Happy Birthday to Teppy--a terrific and witty writer, who is a charming, smart and interesting poster and a fabulous human being!
Occasionally I'm callous and strange.
Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?
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.
Scrappy - Jun 23, 2007 1:05:15 pm PDT #4510 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 23, 2007 1:13:34 pm PDT #4511 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
HOLY CRAP! My first seriously personally creepy on-line experience. Someone at LJ has the user name Frankenbuddha. Um. (I googled my user name because I was in that weird kind of mood).
Lee - Jun 23, 2007 1:26:52 pm PDT #4512 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Lee? you here? hop on IM?
I am now, if it's not too late.
I am going to wander away again, but I should be back on in a couple of hours.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 23, 2007 1:49:35 pm PDT #4513 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Frank, I am so glad I never ran across that lj user in a comment tree, as I doubtless would have been familiar in a way that would seem disturbed to a complete stranger.
§ ita § - Jun 23, 2007 1:51:20 pm PDT #4514 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Gack! I'm trying to remember a word--it's a foreign word (maybe Portuguese? I have no idea) that expressed something we don't have a word for in English, something about wistfulness and nostalgia and...grr.
I think I'm feeling it, see, but can't be sure because I can't remember exactly what it is or what it meant.
eta: Bingo! Portuguese, saudade.
The Portuguese word "saudade", loosely translated,denotes "longing", "melancholy", or "nostalgia." In the context of Portuguese, however, the term connotes a meaning that is irrevocably lost in translation. In his book In Portugal of 1912, A.F.G Bell makes a few disquisitional remarks on the meaning of "saudade" given its intended context:
"The famous saudade of the Portuguese is a vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist, for something other than the present, a turning towards the past or towards the future; not an active discontent or poignant sadness but an indolent dreaming wistfulness."
Whereas a decontextualized reading of the "saudade" insinuates a rather dreary and destitute nostalgia for an impossible object, Bell's recontextualization posits saudade's meaning as a nostalgic yearning for an impossible object, only slightly tinged with the hues of melancholia.
Steph L. - Jun 23, 2007 2:12:09 pm PDT #4515 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
They get all that in one word? Damn, they're good.
ION, thanks for the birthday wishes, peoples!!!
Off to party and eat cake.
Jesse - Jun 23, 2007 2:19:21 pm PDT #4516 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ooh, that's a good word.
Here's why I hate getting food delivery: I paid a ton of money for a ton of food, most of which I don't like. And the promised side of "vegetables" were actually rice, which, when what I ordered was pasta, and I knew it was coming with potatoes on the side, really led to carb overkill. At least I ate the salad.
brenda m - Jun 23, 2007 2:36:22 pm PDT #4517 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
That sucks, Jesse. Happened to me more times than I can count. I barely ever order in anymore.
ION, how much do I love that my congressman, Rahm Emmanuel, who I normally don't love, is spearheading an effort to defund the Office of the Vice President.
Consuela - Jun 23, 2007 2:41:10 pm PDT #4518 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Happy Birthday, Steph!
Zenkitty - Jun 23, 2007 3:22:26 pm PDT #4519 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Happy birthday, Steph!
I am apparently in a constant state of saudade. How is that pronounced?