Extend McLuhan's formulation: Everyone gets to be a schmuck for at least 15 minutes. He's got his MSR right there.
No mention of toilets. I am Jack's crestfallen feeling of disappointment.
2: I think you mean Warhol's formulation?
5: Imagine Castock standing in line for a movie.
Thank you for making that explicit, JP.
(Honestly, I'm just trying to deal with the fact that I never, at all, wanted to know Slavoj Zizek's preferences about anal, oral and fisting, and now I cannot un-know these things.)
I moved a chair over by the window.
Wrong thread. Not that there's a right thread.
The list of similar users is nice. All of them are "more adventurous".
I thought Zizek was an invention of Kotsko in order to fill dead air on twitter.
Yes, Warhol. Some of the Sixties were seen through blurred eyes.
Huh, Analia is a real Spanish name, used in Argentina, a d really is the name of Zizek's wife. Never let it be said that you can't learn anything here.
10: I don't want to shock you, but I suspect the profile is a fake.
Thank you for making that explicit, neb.
I cannot in all honesty say that I really understand that idiom.
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Slate on Le Guin new story collection
They always transcend, and they are always about people, and she is not a moralist. But it is the project of a pacifist, or leftist, or however she would most happily describe herself, that many of these writings are about horror, and therefore about violence. The distress of people is displayed in the quiet, tooth-drilling way that only Le Guin can command. We must be shaken by what actual humans do for it to be distressing again. We are always having to give up on being horrified by the day to day. It takes an art to reinvigorate our feelings.
Last night I watched Takeshi Kitano rape three women, murder a wife, try to drown a son, knock some teeth out of his teenage daughter, and beat maybe twenty grown men into pulps. Then dying quietly in bed in his 80s. Blood and Bones truckload of awards
They are not my favorites, as sweet as they are. For all the famous "quality" of a New Yorker short story--and that reputation is on the whole reasonable--Le Guin wrote stories vastly more rich, far more assured, and often far more devastating than these two, and instead they appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov's, and also Fantastic (RIP), Crank! (RIP), Universe (RIP), The Blue Motel (IDK!?), and so on. How wonderful that these publications existed and published and even sometimes paid. I hope everyone involved had so much fun. At least from here in cold 2012, so much closer to the end of the world, it looks like a cozy sun porch on an apple farm.
I get nostalgic for the 60s and 70s too.
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16 Huh, Analia is a real Spanish name, used in Argentina, a d really is the name of Zizek's wife.
Otherwise, based on the profile, you would think he needs two more named Oralia and Fistula.
20: But that evidently didn't stop you from using it.
#learnedsomethingaboutsomeonetoday
From what I can find it seems to have been CB slang. But Cassell's Dictionary of Slang has it 1960s+ for US campuses, but with a somewhat different meaning.
20: But that evidently didn't stop you from using it.
I picked it up from me dear old dad, who used to use it as an affectionate rebuff.
an affectionate rebuff
Aww, I didn't know you cared.
But enough about us, let's talk about fake Zizek!
I thought Zizek was an invention of Kotsko in order to fill dead air on twitter.
Intriguing. Maybe Z is joint Kotsko-Holbo invention.
Maybe it's an early telephone-age expression, referring to the receiver.
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When you work with a Difficult Person, you have to pick you battles, often letting them get their way on trivial things. But sometimes you work with a Person who is so very Difficult, that they can create a fight without anyone else taking the other side. Letting them have their way on an issue thus merely sparks a massive, fraught campaign on their part against their own idea.
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For the last few days I can't tell who's actually pissed off at whom around here and who's kidding. I feel like I need emoticons.
Heh. Not funny. I know people who have slept with Zizek, so picturing him naked and getting it on every time his name comes up is something I have battled with for years.
30: If I ever make really big fortune cookies, I'm going to borrow that.
