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

Originally posted by LessinSF
Random Paigow Questions of the day: Who is Nathan Arizona? Is he related to Nathan, Nathan, Nathan Detroit?

Like I wouldnt get a Coen Bros. reference, Gareth?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)


The Hardy Boys were a personal child-hood favorite. My mom had the originals...

Same here. The one I remember the most was about a personal submarine.

I remember thinking I was cool b/c I was reading Jack London's The Call of the Wild when I was 8. Reading and understanding are two different things, however...

I read every one of John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee books in HS.

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
CNN is reporting that Mass.'s ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional. Legislature has 180 days to solve the problem.

Here's a prediction for you, and I know I am going out on a ledge here.

They'll try for an amendment to the state constitution. They'll fail because that state is pretty progressive. So then they will try to give domestic partnership, much like Vermont. That might or might not happen. Failing that they'll have to give marriage. If that happens bye bye DOMA and then we'll see a hell of a fight.

Here comes your number one election issue for 2004. The war in Iraq? Nah, who cares. Terrorism? We're all safe now don't you know. Taxes, jobs and the economy? Secondary.

Oh no Ladies and Gentleman, the fags are destroying marriage, we need a President who will keep that from happening. Pass a Constitutional amendment to protect us from the perverts.

I can't wait.


edited because I can't spell constitutional.

[Hank Chinaski]

Where the Red Fern Grows.
My neighbor, a year ahead of me told me the 3rd grade teacher was reading it to him, and how good it was. Then the next year, I heard it! It was great, and I read it to my kids, and its still great.

For little kid picture books, its hard to beat the "the Worst Person in the World" series.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Barely, E/O, you know I've got nothing but love in my heart for you two. But I've got to tell you the truth about "Better Off Dead." It sucked.

Sure, it had some funny quotes, and the best use of Curtis Armstrong* with the exceptions of "Risky Business," "Moonlighting," and, uh, the first "Revenge of the Nerds." But there was just some really stupid shit in that movie. The Claymation interlude at the burger shop? The rocket launching out of the garage at the end? Ricky's mom blowing up? All of the scenes with Lane's mom, esp. the one with the Christmas outfits? Pure shit.

Wrong.

Better Off Dead was fucking great. I don't get the claymation scene either, but Lane's drawings in the beginning (in the lunchroom) were funny and I assume the claymation is in the same vein.

Isolating Lane's mom is stupid. She was part of the whole fucked up family. From the little brother reading the book about scoring with cheap women to the father who tried out his slang phrases. It all fit for the perfect family unit.

Ricky's mom blowing up was very funny and gave us the line, "Sorry your mom blew up, Ricky."

Besides, any movie with a paper boy that can survive a 200 foot freefall and still be focused on his two dollars, plus a japanese guy who learned all of his English from Howard Cossell, is a gem.

The only flaw in the movie is that Lane actually loses the race at the end but everyone acts like he won. But that's the same as the tie in Caddyshack at the end.

TM

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Here's a prediction for you, and I know I am going out on a ledge here.

They'll try for an amendment to the state constitution. They'll fail because that state is pretty progressive. So then they will try to give domestic partnership, much like Vermont. That might or might not happen. Failing that they'll have to give marriage. If that happens bye bye DOMA and then we'll see a hell of a fight.

Here comes your number one election issue for 2004. The war in Iraq? Nah, who cares. Terrorism? We're all safe now don't you know. Taxes, jobs and the economy? Secondary.

Oh no Ladies and Gentleman, the fags are destroying marriage, we need a President who will keep that from happening. Pass a Constitional amendment to protect us from the perverts.

I can't wait.

The constitutional amendment threat is still possible in MA because the Catholic Church remains shockingly strong politically even after the abuse scandal and there are lots of out-of-staters lobbying heavily against gay rights. And it'll be a dealbreaker for a lot of legislators looking to keep their seats. Who cares that the economy is crap, services are disappearing, and we're leaching jobs and capital like a sinking ship when gay people might be able to marry?

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Where the Red Fern Grows.

I think my entire third-grade class cried for the rest of the day after the teacher finished reading that book to us.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Here's a prediction for you, and I know I am going out on a ledge here.

They'll try for an amendment to the state constitution. They'll fail because that state is pretty progressive. So then they will try to give domestic partnership, much like Vermont. That might or might not happen. Failing that they'll have to give marriage. If that happens bye bye DOMA and then we'll see a hell of a fight.

Here comes your number one election issue for 2004. The war in Iraq? Nah, who cares. Terrorism? We're all safe now don't you know. Taxes, jobs and the economy? Secondary.

