posts very much in character

getting ready for another ilx .... i think

i just spent two hours reading gene wolfe that i couldve spent watching sweet action-filled tv episodes so i sure hope not

no no, not a coffee enema, i mean when you stop using something, not when you stick it up your ass

can you imagine an ilx enema?

you could call it a sabbatical but they imply both an intent to return a kind of seriousness that are lacking

or may be lacking i guess

oh man lamp i was starting to feel stupid like people were bummed on trying gene wolfe out and annoyed at me for telling them it's good

afterwards tho it all flushes out

that would be like a reverse kill fille where you with only *the wrong kind of poster* on it

then afterward you wouldn't even see their posts, like habituation to the noise of the freeway

*where you see threads with only

coffee enema reminds me of a joke whose punchline is "Is it too hot?" / "No, it's too sweeeeeeeeet!"

i don't know that joke

i think i want to know that joke though, tell it

lol when youre scrolling down and you think 'otm' before you realize youre reading your own post

― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 July 2012 13:02 (2 hours ago)

love this, it's an affirmation from your past self that you're right on track

I think horseshoe that you shd killfile frogbs for a while, just give yrself a break <3

late great, do not feel bad about ppl reading gene wolfe. i do enjoy the book but i think i feel frustated that i might not be 'getting it' all the time.

both are terrible, and my idea of hell is being trapped in a room where the DJ is playing only sade and steely dan.

― Poliopolice, Friday, July 13, 2012 5:12 PM

what a crazy person

he must have polio of the ears

I would LOVE to calculate, are you kidding?

― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Friday, July 13, 2012 6:06 AM Bookmark

i think i like anderson's movies more than i think i do, but i'm not sure how much more. looking forward to this.

― contenderizer, Saturday, July 21, 2012 4:59 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

just shoot her already

― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, July 24, 2012 6:08 PM

"non-hegemonic" probably should have been "anti-hegemonic"...

― contenderizer, Thursday, July 26, 2012 1:07 PM (16 seconds ago)

probably...

i equivocate?

an obvious bid, but still:

I want everything I own to fold into something smaller

― iatee, Tuesday, August 7, 2012 8:00 PM

hahaa

(am trying not to bristle that Aphex Twin has clearly been called English.)

― my god it's full of straw (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 11:13 (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha hah ahhahahahahhha

Well he isn't! In what universe is a bloke born in Ireland, to Welsh parents, who grew up in Cornwall and now lives in Scotland, apparently "English"? He doesn't even call himself English! Tis nonsense!

well what would you call him then? A wandering Celt?

British (mostly)

It's not about what I call him, anyway, it's about what he calls himself. (Cornish, usually.)

ah but you can't really expect Pitchfork to pick up on that. I'm sure he has an English passport

There is no such thing as an English passport, BTW.

Oops. I suppose it it sort of surprising they didn't go for British but he was brought up in England, has an English accent, and Cornwall isn't a separate nation as things currently stand

Cornwall might not be a separate country (it has a really strange quasi-legal status actually), but it is a separate nation: http://duchyofcornwall.eu/

Is this "English accent" like an "English passport"? Please tell me more of this, it's hilarious.

(ha ha, I'm playing and being facetious and in-character, BTW.)

In what universe is a bloke born in Napa, to Cupertino parents, who grew up in Mountain View and now lives in Berkeley, apparently "San Franciscan"?

metaphor doesn't work, ireland isn't part of britain.

fuck. would it work if we set it in orange county with catalina playing the part of the emerald isle?

You could try Canada, they tend to get similarly touchy about pesky things like national boundaries?

Well, but Canada's actually nation-sized.

Cornwall has its own indigenous language. You USA-ians don't! You're just a jumped-up colony!

I dunno WCC, I don't see too many peeps arguing The Bee Gees were Celts

It's a movement toward self-government, right? No official status? Like Quebec except with Kernowek

Well, it's more complicated than that, Cornwall has a really odd legal non-status, but this probably isn't the place.

King of the who? I thought we were an autonomous collective!

Who represents Cornwall at the U.N.?

Today, for political and ideological reasons, the Duke of Cornwall, aka the Prince of Wales, denies his duchy's real history and generates a new one. Documents such as the duchy’s own fourteenth century ‘Acts of the Council of the Black Prince’ – where the first duke acknowledged that the Duchy of Cornwall is extra-territorial to England and the Cornish are his subjects - are jettisoned.(1) Charles Windsor’s certain knowledge of the powerful second and third duchy charters - which acknowledge the duchy’s fiscal and judicial independence from England - is actively denied.(2) The contemporary [c.1290] Hereford Mappamundi - which shows Britain composed of Scotland, Wales, England and Cornwall - is studiously ignored. The Prince of Wales and his many duchy advisors pretend to be unaware of successive Acts of Parliament dated 1422, 1465 and 1539 which state: Cornwall should always remain as a duchy.(3) Finally, the Prince of Wales, in his capacity as Duke of Cornwall, gives the impression of never having heard of the celebrated ‘Princes Case’ of 1606 in which Lord Coke concluded: all Cornwall is the Duchy of Cornwall.(4) We could go on.

Cornwall has its own indigenous language. You USA-ians don't!

Have you ever heard really thick US regional accents? Forget the south (although there have been ppl from Mississippi I've basically stared at like they were speaking Esperanto), I've encountered Boston accents so thick I decided they must be speaking Gaelic, from pronunciation to word choice to, in a few amazing cases, sentence structure.

The last time I was in Belfast, I seriously could not tell the difference between a Belfast accent and a Boston accent. Like, I said to my bandmate "there are a lot of Americans here tonight, huh?" and he just laughed at that.

But ye are still speaking variants and dialects of English.

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