Re: A temporary digression from paper-writing

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Is this in response to the post below?


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 06-11-06 8:23 AM
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'Tis good mockery, good sir! Good mockery, I say.


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 06-11-06 10:33 AM
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I saw A Prairie Home Companion, yesterday. I trust Standpipe, alone, will be interested.


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 06-11-06 10:34 AM
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For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not — and very surely do I not dream. But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul. My immediate purpose is to place before the world, plainly, succinctly, and without comment, a series of mere household events. In their consequences, these events have terrified — have tortured — have destroyed me. Yet I will not attempt to expound them. To me, they have presented little but Horror — to many they will seem less terrible than barroques. Hereafter, perhaps, some intellect may be found which will reduce my phantasm to the common-place — some intellect more calm, more logical, and far less excitable than my own, which will perceive, in the circumstances I detail with awe, nothing more than an ordinary succession of very natural causes and effects.


Posted by: the black cat returns | Link to this comment | 06-11-06 10:39 AM
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I saw A Prairie Home Companion, yesterday. I trust Standpipe, alone, will be interested.

Was it good? Was there Guy Noir?


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06-11-06 10:53 AM
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It was very good, I thought. Perhaps most interesting is that Garrison Keillor was terrific on screen, even though he did not, in fact, play Garrison Keillor, but perhaps, more accurately, a particular eidos of GK. Guy Noir was present, in the flesh, as VP of security.


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 06-11-06 11:00 AM
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Did Meryl Streep do one of those interesting accents she's so famous for doing?


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 06-11-06 11:05 AM
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Now he’s on top of everything: he sings with the other performers in his light baritone

Unquestionably the worst part of each show is the part in which Keillor sings.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06-11-06 11:06 AM
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This is cute.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06-11-06 11:09 AM
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M][tch, she did a midwestern accent, of course. I think your question is alluding to common knowledge I don't possess, though, because I know next to nothing about MS.

Ben, you are existentially wrong.


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 06-11-06 11:14 AM
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w-lfs-n!!!


Posted by: | Link to this comment | 06-12-06 2:01 PM
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The worst part of each show is the part in which Keillor ___.

Nonetheless, I find myself kind of interested in the film. This frightens me.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 06-12-06 2:03 PM
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What's the story with 11?


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06-12-06 2:12 PM
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I thought maybe 11 was the same anonymous commenter who on the other thread is taking exception to Bitch, Ph. D.'s equation of sex with "implied rape".


Posted by: The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-12-06 2:15 PM
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All heterosexual sex is rape. There's nothing "implied" about it.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 06-12-06 2:27 PM
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Damn. I knew I was doing it wrong.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-12-06 2:29 PM
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