French cinema was one of my favorite classes as an undergrad. Alas, I speak no French (except menu).
Kaylee: H-how did you... g-get on...? Early: Strains the mind a bit, don't it? You think you're all alone. Maybe I come down the chimney, Kaylee. Bring presents to the good girls and boys.
'Objects In Space'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
lisah - Mar 19, 2008 11:44:37 am PDT #5383 of 28371
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megan walker - Mar 19, 2008 12:05:11 pm PDT #5384 of 28371
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
except menu
Ah, but do you know what menu actually means?
Regardless, I'm sure you know tons of other things.
En garde! Fromage! Cherchez la femme!
lisah - Mar 19, 2008 12:09:12 pm PDT #5385 of 28371
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Ah, but do you know what menu actually means?
um..I mean I usually know what food I'm ordering off of a French menu! (even if I can't pronounce it properly)
What does 'menu' actually mean???
En garde! Fromage! Cherchez la femme!
And these things, of course!
juliana - Mar 19, 2008 12:18:58 pm PDT #5386 of 28371
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?
megan walker - Mar 19, 2008 12:19:12 pm PDT #5387 of 28371
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
What does 'menu' actually mean???
Menu is a classic faux ami/false friend.
A list of appetizers, main dishes, drinks, desserts, etc. is a "carte" in French. So, if you are ordering "à la carte", it means you are ordering individual things off one big list.
A "menu" is what Americans call a prix fixe meal, i.e., an appetizer + main course + dessert, all for one set price, where you can sometimes choose from among 2-3 things for each course.
So if you ask for the "menu" in a French restaurant, you will get the special meal; not a list of individual items to be ordered willy nilly.
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lisah - Mar 19, 2008 12:31:43 pm PDT #5388 of 28371
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So if you ask for the "menu" in a French restaurant, you will get the special meal; not a list of individual items to be ordered willy nilly.
Good to know!
(I feel like I did know this at some point..)
Nutty - Mar 19, 2008 2:13:56 pm PDT #5389 of 28371
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I just read Ballard's follow-up memoir The Kindness of Women and it's fantastic.
Eh. It's been a decade since I read it, but my overall conclusion was, it's a lot less fantastic if you're one of the women in question. About the most interesting part of it, for me, was mapping the little fibs it's speckled with: for a memoir, it's remarkably untruthful on some of the details.
(Then again, that was part of the weird/creepy appeal of Empire of the Sun as well. Mrs. Vincent is a lot ickier when you realize that she's loosely based on his own mother.)
Vonnie K - Mar 19, 2008 3:53:05 pm PDT #5390 of 28371
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne
I love that movie, but I think most of that has to do with my gigantic crush on María Casares. I tried watching another Bresson film afterward... err, I think it was the one about Joan of Arc... and didn't even make it half way through.
Polter-Cow - Mar 19, 2008 4:13:31 pm PDT #5391 of 28371
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
amych - Mar 19, 2008 4:22:00 pm PDT #5392 of 28371
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
We Tell Stories.
I've worked on a bunch of similar projects with Google Earth and various literature or culture classes. On the plus side, Google Earth is way more fun than Google Maps. On the minus side, I don't get Penguin-Putnam's money.