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I probably enjoy unfogged for comments like 1, and the existence of the bookthread earlier.
It seems that I may not actually be that well read.
Just 'cause I like to back up my confessions with evidence, here are the books that I've never even heard of (there are so, so many that I haven't read):
Julian Malory (Excellent Women)
Charles Arrowby (The Sea, the Sea)
Percy Mannering (Memento Mori)
Aylwin Forbes (No Fond Return of Love)
Stephen Colley (I Capture The Castle)
Desmond Ragwort (Thus Was Adonis Murdered)
M. Héger (Villette)
Inspector Alan Grant (The Man in the Queue)
Rockingham Napier (Excellent Women)
Mr. Neville (Hotel du Lac)
Edward Driffield (Cakes And Ale)
Justin Alastair, Duke of Avon (These Old Shades)
I immediately did a search for Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton and found that right below Carton on the list is Aslan. Aslan! Bestiality and Christ-fucking all bound up in one character!
The list is more idiotic than disturbing, except for the inclusion of Peter Pan and Aslan. Also, Ulysses is not British literature.
4: I don't think it's a big deal. I've heard of (read, even) Vilette, and I think I Capture the Castle, but otherwise none of the books on your list. And I have a PhD in literature.
Pwned, but on the subject of Aslan, there's the barbed penis, which ought to count significantly against his bangability.
4, and
Cakes and Ale is by Maugham, isn't it?
Memento Mori rings a vague bell.
23. James Bond (Casino Royale)
61. Winston Smith (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
What? James Bond in Casino Royale is one fucked-up, violent, repressed dude, with issues you wouldn't want to be involved in. Winston Smith? Really?
I'm actually okay with Aslan, but have no idea what to make of Peter Pan.
9:Memento Mori is by Muriel Spark. I knew I had heard of it.
I apologize for the unnecessary hyphen in 10.
Don't forget Tom Bombadil. (In with a hey-lol ring-a-doll-dillo at #21.)
Where's Hamlet? Some chicks dig that emo shit.
Also, Ulysses is not British literature.
I tried to read Joyce and couldn't stand it. Despite having no reason to care, I feel very strongly that you are right about this.
Really surprising that Hamlet's not on there, yeah.
I'd forgotten who Tom Bombadil was: someone is having us on with this list of bangables. I mean, I'm sure Tom Bombadil is great, but he doesn't spring right to mind, if you see what I mean. I never did like Aragorn, for that matter.
16: What you don't know won't hurt me.
That was supposed to be me also.
We were discussing this list on FB and all I could think was that it shows the person making the list hasn't read very much British literature. That's fine, of course, but odd that such a person would choose to write up a list about it. Also, I get that it's supposed to be some kind of all-inclusive spectrum, but placing a bunch of re-animated corpse flesh as your #1 doesn't put one in the mood.
20: Either you weren't looking closely at how the list was numbered or I'm going to go read Jane Eyre as soon as I can get a copy.
I really enjoy 11d but I forget to go read it.
No, Frankenstein's monster is at #111; it's pretty clear that the last few on that list are deemed quite UNbangable. Uriah Heep?
23: Right, I get that. I'm not sure what the point is of making a list that includes all the unbangable characters and the medium-bangable characters, unless your point is to show that these are all the books you have ever read--in which case, she's missing, um, a lot of books that would seem pretty crucial for such a list.
15:A lot of people blame Joyce for that failure.
Thanks to whomever in the previous thread that sent me to Sylvia Beach. Read some of her autobiography today.
"Melancholy Christ" Beach and Monnier called Joyce.
The Sea, the Sea is by Iris Murdoch. So much will go unread when I die.
There are people who have read less literature than is indicated by that list.
A lot of people blame Joyce for that failure.
He tried harder than most to avoid being British.
But, it probably is his fault that the books he wrote are hard to get into.
Ooh, we can play something like Humiliation. The only books on Halford's list I've heard of are Villette and Cakes and Ale. (Might have even read the latter, but Maugham books are kind of blurred together in my memory.)
