Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Here's the Sport's Guy discussing the upcoming NFL season, Top Gun's "homoerotic overtones that make SNL's 'Ace and Gary' cartoon seem subtle by comparison", and how Top Gun is the king of the Secretly Terrible Good Movies...http://espn.go.com/page2/s/simmons/030904.html


My favorite: "Special kudos to Meg Ryan here for getting Cruise to make that "I'm trying to cry but I can't make the tears come, so I'll look like I'm taking a dump instead" face."

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
The dead guy's family went all crazy and left the Amish to be Mennonites.

Let me clarify that the family had left the Amish before the son was killed, and I was using "all crazy" in a humorous way (or attempting to) and not as a description of their grief over the loss.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Here's the Sport's Guy discussing the upcoming NFL season, Top Gun's "homoerotic overtones that make SNL's 'Ace and Gary' cartoon seem subtle by comparison", and how Top Gun is the king of the Secretly Terrible Good Movies...http://espn.go.com/page2/s/simmons/030904.html


My favorite: "Special kudos to Meg Ryan here for getting Cruise to make that "I'm trying to cry but I can't make the tears come, so I'll look like I'm taking a dump instead" face."

The best ever commentary on Top Gun was by Quinten Tarantino in the otherwise forgettable movie Sleep With Me.

What's a film about, what's it really about? What genre does it take?

[Duane: What, like the spine? Like one sentence?]

No, I don't, fucking boy meets girl, I don't give a shit about that. Fuck boy meets girl, fuck motorcycle movie. No, what is really being said? What's really being said, that's what you're talking about. 'Cause the whole idea, man, is subversion. You want subversion on a massive level. You know what one of the greatest fucking scripts ever written in the history of Hollywood is? Top Gun.

[Duane: Oh, come on.]

Top Gun is fucking great. What is Top Gun? You think it's a story about a bunch of fighter pilots. [Duane: It's about a bunch of guys waving their dicks around.] It is a story about a man's struggle with his own homosexuality. It is! That is what Top Gun is about, man.

You've got Maverick, all right? He's on the edge, man. He's right on the fucking line, all right? And you've got Iceman, and all his crew. They're gay, they represent the gay man, all right? And they're saying, go, go the gay way, go the gay way. He could go both ways.

[Duane: What about Kelly McGillis?]

Kelly McGillis, she's heterosexuality. She's saying: no, no, no, no, no, no, go the normal way, play by the rules, go the normal way. They're saying no, go the gay way, be the gay way, go for the gay way, all right? That is what's going on throughout that whole movie...

He goes to her house, all right? It looks like they're going to have sex, you know, they're just kind of sitting back, he's takin' a shower and everything. They don't have sex. He gets on the motorcycle, drives away. She's like, "What the fuck, what the fuck is going on here?" Next scene, next scene you see her, she's in the elevator, she is dressed like a guy. She's got the cap on, she's got the aviator glasses, she's wearing the same jacket that the Iceman wears. She is, okay, this is how I gotta get this guy, this guy's going towards the gay way, I gotta bring him back, I gotta bring him back from the gay way, so I'm do that through subterfuge, I'm gonna dress like a man. All right? That is how she approaches it.

Okay, now let me just ask you--I'm gonna digress for two seconds here. I met this girl Amy here, she's like floating around here and everything. Now, she just got divorced, right?...

All right, but the REAL ending of the movie is when they fight the MIGs at the end, all right? Because he has passed over into the gay way. They are this gay fighting fucking force, all right? And they're beating the Russians, the gays are beating the Russians. And it's over, and they fucking land, and Iceman's been trying to get Maverick the entire time, and finally, he's got him, all right? And what is the last fucking line that they have together? They're all hugging and kissing and happy with each other, and Ice comes up to Maverick, and he says, "Man, you can ride my tail, anytime!" And what does Maverick say? "You can ride mine!" Swordfight! Swordfight! Fuckin' A, man!

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Edited to add link to NPR description of the movie: http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/...ish/index.html

Love the top picture. Looks like something out of The Onion.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Let me clarify that the family had left the Amish before the son was killed, and I was using "all crazy" in a humorous way (or attempting to) and not as a description of their grief over the loss.

Too many rabid Amish e-mails and PMs after the first message, huh?

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by bilmore
Too many rabid Amish e-mails and PMs after the first message, huh?

Well, at some point, statements on an internet message board (or whatever this is) are bound to come to their attention, and I don't want tomato all over my car. Once it dries, those seeds are a bitch to get off.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Amish stuff

Fuck all y'all (is that right?) for putting Weird Al Yankovic into my head on permanent loop.

