Do these images still exist anywhere? I knew you were reading at the Whistler, but I had no idea about any of this until just now!
― jaymc, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, they're on flickr. I'll email you a link.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
Merci.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
They should also be linked above but not to the set.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
Amanda's project + this piece make me feel like i should really be reading romance novels
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
Simone de Beauvoir wrote in The Second Sex (1949) "[Woman] is defined and differentiated with reference to man and not he with reference to her; she is the incidental, the inessential as opposed to the essential. He is the Subject, he is the Absolute — she is the Other."
In romance fiction this formula is reversed, as scholar and former Mills & Boon editor jay Dixon (who spells her name with a lower-case "j") observes in her book The Romantic Fiction of Mills & Boon 1909-1995. Woman is the Subject, man the Other.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
That is indeed true if the Romance Writer's Phrase Book is any indication!! I remain really disappointed in the overwhelming negativity of the book too. The last line in my "novel" is also the last line in the book -- "her mind was filled with sour thoughts."
I mean, think about that.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
I also had a difficult time getting her to do anything that was not a reaction to what he was doing.
Tangentially, my mom attends a lot of "writer's conferences" at which she sees ALL kinds of weirdos (self-help, self-published romance writers, memoirists, etc) and she said that by far, the most depressing scene was in front of the romance writers' booth. She described it as "grim."
All of this just makes me more interested in it, naturally.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
haha. maria bustillos recommends mills & boon and harlequin joints published between the late '30s and 1980 fwiw
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
Ive surely posted this romanticalz novel cover I made once, on here before right?
http://www.memorygongs.com/cover_3redone.jpg
― Lindsay NAGL (Trayce), Thursday, 16 February 2012 04:30 (twelve years ago) link
This sort of reminds me of what La Lech has been up to: http://heroofswitzerland.blogspot.com/2012/01/judo-casebook.html
― emil.y, Monday, 27 February 2012 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
Interesting! Totally. I made a few more. I guess I could put them up here?
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 27 February 2012 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
This one is my favorite of the newer ones that are not part of the original Ch. 1-12. (I have no idea what to call this btw -- I don't speak art language beyond very rudimentary basics -- I know what an installation is. Kind of.) http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7058/6777765246_262502353a_b.jpg
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 27 February 2012 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
Yes please! I prefer your stuff, as it's more creative, but I quite like the judo strips... kind of imbues a lot of the trite problem page writing with more pathos, maybe?
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― emil.y, Monday, 27 February 2012 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
Some of those are really odd... are they still from the same book? I don't even know what "foundation-training in the iron game" is meant to mean.
― emil.y, Monday, 27 February 2012 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
I called it "It may also radiate"
The words are from Jean Kent's other phrasebook, this one, The Professional Writer's Phrase Book
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Pk-ZdE9GL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
I wish I could pretend to know how to talk about this stuff, but I really don't. I never took any art classes beyond photography and pottery, which I toooootally bungled.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 27 February 2012 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
And the new phrase book is just like nonstop utter nonsense -- there are these "commercial phrases" used in sales, lots more sex, but a little more graphic and with fewer nipples this time (?) and TONS OF PIZZAZZ! (not really)
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 27 February 2012 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, "banged his walker noisily across the room" <--- where exactly are you going to use this phrase? is that really an all-purpose phrase?
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 27 February 2012 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
also it's a new issue of "story of life" -- i have another one but i don't really like it as much so i am not going to post it. i do like the cover of story of life #41 though
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7188/6923935271_16905b779f_z.jpg
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 27 February 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
the article is about sun damage to the skin
i'm not sure if that's sfw or not?!
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 27 February 2012 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
sorry if not :(
Is your worry about how to talk about it artistically mainly because you don't really know how to explain what you're doing to other people? I'd say it's collaged found poetry using the cut-up technique, I think most people would understand that at least roughly.
This is a great description. Once again, I want these books. I'm assuming the "walker" being banged noisily across the room is what I would call a Zimmer frame? So, like, some cranky old person stomping about?
― emil.y, Monday, 27 February 2012 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
So, like, some cranky old person stomping about?Yes.
Do I have your permission to use your description of what I'm doing? I don't know what else to call it and I like doing it but explaining the whole thing is getting a little tiresome for me and also for everyone who makes the mistake of asking me what I've been up to.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 27 February 2012 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
Q - can you see the rabbit?
