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| Dec-07-09 | | Red October: <TD> both, I am an Accountant... |
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| Dec-07-09 | | dakgootje: <"The man hit himself in the face and said, 'Why does this happen to me?'"> http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/48... |
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Dec-07-09
 | | Domdaniel: <dak> Reminds me of Peter Finch in his last role, the 1975 film Network. He plays Howard, a washed-up TV news reader who has a breakdown live on air and threatens to kill himself. He's about to get fired - the execs want to 'give him the bullet' before he does it himself - when they notice that ratings for his segment went through the roof. So they sweep mental health issues aside and give Howard his own show. A young Faye Dunaway - this is about 2 yrs after Chinatown and a few more after Bonnie & Clyde - is brilliant as a super-ambitious exec. So Howard gets his show. Soon he's talking to God every day and telling a gigantic audience about it every night. One speech goes something like this ... - And so, I said to God, I said 'Lord this is your plan, but I have just one question'. Ask it, said God. So I said 'why me, Lord?' He just looked at me for a long time and then finally He said 'Because you're on television, dummy'. [no doubt somebody with the script will say this is all wrong ... but it's the gist of how I remember it.] And Finch won the Oscar that year despite being technically, well, dead. His posthumous award set a precedent for other dead folks like Heath Ledger. John Belushi and River Phoenix might have won too, but drug overdoses were frowned on by the Academy at the time. As for other contenders ... there's Orlando Bloom, but he isn't technically dead despite the CGI stop-motion pallor of his acting. Roger and Jessica Rabbit (and Shrek) were never alive to begin with, although you don't say that down in Toon Town. Johnny Depp deserved an award for Dead Man. And now you have all these pretty guys playing vampires - with absolutely no experience of being undead or immortal. Makes my blood boil. OK, it makes my blood warm up to something like the temperature of ice. Same general idea. <- Why does this happen to me?> - If They can get you asking the wrong questions, They don't have to worry about answers.
(Thomas Pynchon, Proverbs for Paranoids) |
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Dec-07-09
| | Domdaniel: I really gotta stop now. This kind of thing can make you go blind. |
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| Dec-07-09 | | technical draw: <I really gotta stop now. This kind of thing can make you go blind.> You're talking about movies, right? Because my mother told me that, uh,...nevermind. |
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Dec-07-09
| | Domdaniel: <mack> Welcome back. I'm still accident prone, as you may have seen. Come to think of it, it all began the week I didn't go to Galway. I've heard Xtians argue that the X in Xmas is really a crossing-out mark (like Derrida's erasure of the sign?) - an attempt by capitalists and protestants (same difference, Weber said) to erase Christ and replace him with shopping. Of course we know it's the Greek letter chi, initial letter of Christos, used by medieval monks in words like Xmastide and Xtandom. Gotta save that vellum, right? And you ever tried making your own ink using a sheep and some nettles? |
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| Dec-08-09 | | Red October: aah so lots of shopping will ensure you have good Chi ? |
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Dec-09-09
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom>
Thanks for your spirited defence of the Canadian Tar Sands project- very funny. More importantly, I'm glad you weren't seriously hurt. Look man we have to face some facts- as we grow older, we can't just be hurling ourselves around like we used to. Well unless we are in an actual Hurling Match, of course. And I'm not singling you out as "the old guy" here.
It applies to all of us.
I am almost 25, and I got a shocking reminder that I'm not as spry as I used to be. At work yesterday, I fell flat on my ass.
I could have broken it!!!
Luckily, I only suffered a mild bit of aching after.
I was attempting to hit a student over the head with a Plush Pig, but I fatally mis-timed my blow. In my salad days, I was both fearless and sure whilst wielding plush weapons. But no longer.....
CAUTION IS THE WATCHWORD |
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| Dec-09-09 | | achieve: Rolling over the floor LMAO...
Priceless!
<In my salad days> HAHAAA.... |
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Dec-09-09
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Thanks. You reckon this is the grim secret behind my recent accident-proneness? My brain thinks it's <just a kid> while my body has the aged tissues and crude 1950s manufacture of a <tech draw>? These are merely hypothetical examples. But it's true, I throw myself downstairs in one leap, pivoting round a banister to decelerate. Old guys in their 50s don't normally do these things. Apart from Harrison Ford, who gets paid billions of dollars and has broken a lot of stunt doubles. Wish I'd known you in your *salaud days*, though.