Originally posted by tax_hottie
I'm gonna have to agree with Pags on this one, for the most part. Yes, it's self-loathing not to date within your own race. We call these people twinkies. Jun and Jee, like myself, are Korean. And Jun does have a point about Korean guys (and by "Korean" I really mean Korean-American). Many (if not most) of them do tend to want to date "good girls" who go to church, take care of the man, and never swear. Needless to say, I haven't dated many Asian men (which is not to say that I wouldn't). That said, it is a huge generalization for Jun to say that all Korean guys or all Asian guys are like this. I think Jun is just going through a twinkie phase and she'll get over it. Plus, a lot of Asian guys wouldn't date a girl that big (by Asian standards, she's really fat). But at least she's dated Asian guys in the past. I know some Asian chicks who categorically have never and will never date an Asian man. I think that's about as fucked up as being a rice daddy.

1)The irony here is that you know Jun, who loves to cook, will probably cook her brains out to keep this Bob person in her life. I feel a little badly for her putting all her chips (and twinkies! no wonder she is so plump) on the tv table like this, as Bob's note to her didnt seem to indicate an interest in rekindling. It reeked of BB4 calling him and putting him on the spot.

I also don't think, for a minute, that Jun seems to fit that stereotype of subservient Asian chick that the rice daddies seem to go for.

2) I have to be mainly correct in saying that Atticus thinks you are dehumanizing the white men who love asian chicks by calling them rice daddies. [EDIT here to say I really fucked this sentence up by typing and talking on the phone at the same time]

3) lets talk about Jee. We know he is dating one "Carmen". We knwo from Jun that Jee is "a freak in bed". Is this a case of the non-Asian women being just for practice, but not marriageable? I ask this, bc as an armchair sociologist, I notice that while you will see many Asian women-non Asian men marriages in the NYT, you very rarely see it the other way. And I wonder why this is. Is it bc the men are more traditional? Do they prefer asian women to the nons? is the small dick urban legend stymieing their hopes with non Asians?

Just curious and interested.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by ias_39
Ye of little faith. Try asking the SJ's office for the box they showed Brennan that made him turn white, then red, then white

I swear, man, those Jesuits are debauched. Totally. I hear the Vatican Library is like 80% porno.

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Here's the Sport's Guy discussing the upcoming NFL season, Top Gun's "homoerotic overtones that make SNL's 'Ace and Gary' cartoon seem subtle by comparison", and how Top Gun is the king of the Secretly Terrible Good Movies...http://espn.go.com/page2/s/simmons/030904.html


My favorite: "Special kudos to Meg Ryan here for getting Cruise to make that "I'm trying to cry but I can't make the tears come, so I'll look like I'm taking a dump instead" face."

I think the writer of that Eric Stoltz disaster "sleep with me" or ___ing and ____ing" might hav a lawsuit bc he did the top guyn homoerotic thing like ten years ago. Or was it Tarantino? Or was it Tarantino in the movie?

[ThrashersFan]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe...als/index.html

LONDON, England -- The steam train used in the Harry Potter films has been damaged by paint-wielding vandals, police said.


Fav Line -- "The people who did this are mindless toe rags," he said. "This will horrify the millions of Harry Potter fans."



What the fuck is a "toe rag"?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
I think the writer of that Eric Stoltz disaster "sleep with me" or ___ing and ____ing" might hav a lawsuit bc he did the top guyn homoerotic thing like ten years ago. Or was it Tarantino? Or was it Tarantino in the movie?

The Sport's Guy cites the movie (Sleep with Me), and notes that the volleyball scene plays "like a Schmitt's Gay commercial"...

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I found this amusing, and perhaps there are other non-debate-camp, non-band-camp dorks who will too:

"Cynically-- and people really hate me when I say this-- there are three words that often hold us together as a church. It is not Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It is not anything that you would think of. It is 'the pension fund.'" (The Rev. Dr. Sandra A. Wilson in the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder)

http://www.spokesman-recorder.com/Ne...D=31216&sID=13

Though it is a little sad that she apparently does not realize that "Father, Son and Holy Spirit" is five words, not three. Do Episcopalians encourage inbreeding?

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan
Fav Line -- "The people who did this are mindless toe rags," he said. "This will horrify the millions of Harry Potter fans."

What the fuck is a "toe rag"?

Back before modern medicine, conventional wisdom was that a linen rag wrapped around a gangrenous toe could save the toe (and thus the foot and the leg). The rag was icky and gross, so now it's an insult.

I made that up, but it sounds good.

[Seven of Nine]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
There was a documentary on the Amish that came out last year at Sundance, and I think that Showtime bought it. Anyhow, Amish kids get a year to decide whether or not they're going to stay Amish, and they sort of get thrown out into the real world to figure it out. From the documentary, they go a bit crazy with booze and drugs for a year, but most of them come back to the fold. I think it was called Devil's Playground or something like that.

Edited to add link to NPR description of the movie: http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/...ish/index.html

So, if we got another bunch of Amish kids, threw them into a Manhattan apartment, and let them vote each other off the island (and presumably forcibly taken back to Pennsylvania), I bet we could have a great reality show. Add to the mix that the winner gets a pile of money, his own beard trimmer, and a wild night with Sarah Jessica Parker and we'd have a hit! Amish Survivor would be money, baby, money!

Seven (Hello, CBS?)