Great, and my mouth is even open in the picture. Fucking great.
ktsko seems blissfully unaware of the CT threat.
Whatever happened to the ogged who fulminated against bloggers who put their pictures online, and the practice in which they indulged?
I shaved a few weeks ago -- my Lenten observance is to go without a beard.
The spelling of Gumby has been silently amended.
I pictured Kotsko swarthier and angrier.
Google image-searching me turns up a wide variety of priests, a picture of eszter hargittai and bill clinton, and then a bunch of pictures of women courtesy of some guy's myspace page.
Yeah, he should work on swarthiness.
Claire looks exactly like I imagine every intellectual female blogger looking. Except those who are over 35, whom I imagine looking like Rachel Weisz.
That looks nothing like I pictured Kotsko. For some reason, I pictured him looking kind of like Yglesias.
Kotsko actually looks pretty much how I imagined him, aside from the lack of beard.
I pictured Kotsko in black and white. Mostly black.
Ah! More like this, but with better hygiene, and younger.
I should start a blog. I'd have better hair!
Good grief, you weren't kidding.
Wow, you guys do archive searches of other sites, too.
#8 gets it exactly right. I imagined Kotsko looking more--I don't know, more Augustinian.
The actress playing "Claire" is really quite cute.
Wow, you guys do archive searches of other sites, too.
I'm hurt, Adam. I do occasionally read your blog.
22: That was my first requirement when I was looking for a new co-blogger. Her good looks are what got me to look past her delusions of being a sea otter.
24: But she's not wearing green, is she? (Yes, bizarre to assume that your discussion of color tied in to the picture, but still.)
She could be wearing green pants.
...except she looks way too classy to be wearing green pants with that shirt.
Possibly the most metrosexual thing I've ever posted in a comments thread.
Except that she wasn't. I think it was very ungentlemanly of you, Adam, to talk about how hot women wearing kelly green are when Claire is so obviously not wearing it.
Or do you have r/g color blindness?
I'm actually not wearing pants in that picture.
I felt that comparing her to Gwenyth Paltrow would override any perceived slight w/r/t color preferences. I apologize that I so drastically miscalculated.
Gwyneth was absolutely the worst actress you could have compared her to.
No one likes being compared to off-brand actresses, Kotsko. How would you like it if someone compared you to Prad Bitt?
FUCKING SHIT!!! [breathes through mouth]
As Bultmann argued, all we really know about Adam is that he had less of a beard than you might think and angrily breathed through his mouth.
That looks nothing like I pictured Kotsko.
Not at all my mental image either.
For some reason, I pictured him looking kind of like Yglesias.
That's even further away.
I was expecting glasses with thicker frames.
Somehow I pictured Kotsko as having curly hair. And being messier somehow, despite his professions of fastidiousness. Still: smokin'. Blogcrush solidified!
I don't visualize faces at all until I see a photo, just a sort of vague outline of a figure superimposed with 3 d letters, sesame street style. (This makes Ogged feel more rotund than he probably is, gut or no, and LizardBreath very angular, and Idealist very very tall.) Still, he's making me feel old --again! He looks entirely too calm and serene to be a fire breathing theologian. I think the A for Adam made me expect a goatee.
Keep in mind that he's a Christian theologian. They tend to look kind of mild-mannered.
awww, kotsko's so cute(exclamation point). threadjack: SE asian city-state x has draconian ID requirements, according to which only employment pass holders can get phone lines and upgrade phones for said lines. thus I have to convince husband x to go get a new phone when I want one. he decided that $428 sing was too expensive for a phone, so I couldn't get the Nokia N series I wanted, even though if I had just been able to buy it myself he would have never noticed. hmph. to be fair, he did ask if I was absolutely desperate for a particular phone; I could have protested.
you need other friends who are employment pass holders. maybe you can win them over with cake.
I have other friends who are employment pass holders, but I don't think any of them wants to pay my phone bill, which is sort of part of the deal. my phone is OK.
My daughter asked what various people looked like once, I think, and I said Kotsko looked like a younger, hipper, smarter version of the V/r/z/n guy in those ads.
42: I know that city-state's policies are best understood as expressing a kind of sensibility rather than a completely rational policy—although my wife envies the capacity to punish people for chewing gum—but what is the rationale behind this policy, if one has been suggested?
I'm not sure the place needs a rationale. It just has an absence of much anti-statist, civil-liberties thinking at all. When I was in Taiwan 20+ years ago, surveillance and government meddling were unashamed. Not intense or glaringly present, but just regarded as unproblematic.
By the way, alternate pseudonyms for BitchPhD are being proposed in the comments to that Weblog post.
Of which contest "Pocket Rocket in the Rear Socket, MDiv" is the hands-down winner.
You people have it all wrong. Agency, damnit, agency.
On which note, Alameida, may I just say again, congratulations on quitting the booze? Because I think being forced by the state to beg my husband for expensive consumer goods would drive me to drink.
City-state law requires the wife to beg on her knees while weeping hot tears and kissing his feet.
they want to make sure they know just whom to hold responsible for every mode of communication: thus only certain people can get internet service, phone lines, etc. actual thumbprinting of husband x required. they have a new service in the kopitiam chain of food stalls in which you can pay by thumbprint. kind of cool, plus the government can find out if you're eating healthily enough.
There seem to be thumbprint payment devices at my local grocery store. I've never seen them used, but I presume it brings up an authorized account just like a debitcard + passcode would.