It's a bang-up good one, <a href="http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/programs/2007/02/19/index.html#wednesday">today</a>.
Palahniuk and Wallace, born this day, 1962.
Posted by MF DU on 2007-02-21 13:56:52 +0000
plagiarists, cheats. all i read now is <i>MAD</i>
Posted by MF DU on 2007-02-21 14:02:02 +0000
strike that. Even that has ads.
Backs of Milk boxes?
Posted by tendiamonds on 2007-02-21 14:11:24 +0000
Consumer Reports.
Posted by MF DU on 2007-02-21 14:12:24 +0000
forgot about that.
Posted by mahatma chani on 2007-02-21 14:55:06 +0000
Totally off topic, did anybody else see Karen Pittelmman in the latest issue of US News and World Report?
Posted by MF DU on 2007-02-21 15:00:47 +0000
Did you guys know her when she was in Cambridge?
Posted by tgl on 2007-02-21 15:32:26 +0000
Actually, not really. I've spent more time with Karen & Yoav since they moved to NYC.
More off topic: ENYCE clothing is pronounced EN WHY SEA or EN EE CHI, heard the later on a TV ad the other day...
Posted by Epoisses on 2007-02-21 15:37:58 +0000
The article about Karen, sans photo, is <a href ="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/articles/070218/26philanthropy.htm"> here. </a>
Posted by ConorClockwise on 2007-02-21 16:28:45 +0000
Speaking of which the February MAD magazine has a spin off on the fighting AIDS 'Red' campaign. It goes something like this:
Picture Kevin Federline crying, caption "Spea(red)."
Picture of O.J. Simpson in a bloody t-shirt, caption "Abhor(red)".
Picture of Rumsfeld, caption "Fi(red)."
Still a great read.
Posted by MF DU on 2007-02-21 16:32:41 +0000
are the marginal drawings and Spy vs. Spy still utilized?
Maybe I could stomach the ads...
Posted by MF DU on 2007-02-22 15:35:02 +0000
FWIW: What Is <i>Infinite Jest</i>? was one of the correct questions on last night's JEOPARDY
Posted by mahatma chani on 2007-02-22 16:01:45 +0000
Answer?
Posted by MF DU on 2007-02-22 16:11:56 +0000
The question is the answer.
Seriously, though: I can't completely remember know. I think everything in the answer categories had to have some form of 'infinity' in it.
Posted by tgl on 2007-02-23 00:55:44 +0000
This was from The Writer's Alamanc <a href="http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/programs/2007/02/12/index.html#friday">last Friday</a>. It's poetry I can understand:
My Methodist
grandmother said
dancing
was adultery
set to music
how right she was
in that sweet sway
breast to breast and
leg to leg
sin comes into its own
if you have never
waltzed
you cannot imagine
the sheer voluptuousness
of it
the light touch
palm to palm
wool and silk
mixed below the waist
your partner's warm breath
on your neck
coming quicker
and quicker
the strength of the man
the yielding of the woman
so incorrect
so atavistic
so unspeakably sweet
he moves toward you
you back away
he pursues you
and with the faintest
pressure
you encourage him
and watch the blood
rush to his face
not a word is spoken
no one sees this
although it's done in public
in full sight of everyone
you touch
and retreat
meet
and touch again
in time to the music
saying yes
no yes
no yes
no
yes
you dance
without thinking of your body
in that gentle
rhythmic
careless
almost copulation
one two three
one
two three
the longest
foreplay
in the western
world
Posted by tgl on 2007-02-23 16:18:48 +0000
..and you too, <a href="http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/programs/2007/02/19/index.html#friday">Sam</a>!
What did you do <a href="http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1664/02/22/">today</a>?
Backs of Milk boxes?
More off topic: ENYCE clothing is pronounced EN WHY SEA or EN EE CHI, heard the later on a TV ad the other day...
Picture Kevin Federline crying, caption "Spea(red)."
Picture of O.J. Simpson in a bloody t-shirt, caption "Abhor(red)".
Picture of Rumsfeld, caption "Fi(red)."
Still a great read.
Maybe I could stomach the ads...
Seriously, though: I can't completely remember know. I think everything in the answer categories had to have some form of 'infinity' in it.
Poem: "My Methodist Grandmother Said" by Mary Mackey, from Breaking the Fever:
Poems. © Marsh Hawk Press. Reprinted with permission.
My Methodist Grandmother Said
My Methodist
grandmother said
dancing
was adultery
set to music
how right she was
in that sweet sway
breast to breast and
leg to leg
sin comes into its own
if you have never
waltzed
you cannot imagine
the sheer voluptuousness
of it
the light touch
palm to palm
wool and silk
mixed below the waist
your partner's warm breath
on your neck
coming quicker
and quicker
the strength of the man
the yielding of the woman
so incorrect
so atavistic
so unspeakably sweet
he moves toward you
you back away
he pursues you
and with the faintest
pressure
you encourage him
and watch the blood
rush to his face
not a word is spoken
no one sees this
although it's done in public
in full sight of everyone
you touch
and retreat
meet
and touch again
in time to the music
saying yes
no yes
no yes
no
yes
you dance
without thinking of your body
in that gentle
rhythmic
careless
almost copulation
one two three
one
two three
the longest
foreplay
in the western
world
What did you do <a href="http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1664/02/22/">today</a>?