Kaylee ,'Shindig'
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.
Miss Lonelyhearts?
Yes! It was an omnibus of that and The Day of the Locust, and Miss Lonelyhearts was first, and I got all the way through it in a single sitting. It was one of those weird, "Wow, not all that much happened in the story, but I dug it all the same" kind of moments that I associate with mature reading.
Cat People is really silly.
The Kinski/McDowell one?
Great Bowie song, though.
The Kinski/McDowell one?
Yeah. I mean, ow. The attempts at feline...
Great Bowie song, though.
True dat, homie.
Today. Boo.
What msbelle said.
ION, I just got a 404 message on a black page that said: "It is pitch dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue."BWAH! That makes me ridiculously happy.
Kristin, if you and I happen to teach any of the same novels in any of our classes, I'd love to arrange for a email or letter exchange with your students to do something of the same.Sure! Setting up a blog or LJ community is probably the way to do it. (Note to self: create new, innocuous LJ identity.)
I know your kids are also American teens, but you teach at a upper middle class, mostly Jewish school, right?Well......my old school was. I'm starting at a new all-girls school in August.
Erin,
If you do end up teaching Northanger Abbey, try getting your hands on a copy of the Palgrave Master Series on Jane Austen, IIRC it has an in-depth discussion/analysis of NA.
I *think* it was a trial where the defendant was beaten by someone (her husband?) and killed in self defense or something. And was a piece of work. There may have been an affair too and I vaguely recall a roadhouse or something. Any case, probably 50s , maybe early 60s, defendant was a sultry brunette . Any bells? I have NO IDEA why we watched this in civics class.
This sounds a hell of a lot like a play 've worked on called Machinal, by Sophie Treadwell. It was based on a true story.
I am pretty sure I atarted reading bad romances with lots of sex at around 7 or 8. One of the most memorable (although not really a romance novel) was Fanny, by Erica Jong. I believe there was an entire chapter devoted to nicknames for the penis. I believe this is why it always surprised me when friends who were more sexually active than I was were so ignorant about what things were called!
Yeah. I mean, ow. The attempts at feline...
A friend of mine was traumatized by the bondage bit in it when he was very young. I mostly remember McDowell picking a bit of stray flesh off of himself and popping it in his mouth, because, gah.
Do see the original if you can. The remake is interesting mostly in the way it totally missed what made the original good, since it turns what was mostly psychological into something literal. Which is never a good idea.
Hivemind...
My upstairs neighbor's shower is still pouring into my bathroom, meaning that his dirty bathwater is seeping into my rug, and bloating the walls and ceiling. I reported the problem on Friday. The landlord came by on Sunday. He said it would be fixed on Wednesday, and yet, again, I am mopping up dirty bathwater.
What can I do? What are my rights?