Is this the thread where discuss the ways in which Mario Incandenza can be seen as a Christ figure?
I considered the lobster the Christ figure.
Take, eat; this is my body. And this is the melted butter for dipping it in.
A t-shirt seen at Folsom -- "Jesus forgot his safe word" -- was worth a dumb chuckle. Also saw a St. Andrews Cross in use and a lot more whipping and blood than last year. (Times trend piece: "Blood gets wider circulation.")
Also saw a St. Andrews Cross in use
In honor of the referendum?
I just can't read "Folsom" without interpolating "Prison Blues" right after it.
Interesting, there seems to be another use of Folsom besides the prison. I didn't know either.
I feel like there's potential for outrage by Twitter activists over the fact that the (mostly white, mostly yuppie) San Francisco S+M evangelist community stages a yearly showpiece fake torture fair that uses the name that is (yes a real street but also) most famous for beog real prison in the same state. Where (mostly nonwhite, non-yuppie) prisoners are in fact being tortured for real and/or raped.
4: Jesus, like lobster, was not, of course, kosher.
9: relatedly, there are lots of Jack the Ripper ghost tours in London. I wonder how much longer we'll have to wait for the first Myra Hindley or Peter Sutcliffe tour?
"S&M evangelist" sounds like an interesting subcategory of TV preacher.
13: not a very small one either. Look at those chaps in the Philippines who parade around flogging themselves. Or the Shia at Ashura. Or the Korean Catholics: one of them successfully crucified himself last year which takes the kind of bloody-minded unstoppable determination that you really only find in the Land of the Morning Calm.
9 is dramatically too stupid even for Twitter activists, which is I guess something to be proud of.
11: Jesus (1), like lobster (2), is a common component of hallucinations.
1. passim.
2. by Sartre, among others.
If we're going to talk about prisons, we should be talking about last night's episode of The Good Wife. Did Cary really do what they said he did? Was there some clue in an earlier episode I've forgotten?
Interesting, there seems to be another use of Folsom besides the prison.
a yearly showpiece fake torture fair that uses a name that is (yes a real street but also) most famous for beog real prison in the same state.
WE'D STAGE IT ON FALSUM BUT THEN EVERYONE WOULD HAVE TO BE A BOTTOM.
Having watched Robert Sapolsky's lecture on the biological basis of religious belief, I am now convinced that there must be a common neurological basis for all this sort of thing. (It's not bad. You should watch it. It's on YouTube. More than an hour long though. )
Following that Franzen article a couple years back, this makes two New Yorker publications by people who are mad at David Foster Wallace. I look forward to Shouts & Murmurs getting in on it.
Hey, ⊥ is an HTML entity! How convenient: ⊥. I assume ⊤ will work too? Apparently yes.
11: Jesus (1), like lobster (2), is a common component of hallucinations.
My favorite line in A Christmas Carol is the description of the "dismal light" in Scrooge's hallucination of Marley's face in the door knocker glowing like "a bad lobster in a dark cellar".
24: not a flight of fancy: rotting fish actually does glow in the dark (as does rotting wood), so presumably lobster would too.
The basis of one of history's great insults.
"He is a man of splendid abilities but utterly corrupt. He shines and stinks, like a rotten mackerel by moonlight."
25: I'd read about that and have wanted to test the proposition, but for some reason I never end up with extra lobster.
Or enough enough lobster. My lobster appetite, let me consider it.
If she'd only taken the trouble to make a lobster roll for lunch, she wouldn't have let it go to waste like that. Hegel would surely have agreed.
Bad lobster sounds like a surrealist Doctor Who plotline.
Oh hey. There was a guy who looked exactly like Jonathan Groff at Folsom and while I was googling the name Folsom so I could get into high dudgeon about 9, I saw a headline indicating he was there. Famous people sightings are rare here so you are allowed to be excited about them.
I still don't know what Folsom is except for a prison. Speaking of prison, how bad is an overnight trip on Greyhound? Megabus doesn't cover my potential route, except during the day.
Folsom Street is a street in San Francisco. Every year there is a BDSM-y street fair on that street, creatively named "The Folsom Street Fair", along with (one is told) several satellite events before and after. Neither the fair nor the street is named after the prison; nor is the fair located on that street because the street's name is shared with a prison.
I suspect one could extend the joke in 18 with something about the principle ex falso quodlibet but I'm not precisely sure how.
Folsom the town (where the prison is) and Folsom the Street are both named after Joseph L. Folsom, who was a dude of some sort.
I think that counts as the street and the town/prison not being named either one after the other! Though I admit I wasn't actually sure about that.
You people act like Folsom Dam isn't the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Folsom.
More like Empty-some Dams these days.
The Folsom Street Fair is something to see, boy.
31: Or an actual Tom Baker episode http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Power_of_Kroll
Though I guess that was more of a squid.
The Folsom that first comes to mind for me hasn't shown up yet in this thread at all.
40 has put "Working Class Hero" into my head.
Most of us don't know who Grover Cleveland's wife was.
42 -- no, but that's more fertile ground for the Twitter Activists.
Hmmmm,have been so busy with work didn't remember FSF was this past weekend, hope child saw nothing scarring on bus ride to or from accordion lesson. He hasn't mentioned anything yet.
There were little kids in attendance!
I'm not sure if I find that reassuring or not! Eh, sure it was fine and he had his head in the clouds as per usual.
I don't think it's anything to be reassured by. Just somewhat surprising.
As a child who grew up in the Berkeley/SF region, I can attest that no matter how straitlaced your personal environment may be, eventually you just accept that sometimes people in public will wear bondage gear or nothing at all, and that's just a thing that some people do.
52: Hm, I'm doing to demand, then, that Rand Paul, about to set up shop in the Bay Area, let us know what he thinks. He wants to expand the Republican tent, right?
20: this makes two New Yorker publications by people who are mad at David Foster Wallace.
Somehow I'm surprised that there are only two. Maybe people feel it's still too soon?
Oddly, this New York Times magazine piece just popped up too, though I guess Antrim is more traumatized than mad.
I understand that suicides leave wrecks behind them, and that of course they evoke anger... and yet, the rhetorical shape of that anger often escapes me. To call the action cowardly or selfish, as happens, seems to come out of a felt need to disown the suicide, as if he or she has to be buried in unconsecrated ground.
Karen Green's forgiveness machine made more sense to me.
"angry at the illness rather than the person," I mean. Though again, it's a bit like getting angry at the weather. This is not a majority viewpoint.