I also haven't heard of:
- Right Ho, Jeeves (I'm aware of Jeeves and Wodehouse, but didn't know that was a title)
- London Fields (by Martin Amis, Google tells me)
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles (I've heard of Poirot and Agatha Christie, but again, didn't know that title)
- Flashman
- Crow
- The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard
- Wolf Hall
- The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
- Cover Her Face
And then there a whole host of others I've never read....
There are people who have read less literature than is indicated by that list.
And they probably would not attempt to write a comprehensive list of how bangable men in British literature are.
Perhaps it is a deeply, uh, contrarian attempt to point out that lists of bangables in literature (or elsewhere) are silly and somewhat offensive. I don't know, but from that perspective I appreciate the effort.
27:Uhh, wrong.
Joyce had a British citizenship and passport, IIRC, for his entire life. Was opposed to the Gaelic movement and not interested in the War of Independence.
28:Just maybe me, but at least in English or translation, I didn't believe there is any literature I can't read, and if read wisely, wouldn't like. This served me very well.
I am now making a list for German literature. It may not reach 111 entries. I will share when I'm done.
33.1: Indeed I was. For some reason I thought he fought in the Easter Rising. I suppose I have him confused with somebody else.
We were discussing this list on FB and all I could think was that it shows the person making the list hasn't read very much British literature.
That makes sense, because whenever I look at The Awl I suspect that its bloggers watch far too much television.
As for "banging" (grow the fuck up, The Awl and related sites) Aslan, (i) I think I'm offended, exegetically and allegorically, and (ii) he is not a tame lion.
1. the Captain (Elective Affinities, Goethe)
2. Stephan Murai ("Brigitta," Stifter)
3. speaker of the poem "Unter der linden" (Walter von der Vogelweide)
4. Major Crampas (Effi Briest, Fontane)
5. Botho von Rienäcker ("Delusions, Confusions," Fontane)
6. Herman/Hermine (Steppenwolf, Hesse)
7. Mackie Messer (The Threepenny Opera, Brecht)
8. Melchior Gabor (Spring Awakening, Wedekind)
9. Wilhelm Meister (Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Goethe)
10. Max Piccolomini (Wallenstein's Death, Schiller)
11. Lord Seymour (The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim, Sophie von La Roche)
12. Hauke Haien ("The Dykemaster," Storm)
13. Hans Castorp (The Magic Mountain, Mann)
14. Karl Moor (The Robbers, Schiller)
15. Ferdinand (Intrigue and Love, Schiller)
16. Egmont (Egmont, Goethe)
17. Leonce (Leonce and Lena, Büchner)
18. Faust
19. Nathanael ("The Sandman," E.T.A. Hoffman)
20. Malte Laurids Brigge (The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, Rilke)
21. Parzival (Parzival, Wolfram von Eschenbach)
22. Oskar Matzerath (The Tin Drum, Grass)
23. Werther (Sorrows of Young Werther, Goethe)
24. Josef K (The Trial, Kafka)
(I sort of can't believe I just did that. But I just taught my last class of the semester today and don't really feel like doing anything useful.)
30: How can you not have heard of Flashman? There are a whole bunch of novels: better to read them in series-chrono order, but my favorites are probably Flashman and the Mountain of Light and Flashman at the Charge. Or consider Fraser's excellent WWII-in-Burma memoir, Quartered Safe Out Here.
I find it strange that the author considers Flashman, of all people, to not be bangable. What criteria are they using?
B -> &loz B, as it were.
He gets it on in the book! And apparently his partners like it?
Not as weird as Aslan, anyway.
He gets it on in the movie too. I didn't throw up at that part, but at the eel part, and have a hard time thinking of any part of it erotically.
(ii) he is not a tame lion
And even if he were, he would still have a barbed penis.
To 39, I'd add the nameless subjects of all those poems by Müller et al. that Schubert et al. set to music. One big emo party.
