ILx "first mentions"

lol wtf

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/10/graydon-carter-donald-trump

That was more than a quarter of a century ago. To this day, I receive the occasional envelope from Trump. There is always a photo of him—generally a tear sheet from a magazine. On all of them he has circled his hand in gold Sharpie in a valiant effort to highlight the length of his fingers.

dammit cuck!
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Friday, April 22, 2005 1:40 PM (eleven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

chuck
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Friday, April 22, 2005 1:40 PM (eleven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hahaha Cuck Berry. Goeie artiestennaam hoor. Moet Chuck zijn natuurlijk.

Eppy wrote this on thread 2008 Primaries Thread on board I Love Everything on Jan 24, 2008

McCain will probably not be able to win a GE for the same reasons that certain people who should know better cream their jeans about him: he won't say anything to win an election, he's not very partisan, and he has nuances. Whoever the GOP puts up their main task is going to be turning out disheartened GOP voters. One of the many reasons Hilldog makes me nervous: the Clintons are great for GOP turnout.

Eppy! forgot he posted here, I was trying to remember where I got Hilldog from and that is probably it

miloauckerman (miloauckerman) wrote this on thread I CAN'T STAND THE FACT THAT OUR PRESIDENT IS DEPLORABLY INARTICULATE on board I Love Everything on Apr 22, 2004

Because it acomplishes nothing. While you'll probably never cast the deciding vote in a Presidential election, you have even less say without voting at all. It has more to do with what you think than what I think.
No, I have the same say.
To say it again, voting is the absolute least-involved you can be in the political process without not taking part at all. Don't act like voting is some grand, meaningful gesture. For most Americans who even bother to vote, they're voting against one guy. It's a purely reactionary response.

What's the sham, Milo? If you don't feel like a major candidate represents you, vote for a third party. Even the Nadar people have figured that out. But furthermore why does a candidate have to represent everything you stand for? It's not just about YOU.
What's the point in voting for a third-party? Unless I live somewhere that I can elect Bernie Sanders (and let's be honest, dude might as well join the Dems), a third-party vote is meaningless.

I voted for Nader in 2000 hoping beyond hope for 5%. Now, if Democrats were interested in anything but their own power and influence, they would have encouraged Nader voters in Texas, or in New York, or anywhere that the election was locked up before it began. They would have encouraged a progressive voice, and they would have welcomed a message from the left that wasn't bought and sold by corporate donors. Instead they attacked and vilified and attacked and vilified and did what they have to do to win elections, made it a contest of who could scare people more. And continue to do so (cf. Alterman v. McGruder).

The sham is the idea that the major parties are interested in anything more than their own power (ironically, the Republicans are more interested in serving their voters, perhaps because their voters are into power too), and that voting is a meaningful action.

As for the self-involved, "it's not about you" - bullshit. You're not stumping for Kerry out of altruism. It's not a question of the goodness of your heart. You're voting for your own selfish reasons, just like everyone else. Kerry's beliefs are something you support, so you're going to vote for him. Or Kerry's beliefs are just better enough to let you vote against Bush.

My instinct is yes, but I haven't really thought about it enough or read enough analysis of places like Australia where voting is mandatory to make an informed decision.

Forcing someone to vote when they don't want to would be a disaster. What next, enforced voter education, to make sure the decisions are informed?

You want to solve voter apathy? Don't have people like Kerry and Bush at the top of the ticket.

******

you've just outed yourself as a laissez-faire capitalist. I don't know what you're doing voting for Nader.

Your vote has nothing to do with you, you're voting for Kerry out of the goodness of your heart, just a gift to the rest of us.

I know. We need to get past this partisanship. I mean, Bush isn't so bad.

That's the thing, and this goes back to what John D. said in the other thread - you wouldn't have a problem with Bush if he had a D next to his name. You're OK with Clinton fucking poor people and killing people halfway around the globe and refusing to do anything for basic civil rights.

Your problem isn't that Bush is "so bad," but that Bush is on the wrong team.

