be seen, admired and valued.

Sincerely,
Wm. Faulkner

To be honest when he writes in "bengy style" I just can't follow.
Conf. to WF: your brother was a better writer.

Originally posted by Anne Elk
How about hockey-on-grass? Euro 2004 has just started and it's a doozy. France scores 2 goals in the closing minutes to beat England. Latvia come close to upsetting Croatia. Germany and Holland battle to a 1 all draw. I really need to have long lunches in Irish bars for the month of June.

There's also CONCACAF WC qualifying. The US plays Grenada on Sunday. There were some nasty tackles in the game last Sunday.

Shalrie Joseph (NE Revolution and Grenada) wore a mask earlier this season, but he's no hottie.

Anne
Soccer Geek

I watched the France/England match at a bar in Brooklyn owned by some very cool English folk. I was, however, rooting (quietly) for France. What a game. Zinedane Zidane showed Beckham up for the overhyped clotheshorse he is. Fabian Barthez, scorned by Manchester United, stops the penalty that would have sealed the deal for Engerlund. The arrogance of the English commentators after England went up 1-0 was amazing. One might think they had actually won an international championship since 1966.

In other news, Henrik Larsson, the King of Kings, scores two goals in little over one minute against Bulgaria in a 5-0 rout. Bittersweet for Celtic fans, as Henrik left the club this year after seven glorious seasons and is rumored to be moving to Barcelona or another Spanish team. At 32, Larsson is already a living legend for Celtic and his return from international retirement has been sensational. 'Mon the Sweden!!!

Oh, and English fans clashed with police in the Algarve, which was a huge surprise.

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by spookyfish
Babboon hi-jinx finally cause residents in South Africa to start fighting back.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...aboons_offbeat

Unless you guys are really ready to take over, I don't think breaking into people's homes and urinating on their clothes is such a good idea. It draws some negative attention, you know. . .

Hey, Najea Davenport did that and got a big contract out of it, so you never know...

[notcasesensitive]

realityblurred:

VH1's The Surreal Life 3 began production yesterday. The cast includes Jordan Knight of New Kids on the Block, Flavor Flav of Public Enemy, Dave Coulier of Full House, Brigitte Nielsen of Beverly Hills Cop 2, and Charo of cuchi cuchi fame. They've also scraped the bottom of the reality barrel once again; this time, American Idol's Ryan Starr fills the Trishelle/Jeri Manthey slot. Reports that the network shift (from The WB) also brought with it a shift to an all-musician cast were apparently somewhat of a stretch, although the network's press release says Charo is "a master of the flamenco guitar," while Coulier "was Alanis Morissette's inspiration for" the song "You Oughta Know." The show debuts Sept. 5.

and in other Alanis news, she's engaged. Check the cnn site for the story if you care. all Alanis all the time.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by ironweed
In other news, Henrik Larsson, the King of Kings, scores two goals in little over one minute against Bulgaria in a 5-0 rout. Bittersweet for Celtic fans, as Henrik left the club this year after seven glorious seasons and is rumored to be moving to Barcelona or another Spanish team. At 32, Larsson is already a living legend for Celtic and his return from international retirement has been sensational. 'Mon the Sweden!!!

Oh, and English fans clashed with police in the Algarve, which was a huge surprise.

Barca has said they aren't interested in Larsson. That header was incredible. So far, Van Nistelroy has the goal of the tournament.

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
Barca has said they aren't interested in Larsson. That header was incredible. So far, Van Nistelroy has the goal of the tournament.

Van Nistelroy's goal and other highlights can be found here.

spree: BBC Sport

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
What is the point of having ignore software if you two won't use it? Seriously, if you think that anyone else on the boards cares one iota about your bickering posts and your tedious responses to one another, I'm afraid that you are wrong. I don't know why you both feel some sick need to respond to each other's posts, but I request, on behalf of those scrolling past, that you just put each other on ignore and never click on individual posts to read them. How hard is that?

And this is from someone who likes you both. Just not when you are interacting with each other.

As an added benefit, think of how much lower your post totals would be if you didn't respond to each other. You might not even be in triple digits yet.

I don't even know who you are anymore.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I'm probably going back into hiding soon, but before I go, and this is only based on one day's ketchup:

1. I like the basketball face mask. I think I kind of fetishize it since it made me kind of hot when I saw it on Lucius Harris a few years ago. The mask means Hamilton is now the flavor of the week for me now that hockey season is over (sob).

2. In the past few weeks I've left books in airplanes after I've deplaned. I have heard that some people do it and leave money in them.

3. I saw Harry Potter (not the person, the movie) and liked it a lot.

4. that's about it.

I'm probably going back on hiatus soon, but before I go I will respond to your ketchup:

1. Would one of those facemasks go with a skirt?

2. I don't read books but I am thinking of bringing an old played out porn movie with me on next flight and leaving that in the seat pocket. I woould put it in a Shrek video box to give it mass appeal. yes? no?

3. I saw Harry Potter the person.*

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*j/k hahaha! Fwiw, he's a fictional character not a real person. lol.