Veiled Conceit hasn't updated since 6/30/06.
June came upon us much too soon; then was gone, like the mountains of the moon at dawn.
"Do you want to break my heart?"
"Yes, " said Seth, with an elemental simplicity.
The porridge boiled over.
What's Salman Rushdie's ghostie up to in the upper right hand corner, there? Up to no good, I say.
That's some courtship story. Parents can really suck, eh?
they had two children, one of them born on the same day she performed an operation
Damn.
Oh come on, ogged. It's hotter if you wait til old age.
Women have soulettes. They're like souls, but cuter and less threatening.
Things for him not to say: "This would be even better if you were still hott."
"Do you think that women have souls?"
No
I'm with text -- what is that photo trying to say?
Wyit David Wright looks less like Santa Claus than is appropriate for a man in his line of work.
If it's Rushdie he's clearly smiling because he's got the hotter wife.
Man, those baby boomers sure get married and divorced a lot.
Ah yes, the lovely Analia with her sweety, Modest Mussorgsky.
You do not make jokes about Analia.
My neighbor my age just got hooked up with a borderline-personality psycho lady. He's been married three times and had two serious relationships with four psychos. The non-psycho one was the first one, when they were both too young and he got drafted anyway.
He reports that psycho sex is the best, but that otherwise it's killing him. No sleep, possessiveness, verbal attacks, suspicion.
Sure, maybe it's him and not them, but the no-relationship policy fixes it either way.
I figure the Zizek wedding photo is sublime enough to trot out once a year.
Those collored stripes are an artifact of photography or reproduction or the intertubes or something. Both were wearing white according to Slovenian custom. Zizek should write about it if he hasn't already.
20: No reason to think it's not him and them.
Zizek's wife is too young to be his daughter.
Damn, do all controversial third-world intellectuals have hot young wives?
"I'll show you the life of the mind!"
It would be indecent for him to have a daughter that young.
If everyone started when they were 15, I could have a 28 year old granddaughter by now, and a 12 year old great granddaughter.
Oh, what a sad love story.
Also, it's really dumb that we're going to have to war Iran because a speechwriter thought the speech needed some Reagan world-building fairy dust. Really, really dumb.
Her parents did exactly the right thing. If you want your daughters to succeed, they can't date.
I think her parents made the right choice. After all, he was a "nice guy".
I don't believe the Gerson story, for what that's worth.
They won't last, and will become yet another data point bolstering Emerson.
Zizek is a nice guy, except for the ex-wives in the basement.
Oddly, my most extreme point of view is the richest in data points.
The amazing thing about David Wright? He looks better from behind.
Also, Zizek actually is a really, really nice guy. Bit excitable, but invite him to dinner and all you need do is sit back and watch the show.
Can you make lewd remarks about his jailbait?
Do you have to pay for his dinner?
Can you make lewd remarks about his jailbait?
Yes. (This is a grammatical "can".)
40: Not when she's at the table...or didn't exist yet, whatever the case may be.
41: No, he picks up the tab. Actually, encourages you to gorge on lobster, try this champagne he's really fond of, and this tiramisu, too, which is to die for...then picks up the tab.
The trick is, though, he doesn't tell you he'll be picking up the tab, so you listen to these encouragements and rankle, wishing he'd just stop already, since you can barely afford an appetizer, let alone this fancy wine … then at the end, when he pays for it, you're crushed.
44: Nope. He represses nothing, for fear it'll return to haunt him. He'll tell you how much your home institution paid him to be here for the quarter (you'll blanch) then insist you try this, that, and the most expensive other he can muster.
I hate to be the one to break it to you, ben, but he truly is a great guy. (If it's any consolation, John cried womanly tears when I told him this. John, by the way, being that tall guy with the goatee you talked to at UnfoggeDCon.)
Any chance he'll drop the Lacan shit?
I have no investment in him not being a good or even great guy. (And, as already stated, I knew who John was.)
Holbo is tall? It's sort of a hort plump name.
He's under six feet, surely. There was a very tall man---not Labs---whose name might have been John.
Doesn't Holbo kinda look like Jonah Goldberg?
"Ogged" is a short plump name too. Therefore, he must be a 6'4" man named John.
As for Persian surnames, my favorite has always been "Tabatabaieh" so that's what I will presume his last name is.
I confess that I am a self-hating short plump person.
I just now discovered one John Holobolus, the Orthodox metropolitan of Crimean Gothia in 1399. Probably a distant ancestor of The Holbo.
Biologically speaking I would guess a "Holobolus" is something which is almost a bolus, but has to be changed in some small way (probably by cutting off part of it) before it becomes a bolus.
It may be a holistic bolus, more complete and all-encompassing than a regular bolus.
The name of the doctor who owned Dred Scott?
John Emerson.
Mr. Anita Loos ("Gentlemen Prefer Blondes")?
John Emerson.
46: Any chance he'll drop the Lacan shit?
You saw that bit about the tiramisu, lobster and champagne, right?
As I remember, Lacan compared The Real to a baked salmon, not a lobster. Perhaps Zizek has taken it to a new level. (Whereas I have shown that Le Real is, in fact, a sturgeon).
Do you think that women have souls?
Of course. I keep my collection in a lovely blue Mason jar. And if you're very polite, we'll let you have yours back for a far price.