44: When I rewatched the movie a couple of years ago, the sex scene made me think, Oh yeah, I forgot about that, but the eel-fishing scene I've never forgotten.
Werther?! And among Mann characters I wouldn't have thought Castorp would be at the top. How about Felix Krull? The ladeez seem to like him.
42 Eww would be anyone from Torless. Speaking of, there is a serious deficit of Austrian/A-H authors on the list even though the inclusion of Josef K suggests that it's German language and not German citizens (a problematic category before the last third of the 19thC).
Werther is at the bottom! Like Frankenstein on the other list. Do not want to bang Werther. And very much not Josef K (shudder).
I didn't spend much time on the list, so I surely left off some good candidates. Suggestions? And yes, German language, not German citizens. Stifter's representing A-H way up near the top!
And I'm pretty conflicted about Mann in general (those qualities in him that make him good make me really squirmy and uncomfortable), so Castorp is sort of an ooooooooookayfinehere'saManncharacter. I can hardly bear to think about the characters in most of his short stories.
One assumes that there is no corresponding list of female characters in British literature.
Werther is at the bottom! Like Frankenstein on the
other list. Do not want to bang Werther. And very
much not Josef K (shudder).
You could have signaled that more effectively by putting Gregor Samsa (Metamorphosis) at the bottom of the list.
Suggestions?
Joachim von Pasenow, from The Sleepwalkers? Austrians are good at writing unpleasant characters, but I can't think of anyone bangable in what I've read by Musil, Bernhard, or Jelinek.
27:Uhh, wrong.
Joyce had a British citizenship and passport, IIRC, for
his entire life. Was opposed to the Gaelic movement
and not interested in the War of Independence.
What? No longer rebelling against the tyranny facts, bob? They're merely tools of power and bourgeois dominance, right?
For pity.
Not sure, but surely one can find some good ones in Schnitzler's stuff. I'd like to say someone in Johnson because Jahrestage is one of my two favorite German language novels along with Man Without Qualities and if you want unbangable ones, Torless' two friends should qualify.
And among Mann characters I wouldn't have thought Castorp would be at the top. How about Felix Krull? The ladeez seem to like him.
Nah, it's gotta be somebody from The Transposed Heads.
Austrians are good at writing unpleasant characters
The two dudes from "Liebelei" (can't remember their names). Totally bangable, and then you'd regret it for ever after.
Sebastian Horsley, now he was a character.
) I enjoy unfogged for comments like 2.
Austrians are good at writing unpleasant characters, but I can't think of anyone bangable in what I've read by Musil, Bernhard, or Jelinek.
What about Paul Wittgenstein?
58: I haven't read that one. Did you find him bangable?
I found him interesting, at least.
Plus, his shit is way tormented.
Surely there are people in Freud's writings who belong on the list.
Maybe the idea is "111 haphazardly selected characters from British literature, arranged in order of their bangability, just to be whimsical, you know?"
It's possible that you're all overly educated.
Also, can Pip be at the bottom of the list? Seriously, right after reanimated corpse flesh.
Finally, the Aslan thing... Man. This is deeply, deeply weird, people. This is weirder than paying to have your brain cryogenically frozen. It's weirder than...shit, I can't think of a second thing that's even close enough to be a useful illustration. That weird.
Don't forget the barbed penis, dq.
Aren't tons of nuns supposedly fantasizing about fucking Jesus, or have I just read too much French 18C anticlerical stuff? If there are, Aslan makes sense - strong, brave, good, and furry genre character who is a representation of JC.
62 was pretty close to my first impression. Whimsical idea, easy to throw together, flattering to people who recognize the names, sure to get some traction in social media, and stupid easy money for the writer.
66: So we've fallen right into her trap! D'oh!
