Posts by Jolisa
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Southerly: Liveblog: Moving House (Literally), in reply to David Haywood,
I’m giving your suggestion serious consideration at this point…
Those beers had bloody better be on the house.
Sorry.
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Southerly: Liveblog: Moving House (Literally), in reply to JacksonP,
I'll take the low road, while you take the high road?
Keep on truckin'
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Southerly: Bricks and Mortar, in reply to David Haywood,
The cabbage tree was blocking the house from being removed. It nearly killed me (psychologically) to cut it down.
Turns out that I'd rather have a house than a cabbage tree...
This whole thing is like an epic, architectural case of Shag/Kill/Marry.
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Plus: I've heard of open homes, but this is ridiculous.
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Southerly: Liveblog: Moving House (Literally), in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
Oh, I was expecting a thousand or so helium balloons.
But crane-type-things and big trucks, equally cool. Any chance of some reaction shots of young Bob?
It's like a fulfilment of the ultimate dadjoke fantasy
Hee hee, too true. "May I take a shower?" Yes, as long as you take it all the way to Dunsandel...
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Trundling off to re-read my copy of William Gibson's Idoru...
Don't look at the idoru's face. She is not flesh; she is information. She is the tip of an iceberg, no, an Antarctica of information. Looking at her face would trigger it again: she was some unthinkable volume of information. She induced the nodal vision in some unprecedented way; she induced it as narrative.
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He fell through her eyes. He was staring up at a looming cliff face that seemed to consist entirely of small rectangular balconies, none set at quite the same level or depth. Orange sunset off a tilted, steel-framed window. Oilslick colours crawling in the sky. -
Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Emma Hart,
a male singer marketed to teenager *girls* as aggressively masculine. There must be some.
Once upon a time, Billy Idol? As the more testosteroney version of Adam Ant et al? The trouble is, they all look so camp and therefore fey from outside the hormonal bubble.
Many a girls' comic photo-story was organised around the opposing options of sweet gentle girly-boy, and stone-butch man-boy... although, yeah, never a moment where the lead girl and her best friend looked at each other and went "OH!" Still, I reckon young desire and its representations are, despite surface appearances, more malleable and porous than they look. Cultural Studies, resisting reader, agency, blah blah etc.
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Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Emma Hart,
Someone told you about the captain of the Canadian Women’s Curling Team, didn’t they?
Punishingly hot. On ice. A nice combo!
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Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Danielle,
(Sorry, I continue the derail, but I’ve actually thought about this subject a fair amount.)
You have! I now want to read the full-length article version of this excellent contribution. Seriously, kd lang, Paul McCartney, spot the difference. (And I also now want Justin Bieber to record a version of "Man or Moppet", flexing his new muscles and gazing forlornly at a window reflection of his epicene younger self).
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Emma, you lapped me. As it were. The One Direction line is a throwaway joke.
But and also: interesting to think what would happen to that sort of group cathexis onto magnificent strangers in the Sexy Wonderland Utopia. Would there be mass media gods and goddesses, inaccessible Olympian crushes, or would we all just be getting democratically jiggy with whomever was to hand?