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I love All the Real Girls. italics.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link

General concept of art being a competition

I was thinking about this as I went to lunch just now, and actually, I think this is a huge part of what makes the Oscars so interesting to me. In the absence of any objective means by which to compare one work of art with another, Oscar winners are determined by a weird conglomeration of racial/sexual politics, Hollywood liberal guilt, studio campaigning, notions of who "deserves" to win based on past performances, the momentum accrued through the precursor awards (the December critics' awards shape the race in much the same way that the New Hampshire and Iowa primaries prefigure a political party's nominees), and other sundry factors. Watching all this play out I find to be pretty compelling.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

tell me you're kidding! what other profession is talked about with the hyperbolic, laudatory language people use when they talk/write about acting? i know you'll probably say that those people don't know how to write/talk about acting, but seriously, when people talk about how brave an actor is or how excruciating something was for them, I want to puke.

Yeah, I guess maybe what I meant to say is that people don't talk INTELLIGENTLY about acting.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

All I know is that you guys ALL win "BEST FRIEND" category!!!! :) LOL

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Talking about "how brave an actor is" does not constitute "talking about acting" to me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

That said, acting is kind of an amazing experience, or can be, sometimes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link

DUDE WATCH AGUIRRE. I'LL LET YOU BORROW IT.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link

It's called ACTING.

HI DERE, Laurence Olivier to Dustin Hoffman on the set of Marathon Man.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I am going to rassle you to the ground when I get out there.

When I said you were a snob, that was a descriptive statement, not a pejorative one. Think of a better word ("cinephile"?) and I'll use it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, question: when you people ordered from goth perfume warehouse, how long did it take to arrive? I've been waiting about a week and a half now.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link

DUDE WATCH AGUIRRE. I'LL LET YOU BORROW IT.

Hey, do you want Y: The Last Man back? There's no reason for me to have them, except for a hazy memory I have of you telling me to keep them. But they're yours, and I'm not likely to re-read them or anything.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link

It's a gift!

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll take 'em.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

It was "Oscar dork" I obj'd to more, actually. Eric co-writes two giant columns abt the nominations and awards every year, I'm not in his league.

I am thinking of staying near Wrigley Field not Uptown this summer.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link

unless i'm actually going to a game, and even then it's about 50/50, being in wrigleyville makes me want to kill myself in the summer.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

hello there, dark chocolate with orange and spice. nice to meet you.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Paczki!

http://hamtramckstar.com/media/blogs/hs/Paczki-sm.jpg

I've had TWO today. Good thing I'm going to the gym tonight.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

summer in hamtramck i don't need to watch tv
sit out on my front porch see all i got to see...

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I have 3 friends who share a house in Hamtramck. Knowing them I'm reasonably certain they've had at least one each today.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

It was "Oscar dork" I obj'd to more, actually. Eric co-writes two giant columns abt the nominations and awards every year, I'm not in his league.

Few people are. But still, you care enough to post about them on the Oscars thread, and you remember awards history beyond a year or two ago, so I think that qualifies you.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

kev, I wd only be sleeping there

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Does it taste like a little jelly donut?

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Or a big one, yes. The ones that were brought into my office are sort of in between tennis and baseball size.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link

morbs, upon further reflection, 80% of chicago makes me want to kill myself in summer. dan, last year i had a raspberry paczki that almost put me in a diabetic coma and also weighed roughly 87 pounds in my stomach. it was so fucking good.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh I know all about the diabetic thing. The first one I had today just about made me shoot through the roof. The second was kind of a more mellow effect. (Maaaaaaaaan)

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link

My newly found obsession with jelly donuts has led me to this:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VYMb_LPN1dI

(Jelly Donut Freestyle Battle... I'm crying laughing)

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Apparently, Lady S0V is not a fan.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link

DUDES!!! I am grouchy again.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link

My managing editor got me a $10 iTunes certificate for my birthday, how nice!

Tell me some trackz that I should purchase with it, chilx. I'm thinking stuff I'd probably never ever get on my own...

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

new york groove by ace frehley, obv.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

IT'S A WASTE OF $.99 DAN!!!!

you have to have a pre-existing relationship with the song for it to be right.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Sarah don't be grumpy about that thing.

― n/a (n/a), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Now you have to tell us what it is.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

i just took Carl for a walk from our house, down Clark, over Devon and up Sheridan back to our house. It's a beauuuuuuuuutiful day.

I wish I had a paczki.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

here's something to make you feel better:

http://www.chicagoist.com/attachments/chicagoist_laura/2006_2_paczki.jpg

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

PLZ NO MORE PACZKI, TUMMY HURTS

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

LAUREL - it takes FOR. Ev. R. for BPAL to get their lovely smells to you. But they will come.

Amanda said something up there somewhere that made me snortOL and *heart* her more than ever but now I can't remember what it was or why I liked it so much. Whaddya know about that?

I do know that I sure liked Bubble and All the Real Girls.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I liked All the Real Girls a lot. I forgot about Bubble -- maybe I should rent it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link

And I fucking want one of whatever you people keep posting photos of, goddam it.

I am in solidarity with the people who have a guilty love for the Oscars that is more about looking at what people wear than caring about the movies.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, I forgot to tell you (Laurel) that it takes 14-21 days for the smells to arrive. when they do, though, you'll be happy!

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks, I probably could have figured that out from the fine print somewhere, but I was waiting for two things to arrive today and feeling not in control of all the shipping confirms and bank charge dates and etc.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, I said way upthread, when Jesse asked me why I was excited about the Oscars, that gaping at what people are wearing was one of my reasons.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Then you are one of the people with whom I stand in solidarity re: Oscars. Although, I don't usually watch that part on TV. I just wait excitedly for gofugyourself.com to update the next day.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I am bummed that no one has stepped up to join the trivia team. I guess I could ask the guy I know who was a three-day Jeopardy! champ, but I'd rather not.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 00:25 (seventeen years ago) link

WAIT. There is a good possibility that the thing I was supposed to do Thursday night is now canceled in which case I could probably do the trivia. I won't know until tomorrow, though.

Also, there was a blind guy on the bus and he got off and the bus driver said, "You can cross now!" and he crossed the street but ran into two stopped cars and then almost fell down a storm drain because he was kind of off kilter from the cross walk since the bus stopped in the middle of it so he was pretty unsure of where he was going. For some reason this made me think of Jesse. I'm sure that it was a little freaking to the people in the second car because he just barreled right into their driver's side door. He eventually got on the sidewalk and got oriented, though.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 01:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Informal poll time!

True or false: silverware drawer dividers are silly.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000EFMQZS.16._SCLZZZZZZZ_SS260_.jpg

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 02:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Note: This is probably one of those things that I have a strong opinion on for about as long as it takes for somebody that I like to say, "I have one of those and I think it's great!" at which point I will totally take back everything I just said.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 02:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm torn, because I wish I could use the one I bought, but it doesn't fit into the kitchen drawer. I should probably just line the drawer and dump everything in there.

Pros: lets you see how many forks you have left, good for the blind

Cons: don't fit into my kitchen drawer

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 02:25 (seventeen years ago) link

srsly, i have three kitchen drawers, and they're all six inches wide. Who designed these cabinets?

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 02:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I have the same problem as Kenan, and now it rests on the back porch windowsill of the kitchen.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 02:36 (seventeen years ago) link

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