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| Aug-12-07 | | euripides: ... unless, of course, the <dom> was suggesting that those ignorant of logic should spend their time performing in circuses (est meaning 'eats' rather than 'is'). |
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| Aug-12-07 | | Zebra: so, <Jess>, are you busy learning Korean chess? :) www.chessvariants.com/oriental.dir/koreanchess.html |
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| Aug-12-07 | | Ed Trice: <euripides> If you were correct, I would agree with you. :) |
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Aug-12-07
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <Zebra> I'm not against the idea of learning <Korean Chess>. Not at all. However, can't I also play <Classical Chess> in Korea? I'm hoping somebody plays it.
I don't want to be the only person in Korea with a classical chessboard. How embarrassing! I've grown to HATE playing chess on the Internet. I like OTB only now. Zebra are you in <Japan>? Is there a ferry boat from <Japan> to <South Korea>? |
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Aug-12-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Ah hello again <esteemed Step Pyramid>. Yes I worked hard on <Dom's> autobiography, much research was involved. I think I'll move it over to his place in case it gets "lost in the shuffle" here. |
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| Aug-12-07 | | euripides: When my esteemed successor - did he know my plays ? - gave his Roman hero the line 'there is a world elsewhere', he expressed my sentiments about Athens very satisfactorily. |
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Aug-12-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Heh.
And yet you DID return, much like <Douglas MacArthur>, to stage your masterpiece <The Bacchae>. A little known fact is that <MacArthur returned to Korea in order to stage a very well-recieved production of <<<<Toad of Toad Hall>>>>> <Roman Hero> you mean <aeneuseus>? (I add extra letters to this word so as not to get in trouble with the <censors>). |
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| Aug-12-07 | | euripides: <jess> I rather think I snuffed it in Macedonia with the Bacchae unperformed. I have no doubt that Vergil knew my work, but Aeneas is not really up my street (the Roman poet who was dotty about me was Ovid). I was thinking of one of my two great successors in Western drama -the second of whom is Mozart. (Think tragicomedy). |
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Aug-12-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Oh ok then.
Didn't they have riots when you were expelled?
Like they had riots in <Montreal> when the <NHL> suspended <Maurice "The Rocket" Richard>? <Mozart>? So <opera> would be a form of drama. Ok I've no problem with that. Did Mozart write any of his own <librettos (libretti? libraries?)> though? OK <tragicomedy>. Er... <Moliere>? I'm guessing wildly, I DON'T EVER <GOOGLE>. I happen to think using <GOOGLE> is "common." Marie Antoinette. |
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Aug-12-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: OH wait <Shagspr>
<Coriolanus>???
He's a Roman and the play is a <tragicomedy>. Do I win a <bun> yet? I'm just using my so-called "memory" I well never GOOGLE this dam question. |
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| Aug-12-07 | | euripides: Spearshake (as I once heard him rather refreshingly called on the news). I would very much like to know how much he knew about Euripides. Mozart (whose operas may be directly indebted to both Euripides and Spearshake) didn't write his own libretti, but the music does most of the work and he collaborated very closely with his librettists Schikaneder and da Ponte. Mozart's letters are full of childish rhymes some of which recall numbers in the Magic Flute. Coriolanus' goodbye to Rome, which I quoted, is one of the great statements of ancient aristocratic independence. I can't remember whether whether Spearshake stole that line from something in Plutarch. |
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Aug-12-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: YAAAAAAAAAAAY I FINALLY GOT ONE!!
I even got the Writer and the play and I didn't use that cursed short cut <GOOBLE>. Thanks <Euripides>. Now I don't feel quite so bad about that travesty of a chess game I played on the Internet yesterday. Maybe He read about <Euripides> in <Bede's history>? a <travelogue by Christopher Marlowe> entitled "Why I visited Greece?" I'm grasping at straws here... |
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| Aug-12-07 | | euripides: Straws are all we have to clutch at. Sadly, if the Milk Shake had been demonstrably influenced by me, someone would probably have branded it by now. But I like to think so. To put it another way: in all three comedy has a way of stealing the show from the tragic hero. Wimpy, our detractors would say. |
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Aug-12-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Well I'm not surprised, since <comedy> is "funny". So is <<tragedy>.<<<<Mark Twain>>>>: When asked what made <American humor> unique, he said "Well if someone slips on a banana peel that's funny. But if someone slips on a banana peel, falls and dies-- That's even funnier"> True story there.
HAHAHA.
sigh. |
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| Aug-12-07 | | Dr. Siggy: <jessicafischerqueen>: I would tell you to check right here for < Sonja Graf-Stevenson > ; but, after such a warm reception, I gather it will be better for me to stay out of your blog. Best regards from <Dr. Siggy>. |
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| Aug-12-07 | | Ziggurat: <jess> Re: chess & Korea - South Korea has 2 (!!!) players over 2000 ELO. (and one with exactly 2000) Meaning, they really don't play much "international" chess over there. They do play a lot of go and Korean chess. This is more similar to Chinese chess (xiangqi) than to international chess. I actually played Korean chess with some North (!) Koreans in a smoky dorm room where the bookshelves were lined with the collected works of Kim Il Sung. (This was in Beijing, China) |
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Aug-12-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Ziggurat>
NOOOO...
OK if Korea has two players over 2000, that means some Koreans play <classical chess>. <Daegu> is a very large city. There must be at least ONE classical chess club in this city? I'll die without OTB classical chess.
Really, I will.
I just spent a whole freaking year studying it 24 hours a day almost. |
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| Aug-12-07 | | MyriadChoices: < jessicafischerqueen: Well I'm not surprised, since <comedy> is "funny". So is <<tragedy>.<<<<Mark Twain>>>>: When asked what made <American humor> unique, he said "Well if someone slips on a banana peel that's funny. But if someone slips on a banana peel, falls and dies-- That's even funnier"> > That's one of the many misquotes attributed to Twain (Wilde is another famous character who has more quotes attributed to him than he would care to shake his ass at). The real story is
"Tragedy is when I cut my finger, comedy is when you fall in to an open sewer and die." -Mel Brooks. |
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| Aug-12-07 | | Dr.Lecter: <jess> I'm sorry to tell you this, but Korea's world chess ranking is somewhere in 140s. Because of this, there are very few serious chess players in Korea, and I think almost not a single tournament. I think there might have been one in the past year that was hosted by FIDE, but I don't think there will be many more. Looks like you have to fall back to internet |
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Aug-12-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Noooooo <Dr. Lecter>. I don't need strong opposition cuz I'm a crap player to begin with. Just tell me there is ONE <classical chess club> in <Daegu>. That's all.
I can't beat anyone over 1800 anyway.
Or, lately, 1400 for that matter. |
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Aug-12-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Myriad> thanks for the correction! Another popular misconception:
<Beyonce and Christina Aguilera> are good singers. In fact, oddly enough, they merely <screech like stuck pigs>. And act like them as well, come to think. |
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| Aug-12-07 | | Open Defence: hmmm I actually like their singin.. though <Beyonce> cant dance as well as <Shakira> |
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| Aug-12-07 | | Ed Trice: <Open Defence> Dancing is a poor substitute for what it symbolically wishes to efficate. |
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Aug-12-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: We'll have to <agree to disagree> here <Deffi>. I'd go even further. I think they are more damaging to the <social fabric> than <phosphates in the groundwater>. |
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Aug-12-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Hey <Trike>, What's up? I see you are "proceeding by means of implication" again. Don't want to get "nailed down," eh?
Well better safe than sorry, I suppose. |
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