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

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Not Bob
But don't forget the Vanilla Ice, baby.

or Blondie's Rapture

[dtb]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Until he figured out that always carrying a book in front of your crotch was better for the summer months.

Yes -- I remember the book part. Doesn't he have to give some kind of presentation in class or something, and takes a book to the front of the room? (I may be conflating the book with an after-school special...)

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Also stolen and read with tissues were "Scruples," "Princess Daisy" ....

This just made me LOL because I was reminded of the time in 8th grade when the class assignment was to select a book and then deliver an oral report to the class on our chosen book (this was an "Honors" English class -- so I suppose the teacher, mistakenly and to her cost, thought this meant we could be trusted to choose our own reading material). I know you can guess the punchline, but yes folks, I chose Princess Daisy.

I can still remember the look on my teacher's face as I gave my report -- as though she had just bit into something, um..., disagreeable.

Please, no one report me to JASNA...

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
How the fuck do you know what color I am?!?!?

You have just outed yourself as Don "No Soul" Simmons.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
It's been mostly down (Sugar) hill since Grandmaster Flash and the Fabulous Five did The Message. But you should get The Message.

Agreed! I actually saw Grandmaster Flash on Saturday night. Seriously. I really did. I swear it.

Atticus, turning to your request . . . well, this sort of question overwhelms me. Based on your expressed desires, you are right to start with De La and Tribe. e/o is right on to recommend Pharcyde's Bizarre Ride. Classic! I also saw them on Saturday night. It was a big hip hop weekend for me. They still do a good show, despite some disappointing recent albums. Again, I second e/o's Blackalicious rec. You will like their CDs. I think the first Cypress Hill album is one of the best hip hop albums of all time. DJ Muggs is brilliant. I think you will definitely like Jurassic 5 - either of the CDs or the EP. I think you should get Brand New Heavies' "Heavy Rhyme Experience" - one of the first "live band with rappers" experiments. Very melodic stuff. The first two Brand Nubian records are great - in the first, they are just kids (w/Grand Puba), espousing an upbeat sort of pro-Africa message; on the second, they turn somewhat regrettably gangsta with a few unforgivable homophobic lyrics, but I will admit that I still think the album has some of the best grooves and rhyme flows. It is not just spare beats and street rhymes. I'll stop there. As you requested, this is not meant to give your a definitive hip hop sampler. It is molded to what I perceive your tastes are. Feel free to follow up with questions, but please do so via PM so paigow does not get any pissier.

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
so what exactly would you do here without me?

I would commit myself tirelessly to working on my campaign to let your people go. I might even come to visiting hours on your board. Kind of like a trip to the zoo or a carny sideshow.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by dtb
Not only do I remember this story, but I remember seeing a movie of it (in school, no less...). I was definitely in elementary school -- probably 5th or 6th grade. Come to think of it, that's kind of gruesome for elementary school students, no? Or maybe I'm just squeamish.

I remember reading somewhere that it's only been recently that people worried about scaring or grossing out kids and that kids are much more resilient to gore and blood than we think. The article pointed out the Hans Christian Andersen stories, and how graphic they are, but children love them all the same. I think they were discussing how prior to TV / movies / etc. most entertainment was for the whole family, and the goal was to entertain both the adults as well as the youngsters in the crowd.

Originally posted by LessinSF
I would commit myself tirelessly to working on my campaign to let your people go. I might even come to visiting hours on your board. Kind of like a trip to the zoo or a carny sideshow.

You're slipping, Gareth. Much betterwhen you use an entire day to work on your flame of me. Off the cuff doesnt suit you. And if you arent careful, its a slippery slope to Petunialand. Just look at pLF.

[dtb]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
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.

Speaking of cock rings (I just wanted to say that, as I don't get enough opportunities to work that into conversation; and really, can you ever have enough?)

Anyway, speaking of stories that remain branded into one's brain -- and not in a good way -- I remember some short story about how a futuristic society would administer some kind of intelligence (?) test to each child at age 12 (or whatever). The story centers around a set of parents who, although very worried about the outcome of the test (as there is some hint given that a less-than-desirable outcome will have grave consequences), put on a brave face, and send junior into the testing center with smiles and encouragement.

The grotesque, O'Henry-on-psychotropic-drugs ending is that junior never comes back from the test as he is put to death -- not for doing poorly, but for doing too well.

God, it gives me the creeps just to write about it here. {{Shudder}} (Obviously, I am way too impressionable.)

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Agreed! I actually saw Grandmaster Flash on Saturday night. Seriously. I really did. I swear it.

I was hip once upon a time. Seriously.

I discovered (before the turntable broke, since I just have it on vinyl) that kids like Grandmaster Flash. I saw him before he was somebody. Playing in Malcolm X Park in a small trashy city in upstate NY. Pretty much a kid then.

Is there other good rap for kids out there?

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
You're slipping, Gareth. Much betterwhen you use an entire day to work on your flame of me. Off the cuff doesnt suit you. And if you arent careful, its a slippery slope to Petunialand. Just look at pLF.

Free the Paigow 14!
http://www.zyprexa.com/index.jsp

[evenodds]

Originally posted by dtb
Anyway, speaking of stories that remain branded into one's brain -- and not in a good way -- I remember some short story about how a futuristic society would administer some kind of intelligence (?) test to each child at age 12 (or whatever). The story centers around a set of parents who, although very worried about the outcome of the test (as there is some hint given that a less-than-desirable outcome will have grave consequences), put on a brave face, and send junior into the testing center with smiles and encouragement.

I loved that story. For the life of my, I cannot remember who wrote it. I read it around the same time I read "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner."

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I remember reading somewhere that it's only been recently that people worried about scaring or grossing out kids and that kids are much more resilient to gore and blood than we think. The article pointed out the Hans Christian Andersen stories, and how graphic they are, but children love them all the same. I think they were discussing how prior to TV / movies / etc. most entertainment was for the whole family, and the goal was to entertain both the adults as well as the youngsters in the crowd.

There was also the now-unfashionable idea that childhood was when the ignorant and inexperienced were trained and prepared for adulthood, a purpose which is defeated by minimizing exposure to death, want, gore, crime, dismemberment, sex, lying, disease, peversion, thwarted desires and other miscellaneous unpleasantness.

But, then again, in the period into which I probably should have been born, children were either wrapped in swaddling and hung from pegs to keep them out of the way, or they were exposed to the elements and adult diets and activities so the strong would grow more resiliant and the sickly would quickly either die and get out of the way or recuperate, so YMMV.

BR(a caring, supportive society is very nice, but come the revolution/apocalypse/global famine/flesh-eating zombie infestation, the unfit will be left behind)C

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[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Various Choices:

http://www.capnwacky.com/choose/

http://www.chooseyourownny.com/

TM

God damn. I was cruising along having a great day in 3 boroughs, until I went back in time to the 1970s. My ending was this:

"Joining the [Baseball] Furies ends up being an unexpectedly thrilling experience. You quickly gain a reputation as the hardest switch hitter in town, until a showdown with the Village People takes a tragic turn. While entrenched in fierce gang-banging action, you die of a blunt trauma wound after being struck in the head with a huge dildo in what later becomes known as the "Christopher Street Bath House Bloodbath." You had no idea how right Aunt Ginny was when she had warned you not to time travel to the 1970s and join a gay street gang during your trip to New York City!"

Originally posted by LessinSF
Free the Paigow 14!
http://www.zyprexa.com/index.jsp

You have been reduced to flaming me by LINKING to a website for a prescription drug for schizophrenia, which isnt even your own original flame concept?