Haha, of course you can use that description.
It took me ages to actually work out that it was a person on that Story of Life cover. I kept on looking for Wittgenstein's duckrabbit in the contours. And now the only rabbit I can see is in the diagrammatic person's crotch.
― emil.y, Monday, 27 February 2012 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
I like that the lady on the cover is curled up like a rabbit, and also there is a rabbit hopping out of the disease gravestones and there is a human figure growing out of its ears.
The images in these magazines are really amazing! That's where the nurses came from too. There are so many that I'm just sort of saving for later.
I also dug up my 1977 Clemente yearbook, which is so full of interesting faces that I could cry.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 27 February 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
well, i guess i started a tumblrlet's see if i can keep this together?! i'm going to try.hasn't been too taxing so far, maybe i can allow the world to see these things now?
the username is the same as the silly stagename i chose
dolores + genus name for goldenrod
any suggestions for maintaining copyright on the images?
emily, i may use your description if anyone ever asks what i'm doing :)
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
here is an interesting george lakoff lecture about how he started thinking about conceptual metaphor, cold rainy day, 5 students, a woman comes into class late covered in rain and crying.
he relates a story of a a young woman (above) who talks about her relationship with her boyfriend during class (lol Berkeley in the 70s) and how it is a "dead end street" -- this leads to a discussion about romantic love and the phrases used to describe it
"...English has a lot of expressions where love is seen as a journey"
watch it! he's awesome (he does a lot of political discourse analysis these days, super interesting too but not relevant, worth watching though for sure!!)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu-9rpJITY8
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 03:52 (twelve years ago) link
a friend was recently excited about the romance novel phrase "her creamy sheath", which she'd encountered somewhere on the internet. i thought it suggested canneloni more than arousal.
― Choc. Clusterman (contenderizer), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 04:56 (twelve years ago) link
one en, two els
'creamy sheath' sounds more Penthouse Forum than romance novel, ew
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 05:12 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, it's not terribly enticing
― Choc. Clusterman (contenderizer), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 05:17 (twelve years ago) link
just a little boomp
for this
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7216/7091859683_8f9194f93d_b.jpg
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
50 shades of grey is basically this thread, right?
― phooey and nuts and phooey (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
50 Shades of Grey wishes it were this thread.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
awesome
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
anyway if you guys wanna see my tumblr, where i am adding a bit more meat (hehehe) to the story, it's hereall or most of the captions are from the phrasebook as wellhttp://doloressolidago.tumblr.com/
― game of crones (La Lechera), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
omg i just found these atrocious scripts for a "choose your own sex adventure" service thing (i saw it on jezebel) and i wonder what would happen if these abysmal scripts collided with the romance writer's phrasebook??! http://s3.amazonaws.com/WP_redirect/media/Sexy-Tales-Female-Script.pdfhttp://s3.amazonaws.com/WP_redirect/media/Sexy-Tales-Male-Script.pdf
the one for men is just about the worst thing i have ever read.
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 1 July 2013 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
holy shit
― Romantic style in da world (crüt), Monday, 1 July 2013 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
nsfw if your workplace doesn't want you reading stuff like "mixing your juices with my precum into a miraculous lubricant"
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 1 July 2013 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
"This is the best."
― Romantic style in da world (crüt), Monday, 1 July 2013 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
"Oh yeah, that's nice"
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 1 July 2013 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
this is the utter worsti actually grew to like the romance writer's phrasebook after a while
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 1 July 2013 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
The one for men is clearly designed to turn on the man reading it more than the woman to whom it would ostensibly be read.
― carl agatha, Monday, 1 July 2013 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
"It’s usually a woman who performs phone sex for the man."
Also "like your wetness" is going to skeeve me out for a long time.
― carl agatha, Monday, 1 July 2013 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
lick, not like, but either way: skeevy.
"Press 2 to finish off inside my very moist cavern"
― emil.y, Monday, 1 July 2013 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
Lolz
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Monday, 1 July 2013 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
"OMG! I'm oozing all over you"
http://protoncharging.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/neca_slimer_translucent.gif
― emil.y, Monday, 1 July 2013 17:35 (eleven years ago) link