Oh no Ladies and Gentleman, the fags are destroying marriage, we need a President who will keep that from happening. Pass a Constitional amendment to protect us from the perverts.

I can't wait.

Yes, the amendment will fail, but not by much. Here's another ironic twist: the Catholic Church will make this their issue in the state, trying to divert attention from their own scandal. Yeh, we're against loving relationships among gay people, because we believe gay men should join the priesthood, undergo extreme repression, and become abusive.

[Aloha Mr. Learned Hand]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Oh no Ladies and Gentleman, the fags are destroying marriage, we need a President who will keep that from happening. Pass a Constitional amendment to protect us from the perverts.

I can't wait.

PSA: In another phase of their evil plot to corrupt America, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy returns tonight with the first of five new episodes...

Tonight's straight guy apparently is a postal worker who enjoys taxidermy in his spare time. Can't wait to see his place...

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
This is a little off topic, but I saw David Hyde-Niles in Full Frontal over the weekend. I will never look at your avatar the same again.

Atticus's avatar is Niles?????? I have been wondering for awhile and I just dont see it. I figured it was the host of a google webste

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
As if this schlump should comment on anyone

While I will say that Franken appears to be a roll of flab away from resembling Truman Capote, he doenst need to hand a picture of John Blayesdow to his trainer to be a star in my show.

Originally posted by Jack Manfred

Hot Dog:The Movie: I can't believe I'm agreeing with Paigow about this, but I am. I'm sure Paigow remembers the following exchange as the evil Rudolph Garmisch tells our intrepid hero that he's spent last night with his girlfriend:

"Do you know what I had for breakfast this morning rookie? How do you say... I had Sunny side up, und I had Sunny side down, und I had Sunny side all ze vay around."

Remind me to check my parents video collection so I can see if we still have this classic bc I am not sure its out on DVD. You and I also love the Big LEbowski, so just bc we dont agree on the appropriate number of diet cokes one should drink in a day , doesnt mean we have nothing in common. I was gonna post about having sunny sidy all ze vay around also. one of the best lines in all of cinema ever.

I am afraid that if I see it again it wont be as good as I recall, jut like wht happened with Under the Rainbow, another much loved eighties flick that is mostly forgotten. I have such fond memories of going to my parents ski house on weekends in high school, skiing, drinking hot chocolate and peppermint schnapps at the mid lodge, doing the chicken dance at apres ski. then peeling out of the heavy eighties ski clothes, smoking a joint and getting in the hot tub. then driving back to the house, totally baked and relaxed and flippiong my Jeep CJ7 into a six foot snow ditch. Will Hot Dog still take me back to these halcyon days? And how much would a week at Telluride in February set me back?

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Where the Red Fern Grows.

Yup, there was much crying.

There's another one about some kid out west who gets a job as a cowboy - I have no clue what the plot was, but I remember something about keeping the cattle out of the alfalfa, about having his silver dollar pay pinned into his shirt pocket and his taking it out and putting it in his back pocket because that's what men do, and his dad croaks and the last line of the book is something about how he became a man because his mother now expected him to say grace at meals. What was that one?

I admit to some Encyclopedia Brown reading, and a lot of Nancy Drew.

Also on my "I remember them off the top of my head" list:

Judy Bloom (particularly Tiger Eyes, but there was one where there was ACTUAL SEX that got banned from my 5th grade homeroom, the name of which escapes me).
Girl of the Limberlost (repressive mothers and butterfly collecting in the age of bobbed hair).
Westing Game.
Anything by Madeline L'Engle.
Anything by Anne McCaffrey.
Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang.
Cheaper by the Dozen.
Anything by Stephen King, though I had to hide it behind the dresser from my mother.
Little Women, but I couldn't stand anything else by Alcott.
Grimms Fairy Tales, which I didn't start reading (the originals, not the Disneyfied versions) until about 10, which is probably the earliest I could have handled all the torture, gore, murder, bodily mutilation, child abuse, anti-semitism, commercial slavery and cannibalism.
Orlando Furioso was good fun at the age of about 12-13.

I always fondly remembered the Great Books reading we did, too. There were some damn good stories in there.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by dtb
OK, the crotch, I understand. But the ass?!? Just how does that happen, oh shifty one?

Though perhaps not raveworthy, my ass is too good to be ignored. I'll send you pictures of me in a miniskirt for PenskeFest 2004. You'll understand.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic


Judy Bloom (particularly Tiger Eyes, but there was one where there was ACTUAL SEX that got banned from my 5th grade homeroom, the name of which escapes me).

It was called Forever, and as I recall, the most scandalous thing in the book was that the guy/boyfriend typw named his penis.

I read this at about the same time as I read Flowers in the Attic. Neither made sex seem like a very good idea.