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Jul-15-07
 | | Domdaniel: <mack> Ah, there you are. Am reading "Krakatoa - East of Eden", as promised. |
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Jul-15-07
 | | jessicafischerqueen: Ah thank goodness the days are back, however fleeting, when one may enjoy her morning coffee ruminating over a witty conversation in <venerable masters's> forum. NEVER GO AWAY AGAIN!! (unless you have something fun to do. Like play in an important chess tournament, shag a bird, look at a cloud, read a "paper" book, listen to the radio, invent a better cigar humidifier, well you get the picture) Jess |
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| Jul-15-07 | | mack: <shag a bird>
I know there's a joke to do with cormrants here, but I don't know what it is... |
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| Jul-15-07 | | mack: <Krakatoa - East of Eden> Sometimes you're *far* too clever for your own good. More please, BBC! |
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Jul-15-07
| | Domdaniel: "The common cormorant, or shag
Lays eggs inside a paper bag."
Very multipurpose word, shag. It was also the name of a 1960-ish dance craze in the USA, and a movie, Shag, directed by Zelda Barron around 1989. I interviewed Ms Barron at the time, had a pleasant conversation, and then snuck off and wrote an article which couldn't help playing with the various meanings of 'shag'. Ms Barron replied that I seemed like a nice young man but she'd have hit me with her handbag if she knew I was the dirty double-crossing type. There's also a completely different Irish movie in which somebody mentions shagging and snogging and an American woman says "Shag? Snog? What are they, rodent sex words?" |
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| Jul-15-07 | | mack: Oh arse, I misspelt 'cormorant'. |
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Jul-15-07
| | Domdaniel: But the cormorant isn't the only bird with a shag angle. The notorious Python Dead Parrot sketch (cf Eyal, passim) refers to being "shagged out after a long squawk", a feeling we all know only too well, I'm sure. |
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| Jul-15-07 | | WBP: <Dom> <Am reading "Krakatoa - East of Eden", as promised.> Did you know (I'm sure you do) that Krakatoa is actually west of Java? Interesting, but I've been reading a book called krakatoa: The day the World Explodded, by Simon Winchester (who probably knows a thing or two about explosions, if he's related to te rifle-making family). It argues that Krakatoa was the first real World Event (in a Global Village sense), the first event the whole world more or less experienced as a whole. |
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Jul-15-07
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> So <IdleNomad> wasn't up to the mark, then? I shall withhold his emolument. |
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Jul-15-07
| | Domdaniel: <Bill> What about the Yucatan meteorite that ended the age of the dinosaurs? It might have been 60 million years ago, but it was a global event. |
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Jul-15-07
 | | WannaBe: <WBP> S. Winchester is a geologist, but I find his "Professor and the Madman" along with "The Meaning of Everything" to be a joy to read. I've read "Krakatoa", the above mentioned 2 books, and "Crack at the Edge of the World", he is really quite good. No, I do not believe he is related to the gun family. :-) |
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| Jul-15-07 | | WBP: <Dom> Yeah, that Yucatan fireworks show sure puts the rest to shame, the Big K included! Sure hope the dinosaurs got in their last minute jollies! (On a similar note, have you read Cormac McCarthy's The Road? I don't quite like it as much as his earlier works, but it's a terrific depiction of a post-apocayptic world.) <WannaBe> Thanks for the note. I didn't immediately recognize his name in association with the Professor and the Madman. I'll have to check out more of his work. And enjoy the IPAs! |
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Jul-15-07
| | Domdaniel: <Bill> For some reason, I haven't read anything by Cormac McCarthy. People keep telling me I should, though. |
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| Jul-15-07 | | WBP: <Dom> Yeah, I'm a big fan, especially of his earlier works, and most especially Child of God and Blood Meridian, which maintain a great deal of ambiguity. I think in his later works (the Border Trilogy, for example) he is a little too hung up on the Western Ideal [men of honor--a dying breed, the values of the older times crushed by modernity, etc.) for my taste, though they are still very well written and great stories. He can sure write a damn fine sentence, though. Terrific stylist. (The later works tend toward a sparer narration--more Hemingwayesque, whereas the earlier works have more in common with Faulkner [Southern gothic, dark humor, relatively speaking more elaborate sentences, and so forth--perhaps another reason I prefer the earlier works). Good one to start with: Child of God. Short, dark, hilarious, twisted, brilliant (IMHO) |
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Jul-16-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> if you keep quoting <Powderfinger>, I swears to God... Heh it's a great song eh?
