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Nutty - Mar 10, 2006 6:12:39 am PST #925 of 10001

"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

This movement, incidentally, being why the Red Sox are spelled with an "x."

Technically, two different movements. Noah Webster, way back, is the guy who dropped the U from color, on basis of the New American Awesomeness And Rightness (and Not-Britishness) after the revolutionary war. There was another movement of "spelling simplification" in the 1830s-40s, which would be why Melville Dewey spent his latter years signing his name Melvil Dui. And then there was Teddy Roosevelt, 50 years after that, who tried to ram a standardized simplification plan through the federal government, and caused an uproar. The Red Sox are a part of that last movement.

Kathy A - Mar 10, 2006 7:09:19 am PST #926 of 10001

We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Don't forget Robert McCormick, who ran the Chicago Tribune and imposed his obsession with simplified language on the paper's approved style bible. This is where "catalog" instead of "catalogue" came from, and he came pretty close to getting "thru" instead of "through" accepted.

§ ita § - Mar 10, 2006 7:14:24 am PST #927 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States by H.L. Mencken

tommyrot - Mar 10, 2006 7:57:04 am PST #928 of 10001

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

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Ron Perlman told SCI FI Wire that the Hellboy sequel has a working title Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, and he's hopeful it will go into production later this year.

§ ita § - Mar 10, 2006 8:04:12 am PST #929 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Two Ask The Dust reviews:

The NY Times calls the Farrell character the alter ego of the novel's author, but I don't get the impression he's actually based on a real person other than that.

Jessica - Mar 10, 2006 8:06:55 am PST #930 of 10001

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

and he's hopeful it will go into production later this year.

Sweet!

Nutty - Mar 10, 2006 8:20:34 am PST #931 of 10001

"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

but I don't get the impression he's actually based on a real person other than that.

I guess I was under a misimpression, but the point is, the author John Fante was Italian (and seemed kind of pissed about it), and the main character is Italian because it's a quasi-autobiographical novel.

§ ita § - Mar 10, 2006 8:23:39 am PST #932 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

NYT calls it an autobiographical novel. Where does that sit on the scale of Frey to memoir?

Frankenbuddha - Mar 10, 2006 8:30:09 am PST #933 of 10001

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Where does that sit on the scale of Frey to memoir?

Right next to JT Leroy?

Nutty - Mar 10, 2006 8:31:25 am PST #934 of 10001

"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Well, he changes the name, from John Fante to Arturo Bandini. It's about a starving novelist in Los Angeles, which Fante was during the 30s. So, legitimately a novel, what with the different name and all, but a novel that has a lot to do with the author's own experience.

(I'm a fan of applying novelistic techniques towards life. Cut out all the boring parts! Nobody ever trips over their own feet! Everybody moves to France and has excellent, no-strings sex with moneybags Frenchmen!)

(Okay, that last is only for chick-novelistic techniques.)

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