That's the problem with your partisanship, it has no basis in principle.

xpost to 1st response:

JUST BLAZE is dope... He did work with Buckshot on his BDI THUG solo and also with Half-A-mill in the early days.. now with Jay-Z and the rest of the ROC A FELLA crew.. he's moving up... he did excellent production for them.. KAYNE WEST also did an excellent job on the BLUEPRINT album.
HARDCORE HIP-HOP RECORD REVIEWS http://hardcorehiphop.cjb.net

― Todd, Thursday, November 29, 2001 8:00 PM (fourteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman) wrote this on thread STRAPPED: Why America's 20- and 30- Something's Can't Get Ahead on board I Love Everything on Jan 26, 2006

I thought the cut-off was 1981, with the MILLENIALS (worst gen-nickname ever) starting in '82. But that was something I read in Time or Newsweek years ago.

this seems to be first use of "millenial" wrt a generation, rather than in the sense of "relating to the millennium"

Neil Howe and William Strauss, who have done a lot of research on U.S. generations, break the 20th century into the following categories:
G.I Generation: 1901 to 1924
Silent Generation: 1925 to 1942
Boomer Generation: 1943 to 1960
13er Generation (Gen. X): 1961 to 1981
Millenial Generation (Gen. Y): 1982 to 2003

Which is an average of 20 years per generation.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, May 6, 2003 7:10 PM (thirteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I misspelled "millennial"?

Huh, I guess I did. A follow-up post from that thread:

Characteristics of millenial generation, I'm guessing, are a rapidly increasing dependence on and interest in technology in daily life. I was thinking how different my own life is than it was, say, 10 years ago. Pre-internet seems like a diff generation to me.
― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, May 6, 2003 1:21 PM (thirteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I hadn't noticed! I checked with the correct spelling, and those posts still seem to predate the first use of "millennial" (to refer to a generation rather than an era, though there's a few where it's borderline) and "millennials", respectively

Sinkah!

In the continued absence of Ethan, can I just note the Simpsons' take on Mad:

A typical scene. Bart and Milhouse are reading Mad. Bart: "This is so good. They're really dishing it out to this Spiro Agnew guy." cf Also Comic Book Guy's attitude.

One trick in golden-era Spy I really liked — must dig em out/wd I still find it even a tiny bit funny? — was the Homeric epithet gag: that everyone was always referred to by the SAME two-word life-and-worth summary. Only one I can actually remember at this second: "short-fingered vulgarian Donald Trump". Every time The Donald (which = another Spy gag, via some goofy thing Ivana once said) was written about, he was introduced and/or journalistically located as "short-fingered vulgarian Donald Trump"

I *always* read Private Eye (= war on journalistic clichea) even though I basically detest its crappy snobbery (war only on SOME kinds of cliche). Assume Spy = ditto, snobwise, for 'Murkins, but Brits somewhat quarantined from sensitivity to same, by the Atlantic if nothing else...

― mark s, Saturday, 16 June 2001 00:00 (fifteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm bored of it. It's as simple as that. I'm not prepared to listen to any more mansplaining, thank you...

― post-graduate education in Ladyology (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 5 August 2010 10:17 (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

... had to be!

almost fpd u by reflex

luba (luba) wrote this on thread Week 45 on board De Subjectivisten on Nov 5, 2002

Nieuwe lijstjes! Een dwarsdoorsnee:

Blak Twang - So Rotten
Action Biker - Farrah
Diverse Artiesten - Red Hot & Riot
khanate - khanate
Erase Errata live in OCCII
johnny cash - american iv the man comes around
Tim - My way
Kaito - Special Life
Melaton - Falling star EP
Arpnet - Wireless Internet
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - Dap-Dippin' with...
Madrugada - Grit
Transmissionary Six - Untitled

Bring it on.

