When you get somebody who will take Elmo to a donkey show in Tijuana, let me know. He didn't complain about the chewing or the urine, so we owe him more than Paris.
I'll bet that the origin story of this company is as follows:
"Dad, I'm staying in Paris, I'm not going back to Smith College to finish that art history degree. What, no more money? But I NEED it. Not just for me, but for Laurent, too. Yes, we ARE in love. Wait, are you fucking kidding me, Dad you're not sending ANY money?"
I think it's kinda genius.
I wish I were a better writer, because I am currently waiting alone, in line, in Hollywood to watch a Samuri movie, and the conversations around me are something that a more articulate soul could share. "I prefer rape, but only more subtle, you know" is my favorite overheard snippet so far.
Oh shit! Two guys near me ar WWII reenactors.
And there is a Brazilian couple making out.
See if the losing re-enactor tries to go home with the Brazilian couple.
It must be complicated (or boring?) to reenact battles that aren't of the "run at each other screaming" variety.
Why should transcribing conversations require writing ability and articulateness?
4: Who'd ever think you'd need the real Rommel to show up at a movie theater.
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"And I'm like, fuck you, Brody, fuck you. I've been to the doctor.". This from the same two guys with thebrape conversation mentioned supra. I have no idea what they're talking about.
Looking at my fellow soon-to-be-samuri movie movie marathon watchers, I fear that I may not actually be very cool.
"I prefer rape, but only more subtle, you know"
Recipe for disaster, that. Tell her she needs to explain that more clearly.
Or him. Maybe not. Maybe don't try to explain anything.
Maybe don't try to explain anything.
If I had a nickel for every performance review with that phrase...
Turns out they're talking about Adrien Brody. WTF????
I fear that I may not actually be very cool.
If you were there with a companion, you could be all like, "Dude! I eat nothing but meat! Bread is for pussies! Also, Crossfit!"
Maybe Halford has entered the theater now.
Looks at childhood teddy sitting on the desk, 'you've actually been to Paris, haven't you Misiu'.
The movie in 19 is worthwhile not (just) for Seberg, but as an interpretation of two stories of Irwin Shaw, leftist expatriate for 30+ years, and in the 50s & 60s a first class ss writer.
Oh well, back to Benjamin on Baroque Trauspiel. Acedia = Ozu?
Then Naruse's When a Woman Ascends the Stairs. Some like chambara, some like shomin-geki.
In the first sentence I figured "furry toy" was some sort of euphemism, and then I got really confused as I kept reading.
Also, Heebie: "entrepreneurial." I hate to fuss, but there are standards.
Which reminds me: Why Paris? The French don't even have a word for entrepreneur.
I heard a story on the radio not long ago about the mascot of some bar -- perhaps connected with sports in some way -- that had been stolen/kidnapped. It was some kind of item/mascot thing that had stood in or just outside the bar for decades. Anyway, it was then brought around the country (U.S.) and photographed by its abductors, who eventually returned it to the bar along with a travelogue, accompanied by photos.
This got full radio coverage; it was considered quite cute by everybody. Here was the thing in Boise, Idaho! Here it was in NYC! etc. The bar got all kinds of traffic upon return of the item, so that people might view this item -- which, frankly, I have no idea what it was.
Canonically, it is supposed to be a garden gnome that goes traveling.
People seem to be kind of blank-headed about these things, and don't remember about the garden gnomes or even the leprechauns. Now, the teddy bear, my teddy bear, that's another matter.
Honestly, the thing in the OP is really, really stupid.
The theater that Halford is at is an L.A. gem. Used to be in the Pussycat porn chain, double features for $6 (maybe now $8), great programming.
When the owner passed away, the place nearly went under. Quentin Tarantino stepped in to save it -- it was his Yale College and his Harvard. Now he programs an occasional Grindhouse series.
When I was in City Hall, my office facilitated a redevelopment deal that transformed the last operating Pussycat theater into a Walgreens with affordable housing on top.
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In the first sentence I figured "furry toy" was some sort of euphemism
"Furry toy" made me think these were native French speakers cooking up this scheme, rather than Halford's hypothesized Americans. I think the French for "stuffed animal" or "soft toy" is "jouet en peluche," which would be a furry or fluffy toy.
Honestly, the thing in the OP is really, really stupid.
Yes, but maybe if we mock it well enough, the furry travel people will show-up in the comments to defend it.
Running with 33, maybe there should be a service where you can get your furry toy photographed with a talented 7-year-old violinist in random countries.
I've resolved to only mock people who are over 11.
