We just got back from seeing Grace and now we are taking K to get her hair cut at a place on Magnolia in Burbank. We are busy busy people.
Mercy is the mark of a great man. Guess I'm just a good man. Well, I'm all right.
Mal ,'Shindig'
Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter
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.
Kat - Nov 20, 2007 8:49:12 am PST #3265 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
lisah - Nov 20, 2007 8:50:51 am PST #3266 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
I hate the apostrophe because it is unnecessary
And can be confusing.
I had no idea that the serial comma was thought to be old-fashioned. I think it is just, you know, correct!
Scrappy - Nov 20, 2007 8:51:02 am PST #3267 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Frenchy's, Kat?
Jesse - Nov 20, 2007 8:52:29 am PST #3268 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Why am I an enormous apostrophe nerd? Here's the Q-n-A that says the Times dropped the apostrophe. [link]
Kat - Nov 20, 2007 8:52:46 am PST #3269 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Nope, Robin, Wax Poetic.
Nora Deirdre - Nov 20, 2007 8:53:12 am PST #3270 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Why am I an enormous apostrophe nerd?
Well, you're in good company here!
Scrappy - Nov 20, 2007 8:53:48 am PST #3271 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
That's where I go now! Nice peeps.
juliana - Nov 20, 2007 8:55:38 am PST #3272 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I dislike the apostrophe, because to me, that indicates a possessive.
Me too.
Is this ad for St. Pauli beer any more offensive than the usual big beer company ads? Because, I'm thinking... no.
Um, no. Heineken's recent campaign (robot girl with a keg where her uterus should be) wins for the most offensive beer ad, in my book.
Jesse - Nov 20, 2007 8:56:30 am PST #3273 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Well, you're in good company here!
True fact. It's just kind of embarassing how many times I've referred back to that q-n-a since it was originally published.
JZ - Nov 20, 2007 8:56:49 am PST #3274 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I'm not super-keen on the St. Pauli ad -- it's only middling on the sexually offensive scale, but it's not my favorite thing ever (not to mention that some beer drinkers are, you know, WOMEN, and ads like that just make me think, "Well, obviously they don't want my money -- I'd better go spend it on a Sam Adams or a Sierra Nevada instead").
The champagne ad really doesn't ping me at all -- ads of the period are full of absinthe fairies and seductive little fruit and grain imps, plus there were actual flesh-and-blood folks like Josephine Baker being all wild and scandalous and performing while wearing lush juicy fruit and not much else. It all feels very, very far removed from current American beer ads.
eta: juliana is right -- that Heineken ad is the very worst of the worst.