Matt DC (Matt DC) wrote this on thread Celebrities who look like Gelflings on board I Love Everything on 14-Apr-2003

Meanwhile, someone has just alerted me to the uncanny resemblence between dominatrix Tory MP Theresa May and a Skeksis...

i got a thing for swag cru and i can't let go (tpp) wrote this on thread lil b (the based god) on board I Love Music on Feb 22, 2011

kendrick lamar sounds like he should probably quit smoking

lag∞n wrote this on thread showtime's Homeland =[a tolerable claire danes, mandy patinkin & that girl from firefly naked] on board I Love Everything on Dec 10, 2012

i kept hoping theyd throw us a bone re brodys phone not being tapped during conspiracy to assassinate the vice president video conference, like nasir was using snapchat or something

first Mensch-ion

Mark G wrote this on thread The Official Newscorp/UK end of season finale/Rebekah Brooks did 9/11 thread on board I Love Everything on Jul 19, 2011

1709: The session is restarted after 15 minutes. Tory MP Louise Mensch continues her questioning. She praises Mr Murdoch's "immense guts" for facing the committee.

mentioned under her maiden name back in 2003:

Enrique (Enrique) wrote this on thread Student Newspapers: C/D? on board I Love Everything on Oct 6, 2003

"haha Enrique i was music editor and then UBER EDITOR of the oxford student 1999-2000. i oversaw the paper's radical re-launch as a tabloid which won us some awards. despite all this, i hesitate to say classic because student papers are largely populated by losers and loners."
What's the steel press? did people read stude papers from other unis? i think i can dimly rember the petester, somehow, which is weird. We must've been ARCH RIVALS in a louise bagshawe style (ask yr girlfriend).
they feel classic when you're on them. I shudder to think how I'd feel if I saw any of it now (which I could since my mum has a bunch of what i did, photocopied for purposes of groanydad stude hack of the year compo).

has anyone here read one of her novels?

sorry, forgot to highlight:

Enrique (Enrique) wrote this on thread Student Newspapers: C/D? on board I Love Everything on Oct 6, 2003
"haha Enrique i was music editor and then UBER EDITOR of the oxford student 1999-2000. i oversaw the paper's radical re-launch as a tabloid which won us some awards. despite all this, i hesitate to say classic because student papers are largely populated by losers and loners."
What's the steel press? did people read stude papers from other unis? i think i can dimly rember the petester, somehow, which is weird. We must've been ARCH RIVALS in a louise bagshawe style (ask yr girlfriend).
they feel classic when you're on them. I shudder to think how I'd feel if I saw any of it now (which I could since my mum has a bunch of what i did, photocopied for purposes of groanydad stude hack of the year compo).

ban louise bagger

Bedfordshire Clanger!
― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, July 10, 2003 6:02 AM (thirteen years ago)

Putting syrup on pork based breakfast products: taste sensation or act of madness?

the return of the Great White Douche (Eisbaer) wrote this on thread quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a rolling new york times thread on board I Love Everything on Apr 22, 2010

from wikipedia, a description of both the founder and the current owner of the observer -- kind of an interesting commentary on how the composition of the city's elite has changed when you think of it:

The publisher and original owner, Arthur Carter has had other publishing interests in the past including the Litchfield County Times. At one time, he was a part-owner in The East Hampton Star. Carter received an A.B. in French literature from Brown University and an M.B.A. in Finance from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He spent twenty-five years in investment banking until 1981, when he founded the Litchfield County Times in New Milford, Connecticut. He owned it for twenty years until selling to Journal Register Company, later also selling his 50-percent interest in The East Hampton Star in 2003. He has been an adjunct professor of philosophy and journalism at New York University and is currently a trustee. He is also a sculptor. Despite his "registered opportunist" political beliefs, from 1985 to 1995 he owned The Nation.

In July 2006, Jared Kushner, a 25-year-old law student and son of a wealthy New Jersey developer, Charles Kushner, purchased the paper for just under $10 million. In April 2007 Bob Sommer became president.

The director, Stephen K. Bannon, a conservative auteur in the mold of Michael Moore right down to the New Balance sneakers, attended the screening and told CNN that he hopes to expand to more screens, but that decision would have to be made by theaters and the distributor after returns from the current release are counted.
that is a very florid, back-handed way of saying "a fat nerd"

― a variable (sic) "League of Nations" (DJP), Monday, July 18, 2011 1:28 PM (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lol DJP starting the venerable tradition of calling Steve bannon names way back in 2011

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a gentler, more innocent time, before any of us had experienced the phrase 'shaved garfield'

I am surprised that calzino's serious threads seem to get even more hostility and mockery than the myriad of banal and useless threads he insisted on previously. i guess he's the boy who cried wolf. too many people were sick of his other threads so now it's too late for him to engage the majority here in serious conversation. he ruined his chances by repeatedly abusing several posters un-necessarily. i think he lacks respect by not reading other threads - for if he did he would realise that there is a lot of political debate going on a lot of the time and that the same posters he pillories at every opportunity seem to get on fine with the vast majority of others here and display their intelligence without problems.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, September 9, 2003 6:59 AM (thirteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(only posting this because I am fairly certain he was not referring to modern "calzino" - right?)