There is a barbed penis involved. How much sense does that make? None. None sense. Also, it's a fucking Jesus lion. A lion! This isn't friendly, shirtless, hunky Jesus for former gays, it's a motherfucking giant cat. I would probably be less flummoxed if the list were called "oddest fetish fucks from English literature" or something, but it's not. It's supposed to be about bangability, which definitely involves a casual attitude. Point me to the person who would casually fuck a lion so that I can walk hurriedly in the other direction please.
63 suggests that Dona should not read Neil Gaiman's "The Problem of Susan".
Essear, "The Wolves of Willoughby Chase" is the first book in a rather lovely and demented children's series from the '60s. And isn't Tadzio the canonically bangable Mann character, if you are a dirty old German man like all people who write for The Awl?
67: Every time you click on the link, a creative writing major gets a rejection notice.
68: Have you considered the possibilities associated with the prehensile tongue?
If this is any guide, a tiger is even worse than a lion.
Look, if at least some chicks didn't want to bang Falstaff, some of us wouldn't have gotten laid in their 20s.
Point me to the person who would casually fuck a lion
Right? Dress formally. It's a lion. Have some pride.
oddest fetish fucks from English literature
I have no doubt that this idea has been thoroughly explored, and the proof is just a few keystrokes and clicks away.
It's a lion. Have some pride.
Hey now, lion group sex is another matter all together.
Correction: every time you click on the link, a creative writing major gets a job writing copy for the site in 72.
If we could get some MFAs in here I'm sure it could be made a lot more explicit.
The first page of search results is using "literature" rather loosely.
If we could get some MFAs up in here it could be made more explicit and more intimate.
For God's sake, Chopper, don't do it. Think of your children.
I was trying to think of an appropriately Aschenbachian way to allude to Tadzio earlier, but got distracted.
Thanks for explaining The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, snarkout; lovely and demented children's books sound like a nice diversion I should seek out.
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Black Box Recorder's cover of "Uptown Top Ranking" is pretty strange.
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Some of the dementia takes a little while to show up. But it is there, all right, in spades.
Some of the dementia takes a little while to show up.
It's often that way.
My love for Stanley has been reaffirmed yet again.
My love for Stanley has been reaffirmed yet again.
4: Inspector Alan Grant is the protagonist of a series of detecitve novels by Josephine Tey: dour, not too good a sense of humour, tendency to be racist towards the Scots and Irish, believes Richard III did not murder the princes in the Tower.
And the list reads like a list of "books I remember from childhoood, school and what I'm currently reading".
Meanwhile America has hot chicks in Batman shirts.
Alan Grant IS Scottish, I'll have you know.
Ulysses was published before December 6, 1922, so it's British literature pretty much by definition.
re: 86
If by strange you mean great.
re: 94
As was Josephine Tey, for that matter.
Speaking of things Scottish, all the results aren't in, but it's looking like the Sottish National Party are hammering Labour in the Scottish Parliamentary elections.
94: sure, but he certainly internalised his own oppression.
99: Labour meanwhile is hammering the LibDems in the local council elections in England if the Guardian is to be believed.
re: 101
Can't be too upset at either of those trends, tbh.
Random thoughts:
All the books on that list are famous, for some value of famous, except "Thus Was Adonis Murdered", which is an obscure whodunnit by an equally obscure lawyer aunt of Alexander Cockburn who wrote four of them and then died. It's very entertaining but I'm not even sure it's in print, yet both the male protagonists count among the 111 most bangable? WTF?
Hot chicks in Batman shirts are qualitatively better than wanting to bang the boy who never grew up. Sorry, paedophilia squicks me a lot more than furrydom. In some contexts, hot chicks in Batman shirts are better than most things.
Labour win control of Sheffield. Will this affect our redundancy process? I'm betting not.
Labour win control of Sheffield. Will this affect our redundancy process? I'm betting not.
Arggh. That's shit re: redundancy process.
FWIW, according to the latest union briefing I had, my union is planning further and more drastic industrial action.
More power to you! What sort of more drastic? More frequent/indefinite strikes? Work to rule? When do you move on to occupations?
