Re: Zyggy will thank me

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Shit.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 10:50 PM
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Unf!


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 10:51 PM
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A blogger scorned...


Posted by: Matt F | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 10:54 PM
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I believe it's spelled "Zygi".


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 11:06 PM
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Unf!


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 11:06 PM
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More!


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 11:11 PM
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Oh, and by the way: this is pwnage, people. Not that other thing.


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 11:11 PM
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Unf!


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 11:13 PM
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I hear Zyggy played guitar.


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 11:19 PM
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Unf!


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 11:23 PM
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More!


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 11:24 PM
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On immigrating to the UK from Poland, he changed his name from the original Zygmunt Staroduski.


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 11:28 PM
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I'd just like to say: This blog is turning WAY too much into a bunch of inside jokes by a cliqueish set of high schoolers...

Dudez... Just get a MySpace page and be done with it.


Posted by: Anon | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 11:35 PM
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Now? It's now, finally, as it wasn't before, enough in the process of turning into a bunch of inside jokes perpertrated by a clique? Really?


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 11:36 PM
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Er, enough in the process, etc, to merit comment. Pretend I had written that.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 11:36 PM
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It's different when it's a bunch of inside jokes by a clique of people who actually hang out in real life. Then a lurker can't become part of the community.

Basically everything Late Night Shots does, other communities should do the opposite.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 11:38 PM
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MySpace software sucks.


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 11:39 PM
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Or is that interface? I'm almost thirty; sometimes I get confused.


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 11:40 PM
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I wonder if 13 is by one of the bloggers.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 11:40 PM
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JM, is that true? That you're almost thirty, that is. Is everyone here (barring Michael, who doesn't count, and L.) older than me?


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 11:41 PM
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Not me.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 11:41 PM
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I'm actually sympathetic to the point in 13, but it's the holidays, no one wants to post about serious stuff, there was just a big party where people met each other, etc. Things will get back to normal soon.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 11:41 PM
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20: Not so fast, grandpa.


Posted by: Matt F | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 11:42 PM
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I'll be 27 for a nice long time to come, so get used to it.


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 11:42 PM
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Sorry teo. I knew I was forgetting someone.

I won't apologize to Matt F because I'm not sure I ever knew that, not really knew that.*

*please read everything after the first occurrence of "knew" in the above sentence in the voice of the woman from Night of the Hunter who, though well-meaning, ruins everything.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 11:44 PM
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Lillian Gish.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 11:46 PM
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Apology accepted.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 11:46 PM
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It's different when it's a bunch of inside jokes by a clique of people who actually hang out in real life. Then a lurker can't become part of the community.

This is why we say the off-blog communication is sacrosanct, and not just kind of neat.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 11:48 PM
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I wonder if the tribunes of the people ever used their personal inviolability to just fuck shit up.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 11:50 PM
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No, Evelyn Varden. My mistake.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 11:51 PM
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Discretion is not just a moral obligation to your off-blog inter-I-hate-this-clumsy-word, but a necessary courtesy to your on-blog inter-synonym-god-please-fuck.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 11:52 PM
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Lilian Gish, Evelyn Varden, tomahto.


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 11:53 PM
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What Bridgeplate is trying to say is that s/he just proposed to me in an email, and I said "maybe."


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 11:54 PM
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I, for one, have never heard of any of you people before and would request that you kindly cease pretending to any special knowledge of me and posting compromising photos.


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 11:56 PM
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How long, Jackmormon, will you continue to confront me with my past mistakes? I've suffered enough.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 11:58 PM
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SYNONYM. Please.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 01- 2-07 11:58 PM
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31: True, but doesn't off-blog communication nevertheless change relationships in ways that affect on-blog interactions, leaving others just as excluded (though more oblivious)?


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 12:00 AM
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36: "at-talkers"


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 12:00 AM
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Happy January third, everyone!


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 12:01 AM
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colleagues? interlocutors? conversants? co-procrastinators? fellows?


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 12:02 AM
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To bed.


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 12:02 AM
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Do you just hate "actions", SB, or the whole thing? How about "intercourse"? I wish "intercourse" in a nonsexual sense would make a comeback, and sometimes have to keep myself from employing it—I think, in fact, my first-or-so comment on AWB's blog was something to that effect.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 12:03 AM
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Oh, I see, it's a word for people. I don't even know what the word you hate is anymore.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 12:03 AM
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36: intercourse?


Posted by: Matt F | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 12:04 AM
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I once told my high school science teacher that in the Sherlock Holmes stories, "ejaculated" is used in the sense of "exclaimed," but he didn't believe me.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 12:04 AM
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co-procrastinators

The people with whom you will tomorrow make shit?


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 12:04 AM
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Doesn't SB mean "interlocutors?"


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 12:05 AM
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By god ogged you're a genius!!!!


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 12:06 AM
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That's not true, Ben.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 12:07 AM
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You're so hard on yourself, ogged. Don't be. You're better than you realize.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 12:08 AM
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People never mean that, Ben.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 12:09 AM
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Before I shut down this here computer, I'm going to work towards one of my New Year's Resolutions, the one that requires me to be more actively kind.

w-lfs-n, I've never heard of Evelyn Varden, and her Wikipedia didn't enlighten me. If you were making a reference, it sailed right over my head, each time.

Happy New Year!


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 12:13 AM
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Do I look as if I don't mean it?


