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"I'm not sure about Candy though. I think he was Canadian." Yep, Candy was a Canook, to be sure, eh. re: #28: Never heard of that phrase.— October 4, 2009 12:52 p.m.
Mark-Elliott Lugo says San Diego Transit worse every year
SurfP hyperbolized: "...is the height of ignorance." I don't think so, Puppy. Sit! Good boy :) "College depresses me...." You mean the thought of college depresses you? It only depresses me when I'm not doing what I'm supposed to do with college. It changed my life the way religion changes many people's lives--except positively, with knowledge and brain cell expansion involved :)— October 4, 2009 12:48 p.m.
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I can't believe Chris Farley would ever have stepped foot in an AA meeting.— October 4, 2009 12:28 p.m.
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Last year he came to UCSD to do what he called a "vaudeville act." It was really just JW at a podium at Mandeville, talking about making his films, and the background for his strange aesthetics. At the end, we all went up to get books signed or just chat. He was tired and impatient by the time we got up to him, so it was a bit anticlimactic when I asked, in the campiest way possible: "What's wrong with the telephone company!?" (line from Female Trouble, definitely the one you should see). It took him almost thirty seconds to get it, then he said something like, "Oh yeah, Ma Bell. We were all pissed at her back then." :) Many in my family can quote that film backwards and forwards, and call each other by different characters' names. A blast. The lines just work for so many situations.— October 4, 2009 12:12 p.m.
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AG leered: "A pervert uses the whole chicken." A scene among many scenes I cannot deal with in one of John Waters's films unfortunately comes to mind. I am going to concentrate now on refried's dream about a chicken balancing on his head, which brings good writing fortune :|— October 4, 2009 11:23 a.m.
Mark-Elliott Lugo says San Diego Transit worse every year
Twuuue. I should add to my banal observations, though:--There are many dedicated CC instructors out there, whose talents happen to lie in teaching rather than researching and publishing--just as there are brilliant profs at uni who can't teach for toffee, as my nana would say--and who teach as though the classroom were an annoying little hive of bees they are trying to avoid. Oh, the stories I could tell about uni profs :)— October 4, 2009 11:13 a.m.
Mark-Elliott Lugo says San Diego Transit worse every year
You are so welcome, why :) AG, it was a travesty. It is one thing when these guys can't teach, and quite another when they can, but don't choose to because they are burned out. I can understand it now, having worked at a community college, but I really noticed it then, too. I went to City and Mesa, and saw an array of different coping mechanisms at work with instructors forced to teach the same classes over and over for years. Some drank, some went nuts and had public tantrums, some fawned over students who showed a little promise, while being cruel and dismissive to those there for "a-dolt education," some displayed a bone chilling cynicism about their fields of instruction, and some just sort of checked out mentally altogether, standing up and teaching like robots to a constantly recycling syllabus and set of outlines...I don't blame anyone for it--CCs can be so hard on people, and the English teachers have to deal with constantly growing classrooms full of EFL students who have no qualms about trying to purchase grades (there was, I believe, a scandal with this a few years ago).I still remember all of it, and have tried to take a lesson to stay fresh with whatever I'm teaching, and avoid falling prey to these defensive mechanisms when possible. Some reminiscence for Fish: Besides LaRosa, I'd say Steve Bouscaren, the anthro teacher, and an older guy who taught sociology were the best. For creative writing at City, Thomas Larson, who writes covers for the Reader, was popular, though I never took his class.— October 4, 2009 8:49 a.m.
Now I'm wicked hungry and it's 2:30 in the morning. Sweet!
"Oooh, how do you know these things about those shows, SD????" I watch tv!!!! Carefully! :) Watched Design Star a couple of seasons ago. Currently into fashion and food shows, but not whiny remedial home cooks who cry about not having "a point of view," which translates to "cheesy hook for a lameass FN show" like "30-minute housewives" or "I travel and will eat anything in front of you." :)— October 4, 2009 7:27 a.m.
Now I'm wicked hungry and it's 2:30 in the morning. Sweet!
"Have you considered trying out for that show, The Next Food Network Star?" Those people are almost all home cooks; many of them terrible, talentless crybabies. Pike should probably shoot for Top Chef or Iron Chef, or his own cooking/textual criticism show: "Pike's Palate Pleasers" :)— October 4, 2009 6:52 a.m.
Now I'm wicked hungry and it's 2:30 in the morning. Sweet!
"In as new condition" is a phrase we could explore, and riff on its prepositional ambiguity in cool, jazzy ways: Insofar as it is new...(leaves you hanging, waiting for more information on this exciting product!) It is IN listing AS new, which is certainly a condition...It is a condition that is new in as it is...It is in a condition, it is, as new...This just in! A new condition!— October 4, 2009 3:33 a.m.