Posts by Jolisa
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But our children found it all very exciting--especially firing darts at the school-ground seven stories below.
Paper darts, or the spiky pub kind?
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You're right - she is Misty and I have the wedding photos to prove it. Lucky feller.
I'm still goggling at the young George Michael in Gemma's photo-story link. "The girls around here certainly have improved since I left!" The genre is definitely overdue for a comeback.
And yes, Matt, the Seattle P-I was very much on my mind, along with the Rocky Mountain News and all the others. That is a classic Dave Barry. (How ironic that he is also the anecdotal heart of Clay Shirky's argument.)
@Carlos: so true about the ads. I found myself thinking the same thing while reading the Herald - ooh, need a new washing machine, ooh that's a nice couch, even though I didn't actually live in Auckland. (Is the corollary that we aren't even glancing at the online ads? Shhh, don't tell the advertisers).
@Tracymac: Pat Booth in the Manukau Courier - he was worth reading, for sure. Even if you didn't agree with him. And yes to Dan Savage, national treasure even when he's wrong or silly.
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I dunno... you could put it to a referendum. Next Great Blend? I'm sure Emma can procure the necessaries.
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and that cat looks suspiciously like the one that tries to attack me most days...
Run, Stephen, run! It's destroyed everything in its path... now it wants... YOU!
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Oops, my bad. It's not still being published; that's a fansite. Good stuff though: is it just me, or is that gal on the very first annual cover pretty much a young Donna Noble?
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And now all the Misty readers are lost in an inappropriate fog of "the one where a girl gets turned into a jellybaby" and "the one where the girl has the amulet made by pig-worshippers", completely unable to remember the features of anyone in other stories.
Amy, this is a pretty accurate example of what he's talking about, I think. He's got jolly good taste, my bro. Preteen alt.goth - it obviously made a big impression on a lad.
And look, Misty is still being published! But the new cover girl has a crap haircut.
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Down, boy! Nothing beastly going on here.
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I set 'em up, you knock 'em down!
Jack "Russell" Elder, don't think I'm not onto you. Who's a good boy then? Who's a good good boy? Want a biscuit?
[Turing test for dogs: he won't be able to resist]
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Oh, Oscar was simply Wilde about corsets. On boys, though. Actually, I wonder if he was; he probably did wear one himself, out of vanity.
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This might be frightfully immodest of me, but I look at those delicious items and think "Corsets: making other women look like Gracewood women, since 1300 or so."
(I am so glad not to be living in the 1920s or any other era in which booblessness was the thing.)
So I thought the semiological (heh) consensus on ties was that they were displaced phallic symbols for the deskbound era - displaced upwards because your actual phallic bits or your confidence-boosting codpiece were inconveniently hidden under the desk? Which of course is why Russell doesn't need to wear one, being such an emblem of masculinity in and of himself. It's the beard, I think.
But it doesn't explain why the fashion swings (fnarr) between really wide ties and very skinny ones.