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

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
It chagrins me to say that I'm thinking about revising my (similar) opinion on Dickens. I keep on reading really cool cyber and steam punk novels that always reference back to Dickens, and I'm thinking that I might have been hasty in my judgment and condemnation in high school. This is not to say that I'll be going back and reading Great Expectations or Oliver Twist, but I'm not actively bitching about him as loudly anymore.

I will continue to note that he did get paid by the word and that may have been a factor in my dislike of him back in the day.

I really like Dickens. The only one that I've never been able to get through is Bleak House (maybe because it is all about lawyers, I don't know). But Great Expectations is one of the best stories ever.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Sebby

That nickname always makes me think of this:
http://www.dermnetnz.org/images/sd1s.jpg
(seborrheic dermatitis)

Here's another pretty picture:

http://www.dermnetnz.org/images/sd2s.jpg

edited to replace pictures with links since it's too close to lunch time. e/o

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Dammit Sebby!

I can put up with your ceaseless streams of ludicrous similes and metaphors, hyperbole, bluster, and bullshit; I can tolerate your opining on literature; I can even forgive you some of your more offensive fattie-bashing; in short, I have developed a strange taste for the intellectual scrapple that is your posting style, but this time, this time you have gone too fucking far.

For planting a goddamned Rush ear worm, I daresay you yes YOU, are history's greatest monster.

Damn you to hell!

RP,

Here's a classic just for you...

S(I think they were indicted in the Hague for this one)D

Freewill

There are those who think that life has nothing left to chance,
A host of holy horrors to direct our aimless dance.

A planet of playthings,
We dance on the strings
Of powers we cannot perceive
"The stars aren't aligned,
Or the gods are malign..."
Blame is better to give than receive.

Chorus
You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice.
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill;
I will choose a path that's clear
I will choose freewill.

There are those who think that they were dealt a losing hand,
The cards were stacked against them; they weren't born in Lotusland.

All preordained
A prisoner in chains
A victim of venomous fate.
Kicked in the face,
You can't pray for a place
In heaven's unearthly estate.

Chorus

Each of us
A cell of awareness
Imperfect and incomplete.
Genetic blends
With uncertain ends
On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
RP,

Here's a classic just for you...

S(I think they were indicted in the Hague for this one)D

Freewill

I don't know how that one goes, so I don't know if it would have been better than what I'm hearing right now (you know what it is -- "the world is, the world is").

Ugh! I may have to go to my car to get some CDs.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Then I'd get up, read some non-sequitur nonsense I'd scribbled earlier that morning and get full credit. Higher education is a disaster.

Maybe you should have picked a different college. Some of us got fine educations, read interesting books, wrote papers that meant something, and cared about our course work. When every class is seminar-sized, there is nowhere to hide behind bullshit.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by evenodds
Maybe you should have picked a different college. Some of us got fine educations, read interesting books, wrote papers that meant something, and cared about our course work. When every class is seminar-sized, there is nowhere to hide behind bullshit.

Thanks for proving the point of my last line. I just wrote that I got full credit - during a seminar - for bullshit.

S(you teed that up)D

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by evenodds
Maybe you should have picked a different college. Some of us got fine educations, read interesting books, wrote papers that meant something, and cared about our course work.

Yes, you are/were referred to as "dorks".

The Wolf: "You guys look like... What do they look like, Jimmie?"

Jimmie: "Dorks. They look like a couple of dorks."

Jules: "Ha-ha-ha. They're your clothes, motherfucker."

[evenodds]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Thanks for proving the point of my last line. I just wrote that I got full credit - during a seminar - for bullshit.

S(you teed that up)D

I said seminar-sized for a reason, even my lectures had fewer than 20 students. When you attend a real liberal arts college, you have profs whose only real focus is on teaching and they don't allow you to get away with bullshit. Your seminar description sounded like what I experienced in law school with burnout profs who didn't givve a shit about anything except drinking and cashing their checks. That's not a problem of higher education, that's a problem with your experience in college and my experience in law school.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
I may never speak to you again.

<------------------

Well, if you're going to go running around chasing after birds what ain't dead, I may never want you to. I mean, who wants to smooch with a puppy whose mouth is full of guts and feathers, anyway?

I thought you weren't that kind of girl.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I took a class that was HALF Joseph Conrad. Let me tell you, once you get past "Heart of Darkness", Conrad is akin to getting your teeth pulled.

I thought Lord Jim was pretty good.

But no one. NO ONE can beat James Joyce for teeth-pulledness. I fought through Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and then tried to tackle Ulysses. What a fucking mistake that was. You know sometimes when you're reading something boring, you read all the words on a page and then pause and think, "I didn't get any of that; I was just reading the words while thinking about something totally different"? Well, I had whole chapters where this happened and I didn't even care. I only made it through half of it. Usually I'll force myself to finish (because I hate leaving something half done), but I had to just give up. Torture.

TM

[evenodds]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Yes, you are/were referred to as "dorks".

You wound me.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by baltassoc
I was recently reading about something like this being a delicacy at the height of the Roman empire, but with more layers: start with a truffle, then stuff it in a squab inside a game hen inside a pheasant inside a duck inside a goose inside a turkey (were there turkeys in Europe? - this is from memory and so approximate) inside a lamb inside a goat inside a pig inside a cow, then roast the whole thing for days near a fire, then throw it all away and eat the truffle.

Calvin Trillin describes the apogee of British cuisine as something called Stuff Stuff with Heavy. You start with a large mammal, and stuff it with other things -- chickens, apple, pimento, etc. -- until you have a solid food mass. You then boil it until tasteless, and cover it with a thick sauce.

That was 20 years ago, maybe, so perhaps the Brits have come along since then. And Trillin surely said it funnier.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan

Then I discovered that the news flash was about some millionaire accused of chopping up an old person and chucking the parts in Galveston Bay.

Nothing to see here.

I've been following my local news radio station's coverage of this trial for weeks. I can't believe the jury bought the guy's story ("we struggled for the gun and it went off and I cut the body into little pieces and dumped it the bay because I didn't think the police would believe me, maybe because this isn't the first time I've been involved in identity theft/murder.")

Word on the street is that the jury tried every restaurant in Galveston for lunch during deliberations. One juror even asked the judge to make a personal phone call for the juror.

Edited to add: This further cements the longstanding Houston understanding that if you're in criminal trouble, call Dick DeGuerin.

[dtb]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I thought Lord Jim was pretty good.

But no one. NO ONE can beat James Joyce for teeth-pulledness. I fought through Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and then tried to tackle Ulysses. What a fucking mistake that was.

I loved Portrait of the Artist -- really loved it, which led me to read the short story collection, the name of which is escaping me now -- something about Dublin Stories? However, I have not yet tried to tackle Ulysses. I've been scared off. I did buy it (about 8 years ago, I think), and have sat down to start it several times, but have never made it past the first page. I read the first page and then decide I'll have to wait until I can concentrate more. I think my children will be in college before that moment arrives.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by evenodds
You wound me.

Oh don't worry, I'm not cool anymore.