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Yeh, that's what I'm getting at. What was the monologue about?

Well, yeah, from what I heard of it it's one character talking about an abortion she had. The play (described here) is pretty rough in general, but really good. Still, a lot of groping and incontinence onstage.

And shooting up, etc.

sounds like a lousy weekend

Incontinence? Like verbal incontinence, or people actually peeing themselves?

Maybe that's the play I should take my parents to see when they visit at the end of the month...

Would that it were only peeing.

(They're junkies, remember.)

Citizen Ruth is fab, cuz it mocks doctrinaire pro-choicers and right-to-life fundies with equal fervor.

What is a "donctrinaire pro-choicer"? I am wondering if that is what I am.

Pretend I can spell, thanks.

I would say, in the context of the movie, it helps to be a strident lesbian activist who bays at the moon.

I'm wondering the same. I'm having trouble coming up with much to mock in a pro-choicer, whatever modifier is applied. It would be like mocking an anti-child molester.

Unless it's OK to mock those who oppose child molestation for being raving lunatics who bay at the moon. Then it would make sense.

Dan M@rt|n: which is worse, a strident lesbian or a Stridex™ lesbian?
jesse k3hr: pussy juice prevents acne

ok you two

for the record, I am mostly anti-child-molestation, but man... sometimes those anti-molesters just carry it too far.

I SWEAR, EVERY DAY IT GETS HARDER TO LURE THE KIDS INTO THE VAN. Sheesh.

posts very much in character?
o_O posts?

you be the judge

Andy Breckman understands.

I'm mostly in favor of abortion in special cases (up to 40 years after birth).

for the record, I am mostly anti-child-molestation, but man... sometimes those anti-molesters just carry it too far.

-- kenan, Wednesday, January 2, 2008 1:06 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Precisely.

That mostly lame Bill Hader guy from SNL has a bigger laugh on the Knocked Up commentary than anything in the film -- in character as Vincent Price, he's asked his views on abortion. "I'm against it, but I like to watch if it's going on."

Gem from lunch:

coworker - So, (husband) and I took the kids to Starving Rock over the holidays.
me - Oh really?? Did you get lots of hiking in?
coworker - I don't give a FUCK about nature!!! I'm all about luxury. My mom raised a 5 star girl.

(So apparently there are resorts at this park so you don't have to go outside at all. Also, I must not be a 5 star girl)

(Make that Starved Rock)

Carrying it too far in either case would mean harming people only indirectly involved in an act (abortion, child molestation). Burning down a child molester's family's house would be going far, as would burning down a church that endorsed a anti-abortion candidate. These are fake examples, but still.

Jesse, you do understand that it's possible to be in favor of legal abortion rights and yet think a fetus is something more than a goldfish, right?

S's coworkers once again proving why they won't survive the eventual downfall of society.

I have an idea! Let's argue about abortion!

Morbs, you weren't really making that point. You were suggesting that "fervent lesbians" (wtf??) are an example of the absurdity of the pro-choicers.

Plus, what one thinks of a fetus should have no bearing on a woman's right to choose what she does with her own body. If you believe in the right to choose, then what does it matter what what you think about what a fetus is?

whatever you do, do not GIS "abortion." Safe search be damned. Just don't do it.

citizen ruth is good

If you guys would like a pallette-cleanser after this abortion talk, consider this: the best promotional photo ever.

http://www.avclub.com/content/files/images/Nick-Lowe.article.jpg

Wait wait... Morbs actually watched an Apatow movie? Man, I've been away too long. I miss everything good.

how else could he effectively hate on it?

that did not bother him for quite a while.

haha fervent lesbians. i think i know a couple of those. i kinda miss living in the House Of Fuck Me.

right, because dr. morbius would never talk shit about a movie he hasn't actually seen

xpost to eric: How is it that most people get old and gross, yet Nick Lowe just gets cooler-looking? It's not fair, damnit.

so now we have an abortion debate and doc morbius on movies ... maybe i'll actually get some work done this afternoon

oh, here's a fervent lesbian story: friend of my friend was on the rebound, picked up a girl, had enthusiastic sex that was SO intense that her hookup ended up in the ER after throwing out her back.

http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/3175/hatersball03300019xc.jpg

A fervent lesbian believes in eating pussy deeply.

xpost--whoa.

sorry, that has nothing to do with Thrivent lesbians

http://www.lushtshirts.co.uk/images/products/throw_lesbians.jpg

hookup was a perfectly healthy 20something. (she was fine in the end)

by which she means that she has a really nice ass

was she fine in the front too?
DAMMIT

hahahaha I thought to myself "I will duck before refreshing, because I can see Kenan's response coming a mile away"

HEY - what is the area around 61st and Woodlawn like? I am asking as a directionally challenged middle class-looking white woman who would be on foot around there after dark.