Been reading Hunter Thompson's last book. He made the basic journalistic error of thinking fame was good. It killed him in the end, though I guess he had some fun on the ride. |
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Dec-09-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: You know it might sound crazy, but I think the deciding factor may have been that Hunter was despondent about <John Denver> suddenly dying on his own, and thus cheating Hunter out of the chance to shoot him |
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Dec-09-09
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Didn't Burroughs write <Tar sands of the Apes> in which Canadian PM Steve Greystoke is attacked by greasy apes while looking for the Saquatch entrance to the hollow earth? Fine writer, Edgar Rice Burroughs. One of his books, Llana of Gathol, starts with an evocative description of Hawaii. Then he writes 'It is a long way from Mars' ... either the fastest jump-cut or the weirdest non-sequitur in literature. Possibly both. |
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Dec-09-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: Yes, he did.
I didn't know that <Rice Crispies> wrote "Llamas of the Andes" but I'm not surprised. I did read his <Lost Treasure of what the heck is it now> hmm... they made a really bad movie out of it
Allan Quartermain is the guy.
Lost treasure of King Tut, King Canute
no Dammit
Oh well Ok and also I am "aware" that he also wrote <She>, which was made into a movie starring <Ursula Undressing>. I haven't read or seen this- I am aware of it only because it used to be a popular crossword puzzle clue. Oh no!
<H. Rider Haggard> wrote The Lost Treasure of Something or Other, not <Bra Rice>. KING SOLOMON'S MINE thats it!!
Ok but not Rice.
Iliketarzan |
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Dec-09-09
| | Domdaniel: When the Rudyards cease their Kipling and the Haggards Ride no more? |
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Dec-09-09
| | Domdaniel: And not ANY old SHE, but <SHE who must be obeyed.> We got several of those in Frogspawn. I hear & I obey ... |
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Dec-09-09
| | Domdaniel: Meet me in Tarzana. |
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Dec-10-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom>
Are you smarter than a Chimp?
And no, it's not a rhetorical question.
There is a *real* "Are you smarter than a Chimp" quiz over at <Thorski> forum, and the humans are not as yet up to snuff. Please help defend the honor of our species.
I would do it myself, but I've got a brain the size of a peanut. |
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Dec-10-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: Heh "She who must be obeyed"
I just found the playlist for the entire <Keeping up Appearances> series on youtube. "Our Hyacinth," as you might expect, is an imporant role model for me. |
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| Dec-10-09 | | Thorski: <Jess> What are you talking about? We aced that test! That B-student chumpanzee was cut down to size, yo. Pictorial evidence FTW: http://bildr.no/view/543825
pwnd... [okay, I'm done with the 4chan memes] |
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Dec-10-09
| | Domdaniel: <jess> you ever see a chimp run into a <no parking> sign and break its glasses? |
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Dec-10-09
| | Domdaniel: my new chess glasses have been ordered with ultrathin lenses and a tiny chessboard pattern on the wing struts soon I will see thru two eyes again and both sides of the chessboard will be in focus |
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Dec-10-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: Word to you momma <Dom> that news is on point. And more Good news!
<Thor> supplied scientific evidence that he and <Niels> spanked the Monkey, not the other way around. I guess chessplayers are smarter than the average bear, and also the average Chimp. On a rare frivolous note, the test involves memory from "pattern or spatial" recognition skills. So I think our chessplayers did have an advantage over the mere mortals who went down to the Ace Ape. |
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Dec-10-09
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Pattern or spatial, eh? Like, say, astronauts who like knitting? I hear it's a popular hobby in high orbit. |
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Dec-11-09
| | Domdaniel: <mack> Message received. As requested, I count myself lucky. And not AOF. Any old heifer, innit?
The <Whiter Album> aka <Belyok> project reminds me of a recurring thing of mine called The Edna Mosh Experiment. A sweet old lady doing quantum cryptography with a hand-powered eggbeater. The original Mosh test, many years ago, featured audio tape recordings of a manual typewriter in use. Was it possible to reconstruct the text from micro-pauses and sonic shifts in the attack/decay profile of the keys? Nobody knows. Funding dried up when computers came into use. But Edna Mosh may still be working on it, against the day when post-apocalyptic terrorists go back to typewriting. Quill scratches, of course, are easily cracked.
Reason's Secreting. |
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Dec-11-09
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Am I smarter than a chimp? Depends on the chimp, really. If I were a species (diddy-diddy diddy-dum) ... all day long I'd procreate, if I were ... OK. Basta. My hypothetical species might just pip the chimp species (Pan Pan?) on IQ - in extra time, as it were, when the critters lose focus and think about the after-game banana. I never think about the after-game banana, which explains my evolutionary success. |
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