Again, you post right after me! Once is an unforgivable sin, but twice?!
It begins to look like carelessness.
Sweet. Is the disgreement in tenses in the summary paragraph at the top ("...says nothing much while ...spoke volumes") a meaningful construction or just carelessness on the editor's part?
I like how the last comment on the years-ago-web-magazine post suggests that Ogged will likely change the "Fewer cock jokes" description of the Unfogged Reading Group.
D Squared is a World Treasure.
I remember his comments about how good projects don't need lies to sell them but when lies are told you know the project is bad.
I wish he would post more on this side of the pond.
I officially predict that John Emerson will soon show up to comment on how good-looking Daniel Davies is.
I read the article earlier this afternoon. My jaw dropped when I arrived at the reference. Really, is that how they teach one to do citations at the University of Texas? Scrolling down through the comments, though, made me think that writing on art for CiF was only slightly less thankless a task than guest blogging at The Washington Monthly, although the latter may give rise to more unintended humor.
(Of course the article is basically right on the art. What I've been thinking about this week, though, is that despite the fact the Venice Biennale sounds very tame and safe, I can't deny that I'd probably like it better than a lot of other shows of its type.)
I think the article is very good and looks like a comment thread we had around here and so should be cited MLA style but since it's early in the semester he can have a B+.
"in several posts at Unfogged" s/b "in several comments during a two hundred some-odd thread to which I will not bother linking"
"in several posts at Unfogged" s/b "in several comments during a two hundred some-odd thread to which I will not bother linking"
Really. The sort of thing one thinks would fly in College Station, but anywhere else? Please.
is this above or below citing wikipaedia for a term paper?
Kriston probably felt that the eclectic, original methodology we have developed here might confuse the unsophisticated reader.
what's wrong with citing Wikipedia? is
He left out 'testooned with breasticles.'
To be fair to Kriston, though, it probably wasn't worth spending too long researching an authoritative cite for that one sentence.
I've moved on with my life, but Kotsko won't let go of the time I compared him to a drowned rat, not realizing that among his people drowned rats are thought of a Satanic.
Wait, these are "posts"? I gotta add about a thousand pages to my c.v.
We have a grand total of 14 click-throughs from the article so far. Maybe we'll hit 20!
Kriston's sending signals
From the Guardian 'cross the pond
He's taking strong positions
On art and le beau monde
Tracey Emin's awesome
Although she's a big slag
Her tent is so capacious
And so's her sleeping bag
She could tangle bedsheets
With Kriston any day
While Hirst is too pretentious
And his skull is kind of crap
And all we do is write blog posts
And say it's cool for Capps (it's cool for Capps).
On art and le beau monde
Should be "On l'art and le beau monde", I think you'll agree.
22:
That is fabulous.
The devil came and took me From bar to street to bookie
24: That's a different song, that's "Up The Junction"
That said, this is a very enjoyable, if lightweight, movie.
PopCanon does a good cover of "Up The Junction". Well, they do a cover, and I like it, but can't judge it qua cover, 'cuz I've never heard the original.
The original is very, very good. You have to be in the mood for it, however. Squeeze is one of those bands for me that I don't listen to often, but enjoy when I do. I can go two years without listening to them at all, and never think about them, never miss them, and then get into the right mood and listen to Squeeze repeatedly for a week and then shelve them for a couple years.
Yes, I was aware of that NickS. I agree with 2 completely. Squeeze can be addictive for me as well, but i can also find mysef not listening to them for a long time.
I agree with 2 completely
It begins to look like carelessness
I gotta add about a thousand pages to my c.v.
Holy shit! Then I gotta start commenting more. I could get tenure!
"In 1993 Jools Holland demonstrated his love of [The Prisoner] and starred in a spoof documentary, The Laughing Prisoner, with Stephen Fry, Terrence Alexander and Hugh Laurie. Much of it was shot on location in Portmeirion, with archive footage of Patrick McGoohan, and featuring musical numbers from Siouxsie & the Banshees, Magnum and XTC. Holland himself also performed a number towards the end of the programme. Also appearing was the late Stanley Unwin."
