OK!! I have clarification!

It was her son that was wonky! Apparantly, in Northern Michigan, you get more "emo" cred if you are a cutter. His little girlfriend and her friends all brag about how much they cut and "Oh woe! I neeeeeed to feel paaaaaain to be Gothy and sad - like." Her son and his friends use the terms "cutter" and "emo" interchangably. I told her, "Nuh and Uh. Being a cutter has nothing to do with being Goth or Emo. It has everything to do with a) deep seated emotional issues or b) trying to get "cred". If she did it or talked to a Real Goth about it, they would send her running to a therapist and/or the hospital." She said, "Thanks. Good to know." I also said, "Here is my friend's website. True goth. You will learn things and give it to him."

Then she hung up the phone on me while screaming his name to "get his ass down here."

If anyone's interested, here's a link to the Marcum speech that led to the Google Book Search quote

I found that speech earlier, and thought it sounded like the one -- only it doesn't have that quote anywhere in it. Your prof should google more carefully before giving silly paper topics!

I was waiting for you and/or Rick to come around and back me up.

Yes, two weeks is short because there are committees to meet and professors to herd and deans to consult. It's a system built for freedom of creative expression, not for efficiency, so it can be crazy making if you want something to just get done.

Check out this news video Corwood linked to in Music a week ago:

Win points by attempting to commit suicide! Take online quizzes for bragging rights! Parents, lock up your whiny, pathetic children!

Corwood Industries "Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach" Mar 1, 2007 9:02:13 pm PST

YouTube video: [link]

eta to fix 'Corwook.'

Corwookie?

Then she hung up the phone on me while screaming his name to "get his ass down here."

Bwah!

"If she did it or talked to a Real Goth about it, they would send her running to a therapist and/or the hospital."

That is for damn sure. (And thank you for mentioning GCS!)

And thank you for mentioning GCS!

Just doing my part to train the Future Goths of America properly!

I was waiting for you and/or Rick to come around and back me up.

We have spoken and what we have said is: Listen to Nora, for she is very wise and very beautiful.

It sounds to me like Aimee's friend's son is throwing around terms he doesn't know the meaning of and then snowing his mother into thinking he's got arcane knowledge rather than ignorance.

I and my friends would do this very thing from time to time. And not to hide ignorance, but to baffle mothers as to the things we were actually out doing.

Then she hung up the phone on me while screaming his name to "get his ass down here."

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

::ahem::

That's not nice. I shouldn't have laughed at that. I'm going to Special Hell.

It's totally funny.

She's a single, lesbian mother of a 12 year old boy in Traverse City.

I told her he was Going Goth cause she was gay.

She told me STFU.

Just doing my part to train the Future Goths of America properly!

I want to see the national convention of FGA, which shoudl be just down the hall from the FFA, Future Farmers of America.

The blue corderoy coats vs. the black leather and lace.