Re: Does Analia know?

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She does now!


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 11- 2-12 9:57 PM
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Extend McLuhan's formulation: Everyone gets to be a schmuck for at least 15 minutes. He's got his MSR right there.


Posted by: Biohazard | Link to this comment | 11- 2-12 10:04 PM
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No mention of toilets. I am Jack's crestfallen feeling of disappointment.


Posted by: Lord Castock | Link to this comment | 11- 2-12 10:09 PM
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2: I think you mean Warhol's formulation?


Posted by: Lord Castock | Link to this comment | 11- 2-12 10:12 PM
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Castock has Warhol right here.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 11- 2-12 10:21 PM
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5: Imagine Castock standing in line for a movie.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 11- 2-12 10:23 PM
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Thank you for making that explicit, JP.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 11- 2-12 10:26 PM
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Really! Just imagine!


Posted by: Lord Castock | Link to this comment | 11- 2-12 10:29 PM
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I'm here to help, neb.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 11- 2-12 10:31 PM
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(Honestly, I'm just trying to deal with the fact that I never, at all, wanted to know Slavoj Zizek's preferences about anal, oral and fisting, and now I cannot un-know these things.)


Posted by: Lord Castock | Link to this comment | 11- 2-12 11:05 PM
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I moved a chair over by the window.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 11- 2-12 11:20 PM
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Wrong thread. Not that there's a right thread.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 11- 2-12 11:21 PM
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The list of similar users is nice. All of them are "more adventurous".


Posted by: mcmc | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 6:42 AM
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I thought Zizek was an invention of Kotsko in order to fill dead air on twitter.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 8:32 AM
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Yes, Warhol. Some of the Sixties were seen through blurred eyes.


Posted by: Biohazard | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 8:39 AM
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Huh, Analia is a real Spanish name, used in Argentina, a d really is the name of Zizek's wife. Never let it be said that you can't learn anything here.


Posted by: Roberto Tigre | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 8:50 AM
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10: I don't want to shock you, but I suspect the profile is a fake.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 8:52 AM
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Thank you for making that explicit, neb.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 8:55 AM
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Go hang it in your ear, JP.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 8:56 AM
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I cannot in all honesty say that I really understand that idiom.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 9:00 AM
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Slate on Le Guin new story collection

They always transcend, and they are always about people, and she is not a moralist. But it is the project of a pacifist, or leftist, or however she would most happily describe herself, that many of these writings are about horror, and therefore about violence. The distress of people is displayed in the quiet, tooth-drilling way that only Le Guin can command. We must be shaken by what actual humans do for it to be distressing again. We are always having to give up on being horrified by the day to day. It takes an art to reinvigorate our feelings.

Last night I watched Takeshi Kitano rape three women, murder a wife, try to drown a son, knock some teeth out of his teenage daughter, and beat maybe twenty grown men into pulps. Then dying quietly in bed in his 80s. Blood and Bones truckload of awards

They are not my favorites, as sweet as they are. For all the famous "quality" of a New Yorker short story--and that reputation is on the whole reasonable--Le Guin wrote stories vastly more rich, far more assured, and often far more devastating than these two, and instead they appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov's, and also Fantastic (RIP), Crank! (RIP), Universe (RIP), The Blue Motel (IDK!?), and so on. How wonderful that these publications existed and published and even sometimes paid. I hope everyone involved had so much fun. At least from here in cold 2012, so much closer to the end of the world, it looks like a cozy sun porch on an apple farm.

I get nostalgic for the 60s and 70s too.

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Posted by: bob mcmanus | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 9:09 AM
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16 Huh, Analia is a real Spanish name, used in Argentina, a d really is the name of Zizek's wife.

Otherwise, based on the profile, you would think he needs two more named Oralia and Fistula.


Posted by: essear | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 9:11 AM
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20: But that evidently didn't stop you from using it.
#learnedsomethingaboutsomeonetoday


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 9:14 AM
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From what I can find it seems to have been CB slang. But Cassell's Dictionary of Slang has it 1960s+ for US campuses, but with a somewhat different meaning.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 9:21 AM
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20: But that evidently didn't stop you from using it.

I picked it up from me dear old dad, who used to use it as an affectionate rebuff.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 9:23 AM
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an affectionate rebuff

Aww, I didn't know you cared.

But enough about us, let's talk about fake Zizek!


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 9:28 AM
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I thought Zizek was an invention of Kotsko in order to fill dead air on twitter.

Intriguing. Maybe Z is joint Kotsko-Holbo invention.


Posted by: AcademicLurker | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 9:35 AM
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is a


Posted by: AcademicLurker | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 9:37 AM
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Maybe it's an early telephone-age expression, referring to the receiver.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 10:29 AM
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When you work with a Difficult Person, you have to pick you battles, often letting them get their way on trivial things. But sometimes you work with a Person who is so very Difficult, that they can create a fight without anyone else taking the other side. Letting them have their way on an issue thus merely sparks a massive, fraught campaign on their part against their own idea.

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Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 11:15 AM
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For the last few days I can't tell who's actually pissed off at whom around here and who's kidding. I feel like I need emoticons.


Posted by: Mister Smearcase | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 1:16 PM
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Heh. Not funny. I know people who have slept with Zizek, so picturing him naked and getting it on every time his name comes up is something I have battled with for years.


Posted by: Britta | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 1:19 PM
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32: People? As in, multiple persons?


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 1:20 PM
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30: If I ever make really big fortune cookies, I'm going to borrow that.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 1:22 PM
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My students found it humorous this week that Zizek always refers to intercourse as "the sexual act." We're going to call it that in class for the rest of the semester. Did the sexual act occur? The sexual act did not occur.


