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I'm putting on my Christmas wish list:

Robert Frost poems
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crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 1 December 2006 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Because lots of names that end in -ian are Armenian and the presence of Zs is another tipoff: witness Bezazian.

Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 1 December 2006 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

God I love Robert Frost.

I Googled Bezazian and the first result was the Bezazian branch of the CPL. My drawing professor was Armenian and his surname was An@ni@n.

crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 1 December 2006 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

"The environment of my life causes me sudden horror because it is my irreparable petrification, the proof that I am this and not A or B. To travel is to invent a spatial future. Instead, if I stay, I destroy even the temporal future to replace it with a matchbox future, a future of weekends, new detective stories, Thursdays with Olga and Sundays at the cinema. I know how many shirts I have in the closet. The wall of my office is a vertebra. Soup, then soup. Then this blue armchair."

- Julio Cortazar

whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 1 December 2006 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Translation: I feel stagnant and unhappy.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 1 December 2006 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I like detective stories and the cinema. I think I'd probably be into Olga too.

JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 1 December 2006 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Soup, then soup. That's so great.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 1 December 2006 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I just watched an episode of America's Test kitchen wherein they made chicken and dumplings. I come from a slick (or slip, I swear my family used these terms interchangeably but it seems that whichever one I use, I get mocked for not using the other one) dumpling family but this recipe made puffy, biscuit-like dumplings over a very rich stew and looked reeeeeaaaaaaallllly good. The heavy cream and chicken fat make it inappropriate for regular consumption, but I'm thinking as a nice new year's day dinner, it would be absolutely delish.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 December 2006 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link

nervous and i were in the same musical appreciation society back in college

grbchv! (gbx), Friday, 1 December 2006 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I've already had lunch, but I want it again. I'm think my body is mistaking sleepy for hungry. It does that sometimes.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 1 December 2006 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

nervous and i were in the same musical appreciation society back in college

VINDICATION!

jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Someone brought in a bunch of Ghirardelli chocolates, including an eggnog-flavored chocolate. WAHT.

jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link

^^^^ sucker

grbchv! (gbx), Friday, 1 December 2006 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link

:D

grbchv! (gbx), Friday, 1 December 2006 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I'm going to wear this costume to my step-family's xmas party:

http://feministing.com/vaginacostume.jpg

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 December 2006 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link

It's not an ornament, but I don't think that will matter, in the end.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 December 2006 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link

will you deliver a....MONOLOGUE?

HAHA:LKHF:LKAHL:DKFHL:KDFlk;jsadl;kfjasdfjkljdaksjdf

grbchv! (gbx), Friday, 1 December 2006 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

i immediately regret that

grbchv! (gbx), Friday, 1 December 2006 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Someone throw a beer can in the direction of Montana, would you? You guys are closer than I am.

Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 1 December 2006 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

throw west young man

grbchv! (gbx), Friday, 1 December 2006 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link

rimshot.jpg

JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 1 December 2006 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I think dressing as a giant cartoon penis is just the kind of thing I would do. At least nobody will ask you, "What are you supposed to be?"

whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 1 December 2006 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link

holy fuck, shoveling almost killed me. plus the 3 mile walk back from harlem & lake didn't help. but goddamn, am i gonna sleep well tonight.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 1 December 2006 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Someone throw a beer can in the direction of Montana, would you?

gbx, i have a fridge with 13 frosty old styles in it and before she left my friend said she stashed a 30 pack in the bedroom closet for me (there was a party here two nights before she left). i have no want for beers.

but my arm isn't that good so if you want to partake, star walking.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 1 December 2006 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm the fuck out. Have a good weekend Chi.

JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 1 December 2006 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link

okey dokey

whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 1 December 2006 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link

i would like a half-dozen beers, plz

grbchv! (gbx), Friday, 1 December 2006 22:44 (seventeen years ago) link

i immediately regret that

hee! people saying this is my favorite thing.

horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 1 December 2006 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha! I almost posted that here! Funny.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 December 2006 23:23 (seventeen years ago) link

In news that is likely only exciting to me, a friend of ours writes stories for video games and named a non-playing character in an upcoming game after me.

"Specialist Burg3ss is in the tavern of the main base, talking about ethics and morality and the ignoring of the Geneva Convention."

I'm in a tavern! Talking about ethics and morality and international law! IT IS LIKE REAL LIFE!

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 December 2006 23:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Reading Robert Frost is like eating Jenny's stuffed squash, or like doing a chore that you find satisfying like running the weedeater: it's delicious, wholesome, plain, yet nuanced. You can kind of feel the poetic nutrients absorbing in the fabric of your mind. It's like a snack of nuts and berries, or charcuteries.

