Re: You better watch out, you better not cry.

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Whatever the choice, it must be sung by chipmonks accompanied by John Fahey.

I now relinquish the thread to the prurient, blasphemous, and cloacal.


Posted by: bob mcmanus | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 11:34 AM
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prurient, blasphemous, and cloacal

The reindeer you don't hear about.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 11:41 AM
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Is now the time to bring out the link to the Love-Making Jesus (YRBHNBAW)?


Posted by: Will Taft | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 12:39 PM
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Mr. President, your link does not work.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 1:01 PM
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No chipmunks.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 1:01 PM
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Clearly too vanilla for the mineshaft.


Posted by: Tom Scudder | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 1:56 PM
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Jonathan Coulton is awesome.


Posted by: Matt F | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 2:00 PM
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6: lacking in cock jokes but in every other respect, excellent.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 2:29 PM
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And once again, the Love-Making Jesus.


Posted by: Will Taft | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 2:34 PM
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I just heard my friend-from-childhood's younger brother's band on the radio, which is the first time I have ever heard them on the radio, playing a Christmas song, a very oddball one.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 4:09 PM
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I like Grandaddy. They're played on the independent station here (not the college station; a separate non-commercial thingy).


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 4:38 PM
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I dug it because nobody ever makes Alan Parsons Project references in my vicinity, and they used to be my favorite band circa 8th grade -- I wonder how those kids from Grandaddy even know about them, I thought they had vanished completely by 1985 or so -- and because Jer Egenberger's little brother plays drums for them.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 4:51 PM
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(Re. my Parsons Project fandom -- I have a feeling this was an early instance of a recurring theme in my life, viz. the search for something to be fanatically into. And better something that other people are not crazy about the same way -- I didn't want to be a Beatlemaniac (or the equivalent for my time frame), I wanted to be a collector of 78s (or the etc.) I tracked down nearly all of APP's albums, and listened to them all the time for a year or so, before I went off in search of a new and different fad.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 4:56 PM
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)


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 4:56 PM
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Is there a current fad, Clownæ?


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 4:58 PM
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Well the rural blues have been an ongoing fad for like 7 or 8 years now, and possibly transcended that status... it all started with my listening to Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band in 1998 or thereabouts, and flipping out over Maria Muldaur's performance of John Hurt's "Richland Woman Blues". Vassar Clemens (Clements?) is a fad of mine for maybe a year now.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 5:05 PM
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15: Pynchon, or haven't you been paying attention?


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 5:07 PM
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Yeah, Clements.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 5:08 PM
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17 -- I took it he was asking about music.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 5:08 PM
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Is it only music? My co-blogger was on about wine for awhile; now he's on about chocolate. He has good chocolate with him whenever he comes by. The whole thing is fun to watch, and I always learn something new when he gets a new interest. ("Do you know why Americans don't eat good chocolate?")


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 5:10 PM
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Right, ok: It is not only music.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 5:11 PM
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19: I wasn't specifically asking about music, actually, but I can understand why you interpreted it that way. Of course, my intentions are irrelevant, yadda, yadda.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 5:12 PM
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I didn't see 17 when I posted 20, hence some confusion, I think.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 5:12 PM
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12-13: We're two of a kind, Clownæ and I.


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 5:14 PM
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I identify myself strongly as a dillettante. The fad stuff relates to this -- it is a dismissive way of thinking about the things I am enthusiastic about.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 5:16 PM
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Of course, I couldn't say why he and I are gemini.


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 5:16 PM
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24 -- well I always assumed, what with you being My Alter Ego and all.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 5:17 PM
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(Sorry, no, I'm a Tauroid.)


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 5:18 PM
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Astrology is psychobabble, all psychobabble.


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 5:23 PM
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24 -- but actually: did you mean (a) you dug the Grandaddy song, (b) you liked the APP, or (c) you go in search of things to be a fan of? Or all three? I have already noted with interest that you share with me the quality of being married to an older woman.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 5:27 PM
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29 -- well, granted.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 5:27 PM
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30: Mostly (b), partly (c). Plus (as Standpipe would explain) I was looking to make a few Alan Parsons Project references in your vicinity.


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 5:31 PM
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30: Perhaps it's all about the older woman calling you "grandaddy," IYKWIM.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 5:32 PM
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33: Perhaps.


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 5:34 PM
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Cool. But 24 itself is more of a Syd Barrett reference, right?


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 5:35 PM
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35: While the children laughed
I was always afraid
of the smile of the Clownæsthesiologist


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 5:37 PM
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Just one minute more, then I'll walk right through that door.


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 5:38 PM
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Anyhoo, I'm outta here for now. 'Til next time.


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 5:38 PM
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36: awesome.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 5:40 PM
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Later on.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 5:40 PM
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16: Kweskin was part of an evil cult, so we should keep a close watch on Clownae in the future.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 6:32 PM
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20: Speaking of chocos, we got the most repulsive box of chocolate from our landlords today. I foolishly chose one that tasted like biting into an adult bookstore (lots of disinfectant, offgassing from vinyl and high-gloss paper and a trace of sneaked cigarette breaks). It was supposed to be lemon filling, but was instead just gross.