As far as I can see I'll be out of work from late August. I could care more - I'll be 60 and I've got no mortgage.
ttaM's right about 86, by the way. Great find. It's like The Flying Lizards meets The Ipcress File meets, well, Althea and Donna.
Austrians are good at writing unpleasant characters, but I can't think of anyone bangable in what I've read by Musil, Bernhard, or Jelinek.
Could one stretch a point and bring in Schwejk? Austro-Hungarian, if not actually Austrian. And we are allowing Kafka, after all.
107: The Man ohne Eigenschaften I read was pretty much about two utterly bangable characters.
Also, it's a fucking Jesus lion
Just remember no bestio and pretend you're a lioness.
re: 106
They are a cracking band. Probably my favourite of Luke Haines' various projects. They had one almost hit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP-2VLQEv4c
re: 105.1
Targeted action to disrupt external examination and admissions, I think. I'm a bit nervous re: longer term strikes as financially it'd wreck me [not that I'd scab, of course]. But more aggressively targeted action, I'm in favour of.
This isn't friendly, shirtless, hunky Jesus for former gays, it's a motherfucking giant cat.
This isn't even the only cat on the list! You've also got
5. The Beast ("The Tiger's Bride")
Right? Dress formally. It's a lion. Have some pride
This comment deserves some love.
Thank goodness for Stanley bringing back some respect for our school.
63 suggests that Dona should not read Neil Gaiman's "The Problem of Susan".
We were howling like wolves last night while reading Gaiman's excellent kids book: The Wolves in the Walls.
BR was howling from downstairs. My son was howling from the third floor. My daughter was giggling and attempting giggling howls.
39: I think from Gunter Grass in adition to Oskar you can have Joachim Mahlke from Cat and Mouse as a an actual positive representative.
Gigglyhowl should be the name of a new Pokémon friend of Jigglypuff.
Somebody should feel whoever writes Pokémon shows to lions and wolves.
I kind of took the Peter Pan thing as a remembered crush, and less of a desire to bang Peter as he is now. Like how we went to see The Sandlot in theaters for a birthday party or something, and all the girls swooned over the obviously hunky one, and even I was like, yes, that is a hunk, good to know, and then you see it years later and think: no. Nope. That is definitely a little boy. Because you are no longer 10.
But now that I think about it, Peter Pan is definitely a certain demographic's idea of perfection, and that is...uncomfortable.
63 suggests that Dona should not read Neil Gaiman's "The Problem of Susan".
Anyone who likes Neil Gaiman will find that cured by a screening of the animated Beowulf. Gilded draconic child my ass, Gaiman!
119: The essential goodness of Moby's heart compelled him to make the apparent error in this comment.
Children's TV has ruined my brain.
119: Hey, the episode where Pikachu gets electrical influenza/constipation was highly dramatic. The kids had to use a giant electromagnet to cure him!
120: Bangable, though. Bangable. Like rough nasty merciless banging. No ambiguity here I fear.
123, 124: Seizure Pokémon FTW. NSF photosensitive viewers.
125: What next, Christopher Robin?
I was disappointed that Stephen Dedalus didn't make the list. As of Bloomsday, June 16, 1904, he hadn't taken a bath since October 1903.
bob, as the resident Joycean, do you know if Joyce hated baths too?
127: We have just finished reading the original book. I want to kill Eeryore and many of the rest of them. The current Disney version is much less annoying.
Moby, objectively pro-IP terrorism.
But he can be made happy so easily! Give him a popped balloon and a jar to put it into and take it out of, and you have a contented donkey.
129: "That Accounts for a Good Deal. It Explains Everything. No Wonder."
132: "It goes in and out like anything."
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Pull up your pants and pull your cock out of that goat!
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Bangable, though. Bangable. Like rough nasty merciless banging. No ambiguity here I fear.
Yeah. This is...yeah.
Ewwwww.
