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 Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 10:43 pm
I love quotes. I collect them, actually. Quotes from people I know; funny to just plain stupid things that have happened and people have said. Quotes from my favorite books (I highlight not only my text books, but I sit with a highlighter while reading your everyday novel), movies, TV shows, historical figures, people on Gaia, ANYTHING really.
Got any you wanna share? Do eet.
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Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 10:50 pm
*Playing Fallout 3 I'm singing along with the static filled creepy nostalgic 50s music in-game radio station called Galaxy News Radio*
Me: "I am in a conventional dither, with a conventional star in my eye! And you will note, there's a lump in my throat, when I speak of that wonderful guy!"
Lee: You are just... the most terrifying woman I've ever met.
Me: What?! This song is from South Pacific! Half of America knows this song!
Lee: No, they don't! That is why it is on the creepy radio station, it is suppose to be unnerving and foreign in its old-ness to the modern player.
Me: But, I enjoy Galaxy Radio. I have this song on my ipod.
Lee: Wanna know what just occurred to me? The developers of the game had to probably research the s**t out of this soundtrack. Think of all the effort they put into it, to make the wasteland seem just even more depressing and creepy with the music selection. And then, there is you...
Me: "I'm as corny as Kansas in August, high as a flag on the fourth of July!" heart
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Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 5:18 pm
"If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong." - Noam Chomsky
"I have - maybe ill-placed - a foreboding of an America in my children's generation, or my grandchildren's generation, when all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when we're a service and information-processing economy; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest even grasps the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas, or even to knowledgeably question those who do set the agendas; when there is no practice in questioning those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and religiously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in steep decline, unable to distinguish between what's true and what feels good, we slide, almost without noticing, into superstition and darkness." - Carl Sagan, 1994
"The individual woman is required a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition." - Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973)
"There is no subjugation so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom, for in that way one captures volition itself." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
"He does not gain control of her uterus just because she gave him visitation rights to her v****a." - Varid46 - AOL ACLU forum
"Who ever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you." — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Fort
“If there is anything really to be feared it is the mind of a young girl." - Jane Heap, 1920
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Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 6:21 pm
Where they burn books, they will, in the end, burn human beings too.
- Heinrich Heine, Almansor
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Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 6:53 pm
I don't have one coming to mind right now, other then check out the twitter page s**t my dad says. It is super funny! And has an odd amount talking about a talk. Which I thought was awesome. DOGGIES! heh.
There's some pretty great ones on there.
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Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 10:06 am
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Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 7:39 pm
Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.
- P. J. O'Rourke
Children are all foreigners.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals
I'm just a person trapped in a woman's body.
- Elayne Boosler
The centerpiece of the cultural counterrevolution is the snowballing campaign for a "drug-free workplace" — a euphemism for "drug-free workforce," since urine testing also picks up for off-duty indulgence. The purpose of this '80s version of the loyalty oath is less to deter drug use than to make people undergo a humiliating ritual of subordination: "When I say pee, you pee." The idea is to reinforce the principle that one must forfeit one's dignity and privacy to earn a living, and bring back the good old days when employers had the unquestioned right to demand that their workers' appearance and behavior, on or off the job, meet management's standards.
- Ellen Willis, Hell No, I Won't Go
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Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 2:43 am
BECAUSE THIS SHOULD BE PRESERVED. This is Mark and I over IM discussing the nature of fandom, the Comic Discussion sub-forum, possibly a topic on fandom in the CD; with some fancrack thrown in for good measure. I enjoyed the conversation a lot, had fun, and I (and by I, I mean Mark) might just make a topic and would like to keep this conversation around - and thought people might get a kick out of it, if they've ever thought about the nature of fandom before.
Mark: i think Doctor Who is why he has become allergic to the idea of canon
Kristie: Innnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnteresting
Mark: he hates the stupid nitpicky discussions of what is and is not canon in Who
Kristie: Yeah, probably not always. Probably was big on being the nitpicker at one point in time. I only think of Canon as a fan, from a fannish perspective. So cannon, to me, means only what is true in-series and Pinder would die from that as he has a ideology on fandom that contradicts my own.
Mark: i'm not sure i understand why that would kill him
Kristie: He has his own cannon, which is basically the point of fandom - yet he doesn't get how people can see Bruce/d**k. Bruce/d**k is someone's cannon - which is also fandom because the whole point of fandom is to ******** with cannon.
Kristie: I think I might have just opened a worm hole somewhere with that.
Mark: I think so. i'm still coming around to grasp your perspective on fandom because it's rather alien to CD
Kristie: Comic Discussion?
Mark: since it's informed by old school pre-internet Trekkiness and yeah
[...]
Kristie: BUT: Gaia's CD isn't fannish in the least, if anything we all berate fannish behavior. Hence the eye rolling at people who make obvious fanboy/girl statements.
Mark: Those are special cases. I do fannish things all the time, just mostly out of sight of CD
Kristie: Yeah
Mark: i keep them separate, from discussion of what's actually going on. i'd never impose my secret love of harley/ivy as canon cause in canon, i think the idea's largely dumb and nowhere near as hilarious as keeping it ambiguous
Kristie: Everyone there is trying to, some what objectively, have a discussion on current material and the industry so on so forth - so no you don't push your fandom (personal cannon) on others.
Mark: yeah, I keep two hats
Kristie: As do most regs, that is just the way of the CD for the most part.
[...]
