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See you next year, September
Speaking of hand gestures, I'm quite comforted by the feminized, manicured hand floating next to the safe. It says..."Hello, treat yourself to a survey of the features of this fine, weighty object." It is probably sweeping across the length of the inscrutable wall of surface with a gala-delighted cocktail gesture, like one of Bob Barker's beauties.— October 1, 2009 2:14 a.m.
See you next year, September
Pike philosophizes: "(because of the way we approach the world linguistically) our thinking is always metaphorical or metonymical...) and obviously quite the little semiotician, which of course Pikey has to be, in order to make any sense of Lacan. Ever read Lacan on television? I mentioned Lacan the other thread, didn't I? I love him, too--and all his 'quas.'— October 1, 2009 2:09 a.m.
See you next year, September
Apropos of nothing, that reminds me of these tv crime shows, where you have two hosts. One sitting host introduces the story of the crime in weighty tones, but who can't be associated that closely with the actual crime. So he then passes this sludge on to the 'walking' host, generally a woman who makes traditionally male, rhetorical, pointy, triangulated, reassuring and rational hand-holding gestures, but she must discuss the details of the story. It's a way of easing you into down into the filthy well-hole as gently as possible; then at the end of it all, right when you've forgotten there is an 'up' or outside to the story, you are led back to the omniscient 'seated' host again, sometimes seated before a screen like a mirror-scry, and it is like that respectable moment of Jerry Springer, with some kind of platitude or moral conclusion we should keep in mind, such as...'forensics will out!' or 'bad guys rot in prison!' :)— October 1, 2009 2:05 a.m.
See you next year, September
I'm in love. He says "delve" without any unnecessary prepositions attached :)— October 1, 2009 1:43 a.m.
Everybody always wants to throw glass in stone houses and, sooner or later, someone's going to lose an eye!
Of course it was, Pikey, but the main issue is translation, remember :) That is one of my fave Borges stories.— October 1, 2009 1:42 a.m.
Things That Go Bumping In The Night
The genre of horror reaches down into your skull and yanks up a little bit of that animal grey matter we don't want to acknowledge, sort of like Anthony Hopkins' character does to...OOPS. Sorry, Fishikins :) At any rate, what is an overfed, lazy, top-of-the-food-chain creature to do, besides artificially stimulate adrenaline rushes to replace the real life fight or flight our genetic ancestors used to face daily and healthily (rickeysays should like that last imagery). I once acted in a haunted maze in school. Exhilarating to jump out at folk with a costume on, and very different from going through one and being scared half to death! I'm with you on most of this stuff, Fish, though I do think films like The Birds are worth checking out--and you might be able to deal with The Sixth Sense.— October 1, 2009 1:39 a.m.
Roman Polanski...Be Grateful You Were Not Extradited To Poland!
Wow, really not much to this case, then, besides a confession. Now, some are saying that the only charge he has to face now is for running, but it seems that he never did get formally sentenced. If he does have to face rape charges, then he needs to lawyer up but good--get himself a Johnny Con Man or a Bruce Cutler--no scratch that. Bruce Cutler apparently only does well on the East coast--practically kicked off Phil Spector's team--judge and jury hated his Mafioso style...— October 1, 2009 1:19 a.m.
9/11 Flashback with a Friend
Clicked on the first link in #28, but just not into reliving any video from 9/11/01. The actual experience was close enough, thx much. Feel free to summarize here, though, PP.— October 1, 2009 1:02 a.m.
9/11 Flashback with a Friend
re: #25: Hey russl, I reworded the comment in #14 for ya. And thank you so much for that link--the Dutch are so resourceful :)— October 1, 2009 12:59 a.m.
My husband is slowly falling in love with San Diego
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.” Allllrighty, then, dear, but what is there to disagree with here, really?— October 1, 2009 12:53 a.m.