I think this'd be the first for Aaron Judge:

http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/12428167/derek-jeter-last-new-york-yankees-captain-brian-cashman-says

Don't know, 'our' calzino posted under another name before - though he can be pretty feisty and some old school ILXors were a tad niminy piminy. (xp)

hell no it wasn't me, I didn't even know about ILX in that era, but blueski's "banal and useless" assessment still totally otm!

"Tim McGraw" by Taylor Swift vs. "Let's Make Love and Listen Death From Above" by CSS a/k/a Cansei de Ser Sexy; I pick the latter (which more or more seems like it could wind up in my year-end singles top ten even though I was very iffy about their album in a review I wrote for Spin, and which also has nothing to do with c&w music), but feel free to try to convince me otherwise. The Taylor Swift song is admittedly pretty good (also better than anything Tim's done this year, just like the CSS song is better than anything DFA have done, ever. I didn't notice the middle part where they try to *sound* like DFA til I watched the highly adorable video on youtube, during which part they also dress up like DFA elephants.)

― xhuxk (xheddy), Thursday, August 3, 2006 9:23 AM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that "calzino" must be the C-man, right?

Oh God, you're right.

glad you didn't say his name 5 times

The dying days of the Fourth Reich: it's the 2007 AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL ELECTION

Commentators are unanimous and firm in their confidence that the ALP will win. According to Chris Uhlmann, Labor is measured but ebullient, and the Coalition is "grimly determined."

Saturday Night Live

new featured player, kate mckinnon, starts next week

http://splitsider.com/2012/03/meet-kate-mckinnon-snls-newest-castmember/

― y'tulip, y'pea-brained earwig (donna rouge), Thursday, March 29, 2012 12:42 PM (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I just got an email from a cheesy venue advertising a show by some band called The Lumineers.
Um, GROSS

― La Lechera, Thursday, February 2, 2012 11:46 AM (five years ago)

LL otm

Rolling Stand-Up Comedy 2011

a girl I knew in college, Amy Schumer, is a standup now and she's co-hosting a show on Fuse with one of the guys from Blink 182. she's pretty funny, too, was a finalist on Last Comic Standing and had a good CC special recently.

woops:

a girl I knew in college, Amy Schumer, is a standup now and she's co-hosting a show on Fuse with one of the guys from Blink 182. she's pretty funny, too, was a finalist on Last Comic Standing and had a good CC special recently.

― based god on a true based god story based god (some dude), Friday, January 28, 2011 4:04 PM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?showall=true&boardid=77&threadid=77794&bookmarkedmessageid=2142716

flappy bird, as if someone was going to come along and go, "Wha? ILX didn't know about Blink 182 until 2011?"

So... Amnesiac

Something else.. "Amnesiac" arrived on Tuesday and Timothy McVeigh's televised execution is scheduled for Monday. Normally I'd say the further Radiohead stray from obvious politics, the better- but in the light of this event, it certainly makes the themes of the album seem that much more poignant. From the desperation and cruelty of Knives Out ("Look into my eyes/ I'm not coming back" and "Cut him up") to the political challenges of "You and whose army?" and the aformentioned Life in a Glasshouse's call for privacy and pacifism ("but someone's listening", "We're hungry for lynching"), Radiohead seem to have something significant to say. Or am I reading too much into this? Could I be doing the same thing using choice quotes from any number of albums?

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Friday, June 8, 2001 12:00 AM (sixteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

flappy bird, as if someone was going to come along and go, "Wha? ILX didn't know about Blink 182 until 2011?"

― pplains, Sunday, July 9, 2017 7:43 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it wasn't that, i forgot to add the poster and timestamp. i bolded too bc i remembered i'd done it in the past itt

amazing Timothy McVeigh / Radiohead crossfade there

hunting bears, crossing streams