Mark: my fan hat is made of crack rocks glued together and painted fancy colours
Kristie: Mine has a fat pony on it covered with Scully bitchfaces.
Mark: i will draw that some day
Kristie: You better.
Mark: or make it in photoshop
Kristie: LOL EVEN MORE AMAZING and ********, this should be a CD discussion
[...]
Kristie: I just don't know how to go about doing it or what the goal of it would be
Mark: well were you around for the perversion thread?
Kristie: I was in and out of lurking for a while. Isn't that where Piper's sig comes from? About being sexy covered in rats?
Mark: yes
Kristie: Yeah, in and out
Mark: kind of like that, I'd imagine
Kristie: I'd type up a huge wall of text but I feel like the entire thing could be summed up in like a paragraph
Mark: hmmmm
Kristie: "Dear CD, Why so serious? blahblahbla, cannon can be defined as blah fandom is blah - personal cannon for the sake of easing Pinder blah - what is your fandom?" The terms are so broad and I know their fandom; comic books.
Mark: not entirely how i would attack it
Kristie: I feel like the /actual/ discussion isn't about comic books at all and shouldn't be posted in the CD - I just want to have it with those people and rooted in that fandom. What would you do?
Mark: well I'd ask people about what they do when they put that other hat on
Kristie: Yeah, already better
Mark: in your world, how do you twist the established world and ideas? even better, why? why isn't what they give us enough? why is it that we feel this urge to "reclaim" or apprehend these characters and ideas for our own mad purposes?
Kristie: Second to last will be the Pandora's box, 'cause for some people what they read IS enough, that is the world they love, the given cannon is their self cannon.
Mark: okay and that's fine. then the question is why don't you make that other hat?
Kristie: And other people are going to say "I make my own cannon up when I don't like what they give me" and the fact no one can agree on one opinion of given cannon is fandom as well and is the most common forum of it in the CD I'd say. I like your approach, we'd just have to define terms and make sure people use them for the sake of sanity. I just came up with "Given Cannon" for the "real/official cannon" of say DC or what have you. Given Cannon, Self Cannon, that is easy I think. Defining fandom will be harder as that will be argued I'm sure.
Mark: indeed
Kristie: Until Pinder comes in and tells us we all live in lies.
Mark: but i think i know how responses will come in. specifically i want kat to weigh in. she lives in the absolute fringe of fandom, among the crazies
Kristie: I'm pretty sure we share a condo on fringe fandom crazyhat lane.
Mark: indeed.
[...]
Mark: the question now is who do i write the thread as
Kristie: LOL! YES. THAT WOULD BE IT.
[...]
Kristie: Want me to capitalize I's and crap or are you cool with people seeing your lazy shifting? b***h.
Mark: XDDD
Kristie: <3
Mark: anyone in that guild i have imd with before, my lazy is well known
Kristie: This is pretty much true. Minus sorce. I should stalk him; out of love.
Mark: i haven't imed him in ages on account of my random changing of AIM names
Kristie: Holy s**t he has one? I /should/ stalk him. Also? I'm quoting this part too. SO HE WILL KNOW.
[...]
Kristie: You know our excitement means this topic will fail. WAH WAAAAAAAH
Mark: LOL duh
[...]
Kristie: BSG could have had a sweet fan/creator deal but Moore flat out said "I'm not bending my will for fans" when people started to become vocal online about disliking Anders. And the fandom perked its ears up and was like "THE ********>: Anders, I am having a brainfart.
Kristie: The dude on not-earth Kara hooks up with before she gets her ovaries taken or some s**t.
Mark: Oh, sam, oh, the guy who married Starbuck
Kristie: YES. That too. Lawlz.
Mark: Kara = Starbuck
Kristie: Yeah. Starbuck is Scully in my head, so she's Kara. Srsly, that is fandom right ******** there.
Mark: which is funny cause Kara = Power Girl
Kristie: OHSHITWORMHOLE
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Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 12:18 am
Hagbard smiled. "Spoken like a true homo neophilus, George. Welcome to the tribe. We want to recruit you because you are so gullible. That is, gullible in the right way. You're skeptical about conventional wisdom, but attracted to unorthodox ideas. An unfailing mark of homo neophilus. The human race is not divided into the rational and the rational, as some idealists think. All humans are irrational, but there are two different kinds of irrationally- those who love old ideas and hate and fear new ones, and those who despise old ideas and joyfully embrace new ones. Homo neophobus and homo neophilus. Neophobus is the original human stock, the stock that hardly changed at all for the first four million years of human history. Neophilus is the creative mutation that has been popping up at regular intervals during the past million years, giving the race little forward pushes, the kind you give a wheel to make it spin faster and faster. Neophilus makes a lot of mistakes, but he or she moves. They live life the way it should be lived, ninety-nine percent mistakes and one percent viable mutations."
The Illuminatus Trilogy
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Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 1:53 am
Mark my secret love of harley/ivy
Anyway, Your secret shame! Characters you shouldn't find attractive. This is where the "rat-crawling sexy" came from. And where you can watch Mark flounder around comedically in an FML way. xd
Also, my AIM name is CrazedSorce. Now and forever!
edit: That KapoWiki does sound like an interesting idea, too.
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Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 12:27 pm
NO. That's what the page is called.
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Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 1:15 pm
Wizzle NO. That's what the page is called.
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 5:28 pm
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Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 12:45 am
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Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 11:09 am
Yep, pretty funny though, huh? xd
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