apricots from one man's orchard, or grapes from another
Low-hanging fruit.
So you were the hottest chick on an island with a bunch of classics dorks and old men. I could be the smartest guy in the room always if I hung out exclusively with fourth graders.
and playing...dominoes? Not chess.
Backgammon, surely.
3: hey, a lot of life is choosing your competition wisely.
So you were the hottest chick on an island
Second hottest, according to the post.
But that just brings us back to the Maryanne-Ginger debate.
There are not nearly so many Professor-Skipper debates. I'm going to assume this is because heterosexual women would be happy with either.
So you were the hottest chick on an island with a bunch of classics dorks and old men.
IME, among classics dorks there are many hot women.
Bro wasn't your experience at the University of Chicago, where "hot" means "no open face wounds"?
Your open face wound is getting me all hot, oudemia. Lemme smang it, gurl.
There are many hot women at the University of Chicago even outside the Classics department.
My experience also extends to the Berkeley Classics department.
If I were on Cyprus, I'd only be ten years away from retiring to banter with oblivious undergraduate women. That's going to make working to 70 much harder to bear.
I only see one open face wound on this thread, and I don't think it went to U of C (hope it didn't anyway).
I used to get confused between the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago. But after I was told that Indiana Jones went to the former, I was at least able to associate the school with somebody famous.
The inherent power of the nubile to command the attention of the male of the species would be dangerous if it fell into the wrong hands.
20: Those of Vincent Price, for example.
Leech, that's probably the creepiest thing you've written here.
21: That sounds excellent.
The parody of "The Pit and the Pendulium" [sic] is the highlight of the film
Thinking about Vincent Price Week on the 4:30 Movie, especially The Pit and the Pendulum, still gives me goosebumps.
I've actually been thinking of going on a Vincent Price binge. Besides The Pit and the Pendulum and The Fall of the House of Usher, which ones do you all recommend, creepywise?
24: snark? redfox? Doesn't one of you have an excellent blog post of an answer?
@24
The Haunted Palace is pretty good.
24: House on Haunted Hill and then, for something completely different--with Basil Rathbone---Tower of London.
The Tomb of Ligeia is also fun.
24, 25: The Abominable Dr. Phibes, which is an awesome movie.
Hot chicks to Vincent Price movies in under two dozen comments. The aging of the blog is a wonder to behold.
The Tomb of Ligeia is good; The Raven is good too, but it's a camp piece with an amazing cast than (Price, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, and Jack Nicholson in what I believe was his second movie). I also like The Last Man on Earth (which is The Omega Man/I Am Legend), but it's marred by bad production values.
30, don't blame us, blame American International Pictures.
Relevantly, Dr. Phibes has an open face wound and a pulchritudinous assistant.
Lovefilm does not have 21. How gutted am I? Extremely gutted.
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Hey, I'm back online after 36 hours without power! Actually, we still don't have power, but we've decampted to my in-law's.
Any case, what's happened on the internet that I missed?
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36: We found out that the Mayans were right.
Alternative not really creepy Vincent Price film festival:
The Baron of Arizona
That movie where he's a film star and an amateur hunter and there's some mobster trying to steal someone's face. (His Kind of Woman)
The Bribe
Leave Her to Heaven (just for the courtroom interrogation scene)
The Abominable Dr. Phibes really is great! See it!
that's probably the creepiest thing you've written here
It is Halloween, yaknow.
But also, according to your post, you and Stephanie made an effort to chat with them and so on - did anyone else do this? If not, why should they give anyone else fruit?
If Kid A had been a boy I quite fancied calling her Vinny, mostly because she would have then been Vincent Price. So nothing mockable by her peers, but her teachers would have been amused.
36: Dude, there's going to be a new Star Wars movie! Made by Disney!
What about Dr. Tongue's Evil House of Pancakes ?
Last Man on Earth is worth seeing just for the shots of EUR. Also, there's a public domain version on the internet archive.
44: See what I mean? Spot on, those Mayans.
They could foresee anything but a Spaniard.
But also, according to your post, you and Stephanie made an effort to chat with them and so on - did anyone else do this? If not, why should they give anyone else fruit?
Not to pile on, but also, why did you think of this three nights ago? Were older men once again. err, offering you fruit?
They could foresee anything but a Spaniard
Nobody expects the Spanish...
44. Actually, except for those damn kids today, who besides the Mayans went in for tongue piercing? If only there were a way to make ritual bloodletting with knotted pieces of rope fashionabvle again.
42: I had the same thought: while I'm sure the two of you were the cutest, you were also demonstrably the friendliest.
Being on the other side, I now see that it is not impressive, as an undergrad girl, to get a male grad student to date you. If anything, you can be less attractive than you'd have to be to attract a man around your own age (not that this is the case with Almeida).
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Pulchy Priv? And dead thread, I'll dump my current reading here. For the cop
Perhaps military, like monastic, society is by its very nature conducive to the formation of male-male sexual relationships.Long periods in isolation in all-male environments encourage homosexual behavior. In given historical societies, the military emphasis on physical cultivation, as preparation for the battlefield, easily has led to glorification of the muscular male physique, such as one finds both in the homoerotic sculpture of ancient Greece or the work of such sculptors as Unkei and Kaikei in Kamakura Japan (1185-1333). Public celebration of the male body in art may even influence the construction of sexual desireSuch military values as group solidarity, loyalty under conditions of extreme stress, and unquestioning obedience to authority might in some situations induce military men to engage in sex with one another and even to develop distinctive homosexual traditions. The problem can only be investigated in the context of the specific cultural and ideological environments surrounding such military societies.
It has been suggested that feudalism may encourage homosexual desire and behavior. Feudalism, in the sense of a social formation based upon the rule of a hierarchically organized military class whose members exchange service for land, arose historically in both the West and Japan (from the twelfth century) in response to the collapse of centralized state institutions.Strong men, directly governing manageble units of land and subject peasant populations through their own physical and mental attributes, constituted its leaders and heroes. Women's status declined with the evolution of feudalism; in the Japanese case, the system of primogeniture came to be applied from the fourteenth century and removed women from prestigious military and administrative positions they had sometimes held earlier.
...Male Colors:Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan Gary Leupp 1997 Pretty good book, if a little dry.
The feudalism thing is interesting, because some say we are moving into neo-feudalism. And we should not essentialize "solidarity, loyalty under stress, and obedience" as masculinist attributes.
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