ZING!!!

lol true

masses

A dude from new jersey is telling me what a "real wasp is"

http://www.tartareandesire.com/bands/images/wasp.jpg

why is this not the zing thread

u nerd

― jaymc, Tuesday, June 19, 2007 4:15 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

re: the wasps at mass debate, i can't help what the chunky wasp chick said out loud, regardless of its stupidity. maybe she thought that guy was italian, and was offering to convert, thus making it not even a zing.

Terry Teachout's latest book is Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington. He's making the book talk rounds for this. Teachout is criticized by some for his neo-con politics (I recall Christgau mixing praise and criticism in his take on Teachout's Louis Armstrong book)

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, November 5, 2013 2:56 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

National Review interview!

LOPEZ: How could music be Ellington’s mistress, as the saying goes, when the man appears to have had so many mistresses? Did a lack of discipline hurt both his personal and professional life?

TEACHOUT: I don’t know whether that question is answerable. He was, after all, a hugely prolific composer who left behind a considerable number of masterpieces, so he must have been doing something right. But we can’t know how many more he might have written had he not diverted so much of his time and energy into the pursuit of women — though it’s also important to remember that he believed this pursuit to be musically inspirational.

http://www.nationalreview.com/node/362692/print

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, November 5, 2013 3:26 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'll be skipping this one. Teachout wrote an awful essay that largely dismissed Ellington's longer works, and Ellington as a composer, as inadequate for not utilizing the formalized tools of "classical music" that his music shouldn't have aspired to anyway.

Also, Christgau otm re: Teachout's politics.
http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Rock-Roll/Pops-as-Pop/ba-p/2578

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, November 5, 2013 3:46 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ugh:

LOPEZ: One of the “peculiarities” of Duke Ellington’s career, you write, is that “he was a major composer but not an influential one.” Why is that? How does that happen?
TEACHOUT: He wrote great music, but his techniques were so intensely personal and unique unto himself that they were for all intents and purposes inimitable. Hence he didn’t influence anybody — all that other artists could do was play his songs in their own ways.

Does Teachout even know what the word "influential" means?

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, November 5, 2013 3:50 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The idea that Ellington wasn't (and isn't) widely imitated is just .... strange

― Brad C., Tuesday, November 5, 2013 3:56 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

um hello mingus?

― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Tuesday, November 5, 2013 4:01 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just think what Ellington could have accomplished if he had had as little sex as Teachout

― Brad C., Tuesday, November 5, 2013 4:03 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sick burn

Christ Nilmar, what more do I have to do to win your approval???

― frogbs, Wednesday, November 13, 2013 11:41 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you could probably win mass approval by hopping into a pot of cold water and then remaining oblivious to any incremental temperature changes.

― estela, Tuesday, November 12, 2013 5:49 PM (54 seconds ago)

classic "go kill yourself" zings

^ can't stand the heat

hile Mauricio Pochettino’s defence looked suspect on a number of occasions, he will be pleased with the standard of victory from a side which included Andros Townsend as a starter.

the main reason I'm pretty sure Nixon won't win is because it would just be too sweet to see the entire mainstream political and media class proven utterly wrong. I don't think we get to have anything that enjoyable. I really hope I'm wrong

― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, September 13, 2018 10:04 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Simon, just thinking out loud here, but there might be another reason why people who think the opposite of you are rarely proven wrong...

― Frederik B, Thursday, September 13, 2018 3:29 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

god fuck off

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, September 14, 2018 2:12 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

maybe if we duct tape you to a ceiling your blithe condescension will actually have a reason to sound like it's from on high

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, September 14, 2018 2:14 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

booooom

ahahaha

Fun fact: The ilxor that founded Kickstarter once posted “mr. snrub u are a motherfucking idiot and with every post you make i believe this more and more”

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 10 March 2019 12:58 (three days ago) Permalink

That’s the thing about successful entrepreneurs, they’re no different from the rest of us when you get down to it

― A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Sunday, 10 March 2019 13:24 (three days ago) Permalink

wins' zings are delight

the #1 source of disinformation on coronavirus is addressing the United States at 9pm EST

― Karl Malone, Wednesday, March 11, 2020 4:50 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Sanpaku?

― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Wednesday, March 11, 2020 4:52 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol

― Webcam Du Bois (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, March 11, 2020 4:53 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think AOC has a career to think of that wouldn't be served by telling you the old white center-right Presidential candidate is going to be dead before that 2035 clean electricity date and his family is rich enough to live in the private air conditioned villas that will abut our climate slums.

― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, September 29, 2020 10:11 PM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

ok sounds good. if you start posting in english let me know.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, September 29, 2020 10:15 PM

I assume the app challenge is some learn to code shit, possibly more offensive than sending a constituent's kid to Annapolis

― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, March 19, 2023 3:39 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

milo have you considered not using computers

― mh, Sunday, March 19, 2023 3:58 PM