Captain was looking for a pilot. I found a husband. Seemed to work out.

Zoe ,'Bushwhacked'


Natter .38 Special  

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.


billytea - Sep 12, 2005 5:28:41 pm PDT #6931 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Ok, it's a pretty stupid thing to say. But the power's out, you don't know what's going on, they're presumably evacuating the building, and Al Qaeda was on the tv this morning making noise about LA...I can see where your mind goes there.

And Melbourne. I mean, huh? We need some bloke stateside to threaten our cities? What's wrong with the home-grown loons?


Kat - Sep 12, 2005 5:44:10 pm PDT #6932 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Would the prof accept a paper written in stream of consciousness?

Probably no.

Heather, I like A Portrait of an Artist well enough.

But I'm already reading all 3 books of the Divine Comedy as well as Vita Nouva and Monarchia (and I sort of skimmed the Aeneid to boot). I don't need to add Ulysses to the list just because.


DavidS - Sep 12, 2005 5:46:58 pm PDT #6933 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

If you haven't seen it, the cover of Newsweek says:

"Poverty, Race & Katrina - Lessons of a National Shame"

with a banner of:

"Why Bush Failed"

Picture is a closeup of a young black child's face, crying.


DavidS - Sep 12, 2005 5:47:34 pm PDT #6934 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Would the prof accept a paper written in stream of consciousness?

I tried that once. It didn't go over well.


Liese S. - Sep 12, 2005 5:52:19 pm PDT #6935 of 10002
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I wrote a stream of consciousness paper for a high school English teacher. He got all worked up and went on at great length about Joyce, but really I was just pulling his chain and being lazy about my writing assignment.


Atropa - Sep 12, 2005 5:53:08 pm PDT #6936 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Would the prof accept a paper written in stream of consciousness?

If you're writing a paper on Hunter S. Thompson, the answer is yes, the professor will.


Lee - Sep 12, 2005 6:04:12 pm PDT #6937 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

24 hours from now, I will be on vacation, and madly packing.

48 hours from now, I will be in Vegas, and madly drinking, gambling, and people watching. Or maybe madly asleep. Definitely in Vegas though.


DavidS - Sep 12, 2005 6:19:23 pm PDT #6938 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

So have we noted that it's Willow v. Xander this season?

How I Met Your Mother is on at the same time as Kitchen Confidential.

They're both getting decent reviews.


JZ - Sep 12, 2005 7:06:29 pm PDT #6939 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

t random

One of the very few papers I managed to actually finish and turn in on time during my year of slow-motion emotional meltdown (88-89, junior year) was an 8-page stream-of-consciousness free verse response to Eliot's "The Hollow Men," in which I pastiched everyone from Shakespeare to Dickinson to Stephen King. Fortunately, the professor graded his papers in alphabetical order by the students' last names, so by the time he got to me he'd already slogged through 160 pages of solemn bloviation by everyone else, and I ended up getting an A+++ (apparently, in England in 1989, they were allowed to give out grades like that) and a note of earnest gratitude from him. But, really, I so should have gotten my own head back on a platter. I mean, really. Emily Dickinson and Stephen King? @@

t /random


sumi - Sep 12, 2005 7:15:42 pm PDT #6940 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!

I've seen many ads for Willows new show -- I don't know -- it doesn't look that great. So, I'm putting my hopes in the Xander/Will show.

Hmmm. Xander/Will. . . .