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Start Your Engines
"...and impacts from traffic and noise from MTS busses and semis will reverberate through Maple Canyon once again, bouncing off the walls of area mansions and high-priced high rises." Oh my god, I am cracking up! Pete, have you even been to this area? Has Dorian? I think not, because this area is NOT full of "mansions" and "high-priced high rises." There are a few well-kept Victorians and other antique homes, and all along the corridor in question, there's nothing but elderly apartment buildings and bleached-out condos raised in the 60s, inhabited largely by ageing pensioners. There aren't many semis rolling through, though traffic from downtown has steadily increased--commuters from downtown, yes. I for one am glad to have the bus route back, though I would accept a permanent change on the #11, having, like many riders, I suspect, gotten used to its temporary route this past year. And what are "piss ants?" Are those the creatures that are stinking up the bushes outside my condo? ;)— February 23, 2010 10:55 a.m.
Touring Tijuana Bathrooms - Everybody's Gotta Go Sometime
I didn't understand what you meant by taking a pass on a chance for immortality, so was asking if you were talking about the decision to write either a comment (transient, not up to the task) or a commmentary (idea of immortality in that it is a more lasting piece of writing). Thinking you might be saying you were recognizing that a commentary would be necessary to reply to all of this. Did I get it right?— February 23, 2010 10:27 a.m.
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re: #31 "As the 250 pound woman dies of consumption, our eyes are too blurred by tears to see anything but a delicate flower, petals blown in the wind. That is Art, a total fraud, but somehow more real than real." This, psycholizard, is the perfect dissertation on opera, and almost changes my mind about putting the cape back on and jumping in! Fact, I'm going to write an opera myself, with the following aria's refrain in mind: 'Paleo, Litheo, even if it's old Cro-, she's still Willendorf to meeeee.'— February 23, 2010 8:57 a.m.
Touring Tijuana Bathrooms - Everybody's Gotta Go Sometime
What do you mean, Cuddle? As in a comment vs a commentary?— February 23, 2010 8:27 a.m.
Bohemian 'rito with Guac
If it employs all of the devices of fiction, then it is to be enjoyed as fiction, right? :)— February 23, 2010 7:51 a.m.
Epic Beard Man
Oh, I'm using the term pretty lightly, to be sure, Pete ;) If you want me to be more precise, I'd say that a lot of your posts, where you are giving your concentrated opinion, are sort of like monologic proclamations. No matter what the topic, there is a lot of monologic I, I, I, followed by statements with no real opening for honest dialogue--for exchange. It's your way or the highway. I would rather contribute to something people build on together--that is the way I like to learn--and teach. Board did not get "crucified" for giving an opinion. He spit out some very ugly, useless invectives, and justifiably got fired. Pete, I wish that at the very least, one day, you could learn that there is a big difference between useless controversy and useful controversy. Useless, and even harmful, violent language vs. necessarily harsh language toward needed social change.— February 23, 2010 1:15 a.m.
A Phone Call From Bob Dylan?!
"must feel purty shot down" partly shat on” or “party shut down” "that’s how it goes when the party never ends.” “ghost” and “parting ever friends” or “partner at the end” Lovin' the linguistic farce, Jay Allen. I'm partial to “partly shat on.” ;)— February 23, 2010 1:05 a.m.
Touring Tijuana Bathrooms - Everybody's Gotta Go Sometime
re: #12: Jayallen, you're a gentleman and scholar ;) re: #10: I've been remiss--cobwebs in my ears, too. Yes, blog forthcoming. For reals.— February 23, 2010 12:30 a.m.
Epic Beard Man
Pete, just about all you write are mini-manifestos--in comment boxes! Check it out. That's why it was surprising to see you so terse, posting little more than a link.— February 23, 2010 12:24 a.m.
Epic Beard Man
Oh my yes, Pete. Do inform all of us sheep out here exactly what's what and who's who in the world. Then you can take up all of your blogs and stitch them together into one fine manifesto, learn to fly a plane or make a bomb, and... bob's your uncle! ;)— February 22, 2010 11:29 p.m.