I find that I want to spend the rest of the day tending to street urchins and sick widows.
Does anyone remember the talking Eeyore stuffed animal they had at FAO years ago, and was even better than that depressed non-bouncy ball in the antidepressant commercials? You'd squeeze it and it would intone, in a voice devoid of hope, "Will you be my friend?" It was kind of amazing.
#6 on the list gets it exactly wrong. It's the narrative voice in Don Juan that is so bangable, not the character of Don Juan. In other words, it's the Byron-persona.
Do you think there'd be as much interest in coming up with a list of female characters? What I mean is, do you think literature has actually supplied us with enough interesting, fully rounded, and bangable female characters to effectively populate such a list? I'm reminded of when we discussed this last, and I had a serious problem coming up with m/any.
(Unrelated: my crush on Alison Brie has reached debilitating heights.)
Frankenstein's monster comes in last, but you just know the good doctor went the extra mile when constructing Frankenstein's monster's monstrous member.
140: just starting with the male list, quite a few come to mind: Harriet Vane, Becky Sharp, Cathy Earnshaw, Marianne Dashwood, Cecily Cardew, Lizzie Bennet, Jane Eyre, Irene Adler...
You could probably come up with a fair number of ineffably compelling objects of desire as seen through the eyes of male viewpoint characters, but you'd run into trouble on "interesting, fully rounded." If you held out for interesting, I think you run into problems with what exactly you mean by 'bangable'.
142: "He's going to be very popular."
141: She was the hottness on Community this week. Is this the greatest television show ever?
I have no idea what "bangable" means in the United States, but in Britain (and, I believe the Antipodes) "bang" was a gender neutral and sometimes intransitive slang for "fuck" that was current about 45 years ago.
I have literally not seen or heard it, even ironically, since around 1972.
Sophia Western. Widow Wadman. Viola from Twelfth Night. Milton's Eve.
148: About the same, but with a strong connotation of love-'em-and-leave-'em. I don't think there are a lot of men out there who close Pride and Prejudice and think "Phwoar, that Lizzie Bennett. Wouldn't want her around for long, but I bet she'd be a tiger in the sack." (Whereas that, mutatis mutandis, seems like a perfectly reasonable reaction for anyone who found Mr. Rochester appealing to have.)
Diana Villiers. Kate (the Shrew) Minola. And yes, Molly Bloom. So there.
151 con't: And maybe not quite as dead in the US? I still wouldn't expect someone to use it if they weren't being funny, but I wouldn't boggle at it.
150: not Lizzie, no. Lydia, on the other hand...
149: Grendel's mother in last place.
141: She was the hottness on Community this week. Is this the greatest television show ever?
Community is awesome.
this is a good article about magnitude:
http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/pop-pop-magnitude-community-oral-history?page=0%2C0
All the books on that list are famous, for some value of famous, except "Thus Was Adonis Murdered", which is an obscure whodunnit by an equally obscure lawyer aunt of Alexander Cockburn who wrote four of them and then died. It's very entertaining but I'm not even sure it's in print, yet both the male protagonists count among the 111 most bangable? WTF?
Especially sent me those books! They're fantastic and I've lent them out to a few more people. I would have to meet them to be sure, but I suspect I'd bang both the male protagonists.
156: I am excited to read this. Magnitude is fucking hilarious. POP POP.
Glencora Palliser, Hetty Sorrel, Martha Dunstable (Ointment of Lebanon heiress from Dr. Thorne).
Florence Dowell from The Good Soldier, but it's NMM to her before the book's over.
This is me, except swapping subjects.
Oh, definitely Maggie Tulliver.
I should probably pull my leisure reading out of the nineteenth century sometime.
161: Funny, Stanley. Now go and say 20 Hail Marys.
Eustacia Vye, Tess Durbeyfield, Lucette Le Sueur, Bathsheba Everdene, Arabella Donn, Jenny Jones.
166: And keep your hands where we can see them when you do.
Community is awesome.
