Posts by Jolisa
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Oh wise little sister (and by the way, people keep complimenting me on that coat; I just smile I say I got it at a little place called Gemma's Wardrobe)... I tried Max first but they were all out of my size. Untouched World sounds just the ticket - I'll do it over while the boys demolish the discovery room at the Museum.
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Nonplussed, that's what I aim for (rather than outraged). Which I think answer's Craig's objection to the apparent inconsistency in my stance. In fact I'm sure adults wear things that outrage or nonplus the kids as well... walk shorts or Mom jeans, anyone? We probably feel like dementors to them, with or without hoodies on.
And yes, brilliant analysis of the failure of the hoodie. Maybe some princess seams on the front and a more cowl-like hood would fix it; I bet Karen Walker's working on it in her top secret lab.
And now that the PAS Women's XV has turned up, can I ask some advice - turns out my jeans are hanging off my bum (result of some assiduous calorie counting) (heh heh, I said assiduous) and I desperately need some new ones. Where do y'all shop for non-Mom jeans??
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I think you were at UC about the same time I was (vague memories of seeing your name on University Challenge team?)
Ah yes. That was me looking vaguely normal in a UC sweatshirt (no hood) alongside the sensible mathematician guy with the itchy buzzer finger, the Gothy philosopher lad wearing several shades of black and a fringe long enough for all of us to hide behind, and the lugubrious retired Russian lecturer who tended to take questions about WW2 Europe personally, as if he had been there at the time, which in fact he had. Quite the raggle taggle team next to the other perky foursomes in matching sweatshirts, but in a moment of pure Scumbag College brilliance, we actually won!
(Despite the abundance of lissome, beardless youths on the Otago team, our worthy opponents in the final).
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Haha Don! I'm hoping I'll get away with it too.
Those bizarre pants - really, aren't they jodhpurs?
Ugh, yes, and with their very own reins... I can't figure out if it's more the-knights-that-say-nee! or "Will you be wanting the bridal suite?" "No, I'll just hang onto his ears till I get the hang of it, love."
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regardless, laws will always be a mustachio'ed, be-mulleted, en-made-up 90s celebrity in my eyes.
I'm not 100% sure on the details of the maquillage, but it's been the same since the late 1980s. Definitely a candidate for a makeunder, in that case.
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I don't see why -- I know some thoroughly appalling people whose deep love for their families are their sole redeeming feature. Otherwise, still triple-decker turd burgers.
Oh, I know exactly what you mean. I guess I was just musing that sometimes a change in personal circumstances can change one's political outlook. Y'know, like the old saw about how "a liberal is a conservative who hasn't been mugged yet," and every libertarian is one car accident away from being a social democrat, and some of the staunchest members of PFLAG were once raving homophobes, and so on. It can happen.
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@ Che:
michael laws: two words, "eye" + "liner".
I thought it was one word, "mascara"?
@ Nick: Thanks for the radio report; perhaps my earlier analogy was not so wrong after all. A person would really have to be thinking like a Nazi to argue that they didn't kill "their own people," no? And even if you did want to make that comparison, maybe you could advance a half-decent notion about what the Burmese junta counts as "their own people," which would at least be interesting, if not getting us very far in changing the junta's mind about anything.
In any case, I would have thought a more compelling analogy than the Holocaust (hello, Mr Godwin!) would be the US federal government turning away foreign aid after Hurricane Katrina, less than three years ago. Fresh and relevant and controversial.
You'd have thought Laws' own recent family troubles - and the accompanying public sympathy, including mine - might have tempered his reflexive tendency to put rhetoric before ethics like a bad high school debater. But no.
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[Michael Laws says young offenders have]: "the collective education of an Austrian cellar dweller"
He actually wrote that? Ugh. Just, ugh. What a bizarre and revolting thing to say.
It's tempting to respond that a writer would have to have "the collective empathy of an Austrian child-imprisoning rapist" to turn an atrocity into a cheap, tossed-off phrase like that ... but I won't, because a) it would be unsavoury , b) it would be unfeeling, and c) like the original analogy, it wouldn't even make sense.
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I wonder of any of Chris Knox's stuff is available on iTunes in the US?
Yep, the albums Meat and Beat are available - and unsurprisingly the track "It's Love" is top of the list for popularity. As one iTunes review says. "i heard your song 'its love' on the advert and liked it so much i bought it." (Hmm, do Americans say advert? I think not - commercial, more like).
I've met a few underground fans here who speak of the man and his music in hushed, reverent tones. But this is clearly a breakthrough moment for him, and well-earned too.
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"Got some herbs from the market in my wicker wicker basket."
Too brilliant.