Oh God. Has anyone seen this? Stanley Fucking Unwin. It's like they made this show just for me.
Should be "On l'art and le beau monde", I think you'll agree.
You may edit it as you please, benster. I'm just touched that you care.
20 pretty much summarizes my thoughts. Woot! I post on Unfogged now!
I had forgotten about that lego stuff, the "Brick Testament." The one with a bucket of foreskins, that's about the greatest thing ever.
arthegall--I met someone who graduated from your program at my reunion last week.
I thought this video was made just for us. Gay chicken XTREME, totally and completely NSFW.
I did so bother linking! In UK style, dollars are changed to pounds and hyperlinks are deprecated.
I can't believe I'm the only person who clicked on the link in 35. And here I thought Unfogged was the Official Web Magazine for Today's Straight-Identified Gay Male.
And AWB, you call that NSFW? They blur out anything inappropriate.
I'm fairly sure the only thing that was blurred out was when those cocks were pretty erect.
30: Populuxe: voici Google's best effort - haven't watched it, let us know if it's any good.
39 is inaccurate in all its parts. Mr. Someguy was not the only person to click the link; I did so as well. My silence on the topic should not have been taken as disapproval. The video is totally NSFW; a more halfassed job of naughty-bits-blurring I have not seen. "Official Web Magazine for Today's Straight-Identified Gay Male" is a great slogan except for its exclusion of roughly half of the site's commenters and posters.
(And it's off to play miniature golf.)
I clicked the link. I don't have sound on this pc so I imagined the Sandbach accents (I've got a friend from there). I liked the snogging.
44: The snogging was my favorite part, too. That was no regular gay-chicken kissing there, but full-on hott "straight"-boy make-out.
My favorite bit is that the cocks themselves aren't blurred; only the men-touching-other-men's-cocks.
i don't find the hott/nothott distinction to be in whether the girls pulling are bi/lesbian or straight. The hott/nothott distinction is more about whether it was their idea or people were suggesting it to them. Also i totally didn't click on that link.
44: When was the snogging? I watched about half of it, it seemed pretty boring. I made it to the part when they were dancing naked in the bar. How much longer after that?
48: It's near the end, from about 2:48.
it seemed pretty boring
"I'm so straight that watching other guys get all gay just makes me yawn."
I liked all the meta, movie-within-a-movie stuff, with its thought-provoking commentary on Our YouTube Generation, black-and-white "security cam" aesthetic, etc. What would Deleuze say about this eroticization of one's own surveillance?
But you-all, that shaggy haircut has to stop. My most fashion-forward male friend--the first person I knew to wear it--ditched it long ago.
The snogging? Richly amusing.
I'm so straight that I've seen variations of most of that stuff live. But I only watched halfway, so maybe it gets better. I'll go look.
Aw, I think the video was adorable, shaggy haircuts and all.
I love how all the women are totally unimpressed, perhaps not realizing this isn't about them at all.
Well, it was certainly friendly and amiable gay chicken rather than hostile and aggressive gay chicken--that's a new thing, I think. When I was young and in my prime (of course neither the technology nor the cultural space would have existed for this type of thing) this kind of gay chicken would all have been either really fraught or really fully of surpressed violence.
Also funny how the women were filmed.
I couldn't get sound, though, so my understanding may be a little off.
Second half is definitely much gayer. I assume they're having us on, but mostly because I can't imagine all of that stuff happening in quick succession/ single night. But I can sort of see anything but the jacking-off the other guy bit happening, though, again, not constantly, as seemed to be the case in the video.
I can sort of see anything but the jacking-off the other guy bit happening, though, again, not constantly, as seemed to be the case in the video.
Right. The way it was represented, it made it look as though getting naked and fooling around with each other was not just incidental, but, like, the point of going out together.
Rugby players are renowned for getting naked together - the drinking is just an excuse.
And yoyo - it was men snogging - if you don't click the links it makes it hard to offer relevant commentary!
yeah, the sport of rugby is pretty much like that, which is why I gave up playing, after about twenty years.
Proof that too many handjobs will bring a man down eventually.
36 "wicked scepter" s/b "show me your weenis"...