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

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
If I may interject here, I have a few questions.

Allow me to start by mentioning that I really don't watch much professional basketball. I've always liked the college game better, yadda yadda yadda.

So, anyway, what is the deal with the guy on Detriot who wears that scary see-thru face brace thing (Prince, maybe?)? What exactly happened to his face and if it was that serious, why didn't he just retire from this dangerous sport already? Is he just wearing it to mess with me? To frighten his opponents? If he didn't have it on, would his face fall off?

Thanks in advance for your helpful responses.

Maybe Prince maybe not.

He broke his nose mid-season, then again after it healed once. He's cute w/o mask according to my daughter. There are millions of reasons why the broken nose didn't make him retire.

My daughter had the idea of going to a medical supply house to buy masks to wear to the games, but then we didn't. Just last game I saw some fans wearing them.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Not Bob
My answer -- "Ulysses" by James Joyce (see why I was going to do this poll tomorrow?). I can't do it. I have tried. I want to like it. People I like like it. The concept of the book appeals to me. The whole struggle against censorship aspect of the publishing of it appeals to me. But, no matter how hard I try, I can't get past page 10 or 5 or 20 or whatever. And yet I laugh knowingly at references to "that hottie Molly Bloom." Shame on me.

My answer is the same. http://205.214.94.186/forums/showthr...7270#post47270

Originally posted by Not Bob There is hope. I was supposed to read "A Tale of Two Cities" in middle school, but gave up on page 2, and read the Classic Comics version instead -- and (depite Sister Annuncia's warnings) did not fail the test. Last year, I saw it at my mother-in-law's house, picked it up when waiting for my wife to get back from shopping, and started reading. I loved it.

Same here. Who woulda thought?

TM

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
That being said, "The Bitch in the House" by cathy hanuer is excellent essays by women about life, motherhood, marriage, etc. the rejoinder the bastard on the couch would like to pick up.

Haven't read it, but this review made me glad I didn't:

• The Bitch in the House doesn't pretend to supply solutions, only "consolation." There's "no advice at all," as Karen Karbo intelligently notes at the end of her essay. Yet the cumulative complaints—most of which concern vestigial social pressures to get married and be perfect mothers—betray a kind of self-perpetuating martyrdom ethos at work. The model of angelic wifeliness embodied by, say, India Bridge in Mrs. Bridge and Edna Pontellier in The Awakening has been replaced by the flaws-and-all model exemplified by Kate Reddy in Allison Pearson's novel. What hasn't changed is the heroic light in which we're supposed to view female feats, whether of fervent devotion or frantic multitasking; implicit in the subversive "bitch" label is a touch of self-congratulation. A mother may snap at her children, but she still has the moral high ground: someone (her husband or society) has failed her. Playing the self-sacrificing, micromanaging martyr is easier—and nobler—than being merely overworked and tired.
  
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  Those dramas are great for building sisterly solidarity, and the frankness of these writers can be invigorating. Yet between the lines, I sometimes got the sense that they, too, wondered just how much "consolation" the "we women"-style commiserating provides us in the end. So it was heartening to discover the confession of one "bitch," Cynthia Kling, that she, for one, was fed up. "Women complain that men boss them around and tell them what to do, but what about all that female coercion? The oppressive solidarity of the smart-girl set?" Refreshingly, Kling tries something few of the women in this book do: She starts reading books about women from another era, setting imaginative ideals for herself. As for her female cohort, she tells us, "The first intelligent thing I did was to stop listening to them."

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
So, anyway, what is the deal with the guy on Detriot who wears that scary see-thru face brace thing (Prince, maybe?)?

He looks like Hannibal Lecter in that thing. Scawy, indeed.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
My answer is the same. http://205.214.94.186/forums/showthr...7270#post47270

Anything by Charles Bukowski.

[bill killer]

Seconded. Gmail is great, but I wish it had not driven Yahoo to try to "fix" something that did not need fixing. Dammit, if it weren't free, I would ask for my money back.

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
To the people who run yahoo mail.

Thank you for the increasing my mailbox space to 100 MB. I appreciate it. It would be really cool to have that much space if my mail worked.

Yesterday--the old and unimproved days---my yahoo mail worked just fine. I could send mail. I could read read mail. I could write mail. I could respond to mail that I had read. I understand that I was using old and unimproved technology, but I managed to get by.