Posted by: minneapolitan | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 6:37 PM
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tasted like biting into an adult bookstore (lots of disinfectant, offgassing from vinyl and high-gloss paper and a trace of sneaked cigarette breaks)

This analogy can stay. I say so. Because it's wonderful.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 6:41 PM
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Agreed.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 6:44 PM
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I don't think that's actually an analogy, though.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 6:45 PM
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Really? Why not? Comparison using "like" or "as" is my measing stick.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 6:50 PM
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I also measure with my measing stick.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 6:50 PM
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tasted like biting into an adult bookstore

Just fantastic. Two bonus points awarded.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 6:52 PM
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I would have thought that the official Christmas carol of Unfogged would be:

"don we now our gay apparel
fa la la la la, la la la la"

(followed by a thousand comments discussing whether or not it is OK to refer to someone's apparel as gay).


Posted by: dsquared | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 6:52 PM
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It's a simile.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 6:53 PM
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a thousand comments discussing whether or not it is OK to refer to someone's apparel as gay

...which can be avoided by singing the proper lyrics, "don't we know archaic barrel?"


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 6:55 PM
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...Lullaby, lilla boy, Louisville Lou.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 6:55 PM
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Oh! So it's like you're being ALB.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 6:55 PM
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Exactly.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 6:56 PM
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Tonight I watched one of the finest movies I have ever watched, and it was "Viridiana". (Also earlier I watched Disney's "Beauty and the Beast", but it was not among my top few movie experiences.)


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 8:23 PM
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To invoke a current & longstanding fad, 42 makes me flash on the Disgusting English Candy Drill.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 8:30 PM
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And it hardly needs saying that 49 wins the blog.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 12-23-06 8:33 PM
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Hey, Clownæ, check this out.


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 12-26-06 9:41 AM
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I shall, this evening. From BoingBoing's description, it sounds fun.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 12-26-06 9:44 AM
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Don't read BoingBoing.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 12-26-06 10:05 AM
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Is that declarative, with an understood "I", or imperative? If the latter, why not?


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 12-26-06 10:07 AM
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I will read BoingBoing, Ben w-lfs-n, and there's nothing you can do to stop me!!!

Mwahahahaha!


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 12-26-06 10:11 AM
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Hm, well that linked song is kinda humorous, or might be if it were a little more listenable... I laughed but was not able to get through more than about 2 stanzae.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 12-26-06 6:08 PM
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If I said "Because the BoingBoing authors are twats?" would that incur wrath re: my use of "twat"?


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 12-26-06 6:14 PM
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Ordinarily yes, but I believe there's a "having one" loophole.

(There's also a "not knowing what it means" loophole, but I don't think it applies to you.)


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-26-06 6:32 PM
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What did they do? I know nothing of BoingBoing other than that bloggists sometimes link to funny squibs therein.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 12-26-06 6:34 PM
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"Because the BoingBoing authors are twats?"

Bloggers, then.


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 12-26-06 6:55 PM
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I just hate their particular species of extreme and strangely self-important gee-whizishness (often combined with distasteful piles of self-promotion). I also think Cory Doctorow's fiction is terrible.


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 12-26-06 7:41 PM
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After Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town was published and got praised on Crooked Timber, I read the first page or so and my god, it was awful. Cory clearly made the main character (or anyway the main for the first coupla pages character) an idealized version of himself—obvious to anyone who's let his or her eyes pass over half a page's worth of his BB crap.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 12-26-06 8:12 PM
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What, Ben, you don't find taking two bad Neil Gaiman knockoffs and an O'Reilly guide to wireless networking and running them through a Markov chain generator a delicious premise for a novel? ("But it's a mashup!")


Posted by: snarkout | Link to this comment | 12-26-06 8:18 PM
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I guess I just find his fictioncraft wanting.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 12-26-06 8:22 PM
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Ah, I had never read any of Cory's writing, nor had I any desire to. All I know is some pretty amusing stuff ends up on BoingBoing, often stuff I haven't previously seen elsewhere.


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 12-26-06 8:32 PM
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"Cory's writing" s/b "Cory's dreadful science-fiction writing"


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 12-26-06 8:33 PM
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(Not that you'd know.)


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 12-26-06 8:36 PM
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I unquestioningly believe everything the voices in my head Unfogged commenters tell me.


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 12-26-06 8:39 PM
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He knows because we just told him, and we know.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 12-26-06 8:49 PM
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Where's Matt Weiner to tell us about knowing things?


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 12-26-06 8:53 PM
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I'd like to change 76 to read simply "He knows because we just told him.", if that's ok with you all.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 12-26-06 8:55 PM
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78 -- It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.


Posted by: The Red Queen | Link to this comment | 12-26-06 8:58 PM
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Bugger.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 12-26-06 9:00 PM
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I find BoingBoing pretty grating, too, actually. Read the Things Magazine blog instead!


Posted by: snarkout | Link to this comment | 12-26-06 9:40 PM
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65: The Robert Browning exception.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 12-26-06 9:52 PM
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The Robert Browning exception

Good name for a band.


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 12-26-06 9:54 PM
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I get what you're saying about BoingBoing, but I scan it the same way I do DailyKos. For instance, if I hadn't gone over there just now, I might never have seen Pat Boone's genitals.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 12-26-06 9:58 PM
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Also a good band name.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 12-26-06 9:58 PM
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82: That's the one.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-26-06 10:11 PM
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69: He does that with all his fiction, I think. Certainly 0wnz0red read like a list of all his current-for-the-time obsessions.


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 12-27-06 12:06 AM
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84: Also "Duck in a Box" is pretty funny.


Posted by: mrh | Link to this comment | 12-27-06 5:52 AM
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