Posts by Lyndon Hood
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Seeing as I brought it up I'll just say I though A Thousand Apologies wasn't that bad. Partly because one or two really funny bits in an episode bought a lot of forgiveness from me.
That said, I did a certain amount of re-working of their material in my head, which is never a good sign.
It was also fairly clearly not just about but aimed at those asian diasporia types, which I am not one. Though the Embedded Asian Underground did do a lot of prep work on me.
Millen Baird OTOH - there were some signs of episode-long building plotlines that would pay off at the end. But mostly I got the impression of not-especially-ironic dressups, so I never stayed to see.
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No, because I've never heard of it.
Well, I never watched a whole episode. 'The Millen Baird Show': local comedy that had a short run on TV3 the other month along with pan-asian sketch show 'A Thousand Apologies', which I did watch a couple of all the way through.
Chap called Millen Baird did recurring character, with a certain amount of cross-dressing.
Those shows took over the slot from the Jacqui Brown Diaries.
Any bells?
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Not dissimilar to Craig's thoughts on Daffyd. When I think of him it's as a guy who somewhat endearingly feels he has to dress like an inflatable raft to prove he's gay.
I'm sure sundry people who weren't inclined to work that one through had their prejudices confirmed, but I long ago decided there's no accounting for the messages people take.
Speaking of guys dressing as queers and women, does anyone want to compare and contrast with The Millen Baird Show?
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More random linkage
Harvard’s Charlie Neeson raises Constitutional questions in RIAA litigationRobbery, if it helps my impression was the difference between you and others isn't that they think it's okay to undermine people's property rights or that they shouldn't be enforced.
It's that they don't think copyright rights actually extend as far as you do in the first place.
Without resort to some fairly serious information theory, jurisprudence, a theory of value that actually explains why some things should be purchased and others not, I don't know what all else and both parties in the conversation understanding this I don't think there's going to be much convincing.
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No way that would happen, Clark has already said she sees no need for them to be entrenched
And more recently, that she has no problem with them being entrenched...
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Dante's Paradisio as well as his Inferno, if you will.
Somehow I think that the movie of the Divine Comedy will include Purgatory and Paradise only as an epilogue.
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These days I prefer a book I can read from cover to cover while in the bath
Since you mention Candide, I'd rate that for shortness and sweetness among classics.
Someone upthread expressed dislike for plots driven by arbitrary coincidence; here I think that contributes nicely to the whole package.
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JKR, I'm looking at YOU...
It's my suspicion that some authors of series which become hugely popular, are all like, <i>now I have the power and I can leave in all the tedious nonsense they cut out of the first two if I like</i>.
I mentioned elsewhere that I gave up about 1% away from the end of The Order of the Pheonix. Shortly after Dumbledore explained that he missed the climactic battle between good and evil because he was busy interrogating an elf.
At the risk of crossing the streams with the copyright debates, Richard Stallman currently has a boycott out on the purchase of Harry Potter books, and not just because the average geek should know better anyway.
I started on The Dav Vinci Code staying at someone's place on holiday, off their bookshelf. In the circumstances, I wasn't obliged to finish it. Nice link on that, Mr Brown.
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A review I saw somewhere somewhere (Robert Anton Wilson?) of a series of condensed classics, removing the things everyone complains about - the example was the endless minutiae on whaling in Moby Dick. And apparently they did a jolly good job, but the result was a rather ordinary sort of modern book.
Another example might be the random if enthusiastic discourse on parisian architecture in the middle of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. I think it was Victor Hugo that, I was told, made his maid take his clothes away until he'd written a certain number of pages.
Anyway, the argument was the idiosyncrasies of the author are part of the classic-ness.
I'm currently having a look at someone's translation (without notes) of Gargantua and Pantagreul. Basically out of interest in it as a museum piece. Has its moments, but you for sure wouldn't want to do it for fun.
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This is a good time to remind everyone you can have your say on the electoral system, if only the agencies-and-financing side.