Don't get me wrong. Clearly, the new and improved is much better than the old and unimproved. I'm delighted to have 96 extra MBs in my free yahoo account, and I realize that since I don't pay you a dime for the service, I shouldn't expect much. But it would be nice to be able to actually use the account.

Sincerely,

Replaced Texan

From the Florida Bar News correction page:

Faith E. Gay was inadvertently listed as just joining the Miami office of White & Case as a litigation associate in the June 1 On the Move column. Gay is actually one of the firm's most established litigation partners in its Miami office. The News regrets the error.

Two comments:

(1) I am thinking that someone in White & Case's marketing department got chewed a new one.

(2) Is it me, or is this overkill? What the hell does "one of the firm's most established litigation partners" mean? Who calls themselves that?

Anon, but one of the FB's most established posters

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Maybe Prince maybe not.

He broke his nose mid-season, then again after it healed once. He's cute w/o mask according to my daughter. There are millions of reasons why the broken nose didn't make him retire.

My daughter had the idea of going to a medical supply house to buy masks to wear to the games, but then we didn't. Just last game I saw some fans wearing them.

oh. I thought that he was pitching a modern remake of The Phantom of the Opera to some LA types. glad to get the real story.

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by Not Bob
What "great book" have you not read that you should have read, or which you pretended to have read, or which people think that you have read?

My answer -- "Ulysses" by James Joyce

I would have chosen this as well, but since you've taken it, I'll go with "The Iliad." I'm thinking of just renting "Troy" when it comes out on DVD.

ETA: The worst part about this is that The Iliad was the first book assigned in my first class in college, and I blew it off completely, thereby setting the tone for the next four years. The next week, I didn't read "The Republic."

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
My wife read it because I said it was interesting --

those of us who know your style would have thought it would have some premise like Felatio prevents breast cancer if you told her it was interesting.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Haven't read it, but this review made me glad I didn't:

• The Bitch in the House doesn't pretend to supply solutions, only "consolation." There's "no advice at all,"

Agreed that there isn't any advice at how to manage stress with being a parent, working, managing or contributing to manage a household, which is gender blind, after all, men experience just as much stress in this regard. To foster solidarity in that regard was kind of worthless, but it was consolation that what you're feeling isn't abnormal if you feel a little stretched in a million different directions. The moral high ground thing: that her man done her wrong was kind of off-putting. I see hubby as a team member, not opposing counsel. that being said, it was worth the read. if you're looking for a constructive how to type book, this is so not it.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Maybe Prince maybe not.

He broke his nose mid-season, then again after it healed once. He's cute w/o mask according to my daughter. There are millions of reasons why the broken nose didn't make him retire.

My daughter had the idea of going to a medical supply house to buy masks to wear to the games, but then we didn't. Just last game I saw some fans wearing them.

How old is your daughter?

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
So, anyway, what is the deal with the guy on Detriot who wears that scary see-thru face brace thing (Prince, maybe?)? What exactly happened to his face and if it was that serious, why didn't he just retire from this dangerous sport already? Is he just wearing it to mess with me? To frighten his opponents? If he didn't have it on, would his face fall off?

I'm not sure what his exact injury was. But, if you've been hit in the face and you've got a broken bone that needs to heal or will never be as strong, you need to wear one of those masks. It spreads the impact of a Karl Malone elbow over a wider surface area, as opposed to having it concentrated in one quarter inch.

Bill Laimbeer wore one.



But he also wore this mask for extra money in college:



I'm still trying to decide in which he looked better.

TM

[barely_legal]

Middlemarch and The Moonstone. I've tried to read both and couldn't get through them. This pains me, b/c for some reason I feel like I should love both of them. And I was an English Lit major (among other things) so there's no excuse.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Haven't read it, but this review made me glad I didn't:

You should stop reading negative book reviews. I realize they have theoretical value in helping one decide how to allocate one's valuable time, but most book critics,* like most people, don't know what the fuck they're talking about** and just like to ruin things for everyone else. They're like the crone in my neighborhood who calls animal control whenever anyone lets his or her dog off leash in the park across the street from my house. She's so sad that she can't even bear to see dogs experiencing joy. She just might be a book critic.

* I am just jealous because I would rather be a book critic than a lawyer.

**(E.g., Edna Pontellier did not embody angelic wifeliness in The Awakaning. Quite the opposite, she was unable to embody it. She was so suffocated by her life that she had an affair with some young hottie and then fucking drowned herself. It was her "friend" Adele who embodied angelic wifeliness and spent essentially the entire novella in labor.)