Indeed, as is Parks & Rec. I declare Amy Poehler a genius.
So you're the person in charge of the MacArthur thing?
Who's Jenny Jones? She's not ringing a bell, and the name's too common to google.
The reliability of the bangability list is seriously hampered by movies and theater productions. How can one now imagine Darcy as other than Colin Firth? (Though if anyone actually pictures Keira Knightley as Lizzie Bennet, that's just sad.)
You'd squeeze it and it would intone, in a voice devoid of hope, "Will you be my friend?" It was kind of amazing.
At least two chyk grad students in French at Steinford refer to me as "Eeyore". Maybe I should play it up?
Who's Jenny Jones? She's not ringing a bell, and the name's too common to google.
A lubricious character in Tom Jones.
174 contains a mild and somewhat misleading spoiler, I guess, but Tom Jones has been out for a while.
Jenny Jones is a comedienne-turned-trashy-talk-show host
re: 172
IMHO, Knightley is a much better Bennet than Jennifer bloody Ehle. Ditto, for that matter, McFadden.
174: Oh, the one who may have been his mother?
178: yes.
The part of that scene with the oysters—this bit—was mildly shocking to me the first time I saw it.
Harmon: … In the end, I really liked Magnitude because I realized that the reason he calls himself Magnitude is because [sic] it stands for Magnetic Attitude.
Countee: This guy has a nickname within a nickname.
Awesome.
178: Yes, and out of place at the end of a list of notable Thomas Hardy female characters.
181: So that attracts you with significant force?
177 probably sounds overly emphatic but there's something sort of simperingly supercilious about Ehle, I much prefer Knightley's performance (although she's been definitely not great in other films I tend to find her fairly charming).
I can conclude from this discussion that my problem is in fact "reading." I dont know who most of these people are, but dammit, Alison Brie would overlook this seeming flaw if were ever to meet.
The other show I watch is Parks and Rec, and Sir Kraab gets it exaaaactly right.
I am also one of the 5 people that watched Mystery Team, Donal Glover's comedy group's movie. It has some amazing moments.
Wikipedia informs me that Ms. Brie's mother is Jewish.
I mention this because on Mad Men it always seemed pretty weird to me that Pete was marrying someone who seemed so, well, JAP-y. Was I imagining her apparently Jewish features? It seems I was not!
The part of that scene with the oysters--this bit--was mildly shocking to me the first time I saw it.
You were 9 years old?
184: I'm forced to admit that I've only seen a couple of scenes from the Knightley* version, so I'm not a proper judge of her overall performance, but the scenes were terrible. I don't think Ehle is great, but she mostly gets the job done. I find the woman who plays Jane in the 1995 version entirely insipid, but I *love* Lydia.
*And speaking of Knightleys, the 2009 BBC version of Emma is mostly wonderful.
Wasnt lydia saffron in abfab? Yeah, love her.
You were 9 years old?
You have to remember, from my perspective the movie was only made in the very same year that sexual intercourse was invented.
I mention this because on Mad Men it always seemed pretty weird to me that Pete was marrying someone who seemed so, well, JAP-y.
Me too. Briefly in the first season I wondered if it was a plot point that she was Jewish. Especially because I was watching community concurrently.
OT: World's tiniest violin watch. "Mooooooom! He hit me back! Waaah!"
192: Not setting my disappointment aside, but, um, HA. MOAR PLZ.
One is made a bit uncomfortable by discussions of "looking Jewish." (NB: In that context, "Semitic" is not an appropriate alternative.)
I can see being put-off by the P in JAPpy.
Best lines:
"That might not matter to a White House that's already monomaniacally focused on 2012. Democrats are obsessed with the money game, in particular rubbing out any GOP opportunities that came with the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision to restore some corporate free-speech rights."
"If the president wants to shut down the possibility of bipartisan accomplishment on those fronts, a raw, election-motivated attack on Republicans is one sure way to do it."
Project much, you big baby?
