"Authentic" evolves. Italian food has tomatoes, Indian food is hot.
Maybe we should order historically as well as nationally, "can I have that pre-columbian?" or "anything pre-colonial on the menu?"
I could squeeze you until you popped like warm champagne, and you'd beg me to hurt you just a little bit more.
Fuffy ,'Storyteller'
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.
Trudy Booth - Feb 02, 2006 2:55:57 pm PST #4642 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Kat - Feb 02, 2006 2:56:05 pm PST #4643 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Dawn, poor you! Actually I'm kidding about the Diorama. But the assignment feels like something I'd ask my middle school kids to do. "Imagine you're a jew in Venice in the 15th century. Make up a journal for your daily life!"
Steph L. - Feb 02, 2006 2:58:41 pm PST #4644 of 10002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
My random Batman fact is #1 right now!
Wow, am I lame.
Spidra Webster - Feb 02, 2006 3:00:32 pm PST #4645 of 10002
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
I wonder if I should also include a diorama, or you know a poster or something. How old am I again?
Ha! You and Maidengurl!
Wow. "Nestorian". I haven't heard that term in so long I've forgotten what it is. Well, wikipedia to the rescue, I'm sure.
Kat - Feb 02, 2006 3:02:55 pm PST #4646 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
For you Lulu Eightball fans, Tshirts and hoodies available soon.
Nestorians were sect of christians that ended up getting expelled and labelled as heretical for not believing in the dual humanity/divinity at the same time of Jesus.
Seems like splitting hairs now, but was a big deal then.
§ ita § - Feb 02, 2006 3:06:22 pm PST #4647 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm two days into a Week of Living Dangerously, and it's making me laugh. How lucky is he that his blind date is such a good sport? I mean, you want all your blind dates to be way cool, but how often does it happen?
DawnK - Feb 02, 2006 3:07:51 pm PST #4648 of 10002
giraffe mode
Dawn, poor you!
Eh so far it hasn't been bad. Of course we're not to the roof yet. That should be interesting, since everything has to be made out of recycleable material (I think we're looking at cardboard painted terra cotta).
sarameg - Feb 02, 2006 3:10:24 pm PST #4649 of 10002
Hi Kat!
I've been feeling quiet lately.
Also? Broccoli? Tofu? In a BURRITO?!!
Spidra Webster - Feb 02, 2006 3:11:54 pm PST #4650 of 10002
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Nestorians were sect of christians that ended up getting expelled and labelled as heretical for not believing in the dual humanity/divinity at the same time of Jesus.
Having been raised a Catholic, I'd say it would still be a big deal now. What's less of a big deal? Icons. Of course there are other differences between the Orthodox Church and the Roman Church, but that was the biggie and looking at the kind of souvenir stands one sees outside papal visits, it's apparently not anymore a biggie.
Betsy HP - Feb 02, 2006 3:13:22 pm PST #4651 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
TMI alert:
I have just discovered that my digestive system really, really hates soy, as is found in Clif Bars. I spent all of yesterday making the immediate surroundings unendurable for my co-workers, and racked my brains for what sort of legume I had been eating. I finally realized that it had to be the Clif Bar, and that apparently non-fermented soy products are notorious for this. Sigh. Unfortunately, I realized this only after eating a second Clif Bar today. I think I shall retire from decent society.