I am so over 11. Those fights with Adrien about seeing the podiatrist again were a waste of my time and his. So why revisit them? If he doesn't like it, he can find someone else's toes to suck.
32 Yup, but a teddy bear is a nounours.
Along similar lines, but IMO far more charming, I learned this weekend that my friend and her family have a related tradition with a little character. The toy accompanied her to chemo, radiation, surgery, and now travels about enjoying life to the fullest. He is happy to pose for photos. He climbed Pike's Peak today.
Unrelated: "Peak's Pike" would be a good name for a bodice-ripper. (And a cheer for DK's friend.)
I fear that I may not actually be very cool.
In the timeless words of Elaine Benes: Is it possible I'm not as attractive as I think I am?
Looking at my fellow soon-to-be-samuri movie movie marathon watchers, I fear that I may not actually be very cool.
Your fellow movie marathon watchers are themselves soon to be samurai movies? Or … what?
I wandered by chance into an extremely hoity-toity menswear store this evening and was shocked to discover that they carried waxed jackets (for a hefty fee). Who among their clientele has any need whatsoever for a waxed jacket? (Also, handkerchiefs made out of heavy-duty, hand-dyed-in-real-indigo denim, which struck me as similarly bizarre. Who would sneeze in such a thing? And don't tell me that the practicality isn't the point—that's precisely what gets me so riled up!)
OTOH, they had some very nice-looking shoes, and multiple issues of a magazine called, I shit you not, "Monocle".
Unrelated: "Peak's Pike" would be a good name for a bodice-ripper.
There's a coffee chain in Colorado Springs called Pikes Perk.
That store is named "Unionmade" and now I want to tear a hoe in something.
Who among their clientele has any need whatsoever for a waxed jacket?
Did it stop raining up there forever or something?
I would love it if essear's 34 were a possibility. Very funny.
a magazine called, I shit you not, "Monocle".
Actually not a bad magazine; twice the price of the Economist but half the frequency and more interesting articles.
Canonically, it is supposed to be a garden gnome Baltimore PD surveillance van that goes traveling.
@48: Have I linked to Being Tyler Brule (sorry, can't bring myself to do the e-acute accent. not this morning. some other time) around here yet?
Meanwhile, this is perfect:
Bush accused of plagiarising his memoirs.
I love the following deadpan footnote from the Tyler Brûlé wikipedia article:
Brûlé's father does not appear to have used any diacritical marks or accents on the family surname.
46: I'm also baffled by nosflow's surprise. What's wrong with waxed jackets? Highly practical garment. Keeps the rain off, harder-wearing than gore-tex, big pockets.
Looking at my fellow soon-to-be-samur[a]i movie movie marathon watchers, I fear that I may not actually be very cool.
I felt the same way at a kung fu wu xia film festival at Lincoln Center a few years ago. One fellow patron even clapped me on the shoulder. [Shudder.]
As for Tyler Brûlé, I am embarrassed to admit that (i) I read Monocle when I can steel myself to pay its whopping cover price, (ii) I listen to its podcast pretty often and (iii) Lord, have mercy, I sometimes read Wallpaper* when he was the editor, because I like skinny European girls in lonely Scandinavian office buildings it made everything look so cool.
55: Are British people (P.G. Wodehouse always excepted) necessary? capable of happiness?
56. Most of us are, I think. There are always those who are only happy when they're telling other people what to do, but you get them everywhere. We're not very happy at the moment because through unforeseen accidents we've acquired a government which has sentenced us to be hanged by the neck until we cheer up. And, to add insult to injury, intends to measure our happiness using a scale called GWB.
But left to ourselves I think we enjoy the simple pleasures of life better than Americans on the whole, because we're less obsessed with being better than somebody else.
But left to ourselves I think we enjoy the simple pleasures of life better than Americans on the whole, because we're less obsessed with being better than somebody else.
I like irony, too.
56: No one knows - that's why this sort of research is so vitally important.
37: Yup, but a teddy bear is a nounours.
Yes, because it is a nounou and an ours!
58: Deliberate irony is getting a bit too continental.
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Putting Money on Lawsuits, Investors Share in the Payouts. What could possibly go wrong? Just need someone to tranche those suckers up and get some in-the-tank ratings agencies and the legal industry will join the 21st century. (Although it looks to actually be a complex subject.)
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So, how happy are those Tesco employees who are being encouraged to work short shifts? Supermarket chain is offering employees the chance to earn extra cash for Christmas by working 'slivers of time'
intends to measure our happiness using a scale called GWB.