And the saw snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled,
As it ran light, or had to bear a load.
And nothing happened: day was all but done.
Call it a day, I wish they might have said
To please the boy by giving him the half hour
That a boy counts so much when saved from work.

This piece is great, but so much better on a re-reading, with knowledge of the end:

They listened at his heart.
Little—less—nothing!—and that ended it.
No more to build on there. And they, since they
Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.

Now I'm off to the Holiday Club to meet Satchel for a drink.

crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Saturday, 2 December 2006 04:20 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a trumpet play in front of the Jewel playing Christmas songs. He or she is not good.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 2 December 2006 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I had a wonderful day with Julia. We watched TCM and stumbled across a movie that hardly seemed worth watching, until, of course, we started watching it. "Paper Moon" with Ryan O'Neal and a ten-yr-old Tatum O'Neal, who apparently won an Oscar for it. Just charming as all hell. Very funny, too.

And then I came home and watched "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," which is my second favorite Hollywood musical. Sexist? Oh, hell yeah. On one level it's ludicrously sexist, but that's all parody. On a deeper level it's good ol' fashioned 50's sexist, and that's harder to swallow. But know that going in, and it's just marvelous. The songs are great, and I sing them in the shower sometimes. ("Bless your beautiful hide / Wherever you may be.") The dance numbers are so great that they made me a little misty, no joke. There are not a lot of movies that make me choke up because of how unrepentantly JOYOUS they are. They don't make those at all anymore.

The #1 musical, though, is always "Singin' In The Rain," which I watched on Thursday night. And yeah, I don't know what it is that makes me get all misty when Donald O'Connor does "Make 'em Laugh," but it gets me every time. It's a totally different kind of misty than at the end of "It's A Wonderful Life"; less sappy but somehow more nostalgic. It's not tugging at the heart strings, but it's tugging at something. It's a feeling of, "Now THIS... this is perfection."

whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 3 December 2006 04:13 (seventeen years ago) link

First thing out of bed this morning, I regaled Julia with a number fron Singin' in the Rain.

Don't bring a frown to old Broadway
Ah, you got a clown on Broadway
Your troubles there
[flourish] THEY'RE OUT OF STYLE
for Broadway always wears a smile

etc.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 3 December 2006 04:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I am not a homosexual.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 3 December 2006 04:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Methinks you doth protest too much.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 3 December 2006 05:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I did once march down Broadway in the driving sleet to the tune of a bagpiper playing "Singin' in the Rain". We twirled around a couple of lamp posts for good measure before we froze solid and had to be chipped out of our ghillies.

Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 3 December 2006 05:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Methinks you doth protest too much.

I know I do. But if only you knew how very very much I like girls...

The liking of musicals is harder to explain, is all.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 3 December 2006 05:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Methinks you doth protest too much.

I ALWAYS PROTEST TOO MUCH. ABOUT EVERYTHING. I PROTEST ABOUT EVERYTHING I CAN THINK OF BECAUSE I'M COLOSSALLY INSECURE. This should not be news, exactly.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 3 December 2006 06:08 (seventeen years ago) link

...neither should it be endearing.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 3 December 2006 07:18 (seventeen years ago) link

bah, i was supposed to watch charade last night and there was a change of plans.

young tatum o'neal reminded me a lot of my sister when she was little...probably that whole little-girl-who-looks-like-a-boy, not the adorable/manipulative thing. my sister didn't look like tatum o'neal when she got older though.

WHY THE FUCK AM I AWAKE. so fucking sleepy. i woke up at 6:30 and dammit it's sunday.

JuliaA (JuliaA), Sunday, 3 December 2006 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Good times:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bP21zUrMh7s

whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 3 December 2006 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I saw that guy once, it was fun. Probably the best one-dude singer/songwriter gig I've seen.

JordanC (JordanC), Sunday, 3 December 2006 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I am sad to say that I am considering taking a money-saving measure that will reduce my enjoyment of life: I may be saying goodbye to cable TV. I considered 86ing Netflix too.

Which will it be? Netflix or Cable?

crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Sunday, 3 December 2006 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Biggest bills:

Rent
Cell phone
DSL (landline and internet)
Cable
Electricity
Gas

crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Sunday, 3 December 2006 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh yeh, and

Student loan goes in right after Rent.

crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Sunday, 3 December 2006 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

netflix >>>> cable

JordanC (JordanC), Sunday, 3 December 2006 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, plus Netflix is less than $20 a month! Cable is like twice that, isn't it?

Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 3 December 2006 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I would ditch the landline. Unless you can't. I would keep cable over netflix, you know, since you like watching sports so much these days. Call up your cable company and tell them you are leaving so that they give you a better deal.

Jeff... (Jeff...), Sunday, 3 December 2006 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link


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