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Watch Your Butts
re: #42: Perhaps, Fred, but that has nothing to do with me. Again, if you don't mind, since you are in the mood to exhort all to "stick to what you know," I'd like to find out what YOU think you know about me: 1. Where (here or anywhere) did I express an opinion, or claim I had knowledge of IT? 2. Why would you assume that I am "absolutely in NO position to have an opinion on IT?" How could you possibly know whether or not I am, Fred?— January 24, 2010 2:53 a.m.
Watch Your Butts
re: #37: "SDaniels...stick to something you know. If you want to talk literary theory, fine. But you are absolutely in NO position to have an opinion on IT." Uh, Fred, when did I say I knew anything about IT--ever, and what opinion about IT did I express that leads you to exhort me in this indelicate fashion? Hmm? (That is, if you have time to respond amidst this raging battle of the braggarts).— January 24, 2010 2:42 a.m.
Watch Your Butts
#34: I look forward to seeing this happen. My bet's on Pete this time. #31: Pete wrote: "Taxes are taken out because Uncle Sam is clueless. When W-2s are handed out, he figures out how much in tax has been deducted and I give him 3/4s." Ok. You two share a dead person's ID. Yet-- Chi-town buddy works, and he pays taxes on his job. You say Uncle Sam takes taxes out of your "dead" buddy's check, and then you pay buddy's taxes instead of paying up front for sharing the identity. --But what about when he processes the forms, and pays his taxes? No one EVER notices a dead man paying his taxes? What is are the odds this happens, and what happens when it eventually does? (I mean, what happens to your buddy, because you are clearly removed enough from the situation to possibly get out of it, as long as there is no paper trail between you and buddy, right?)— January 24, 2010 2:14 a.m.
Watch Your Butts
Wow. Fascinating s***. Ok, so bear with me: You and buddy in C-town pay the equivalent of one citizen's taxes per year, while your 'person' or his 'person,' depending who gets to be dead that year, is dead?— January 23, 2010 10:51 p.m.
Velvet Goldmine
I can see what Jay is saying about Kane. Haynes is an academic filmmaker, as Duncan points out, and sometimes to his detriment (I agree with Dunc about the barbie doll sequences--he relies on them too much, and it makes no sense in this film to throw in yet again echoes of the little girl's formative experiences with dolls, dollhouses, etc.--even though it DOES make sense in much of his other work). So long parenthetical statement aside, I'd like to watch again and explore the Kane analogy, which works metaphorically with the idea of the climb of the pioneer--here, the gender pioneer. What still confuses me about Duncan's take on the film, and maybe one of you can answer: How does Curt Wild be the "reincarnated spirit" of Oscar Wilde? I would think that Jack Fairy evokes shades of him, as do many of the characters, including the poetic Brian Slade, who, early in the film, is seen doing a very Beau Brummel/Wildean dandy, standing in waistcoat and with decadent leisure over the naked body of a schoolboy. Most of the characters are complex composites, especially Brian Slade, but the person of Curt Wild seems too exclusively focused on evoking Iggy Pop to be Wilde. Could Duncan have made this statement based solely on the name similarity? I hope not ;)— January 23, 2010 10:44 p.m.
Furry Children
No, diego, I am not hooked on whatever you are calling this boring, fifth-grade-level--SPAM. I'm going to repeat this clearly and just once more, and then I'll leave you to the oblivion in which it and you appear to exist: You are spamming the staff story board. You have been reminded of this multiple times by multiple parties. It irritates others, searching for content. If you develop an interest in social cues and getting along with others, you will get a neighborhood blog like everyone else.— January 23, 2010 8:56 p.m.
Wall Street is feasting off Main Street’s pain
re: #39, 42: If Sallie Mae would be walking alleys in a red dress, that would mean we'd be screwed only short term. SurfP is talking about a long, miserable marriage!— January 23, 2010 6:44 p.m.
Every Tuesday...
re: #7: *one eye roll* So, have you seen Ice T's recent girlfriend?— January 23, 2010 6:27 p.m.
The Buttons
Very cute, and poses a great question-- What is it that makes us choose to do the 'step-on-a-crack, break my mother's back' routine, to express and relieve ourselves of our innate compulsions? I find myself sometimes doing this as an adult, and have to shake my brain out of it, or I'd be lurching down the sidewalk like Rainman! ;)— January 23, 2010 4:38 p.m.
None
re: #32: Thank you, sir! *Smithers* (and thank you all--still think Grant's would have been funnier) I did forget to use the word "dope," though, as in: "Those dopes at the ACLU have been at it again."— January 23, 2010 4:23 p.m.