Posted by: AWB | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 1:23 PM
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33: I'm pretty sure Zizek has a grad student in every port.


Posted by: Britta | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 1:25 PM
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In the age of containerized shipping it's easier than ever to have arrange for your favorite grad student to be present wherever you have a speaking engagement.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 1:34 PM
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My 30 was in reference to my work situation, not anything going on here.


Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 1:45 PM
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31: I feel like I need emoticons.

But would people use them straight or ironically? Every system of communication contains within it the seeds of its own subversion.

;-)


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 1:49 PM
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Every system of communication, indeed communication, does not merely contain its own subversion as a potentiality within itself, but positively prepares that subversion for itself, for the "open world" which any communicative system must presuppose, the possibility of novelty which sets such a system apart from a mere code, precisely requires ironic play with the sign, so that even ironic use of an emoticon stands revealed as a "straight" use at a higher order.

:P


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 1:57 PM
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8===):
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Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 2:01 PM
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40: I saw that.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 2:03 PM
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42: me, too.


Posted by: x.trapnel | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 2:04 PM
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OGC


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 2:04 PM
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That's great.


Posted by: x.trapnel | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 2:08 PM
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43, 42: which version did you prefer?


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 2:13 PM
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44: dextronormativist.


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 2:17 PM
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If lefties don't like it they can go invent their own alphabet.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 2:22 PM
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Sinister emoticon orthography is similar, but smudgier.


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 2:27 PM
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31: emoticons? You're frightening me, Smearcase.


Posted by: Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 2:32 PM
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For the last few days I can't tell who's actually pissed off at whom around here and who's kidding.

The trick is not caring.


Posted by: G. Gordon Liddy | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 2:36 PM
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Just kidding.


Posted by: A Different G. Gordon Libby | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 2:42 PM
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46: I'm not sure. The current version is straightforward, a lighthearted capstone to the text of the comment. The first draft (":-\", right? Or ":-/"?) was more ambiguous, presenting almost a challenge to what had preceded it. I found it intriguing, and even disturbing, but in a good way.


Posted by: x.trapnel | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 3:22 PM
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The first draft was ":/". I think it may, indeed, have been preferable.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 4:06 PM
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I'm not a fan of including a hyphen in emoticons.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 4:07 PM
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55: a late-developing abomination indeed.


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 4:10 PM
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55: Yes, I puzzled over that in 39. Most of the time I prefer the "no hyphens" rule, but for the playful wink the others just seem a bit too flat--not the nuance one is usually looking for in that situation.

Plus prescriptivism sucks.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 7:23 PM
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Actually, I rather like prescriptivism.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 11- 3-12 7:53 PM
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One of you was in my dream.


Posted by: Mister Smearcase | Link to this comment | 11- 4-12 6:56 AM
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You dreamed about Another G. Gordon Libby?

That is handy because I was trying to figure out how to picture even a single G. Gordon Libby let alone multiples. Maybe like Libby Dole with a G. Gordon Liddy moustache?


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 11- 4-12 6:59 AM
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46: I actually preferred the original in its simplicity and boldness.

I also quite liked your expanded and augmented version of my cryptic comment.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 11- 4-12 9:46 AM
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60: I don't mean this in a little bitch way, but she goes by Liddy.


Posted by: Sir Kraab | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 7:00 AM
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But that was probably an autocorrect thing anyway, so I guess that does make me a Little Bitch, except taller.


Posted by: Sir Kraab | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 7:02 AM
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It wasn't! That's fascinating. "Liddy" as a nickname for "Elizabeth"? Frickin' WASPs, man. (N.B. not actually totally sure she's a WASP.)


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 7:17 AM
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However it makes G. Gordon Libby up above totally inexcusable


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 7:18 AM
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Also I was probably distracted by my "infinite fellatio" emoticon.


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 7:18 AM
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You didn't know "Liddy" was a nickname for "Elizabeth"? It's not even a hard one to guess. "Peg" for "Margaret" is the one I have trouble remembering.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 7:25 AM
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I mean, I probably did. Facts come, facts go.

It's still weird, though. Where's the 'd' in Elizabeth?


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 7:27 AM
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Vowel shift.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 7:27 AM
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Except with consonants.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 7:28 AM
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Elide-a-beth


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 7:30 AM
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Eliza-death?


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 7:30 AM
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Just kibbing.


Posted by: A Different G. Gordon Liddy | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 7:30 AM
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Elizabed


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 7:31 AM
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My theory is that all nicknames of "Elizabeth" stem originally from childhood mispronunciations. This maybe overgeneralizing from an adorable child I know who calls his sister Abiddabet. But it's not hard to imagine that "Elizabeth" might become "Aliddabeth" which ends up as "Liddy."


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 7:36 AM
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Tell me more about bed.


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 7:37 AM
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All-is-bidet


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 7:37 AM
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that ends bowel.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 7:49 AM
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75: Guess what:

She gave herself the nickname ''Liddy'' when she was 2 years old. She, and nearly everyone who knows her, uses that name for her today.

To 64, her maiden name is Hanford and it looks like she's a Presbyterian, so yes.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 8:01 AM
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Is it really just her? I thought it was more common than that.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 8:03 AM
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Could be both - such as, she came up with it independently, but it stuck because it already existed.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 8:08 AM
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Wikipedia doesn't have it on the list of nicknames for Elizabeth. I'm sorry for thinking Tweety was so blithely unaware of modern life that he should be shunned like an Amish guy with a zippered corset.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 8:11 AM
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he should be shunned like an Amish guy with a zippered corset.

Pretty steampunk, right? Wait, let me put on my goggles.


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 8:25 AM
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I mean shunned by other Amish people, not Boing Boing readers.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 8:36 AM
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Posted by: Sir Kraab | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 8:46 AM
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