Christine Edgar works in the same office as my DH. She's doing great, and her daughter is a gorgeous kid.
Ben: I didn't ask for any of this. I just want to be normal. Gronx: I wanted to be an underwear model. We play the hand we're dealt.
'Touched'
Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Susan W. - Mar 31, 2004 5:15:42 pm PST #8697 of 10005
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Jesse - Mar 31, 2004 5:17:16 pm PST #8698 of 10005
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Good point, ita, but a person who didn't know that wouldn't know. If you see what I'm saying. There's no obvious thing saying that it isn't the Feets making the decision.
tina f. - Mar 31, 2004 5:17:25 pm PST #8699 of 10005
This is making me long for the days of TT's Book Sluts and Literary Lounge Lizards thread.
I was a hardcore lurker/semi-poster in the Eggers/Mcsweeney's thread which was just so full of funny brilliant people it was frightening. You would read a post and the next day it would be the daily entry on the Mcsweeney's page.
To this day I have my favorite TT post ever written (it's about politics) on a stickie on my desktop. I'm glad I saved it but I cannot believe I forgot to make a note of who wrote it.
Uhm. Yeah....Off to look at that pesky ol FAQ.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 31, 2004 5:17:43 pm PST #8700 of 10005
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
You know, listening to the TT talk, it makes me feel young, as I delurked during Buffy 5 on TT and often feel like an old-timer.
Of course, I was just talking to a student of mine who had assumes I was over 40 when in reality I am just 30, so I like feeling young.
Yay those of you who have the energy to do updates to the FAQ and etiquiette! I wish I had timeto help.
Michele T. - Mar 31, 2004 5:17:57 pm PST #8701 of 10005
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
I lurked on the first Buffy thread, as I recall.
Lyra Jane - Mar 31, 2004 5:18:10 pm PST #8702 of 10005
Up with the sun
tina, if you transcribed it I bet one of us would recognize the post, or at least the writer's style.
And Susan, that's great to hear about Christine.
§ ita § - Mar 31, 2004 5:20:54 pm PST #8703 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There's no obvious thing saying that it isn't the Feets making the decision.
I'm not saying the current wording is good (unless it's spelled out repreatedly elsewhere that the Stompies are merely enforcers of community will). Both points are important. Allyson can't post a warning, and I can't make one up.
tina f. - Mar 31, 2004 5:22:58 pm PST #8704 of 10005
if you transcribed it I bet one of us would recognize the post, or at least the writer's style.
But it's not from the buffy threads - I think it's from the Florida threads during the election chaos.
But - reading it now I really couldn't tell you why it's my favorite - it's much loftier than what I usually enjoy but it just struck me as kind of wise:
Politics, the aesthetics of mass organization, will never make anyone happy (with the possible exception of politicians), it can only make things "less worse." Culture and art, consistently make individuals happy, but can never change the world. The key is for each of us to be engaged in each. In politics because we are members of a group and sub-groups and are biologically indistinct. In art because our minds are, in their darkest hours, alone and discreet. Politics because our selves are meaningless, Art because, in spite of that, they are all we have. We are molecules held together by the tension of wanting to collapse in on ourselves and the opposing desire to spin-off as far from ourselves as possible.
Jesse - Mar 31, 2004 5:22:59 pm PST #8705 of 10005
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Both points are important. Allyson can't post a warning, and I can't make one up.
Yes, precisely. I just want people to understand. Of course, I have no suggestion for better text.
bon bon - Mar 31, 2004 5:32:39 pm PST #8706 of 10005
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I think Sophie makes excellent points, and I do think that newbies would be better served first reading the site etiquette, rather than the FAQ, before "joining in the fun." People looking to learn their way around a new place may look for a FAQ
Too true. For myself, it never occurred to me that the FAQ would not be an ideal place to start before reading the board, but you're right.