Thanks for the suggestion, but I gotsa write all by myself. Will rework it over lunch, simplify, repost to see if I can make it all less muddled.
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Allyson - Oct 11, 2004 8:54:09 am PDT #7213 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Connie Neil - Oct 11, 2004 9:02:37 am PDT #7214 of 10001
brillig
Art education
Classical music was boring. Long. Not much of a melody. It was supposed to *mean* something, too, and I didn't hear it.
Music 101, or, Beat Culture into the Heads of Freshmen. Easy grade, say something good about Mozart or Beethoven and pass. Auditorium full of slouching people catching up on their sleep.
"This is by Smetana, The Moldau."
My feet hit the floor as my mind surrendered to the sound.
The professor grinned when I demanded after class that he play it again.
Ginger - Oct 11, 2004 9:06:24 am PDT #7215 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Thanks for the suggestion, but I gotsa write all by myself.
I end up suggesting alternate wordings because I'm lousy at explaining what I think should happen to someone else's work. I'm just trying to explain what I mean, not saying "There are the words you should use."
Topic!Cindy - Oct 11, 2004 9:39:00 am PDT #7216 of 10001
What is even happening?
What Ginger said
deborah grabien - Oct 11, 2004 9:40:32 am PDT #7217 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Hell yes. Allyson, any and every suggestion I will ever make on anyone's work is prefaced by "maybe something like", to illustrate an idea, rather than a wording.
Steph L. - Oct 11, 2004 9:47:47 am PDT #7218 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Connie, that's pretty much the same reaction I had to The Moldau, when I first heard it as a college freshman. It's still one of my favorite pieces of music.
Connie Neil - Oct 11, 2004 10:07:21 am PDT #7219 of 10001
brillig
And I'd never heard of Smetana till I hit college. There needs to be more Slavic music taught in schools. And Russians and all those other people.
Susan W. - Oct 11, 2004 10:34:26 am PDT #7220 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
t wonders if there's any way to make the drabbles I'd already half written in my head about portraits be about art education
t realizes she's probably missing the whole point of drabbles, but, dammit, those were nice little scenes
Steph L. - Oct 11, 2004 10:53:38 am PDT #7221 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Susan, post them anyway. I say they fit.
t /decree
Susan W. - Oct 11, 2004 10:56:18 am PDT #7222 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Thank you, Mistress Teppy. Will do so sometime this evening, since I'm heading out soon for a mass of errands and appointments.