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 12:13 AM
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Shit, it's late. Me too off to bed!


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 12:14 AM
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Which part of 52 is meant to be actively kind?


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 12:17 AM
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JM: She played Icey Spoon in Night of the Hunter, a movie I recommend. I couldn't remember the name of the character, hence my confusion. She, like the crazy preacher with LOVE and HATE tattooed on his knuckles, takes a dim view of sex in general and women's sexuality in particular, and at one point says A woman's a fool to marry for that. That's somethin' for a man. The Good Lord never meant for a decent woman to want that. Not really want it. It's all just a fake and a pipe dream. (she also mentions having always, when Walt, her husband, has sex with her, she just lie[s] there thinkin' about [her] canning). The point is that her enunciation when uttering the first of the quoted lines is kind of distinctive. That's the point.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 12:18 AM
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She's letting w-lfs-n feel superior. It's touching.


Posted by: Matt F | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 12:18 AM
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Wow, that parenthetical is crazy ungrammatical.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 12:19 AM
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Gute nacht, meine Zwischensprechern.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 12:20 AM
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Auf Wiedersehen, adieu.


Posted by: Matt F | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 12:22 AM
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Wow, Rot26!


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 12:27 AM
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And so the commentariat all went off to bed, each in h/h own turn, with a yawn and a stretch. Pulling up the covers and settling in, one of them, who went by Standpipe Bridgeplate but whose real name was unknown, even to standpipeself, wondered idly what the next day would bring, what posts and comments, what spats and in-jokes, and in this pleasant if slightly malodorous haze of anticipation slipped quite without noticing to sleep, and had many strange and wonderful dreams, which we won't make explicit.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 12:30 AM
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All comment sections of popular blogs have become social meeting sites. I guess we can't have deep thoughts all the time.


Posted by: colleen | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 3:08 AM
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barring Michael, who doesn't count

liar. i counted well past one thousand, once.


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 3:10 AM
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56: In that speech, she uses "flapdoodle" as a synonym for sexuality, which I always find humorous.


Posted by: minneapolitan | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 7:33 AM
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And everyone who hasn't yet should really see Night of the Hunter, it's as classically American a film as you may find. Also, for more evil Mitchum action, see the original Cape Fear which features the brilliant line: "His present lodgings are squalid, and uncomfortable!" Spoken by a lawyer, so people here should like that.


Posted by: minneapolitan | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 7:35 AM
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This is why we say the off-blog communication is sacrosanct, and not just kind of neat.

I read this as "This is why we say the off-blog communication is sacrosanct, and not just a kind of meat," which is, if anything, even more true.


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 8:08 AM
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I don't eat off-blog communication, though.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 8:15 AM
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Minneapolitan and w-lfs-n are correct about what movies you should be watching. Also: Kubrick's The Killing features Sterling Hayden in the lead role, which is as good a reason as any (and better than most) to watch a movie.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 8:45 AM
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68: And why not?


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 9:00 AM
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37: So true, which is why all offline relationships must cease and desist immediately, for the better of the group.

Unless you throw a party in the Bay Area, of course, in which case I'm in.


Posted by: Magpie | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 9:27 AM
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70: one time I tried and it made me vom.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 9:44 AM
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Dudes, we're complaining about and apologizing for in-jokes? Jesus. What's happened to us?


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 10:24 AM
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Well, I like new people showing up. And if they can figure everything out just from reading along, they will: if it's a social site for people who know each other in RL, they probably won't. Other than that, the injokes are good. (Although Buck was kind of indignant about getting banned: "What'd I say?!?")


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 10:29 AM
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Although Buck was kind of indignant about getting banned

I think you have to get banned three times before you're really in.


Posted by: mrh | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 10:34 AM
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I am very sorry for irrevocably screwing up this very serious and important weblog.


Posted by: unf | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 10:35 AM
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Yes, the banns are a multi-day process.

And if they can figure everything out just from reading along, they will: if it's a social site for people who know each other in RL, they probably won't. Other than that, the injokes are good.

This is exactly right. An injoke based on people meeting each other in real life should be called an "out-joke" or something, because it's a lesbian of a different color.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 10:37 AM
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75: Uh, oh. I haven't even been banned once. At this rate I'll never be really in :(


Posted by: Unfoggetarian: "Pause endlessly, then go in" (9) | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 11:05 AM
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But the occasional out joke adds to the sense of a blog community as warm and interesting. Let's not catastrophize; the fact that some people actually do know each other irl isn't the end of the world.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 11:13 AM
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Is it The Killing or Killer's Kiss that has a fight scene in a disused mannequin storehouse? Because that scene is so awesome.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 11:14 AM
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20: ..."older than me?" Than me?

I am so ashamed of you, child.


Posted by: DominEditrix | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 11:54 AM
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Commenters whose handles are elaborate puzzles are banned!


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 12:08 PM
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80: I totally get those two movies mixed up on the basis of their similar titles.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 12:57 PM
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80: Killer's Kiss.

Also, Lady from Shanghai has a similarly disorienting scene, only in a house of mirrors.

Not only should you all see every movie Orson Welles ever made (ok, maybe not The Magnificent Ambersons), you should all sleep with them under your pillow in order to absorb some of the awesome.


Posted by: Magpie | Link to this comment | 01- 3-07 4:41 PM
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