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[jay-ell]

A facebook ad informed me today that "It's official! 78% of respondents like their men Tall, Dark, & Handsome!" And I'm thinking, as opposed to what? Short, pale, and ugly? Because I can't imagine a lot of women lining up for a shot with a Swedish midget vampire.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Along these lines: I've always wondered what would happen if an athlete, pro or olympic, used a seam-ripper to remove the embroidered Nike/Addidas/etc logo from their jerseys. Would they be fined? Pulled from the field and forced to put on a new jersey? Similarly, what if a reality show actor always held their soda etc with their palm over the logo instead of to camera?

You remember the Dream Team in '92, when they got their gold medals, some of the players (including Michael Jordan) had American flags draped around their necks? That's because the Olympic team warm-up jackets they were wearing were Reebok, but those players were sponsored by Nike and their contracts stipulated that they were never to be seen wearing another athletic company's logo. But Reebok's contract with the US Olympic Team said they had to wear these jackets. The flag was the compromise, it covered up the Reebok logo.

Athletic apparel logos are SERIOUS BUSINESS.

[wombat]

Wombles, Lprkn, Acap, and Pedro holding tight on the "**** the FTP. we're straight from the e-mail cloud"

Damn straight. I just got a new tablet and I keep having these conversations with the Tech Staff about how to get files onto it since it is apparently not trivial to get it onto our local network:

TS: Here's a little thing to stick into a little thing that you can stick in the laptop and then copy files onto and then stick in the tablet.
W: I have email on the tablet, why not just email files to myself?

TS: I found an app you can install so you can copy file via the network.
W: I have email on the tablet, why not just email files to myself?

etc.

[CortJstr]

JL: Show me a woman who isn't pale and I'll show you a woman who automatically loses at least one point on the 10-scale.

You remember the Dream Team in '92, when they got their gold medals, some of the players (including Michael Jordan) had American flags draped around their necks? That's because the Olympic team warm-up jackets they were wearing were Reebok, but those players were sponsored by Nike and their contracts stipulated that they were never to be seen wearing another athletic company's logo. But Reebok's contract with the US Olympic Team said they had to wear these jackets. The flag was the compromise, it covered up the Reebok logo.

Athletic apparel logos are SERIOUS BUSINESS.

Supposedly the Washington quarterback started writing the suffix to his name as III instead of 3 after he got sponsored by Adidas. Since the III looks kind of sort of like their 3-lines logo. And people think this is his way of sneaking Adidas onto his Reebok/Nike jersey. I think that's a stretch since who writes a name suffix with arabic numerals?

[jaydub]

Cort like his wimmen to put belladonna drops in their eyes and have a pinch of arsenic with their tea.

[pmcd9]

I tried to light up every forum at once, but I didn't make it to the bottom.

[Bobby Isosceles]

Okay, here's a random thought:

The cartoon Thundercats:

Besides the general concept of an entire planet with alien societies and magical realism, there are also certain things which make me think whoever wrote the original series bible was making nods to Jorge Luis Borges' Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.

To wit:

• the name of "Third Earth," mirroring Orbis Tertius
• The only form of animal life on the hypothetical planet of Tlön ever mentioned in the story ... transparent tigers. Tygra's power? Transparency/invisibility.

It may be a long shot or it may be a bored copy writer twenty years ago slipping some of his/her favorite influences in there as subtle references.

Opinions?

[dejavroom]

Opinions?

It is a cool... thought (no diss, mind). Speaking of which, have you read Borges' lovecraftian homage? It's called "There Are More Things", and it is basically one:

http://vicusyd.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/borges-there-are-more-things.pdf

[Bobby Isosceles]

It is a cool... thought (no diss, mind). Speaking of which, have you read Borges' lovecraftian homage? It's called "There Are More Things", and it is basically one:

http://vicusyd.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/borges-there-are-more-things.pdf

Yep. I've been on a big Borges and Lord Dunsany kick. Lord Dunsany of course being the O.G. of the genre and an equally strong influence on Borges, Lovecraft, Howard, Tolkien etc., so it's nice to see the start of it all.

[Doc]

Serendipity: I'm reading a Borges collection called Labyrinths at the moment which contains Orbis Tertius. It took me a little while to get into because I came to it via Foucalt's Pedulum (Orbis was apparently one of Ecco's inspirations) and while that was a real page turner I've found Borges to be more like reading really fascinating story pitches, really cool sophisticated concepts and settings just without a lot of narrative drive (if that is a real thing).
I guess the point in saying that is, what else is good along these lines, besides Thundercats? What's good by this Dunsany character.

In contrast to Borges I picked up a short story collection by Donald Barthelme the other week and really loved it. Most of the stories are no more than 6 or 10 pages, it's practically flash fiction. Really great stuff if you've never heard of him before (I hadn't).

[jay-ell]

This year, for Halloween, I want to dress up in red and green, adorn myself in tiny LED lights, hang ornaments on myself, and go as "Christmas Creep." Scary!

[pmcd9]

Could be hot.

[jaydub]

Is a Christmas Creep what you see happening in big box and department stores earlier and earlier each year, or what you find behind the shaking tree at the tree farm with cock-in-hand?

[theinevitable]

The first time I heard the word "internship" was also the time I discovered the concepts of thong underwear and blowjobs. No wonder all of my internships have been so disappointing.