I also pranked Emmett's godmother in high school when we traveled to the Columbia Scholastic Press Fair thingie. I conspired with our teacher/mentor, Mr. Arnett, to convince her that we'd stumbled upon a small folk club where James Taylor and Joni Mitchell did a surprise set. We even worked up a handbill and a signed setlist. It was beautiful watching her stew at this missed once-in-a-lifetime moment and try to act like she didn't care and she'd much rather have gone to the folk art exhibit.
Do I wish I was somebody else right now. Somebody not... married, not madly in love with a beautiful woman who can kill me with her pinkie!
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Mar 31, 2005 1:05:52 pm PST #1991 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
erikaj - Mar 31, 2005 1:07:16 pm PST #1992 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Bastards. :)
amych - Mar 31, 2005 1:07:25 pm PST #1993 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Yeah, but good thing he spotted it, too.
Oh, hell yeah. I'm pretty sure the Harvard School of Pederasty wouldn't have been all that amused.
Sheryl - Mar 31, 2005 1:14:10 pm PST #1994 of 10001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Kinda glad I'm not going in to work tomorrow, even though I doubt anyone will try to prank me.(My flight to Toronto is at 3 tomorrow, and I decided to take the whole day off, since the time was available.)
§ ita § - Mar 31, 2005 1:15:14 pm PST #1995 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I thought this was an interesting article (NY Times, registration required), and definitely going to hit some buttons, but it's really stirring people up.
Kat - Mar 31, 2005 1:24:35 pm PST #1996 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I think the Waldman essay is, as the second link notes, sort of sour grapes. Oh, so the author-wife of a prize winning author has sex and is still madly in love with her husband? How those diamond shoes must pinch.
P.M. Marc - Mar 31, 2005 1:25:00 pm PST #1997 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I'm not shocked. She's taking a lot of abuse for anything and everything she says over at Salon, too, and it doesn't seem proportionate to what she's actually musing about.
I thought it was an interesting essay.
Kat - Mar 31, 2005 1:27:32 pm PST #1998 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
But some of the abuse is so stupid.
So she wrote a confessional piece? And bloggery types, kings of confessional writing, find it odd.
Okay.
Or perhaps they are upset because their confessional writing never makes it to the NYT.
§ ita § - Mar 31, 2005 1:27:38 pm PST #1999 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I thought it was interesting too. I know not of spouse love, nor offspring love, so I can't compare her feelings to mine.
I do wonder about her kids reading it eventually, though.
I'm trying to think of portrayals in fiction where the mother espouses more dedication to her spouse than her kids -- I can only recall instances in which there's sexual abuse, and she's letting it happen. Picking kids over spouse happens much more often, but then again -- you're supposed to protect them.
Lee - Mar 31, 2005 1:28:05 pm PST #2000 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
ita, do you have any more moving boxes?