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Jun-03-11
 | | Annie K.: Heh... I'm not complaining! :D
...oh, there's also the Asimov short story 'Eyes Do More Than See'. http://www.inspirationbit.com/a-bit... ;) |
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| Jun-03-11 | | Mozart72: <Domdaniel> You are welcomed to my chessforum. |
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Jun-04-11
 | | Domdaniel: <Mozzer> Why, thank you. Most considerate. And you here, of course. |
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Jun-04-11
| | Domdaniel: Germany stricken by cucumber-borne e.coli epidemic? I mean, there *has* to be a food/orifice interface of the non-buccal variety, right? And yet I can't mention the word 'dhildo', for some reason, even though I can say "bollocks, piss off, bloody bugs". <Come in no. 1, yer time is up> When I think of the folk without no.
Who are slain by the deadly cuco.
It's a deadly mistake
Of this food to partake
It results in perpetual slo. |
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Jun-04-11
| | Domdaniel: I should rilly blow the whistle on myself for that.
Have you heard of the family Bee?
There's Wanna, there's Golds and old Tee
Wanna always wants more
And Golds lives on the floor
Increasing his chance of TB. |
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| Jun-04-11 | | dakgootje: Should've could've would've
Did you know of the guy on CG.com,
writing about everything and then some.
But then he thought it'd be fine,
self-correcting due to the post guideline
And gone was Daniels FreeDom |
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Jun-04-11
| | Domdaniel: <dak> Yes! Free the FreeDom One! Give me Liberty and give me death! The world is a prison, and this is a rooftop protest. Or mebbe an escape. |
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| Jun-04-11 | | dakgootje: Did you mother never teach you that you catch a cold standing on rooftops? Once in a bar I spoke Lady Liberty,
she planned on moving out of New York City.
She had divorced Uncle Sam,
his promises were but a sham,
she'd sleep on rooftops - such a pity. |
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Jun-04-11
| | Domdaniel: French bint, isn't she? |
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Jun-04-11
| | Annie K.: I kinda like the Joplinian definition of freedom. Sensible. |
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Jun-05-11
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> Janis or Scott? If Janis, are we talking Kristoffersonian, as in "nothin' left to lose"? Let's try it out...
<Give me nothin' left to lose or give me death!> <Work makes you have nothin' left to lose> <We, the nothin'-left-to-lose-loving peoples of the West ...> Yeah. It figures. Though I also like the e.e. cummings line, "Freedom is a breakfast food". Freiheit ist Fruhstuck, und so weiter. |
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Jun-05-11
| | Domdaniel: All things French are grist to the Frogspawn mill, naturellement. Yet we admit to some ideological qualms concerning l'affaire Strauss-Kahn. Is the French *homme* still an unreconstructed sexist brute, or is it just the rich and powerful ones? To assist les freres francais, I'm working on a new invention: the <ThermoSex Vacuum Flask>. This is a portable container in which a male can store his libido, hormonal surges, gender preferences and sense of entitlement. They are stored at a steady temperature, ready to be returned to their owner on returning to La France. <Le ThermoSex> is an invaluable tool for stressed-out high-flyers visiting Puritan countries like the USA. "Vraiment, une 'hi-tech' cache-sexe..." - DSK, Riker's Island. Buy one now and get a free pair of fur-lined handcuffs. |
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Jun-05-11
| | Annie K.: You're incorrigible, dear, but I like you that way. :p Janis, of course. OK, so we're talking about two different concepts of freedom - freedom from outside compulsion (governmental intervention, authoritarian regimes), vs freedom from personal obligations, as demonstrated by another fascinating song, 'A Little Time' by The Beautiful South: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6ZS... |
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Jun-05-11
| | Annie K.: ... or as Lenny Cohen puts it, brilliantly -
(if I remember correctly, not gonna look this up now) <I needed so much
to have nothing to touch
I've always been greedy that way>
At least we agree on Cohen. ;) |
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Jun-05-11
| | Domdaniel: Meh. Is it my fault you've started quoting song lyrics? Here's a chunk from Necroville: the speaker is a stereotypical Old Tyrant (with a twist) who is keeping The People (who happen to be resurrected dead people) in longterm slavery. For their own good, natch: "You think I am the oppressor of the dead. I am not. The irony is that no one could be more in favour of the freedom of the dead than I am. True freedom. Valuable freedom. Not the cheap freedom of political slogans or nationalism or cultural identity, but personal freedom, individual freedom, freedom that is valued, because it has been bought with a price." He goes on ...
"... trading that for some abstraction called 'rights'. Rights only apply to those who, if their rights are removed, are diminished in some way, made less human." Who knew that sf could smuggle subversive ideological debate into yarns about unlikely futures? <My friends from the prison, they ask unto me/ How good, how good does it feel to be free?/ And I answer them, most mysteriously/ 'Are birds free from the chains of the skyway?> You're right, that's atrocious. Only the young Dylan wrote such tripe, *most* mysteriously. |
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Jun-05-11
| | Annie K.: <Dom: <Meh. Is it my fault you've started quoting song lyrics?>> Well, no - that's due to my having started to spend more time on YouTube, now that I have an active channel of my own to look after. Cultural (pop!) contamination will surely follow, unfortunately. I've started looking up songs I haven't heard in years. Incidentally, what do you think of my channel? ;)
re. Dylan: not only atrocious, but also reminds me of a certain suspected ex-con we've recently had some hassles with. :p. That one certainly wasn't free - of leftover traumas, anyway. :s |
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Jun-05-11
| | Domdaniel: < I've started looking up songs I haven't heard in years. >
Me too. Mine are ineffably obscure, natch, but nothing seems beyond the reach of YouChoob these days. Wait, you have a *channel*. You're, like, a *Fox*? Wow. |
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| Jun-05-11 | | dakgootje: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC4W... |
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Jun-05-11
| | Domdaniel: <dak> Tak. A 20th century vixen, that one. I didn't really *get* Hendrix, back in the day - I wasn't sure whether 'Voodoo Chile' was about a young person or a country in South America, and shouldn't it be Haiti anyhoo? - but I've learned to appreciate him. |
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Jun-05-11
| | Annie K.: <Dom: <Wait, you have a *channel*. You're, like, a *Fox*? Wow.>> Naw, a Panama. :p
http://www.youtube.com/user/AnnieK1...
;) |
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Jun-05-11
| | Domdaniel: Ein Annie, ein Kanal ... nah, the pal in the drome won't play. "She wears a necktie and a panama hat/ Her passport shows a face/ from another time and place/ She looks nothing like that..." Dylan, Black Diamond Bay
I could try quoting what Bill Burroughs said about Panama, but it might not survive the censors. Nor should it, rilly ... "The dope is cut with talcum powder ... everything is cut with something else ... in Panama, even the whores are cut with foam rubber ..." Or something. |
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| Jun-05-11 | | dakgootje: Moreover, the hats are originally from Ecuador |
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Jun-05-11
| | Domdaniel: He's right. Also, they quietly exchanged the Equator for the Greenwich meridian and the international date line - to give it some angles and let it cool down. |
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Jun-05-11
| | Annie K.: <I could try quoting what Bill Burroughs said about Panama, but it might not survive the censors.> And I might Suez, too. ;p |
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| Jun-05-11 | | dakgootje: You would sue yourself? Sounds more like something for His Majesty Sue, but suit yourself. |
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