196: "corporate free-speech rights" is a doozy and a half.
I'm reading the Berenstain Bears series! With my butt.
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Friends, could someone please send me an article from JSTOR?
The American Economic Review > Vol. 49, No. 5, Dec., 1959
Choosing Among Alternative Public Investments in the Water Resource Field.
I don't mind if you read it first. Thank you.
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199: Will have it on its way in just a minute.
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Yglesias writes:
the falling price of iPads doesn't offset the increased price of food because "I can't eat an iPad." Which is true. But you also can't send email from a banana or watch streaming video on a bag of rice
Chortle.
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And getting caught in the rain!
re: 188
FWIW, I think the Knightley/Joe Wright film is pretty good, and I've seen most of the BBC and other Austens. It has a few cheesy moments, mind, but there's something different about it that, for me at least, I found fairly charming. Rosamund Pike is (literally) luminous.
Rosamund Pike! That is a crush I had totally forgotten about!
Aaaaaaaand it's back.
Also, we now have occasion to use the #tortureperv thing, for those of you on twitter.
I started to send JMM an email asking why he keeps giving that asshat any attention, but then I figured what's the use?
Clara Middleton (The Egoist).
Also, I'm surprised no one had their pedant hat on for this:
Look, if at least some chicks didn't want to bang Falstaff, some of us wouldn't have gotten laid in their 20s.
Though perhaps those with the pedant hat perpetually on would note that, indeed, some of us did not get laid in their 20s.
103, 157, Thus Was Adonis Murdered etc
I don't think they're out of print. They're cheap and easy to find in both online and real bookstores, anyway. Those books are so great. I really wish there were more than 4 of them.
I started to send JMM an email asking why he keeps giving that asshat any attention
This is a frequent question I have for him. Cf. Christine O'Donnell.
Jean Templer
I'm going to do the expected thing here--both for myself and my namesake--and counter with Pamela Widmerpool, née Flitton.
Back to the original list, though: hrmph. My namesake ought to have been on there somewhere.
211 - Christine O'Donnell is just a grifter who may or may not be a witch. John Yoo is a tenured law professor at Boalt Hall who was given his own syndicated newspaper column. I have to say, I really admired Brad DeLong's willingness to be stand up and be the vocal asshole on the topic of Yoo's tenure.
213: Yep, how's that working out for you now, UCB Law?
I am apparently the only 18cist alive who prefers the Knightley/Wright P&P to the BBC one, but I'm with you, ttaM. I liked it. And wanted to do Rosamund Pike, who is not nearly as luminous ever in other things. Mmmm.
Wow, you all weren't kidding about this week's Community.
I haven't watched Community in ages, but I've been TiVoing it, and based on 216 I started watching this week's episode.
I'm only at the opening credits and I can already say that 216 gets it exactly right.
Seriously, it's so good. This season is totally meta, and I get not connecting with it emotionally, but even on the basis of being a commentary on sitcoms, it's amazing. (Like the episode that promised to be a take on Pulp Fiction but turned out to be a sitcom version of My Dinner with Andre.)
And wanted to do Rosamund Pike, who is not nearly as luminous ever in other things. Mmmm.
Yes, she was a total revelation to me in 'An Education'. And seems very nice/funny in interviews [along with being teh hot].
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Profoundly hungover, despite not really drinking much yesterday. This sucks. I blame Acton.
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189: my wife's current doctor in residence looks exactly like saf from abfab, including some of her manner. Very strange.
Frankenstein's monster comes in last, but you just know the good doctor went the extra mile when constructing Frankenstein's monster's monstrous member.
Film evidence . Not to start discussions of consent again.
my wife's current doctor in residence looks exactly like saf from abfab, including some of her manner.
I'm not sure I'd find that very comforting.
223: saf is the sensible daughter, chris, not either of the drunken lunatics or the braindead secretary. Good thing for a doctor.
I blame Acton.
Now there's a motto to live by.