My students found it humorous this week that Zizek always refers to intercourse as "the sexual act." We're going to call it that in class for the rest of the semester. Did the sexual act occur? The sexual act did not occur.
33: I'm pretty sure Zizek has a grad student in every port.
In the age of containerized shipping it's easier than ever to have arrange for your favorite grad student to be present wherever you have a speaking engagement.
My 30 was in reference to my work situation, not anything going on here.
31: I feel like I need emoticons.
But would people use them straight or ironically? Every system of communication contains within it the seeds of its own subversion.
;-)
Every system of communication, indeed communication, does not merely contain its own subversion as a potentiality within itself, but positively prepares that subversion for itself, for the "open world" which any communicative system must presuppose, the possibility of novelty which sets such a system apart from a mere code, precisely requires ironic play with the sign, so that even ironic use of an emoticon stands revealed as a "straight" use at a higher order.
:P
43, 42: which version did you prefer?
If lefties don't like it they can go invent their own alphabet.
Sinister emoticon orthography is similar, but smudgier.
31: emoticons? You're frightening me, Smearcase.
For the last few days I can't tell who's actually pissed off at whom around here and who's kidding.
The trick is not caring.
46: I'm not sure. The current version is straightforward, a lighthearted capstone to the text of the comment. The first draft (":-\", right? Or ":-/"?) was more ambiguous, presenting almost a challenge to what had preceded it. I found it intriguing, and even disturbing, but in a good way.
The first draft was ":/". I think it may, indeed, have been preferable.
I'm not a fan of including a hyphen in emoticons.
55: a late-developing abomination indeed.
55: Yes, I puzzled over that in 39. Most of the time I prefer the "no hyphens" rule, but for the playful wink the others just seem a bit too flat--not the nuance one is usually looking for in that situation.
Plus prescriptivism sucks.
Actually, I rather like prescriptivism.
You dreamed about Another G. Gordon Libby?
That is handy because I was trying to figure out how to picture even a single G. Gordon Libby let alone multiples. Maybe like Libby Dole with a G. Gordon Liddy moustache?
46: I actually preferred the original in its simplicity and boldness.
I also quite liked your expanded and augmented version of my cryptic comment.
60: I don't mean this in a little bitch way, but she goes by Liddy.
But that was probably an autocorrect thing anyway, so I guess that does make me a Little Bitch, except taller.
It wasn't! That's fascinating. "Liddy" as a nickname for "Elizabeth"? Frickin' WASPs, man. (N.B. not actually totally sure she's a WASP.)
However it makes G. Gordon Libby up above totally inexcusable
Also I was probably distracted by my "infinite fellatio" emoticon.
You didn't know "Liddy" was a nickname for "Elizabeth"? It's not even a hard one to guess. "Peg" for "Margaret" is the one I have trouble remembering.
I mean, I probably did. Facts come, facts go.
It's still weird, though. Where's the 'd' in Elizabeth?
My theory is that all nicknames of "Elizabeth" stem originally from childhood mispronunciations. This maybe overgeneralizing from an adorable child I know who calls his sister Abiddabet. But it's not hard to imagine that "Elizabeth" might become "Aliddabeth" which ends up as "Liddy."
75: Guess what:
She gave herself the nickname ''Liddy'' when she was 2 years old. She, and nearly everyone who knows her, uses that name for her today.
To 64, her maiden name is Hanford and it looks like she's a Presbyterian, so yes.
Is it really just her? I thought it was more common than that.
Could be both - such as, she came up with it independently, but it stuck because it already existed.
Wikipedia doesn't have it on the list of nicknames for Elizabeth. I'm sorry for thinking Tweety was so blithely unaware of modern life that he should be shunned like an Amish guy with a zippered corset.
he should be shunned like an Amish guy with a zippered corset.
Pretty steampunk, right? Wait, let me put on my goggles.
I mean shunned by other Amish people, not Boing Boing readers.
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Halloween Sexxxy Canvasser photos in the pool.
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