posts very much in character

too bad he didn't take his jerkass son with him

― Hat Trick Swayze (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, September 18, 2009 4:34 PM (1 minute ago)

from the RIP/Rolling Obituary thread

what a disaster for september. sorry, guys.

ebert owns, anyone who disagrees is literal shit

― candice spergin (cankles), Saturday, September 19, 2009 5:45 PM (25 minutes ago)

speaking of which:
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i've never cried during a movie cuz... u know... not a broad... but one time i was watching DEEP IMPACT on tv during a ~*~*vulnerable*~*~ thyme in my lyfe and the scene where tea leoni and her dad die made me choke up a lil

― candice spergin (cankles), Friday, September 18, 2009 11:46 PM (Yesterday)

dude should just have his own in character thread

wit and wisdom style.

character very much in the posts

In my decade top 20, probably, ....

― should probably be practising shorthand (country matters), Saturday, September 26, 2009 7:05 AM (6 hours ago)

haha

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed this particular predilection.

Coldplay

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, September 29, 2009 9:41 PM (47 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

THE 2009 STEVIE AWARDS - THE POLL

Montgomery Gentry. May have gone with Toby Keith if he was up there, though.

― xhuxk, Tuesday, September 29, 2009 2:36 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

xhallopps

I am sad that this show was not mentioned much in the "Best TV shows of the '00s" thread.

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, September 20, 2009 9:27 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

You mentioned it ten times.

― jaymc, Sunday, September 20, 2009 11:28 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

he may not even be referring to ilx

hahaha

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Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

we need a compendium of those posts

Wow

we need a compendium of those posts

― omar little, Wednesday, September 30, 2009 6:26 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

i'm sure that you're making a ref to the deleted ask chaki thread but just in case you aren't it was an A+ thread

every time she posts something like that, others should chime in with their own tales of time spent with the c-list celebrity in question.

"oh no kidding? one time we went to a show together, he seemed standoffish."

"oh yeah? that's pretty funny, i went to a party at his apartment in 1997 and we shared a slice of warm pie and he gave me a drawing on a paper napkin. he seemed a bit fake, though. xpost to suzy."

i think this is called a "77 assignment"

we could also post this http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/Flip_Off.gif

I'll be rifling the index to see what he says about Sussex. Although I never met him there, he was legendarily funny as an undergrad, according to three friends of mine on his course: my ex who lived with a certain music writer and was in a game of RUN AWAY from one J D0llim0re, one gorgeous Italian-Swiss burlesque performer and one flapper-esque riot grrrl writer.

― pow! right in the kisser (suzy), Monday, September 28, 2009 12:44 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

not even britishers even know who tf she is talking about here.

a guy i never knew who was friends with my friend who once played a game with "one" "j dollimore"

She is talking about a widely respected British academic who is the author of "Radical Tragedy" and "Sexual Dissidence", two classics in the fields of cultural materialist literary criticism and queer theory respectively.

i suppose it depends upon your definition of the word "widely", really.

Results 1 - 7 of 7 for "cultural materialist literary criticism"

how many classics can exist in a field w/ 7 google results

Results 1 - 10 of about 9,300 for "cultural materialism" "literary criticism". (0.34 seconds)

u must hone your google zingblade

Results 1 - 10 of about 31,200 for "cultural" "materialism" "literary" "criticism". (0.29 seconds)

your google is faster and moar awesome than mine ;_;

how many classics can exist in a field w/ 7 9300 google results

haha now it just looks like a european 7 :(

He happens to be a visiting fellow in my department next semester, actually, and he's going to teach a grad seminar. We're lucky to have him.

And yeah, "widely" in academia means an entirely different order of scale and magnitude than popular culture or web-saturation. Figure that there's X number of research universities, each has English depts, philosophy depts, various language depts, history depts. each with 10-40 profs per department, so "widely" known in a given field means a few thousand people with tenure know your name if they see it listed on a flyer for a conference or in a publisher's announcement etc.

Whatever, make fun of me if you wish. But ask a grad student in an English department who studies Renaissance lit if they have read "Radical Tragedy" or at least know of it and chances are they'll say yes.

sure, niche celebrities exist everywhere. - it's just that treating dudes like that as anything but a niche academic celebrity = downward spiral into suzy-tude

see, thats not even the make-fun-ofable thing about suzy, though. its just that she namedrops. she namedrops very famous people, too.

roxy otm

yeah but namedropping non-famous ppl is a tad funnier cause the desperation behind the act is so clear when someone's scrounging for namedropping scraps

Oh man Adrian Chiles told me this awesome joke about namedropping last night.

namedropping non-famous ppl is a tad funnier

The Shah of Iran once told me that it's funnier to namedrop famous people.

dont rock the boat, iatee

i was on a boat once with this up-and-coming communications installation assistant supervisor

http://img.moronail.net/img/5/7/1257.jpg

<3 suzy basic

lol

Celebrity Name Dropping

was this the first instance?

"such people"

it's the constant reference to semi-famous people's fathers or "daddies" that always gets me tbh