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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.
I wish I had HBO, just so I could watch the John Adams miniseries. Rufus Sewell is going to be playing Alexander Hamilton, too, damnit!
For some fun things to look at during lunchtime, I give you Peep Dioramas! I've only gotten up to #125, but my faves so far are #10 (Buffy the Peepire Slayer), #18 (Nighthawks tribute), and #61 (an Edward Gorey-inspired one).
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Dear Colleagues,
I am sick of you all.
This? Is brilliant.
a kooky fetish for short pants and cornmeal.
It makes it's own cornbread!
and in many cases, totally accurate.
. I'm going to slip and say that at a VERY inopportune moment, I can already tell.
From this day forward you must never speak aloud of our founding fathers. Clearly.
I only meant that he's articulate compared to the drooling slack-jawed yokel currently in the White House.
OMG, I just realized Shrub isn't the POTUS, he's the CLETUS.
I'm reading the text of Obama's speech, and not only is he articulate, he quoted Faulkner. William Goddamn Faulkner.
God, I miss having an articulate president.
I agree that that crowd seems to yearn for a theocracy in which everything that is not compulsory is forbidden, but they say they're talking about the Constitution. I think it's rather remarkably self-centered to believe that it's going to be your religion that's running the show in a theocracy.
I think their ideal world is a sort of Puritan theology for everyone, mixed with stereotyped Victorian and 1950's middle-class domesticity for the women (with a side of Jane Austen, only a narrow reading that misses all the inherent snark and tension and that I'm sure has Jane spinning in her grave), and a sort of Patriot and Confederate militarism for the men (Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee are held up as ideal figures), but one that is relatively rarely translated into actual military service.
really more than once this happened?
Well, once for Providence, once for New Canaan, CT -- I think it happened several times, just that they didn't all name their new town Providence, RI.
I saw a couple ads for the John Adams HBO series, and couldn't get over the accent. It just didn't sound quite right coming out of Paul Giamatti's mouth -- I can't really pinpoint its wrongness, just that it sounded wrong. (And I'm totally aware I'm basing that sensibility on a modern ear for local accents to boot.)
Dear Colleagues,
I am sick of you all.
Now I want to read the rest of the letter.
It's much easier to be brave and dashing if you haven't been exposed to actual war.