Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Arachno-capitalist]

I guess when modern liberalism is packaged with the right kind of spunk, tits, and harmony, even I can sing along.

[Choop]

that and ani difranco got married to a dude in 1997 makes me lol

the lesbian activities director at my college threw away all her ani difranco CDs

she owned every CD ani ever released

also: she was both a lesbian and director of activities. she was not the director of lesbian activities.

[Arachno-capitalist]

See thats ridiculous, if she had ever listened to all those CDs shed know that Ani is a bisexual and has no desire to be some lesbian totem. She also has a kid brought through normal sexual production.

[Doc]

also: she was both a lesbian and director of activities. she was not the director of lesbian activities.

Colour me disappointed.

A-CAP, the idea that you can like Ani while I find her incredibly obnoxious is just one of those mysteries of the universe.

My theory is that A-Cap can like any commercially successful dirty leftist hippy.

[Golfhaus]

that and ani difranco got married to a dude in 1997 makes me lol

the lesbian activities director at my college threw away all her ani difranco CDs

she owned every CD ani ever released

also: she was both a lesbian and director of activities. she was not the director of lesbian activities.

Yeah, that makes me laugh. It was a minor scandal when it leaked that Dar Williams was straight. She said that she would have preferred that her orientation remain publicly unknown for "solidarity," i.e., "so that the lesbians keep buying my CDs." Hell hath no fury like a lesbian who finds out her idols crave the cock.

[littlefallsmets]

There is no doubt that Ani DiFranco is a fine fine lookin' lady.

There is also no doubt that said fine fine lookin' lady has devoted her life to churning out shrill tripe.

"my boyfriend watches too much football/so I'm gonna go eat pussy" is... every lyric she writes.

So... you're all right to some degree! See! When we're not on politics, we can rationally compromise.

[theinevitable]

PS: LFM, I really disliked Cat's Cradle, but Breakfast of Champions is effing brilliant.

Between that and this book about John Lennon I just read, I am rethinking my stance on the need to be nice all the time.

Vonnegut's comment that language used to be a way to communicate ideas, but has become a way for people to agree with each other to be polite hit pretty close to home. Also, comments about people buying into bullshit american dream, etc. I am struggling a lot lately with my tendency to take things at face value, and to think that as long as people have good intentions I should think that what they are doing is OK. I am having trouble communicating what I am trying to say here, for some reason.

[littlefallsmets]

Why did you dislike "Cat's Cradle", if I might ask?

I... kind of can't imagine disliking it.

[theinevitable]

I don't know. I like Breakfast of Champions because it makes me laugh and it makes me think. Cat's Cradle didn't do either of those things to me. I have read it twice and I cannot remember anything clever from it.

[Victoria Waterfield]

I like Breakfast of Champions because it makes me laugh and it makes me think.

Does it like to run? And then the thing? With the… person?

[littlefallsmets]

I think "Cat's Cradle" just...

Captured the human condition after the world got small so fuck*ng well, I guess.

All these people wandering around, very few evil but so many greedy or ignorant, looking for something greater than ourselves... stumbling around, looking for a God that is at-best absent and more likely non-existent, looking for love when everyone's too messed up to know what the hell that is...

People too smart for their own good, making up religions and weapons and personal mythologies...

Until someone figures out how to just end the whole damned thing, on purpose or accident.

And that in the mix there, that awful unavoidable mess of sweetly dumb people grasping for magic while fumbling toward Armaggedon, all that can really be said in our defense or to make anything even slightly better... is that at some points a few of us were nice to each other.

The world cannot be saved, God will not be found, the answers are forfeit, the mysteries are jokes at best... but sometimes we can be nice to each other and even if that's not quite enough, it is something.

Its something and if only there was somewhere to keep socre, it would certainly count in some way.

Somehow. Somewhere.

And... that's a perfect and perfectly honest vision of this damned human race.

[wombat]

...go find tiny baby frogs that still have tails, in a pond.

You have to click here to see, so JL doesn't have to.

[Golfhaus]

...come home from Lynchburg to find that our air conditioning is out. AGAIN. There appears to be a fuse in the air conditioner that likes to blow out. This machine is a little over a year old. So we bought some industrial fans to circulate the air in case this becomes a problem too expensive to fix.

Now, of course, the thunderstorm is rolling in so we'll have to close all the windows and lose the fresh air that's making it palatable.

Oh, and my father-in-law is here for the night before he and my wife go to Pittsburgh in the morning.

(sound of head thumping on wall)

[littlefallsmets]

...come home from Lynchburg to find that our air conditioning is out.

I'm not a huge fan of places changing their names for politically correct reasons but...

I'll make an exception here.

[jaydub]

I'm not a huge fan of places changing their names for politically correct reasons but...

Home of Jack Daniels?  Ain't gonna happen.