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Tundra # 7
Hee hee, knew you'd do something with that, Rocket ;)— March 14, 2010 5:35 p.m.
i guess i just wish...../Pistol Pete
Hey Grant, do you recommend Sunshine Cleaning? Alan Arkin in that one too?— March 14, 2010 5:23 p.m.
i guess i just wish...../Pistol Pete
Oooh, nan, using characters in the repertoire. Rock on with those tildies and asterisks! re: #124: Merci a propos des chats, refrito ;)— March 14, 2010 5:20 p.m.
We Filipinos eat with our hands, drive crazy on the road, point with our lips
Altius and anyone else who wondered why people would have trouble with this article, but doesn't feel like reading back up the thread, listen to new responses coming in now from guest123, musicminded, rvvargas,... --but MOST of all listen to deux @ #40: "Filipino parents are often unaware their American born children are raised with multiple identities. American ideals of independence and privacy conflict with Filipino values of collectivity and openness so representing your culture or heritage in America in any way is subject to disputing your social standing. Children have no other outlet to discuss these cultural frustrations and may sometimes subject to mischievous behaviors, as Maecel described." Bravo/brava, deux for the most deeply insightful posting here! Altius, I will also repeat what I said earlier: I think that the negative reactions are justified, and the positive reactions are hopeful, both with a similar underlying hope. A piece like this is offensive and disappointing just because we DON'T see enough literature from what would be labeled a so-called "minority" point of view--I'd rather say, from a variety of cultural points of view. And that is the damn shame here--if we had tons of stories coming out in the neighborhood blogs and on cover that revealed different perspectives on Filipino-Am experiences, then this one would just be another, and we could discuss it with less ire and frustration, feeling that it is being totally and irrevocably misrespresented.— March 14, 2010 3:34 p.m.
Burning of Bridges
re: #20: Bravo, jayallen! That post got me "feelin' groooovy...da da da da da da da da..."— March 14, 2010 3:11 p.m.
Exterminate The Troll
I appreciate any efforts to restore peace to this site!— March 14, 2010 11:10 a.m.
Satire Saunters into the Reader! A word on Walter Mencken’s February 24 installment of “S.D. on the Q.T.”
I remember when Greek and Latin--language study--were dropped from the last community college. Never dreamed they'd practically disappear from four-years as well. And speaking of Greek and Latin, I think we'll agree that it is etymology that prepares us for a lot of ironic wordplay informing most genres. If you can't read for the etymological, you probably can't spell, much less chase out ironic or satirical structure at the linguistic level, which takes much of the joy of close reading out of the equation... What is the name of your friend who's written on the Simpsons?— March 14, 2010 3:42 a.m.
i guess i just wish...../Pistol Pete
refried, read back over my post. Nowhere did I suggest there was a real "transformation." I think it's pretty clear that no one concluded there was. "He tried to do more for one cat than I would have ever thought of doing." Hmmm. It already seemed clear that you were stealing thunder from others to lend to Pete--but now saving a cat? Have you followed what AG and I just accomplished? Uh, gettin' a little scary here. We are arguing pointlessly. I'm finished, and will not respond further. I've spent far too much of my time responding to taunts by an ignoramus with a fetish for negative attention from strangers. How sick is that? I don't know--I no longer have anything to do with it.— March 14, 2010 1:05 a.m.
i guess i just wish...../Pistol Pete
I am NOT calling Pete "Ralph." I am not calling Pete by the name of one of the poet/philosophers whose words first inspired me to study literature (yeah, a Romantic poet at that--no irony lost). Uh uh. I have no idea why anyone would take up such a ridiculous pretense, and call him anything else. refried wrote: "That only lasted as long as it took everyone to jump back on his case. Did he deserve that treatment from you all? YES, he expected it! But what did YOU expect? That suddenly, he was going to love kittens and become a preacher? Do you really even want Pete to love kittens and preach? And I'm the one romanticizing?" Actually, I did not change my approach much at all. While he acted like a human being, I spoke to him as I would anyone. When he found he couldn't sustain it, and went back to being a troll, I became wary again. I did not romanticize him--I simply had hopes. Just as everyone else did, because then we would be allowed to like him, and enjoy the things he said that were funny or interesting. If I romanticized anyone's role, it was yours, refried. I gave you credit for the transformation, recall? :) The romanticizing on your part comes in with statements like "We are all Pete," and "You wouldn't even want him to change," etc. There are plenty of examples, but I think we should let it go. Dear, this whole back and forth about Pete is his wet dream, and I'm tired of fulfilling it. There is a reason he chose to stereotype the three of us. It's like we are mummy and daddy caught with "Baby" in some ironic Oedipal drama. I think we should drop it all--you enjoy your interactions as a single "parent," and I'll go on to tend my blogs and conversations. I hope this new handle means that he is going to leave me alone, because aside from calling out his racist epithets, I have no wish to converse. You on the other hand, I hope will stay ;) PS: I'm proud to be a Cat Lady, y'all--and never more than today! Not a spinsterish hag, but a happily married cat lady with lots of friends and family and online friends and the whole of life out there--and yes, CATS! Love me some cats. I've never been accused of being man-hating or too bookish, or of not knowing the ways of the world. These stereotypes fall away like so many dry husks. And it's awfully hard to pitch a dry husk at someone, isn't it? :)— March 13, 2010 10:36 p.m.
i guess i just wish...../Pistol Pete
For the quadrillionth time: I have not supported censorship. Sue me--I'm glad Pete was banned too. I'm sick of him meddling everywhere I go to post, and in every conversation I'm having. It's more than annoying--it's a menace. And I will point out that RWE IS PETE every time too, if he says anything snarky to me. Otherwise, I'll just try to ignore it and go my way. Everything you commend in Pete, funny--just about everything you commend in Pete is true of just about one or other of us. I've NEVER hit the REPORT IT button either. So what? I don't believe in censorship. Aside from the point. The problem is that "freedom of speech" is used around here as an excuse to be an ass and to be a blatant, meanspirited racist with clearly NO other point or purpose than to troll and annoy. That's what you are missing, refried. You are romanticizing Pete, thinking he has some amazing message for the world. He has none. He spews the same tired old rhetoric we've heard over and over. Such as the point about "We are all racists. We are all Pete." I think most people here have done enough self-searching and have enough self-awareness that this point has not been lost. We don't need a Pete in order to be or become self-aware and aware of our shortcomings. That is a presumption that can be gracefully retired, no?— March 13, 2010 4:48 p.m.