Presumably because "felicific calculus" was already taken.
64. If they let J.S.Mill run the study I'd volunteer, but I'm afraid this ain't gonna happen.
I can see split shifts being OK for some people if they live near their job. It used to be quite common in the Post Office in Britain. Depends how much pressure they're under and what shifts are available.
Having clicked through the link in 53 to this, I'm wondering: should I be bothered by the juxtaposition of the words "modernist" and "Edo-style"? Or does this actually make since to people who (unlike me) know something about Japan?
Yes, flexible time could be very good. I am suspicious becasue of this related story that cites Tesco: Welfare reform: government backs system of working in 'slivers of time'
If the Tory's like it, it bears checking. I have seen split shifts used to screw employees.
If the Tory's like it, it bears checking. I have seen split shifts used to screw employees.
Yes and yes. "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master that's all." I don't know anybody who works for Tesco and I don't shop there, so I have no way to find out what's going off on the ground. My guess is it'll depend very much on individual store managers whether it's OKish (if you live locally) or a pain in the arse or worse.
кто кого (kto kavo, who whom) was Lenin's shorter version.
71. Are you suggesting that Lewis Carroll was a crypto-Bolshevik? Seems unlikely. On the other hand it was rumoured back in the day that there was a Maoist sect which was infiltrating the Tory party to move it rightwards and infuriate the workers. Nobody believed it at the time, but maybe they've completed their long march and are now running Cameron. That would be a turn up for the books.
The man who writes essays. Possibly the best thing you'll read this week.
66: I don't think it's saying that "modernist" and "Edo-style" are different versions of the same thing, but that it's in a historical style with some kind of modern overlay or flavor.
66:(Fuck FT) .......No, you should not be bothered
I found a stunning, modernist, Edo-style market village. What could have turned into a tacky pastiche of old Japan is in fact a cosy collection of laneways lined with lanterns, elegant signage and low rooflines. Behind the sliding screens and slatted wooden partitions is a mix of shops and restaurants that have been curated.
I think they are talking about, for instance, narrow lanes.
There is a conversation to be had about modernism and "Edo-style" (google Benjamin's "arcades project", ukiyo-e and post-impressionism, haiku & Pound/H.D.) but I don't think it's foreground here.
73 goes to how I feel about Ivy League graduates. With 30-40% cheating their asses off and a litigious no-fail policy, the first guess is that the honest students would have to up their game to compete, but more likely is that the faculty would radically lower standards.
One comment at Tyler Cowen's says this explains why our current elites are stupid, corrupt, and incompetent.
One comment at Tyler Cowen's says this explains why our current elites are stupid, corrupt, and incompetent.
That, and the whole "one third of school principals are former PE teachers" thing. Still horrifies me.
66,74:Well, look, the lack of ornamentation in Bauhaus architecture was not only directly influenced by Edo aesthetics, but for some does have thematic and psycho-social implications. Edo was, after all, the longest lasting totalitarianism in history.
One could discuss display windows in Weimar Berlin and the shoji fronts (and display "windows") in 18th c Japan, or constructivism and Stalinism, but it will make your brain hurt.
Sniff. I am not alone.
Benjamin states that the sense of progress in history can only be experienced by those who win and dominate others, and who as a consequence can regard time as the continuous and gradual expansion of the same positive principles. In opposition to what he characterizes as the winner's view, his theory of history is grounded on the notion of disaster, time as a force of destruction and corrosion. Instead of a manifestation of embodied Spirit in its path toward self-consciousness and totalization, history is a realm of suffering and permanent conflict, not a purely logical chain of constructive events, but a directionless piling up of violence. There is no teleology, but only a collection of discontinuous, ephemeral configurations of culture.
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The guy behind me on the train has been talking about goats for like an hour. Doood STOP.
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MICKEY KAUS SHUT THE HELL UP!!!!!
That, and the whole "one third of school principals are former PE teachers" thing. Still horrifies me.
You know, I'd never heard that statistic, but I had noticed that the few Facebook "friends" from high school who are principals, and school superintendents, etc. are really, truly, straight-up meatheads. Not just not-so-bright not-nerds, but straight-up big ole aggressively anti-intellectual dumbasses. It was unnerving.
The goatman has de-trained! But not before talking about poison ivy for many more minutes than I had thought possible.
But not before talking about poison ivy for many more minutes than I had thought possible.
So not urushiol suspect.
73 The man who writes essays.
I swear I read this, or something very, very much like it, years ago. Maybe it's plagiarized.