The difference between his rib cage and his teeny waist struck me as sort of weird.
This. Other Dude (I have no idea who he is, actually) doesn't look quite so angular.
Lorne: You know what they say about people who need people. Connor: They're the luckiest people in the world. Lorne: You been sneaking peeks at my Streisand collection again, Kiddo? Connor: Just kinda popped out.
'Time Bomb'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
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.
Steph L. - Jun 18, 2012 3:49:56 pm PDT #10270 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
aurelia - Jun 18, 2012 3:51:26 pm PDT #10271 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Isn't this tempting? [link]
Amy - Jun 18, 2012 3:51:34 pm PDT #10272 of 30001
Because books.
Joe Manganiello was on One Tree Hill for a while, and he's on True Blood now, and in Magic Mike. He's a lot beefier than my usual type, but he's lovely.
DavidS - Jun 18, 2012 3:54:53 pm PDT #10273 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Do people really consider that Culture now? I don't think so.
The number of scholarly articles about it would be very very long indeed.
But Jazz definitely has the patina of culure now, whereas it was originally whorehouse music.
Amy - Jun 18, 2012 3:56:22 pm PDT #10274 of 30001
Because books.
The number of scholarly articles about it would be very very long indeed.
Really? I had no idea. Cool.
Dana - Jun 18, 2012 4:00:27 pm PDT #10275 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
You could probably argue that fanwork is in the middle of that transition.
Atropa - Jun 18, 2012 4:09:49 pm PDT #10276 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
He says he doesn't like anything with "commercial or superficial intent." Oh fucking really? That's a broad damn brush.
So he grows, harvests, and cooks his own food all the time? Doesn't consume any media whatsoever? Because almost every book, song, play, movie, what have you, had SOME commercial intent behind it.
For that matter, if he doesn't like anything with "commercial intent", wtf is he doing on an internet dating site?
Connie Neil - Jun 18, 2012 4:10:13 pm PDT #10277 of 30001
brillig
The opera riots back in the day may not have been as bloody as Altamont Speedway, but it could get pretty seedy and "popular" back then.
smonster - Jun 18, 2012 4:11:55 pm PDT #10278 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Here was my response to him:
I think that drawing a bright line between culture and pop culture is pretty bullshit. Is it automatically pop culture if you get paid for it? What's the defining line? Is pop culture what you personally don't like? Do you spurn a band if they become popular? Should artists not get paid for their work, or only paid directly? Is commissioned work permissible or selling one's artistic soul to the devil? "Commercial or superficial" is a pretty vague way to delineate pop culture, IMHO.
A lot of what we now call "culture" was the pop culture of its time; Dickens, Shakespeare, ballet, jazz, etc. Some pop culture goes pretty damn deep - you're talking to someone who has gone to academic conferences on pop culture. NB: my username is two pop culture references.
Still interested?
Hil R. - Jun 18, 2012 4:23:27 pm PDT #10279 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I just had to send an email to one of the admin assistants at the math department asking where I'm supposed to go to get a new campus parking permit. The one I have is expiring, and I can't remember where they sent me to get it last time, and parking section of the university website keeps directing me to "the Parking Office" without ever once giving a building name and room number for this office.