Canadian, too.
OHHHHHHHHHHH CAN A DA
OUR HOME AND ABLATIVE LAND
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Jul-16-07
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Re Powderfinger: I actually went out and bought Rust Never Sleeps on CD a few days ago. Great stuff. I'd never actually had a copy before, so how exactly bits of Powderfinger got stuck in my brain is a minor mystery. I think I'll be a park bench mutation when I grow up. |
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Jul-16-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Rust Never Sleeps is OUTSTANDING
"this is the Stooooory of Johnny Rotten"
No mystery here: <Powderfinger> is one of the greatest songs ever written. "Big Dom's been drinkin since the sliver tooky Emmy's Toe," (I made a less drastic version, with a "sight rhyme" at the end cuz I didn't want you to get alarmed by the REAL lyric in that line). Jess of the <Gutting stories if they are too scary Police, Frying Squad> |
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Jul-16-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: HEY! What about self-made WOMEN?
Or, even worse, self-made WYMYN?
Or, what about self-made HERMAPHRODITES?
Need I remind you that <SLUGS> (heh) are Hermaphrodites? Jess of the <Gender Police>, Flying Nitpicking Squad, Entertainment Division |
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Jul-16-07
| | Domdaniel: Questions, questions. Why is that message posted <there> as well as <here>? Are there actually two Jessicas? One for each of the main genders? El Domerino |
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Jul-16-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: No, I "double post" in case someone doesn't check all the fora. Actually, I put my BATCHIMEG AT THE MOVIES reviews in a whole bunch of places, but so far there's been only a small response. |
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Jul-16-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Here's my latest in case you didn't see it.
Oh no!
it's another <Batchimeg at the Movies>! Number 5: <Silk>
STARRING: <Chang Chen> (Annie Hall), <Karena Lam> (Transformers), and <Barbie Hsu> (Charlie's Angels VII) DIRECTED BY: <Chao Pin Su> (Schindler's List, Ernest Goes to Summer Camp) TRAILER: http://www.Ever_Pee_thru_a_ghost?.htm
Synopsis:
Scientists invent a "sponge" thingy that allows people to not only walk on ceilings, but to see ghosts. A ghost is captured (much like in <Ghostbusters>) and then starts killing people by sticking his hand into their chests and squeezing their hearts (much NOT like in <Ghostbusters>. The ghost becomes particularly (and understandably) angry when a drunk accidentally pees through him. The <Bond-like> hero "bonds" with the ghosts by understanding that they are merely misunderstood ectoplasm who want a little love. REVIEW:
"There is Great Chaos under Heaven and the Situation is Excellent" MAO DSE DUNG-- "COMMIE CRACKPOT WEEKLY" BOTTOM LINE: Nobody does ghosts better than Asian filmmakers, and now <Taiwan> adds perhaps the best ghosts ever put on screen. The best part about Asian ghosts is A. They creak a lot
B. They are really pasty looking
C. They move in a very cool jerking motion
D. They like to kill "whitey"
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| Jul-16-07 | | WBP: <The ghost becomes particularly (and understandably) angry when a drunk accidentally pees through him>. You just can't miss with a film that combines the unutterable pleasures of horror, ghosts, alcohol, and golden showers. BTW, on a similar topic: They should make "Depends for Chessplayers." Not only will players be able stay at the board and concentrate that much longer, but we can for once and for all do aways with that new bane of chess tournaments: potty visit cheaters. The Marketing Department |
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Jul-16-07
| | Domdaniel: <gweilo spooks> In the film Ghost Dance somebody asks Jacques Derrida whether he believes in ghosts. He replies "You are asking a ghost whether he believes in ghosts". Spooky, huh. |
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Jul-16-07
| | Domdaniel: <Bill> Are you taking the pith? |
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| Jul-16-07 | | WBP: <Dom> <<Bill> Are you taking the pith?> No, just humming that old Irving Berlin chestnut, "Urine the Army Now!" |
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