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'The Message'


Natter 42, the Universe, and Everything  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Nora Deirdre - Feb 02, 2006 5:15:36 am PST #4438 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

In a recent interview Jon H. Benjamin noted that he was recording commentaries for some episodes.

OMIGOD.

(off to find recent interviews with Los Benitos)


Nora Deirdre - Feb 02, 2006 5:19:59 am PST #4439 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

Dr. Katz-MAY 9, beeeeeyoches!

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bon bon - Feb 02, 2006 5:20:21 am PST #4440 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

(off to find recent interviews with Los Benitos)

It was a radio show with a readily accessible podcast-- the Sound of Young America.


§ ita § - Feb 02, 2006 5:23:58 am PST #4441 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I mean, it makes me laugh to see men succumb to the same body-manipulation trends that women deal with, but -- WTF!

It's a pretty constant thing.

I know I hang out in circles where strength is almost fetishized, but although men don't have as much pressure as women do, they do have it, and it's never pretty.

There are rules about what makes a man a man too. Just that they're not as often (or as harshly?) penalised for breaking them.

I had an argument about my race yesterday. Guy told me I wasn't black. He seemed to believe it at the start, too. I rounded it off by calling myself Jamaican, and not white, and he seemed to understand that I have a little more experience in the arena of who the hell I am than he did, and he changed the tone of the discussion.

How weird. Not weird like the people who think I'm Asian, but still weird.


Sue - Feb 02, 2006 5:25:38 am PST #4442 of 10002
hip deep in pie

What did he think you were?


§ ita § - Feb 02, 2006 5:30:44 am PST #4443 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

White, I think. Dude, these lips are all the evidence you need, man.

Did I say weird?

I just tried to rip the tracks off the Lovesexy album and THEY'RE ALL ONE BIG TRACK. Jaysus.


TomW - Feb 02, 2006 5:33:57 am PST #4444 of 10002
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."

How weird. Not weird like the people who think I'm Asian, but still weird.

Okay, am I the only one who read that as "people who think I'm Aslan"?


tommyrot - Feb 02, 2006 5:34:34 am PST #4445 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Okay, am I the only one who read that as "people who think I'm Aslan?"

Yes.


bon bon - Feb 02, 2006 5:35:47 am PST #4446 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

How weird. Not weird like the people who think I'm Asian, but still weird.

You're not Asian?!

Sorry, that was hacky.

I'm looking at a Jamaican marriage certificate at work. Under "Condition" the groom is listed as divorced. The appellation for the bride? "Spinster." I also like that the space for profession is labeled "calling." Those crazy Jamaicans!


sumi - Feb 02, 2006 5:35:59 am PST #4447 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!

> Also, I have to wonder why they chose to do such a gimmicky challenge this late in the game. It seems better suited to earlier in the season.

This was my thought exactly! I was disappointed when I heard what the challenge was. I do think that the designers did really well and that out of this group: Kara, Daniel and Chloe, anyone of them could have won and made me happy. I think that it was also pretty close for the bottom three and I hope that Nick pulls himself together after this! He's been disappointing me.

I love that Tim said that in his blog! I emailed it to all my friends.