I may well get there closer to 5:30 depending on what film(s) I'm catching before the meetup. I'll update here.
Will Jackmormon be there, or just the gorilla?
Feels like it's safe to violate the sanctity of offblog communication but Jackmormon has indicated that she will be there, and Mr. Blandings too.
Speaking of old times, this really awful housing expert (Robert Marbut) was hired by Heebieville to study us for five months and give a report plus recommendations. I was able to find an article by Kriston to help me shore up why he was so terrible, and it gave me warm fuzzies. Not the article. Just the convenience of trusting the author.
Aw nuts, I would have loved to attend this. I only have 4 social engagements a year, so it's a shame that one of them conflicts with this gathering. Next time!
|| I don't think so, but they have confounded me quite a bit over the last 10 years. I wonder if they are getting votes from the Left, as a protest that expresses Eastern identity. I also wonder how much Russian money they're getting and whether it's effective. Appalling as it is, most European countries have about 15% to 20% of the population that's prepared to vote far right. Germany had been on the low end of that, now maybe less so. |>
8: I took two flights after I started coughing but before I could take a test. I was masked, but I still feel guilty.
Hope it's a mild one Moby. You and non bald Chris will be missed.
10: Two flights of stairs would make anyone feel out of breath. Don't be so hard on yourself.
|| They confound me also. I wonder also about transfers from the Linke (assumming that's what you mean by left?).The piece I read had some protest vote anecdata. |>
|| Yes, Linke is what I meant by Left. I've been following Germany since the Republikaner were a thing and thought I had a pretty good handle on the rise and fall of rightist/protest parties. I think (open to correction) that they tend to rise when the CDU/CSU tends to tack to the center and/or they are seen as ineffective. They tend to fall when the CDU/CSU tacks back rightward, when the wave of enthusiasm crests and the protest party's own ineffictiveness is driven home, and corruption/general weirdoness do them in. Sometimes all three. Maybe Merkel's long chancellorship kept the CDU/CSU closer to the center for longer, leaving space for AfD to partly get over their weirdness problem. My suspicion is that Russian money and maybe organization helped them overcome both growing pains and the lack of funding that fledgling parties have. On the other anecdatal hand, a lady on the S-Bahn today apparently heard some older guys talknig about understanding why people vote AfD and gave them a piece of her mind, including "if you keep thinking that way we might not have a democracy for long." I had been too engrossed in my Rivers of London book to hear the guys, but after they scuttled away at a station, I gave her a thumbs up and some encouragement. Well done random German lady! |>
Can a FPP please give this a bump?
done. I almost bumped the guest post by mistake, ha.
I'll probably be there around 5ish.
I'm going in to catch Godard's Contempt at Film Forum at 2:30.
I think I found the limits of my cinephila, I really wanted to see the restoration of Eustache's masterpiece The Mother and the Whore now screening at FilmLinc but I just haven't got it in me to sit through a 3 hour and 40 minute movie, at least not today.
Yeah, that's a long movie. I liked it better when they ended after 90 minutes.
I won't be able to get there until closer to 6:30, but I figure you'll still be there.
19: It's a film from 1973. Probably a mistake to attribute the extreme length to the influence of Avengers:Endgame.
I blame comic book movies for lots of stuff.
My gorilla and I will be there probably around 6:30.
For clarity's sake, Mr Blandings is not being referred to as a gorilla in this thread. Or in the post. Or anyplace at all, really.
I just got there, it's jam packed and there's nowhere to sit, inside or out. I'm now sitting in that little park between Fulton and Beekman on the east side of Pearl.
Hrm. Any hope for loitering until a table opens up?
I would but with my knee not fully recovered I can't stand around that long.
Also I made the mistake of wearing a black shirt and with all the heat and the schvitzing I look like something the cat dragged in.
There are bigger outdoor bars a block away at South Street Seaport. Maybe see if you can find a table at this place: https://theseaport.nyc/explore/eat-drink/garden-bar/ ?
I'm there now, sitting next to the Barbie Cafe. Yes, you read that right.
No proper pints, over $8 for a beer in a tiny plastic cup that I'm going to have to nurse till someone gets here.
I remember Fresh Salt as clearing out after like 6:30 or 7:00, but it's possible that post-pandemic the traffic behaves differently.
39 thanks, we can always relocate there
Is there also an Oppenheimer Cafe?
We've just relocated to Fresh Salt. Seems like old times indeed.
Thanks to LB, Mr. Blandings, Jackmormon, neb, and a mysterious Irish man for coming out tonight. It great to see you all and I look forward to seeing you again next year, or maybe sooner if anyone wants to visit Arrrakis.
The Barbie cafe was a whole situation.
Great to see you all!
There are lurkers! We just live in Maine now.
So I never did get around to explaining the new insight into the another think/g coming issue.
When we originally talked about it, I noticed that part of what made it confusing was that in my dialect, and I think in most American dialects, the consonants at the end and beginning of the two relevant words overlap, which makes them phonetically indistinguishable in practice -- "think coming" and "thing coming" sound exactly the same because a g overlapping with a k sound just sounds like a k.
An Irish informant just told me that in his dialect and he thinks in a lot of English dialects, the two phrases are clearly distinguishable -- in "think coming" you pronounce the two k sounds very separately in a staccato kind of way, whereas "thing coming" overlaps in the same way Americans pronounce both phrases. An American saying "think coming" sounds unambiguously as if they've said "thing coming" to a speaker of one of these dialects.
And you know who's from the UK? Judas Priest. Which got "thing coming" into print, and then the whole thing was off to the races.
47 I can't believe I forgot to mention and thank the gorilla, she was a very adorable, freshly groomed, and well-behaved gorilla.
A huge, beautiful gorilla. The best gorilla.
53 is quite a theory. Is Language Log still alive?
Apparently it is but I had to check. I'm not sure I totally understand the theory; in general English regardless of dialect doesn't make the kind of complete distinction (closure and release) that he seems to be claiming between two adjacent stops so it's probably something to do with the quality of the vowel leading in.
Deosil, widdershins,
Dexter and sinister,
Who'll be the next
British prime minister?