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Re: George Will rips off poemless' argument (4.00 / 3)

Hm. Now you'd think George and I are saying the same thing... (!!! Gah! First Wolfe and now Will? Gah!) But, I have a closet full of dresses and skirts and blazers and ... well, I have a lot of clothes that are dressy by American standards. But I never feel more serious than when I am in a black turtleneck and jeans. Mind you, I wear nice shoes with this ensemble! (Exception: Due to an injury I've recently been forced into Merrells - and I am NOT happy about this...) But I feel I project a very serious image in a black turtleneck and jeans. Especially if I am smoking and wearing sunglasses. And am reading Foucault. I scream "I am more serious than you! There is not a humorous or apathetic bone in my body! Just walking past me will expose you to my serious cooties!"

"Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms." -Dostoevsky

by poemless on Thu Apr 16th, 2009 at 01:34:58 PM EST
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Re: George Will rips off poemless' argument (4.00 / 2)

I feel I project a very serious image in a black turtleneck and jeans. Especially if I am smoking and wearing sunglasses.

Add a purple or black beret and you'd be a Hep Cat®, circa 5 BE (Beatnik Era.)

by ATinNM on Thu Apr 16th, 2009 at 02:35:13 PM EST
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Re: George Will rips off poemless' argument (4.00 / 3)

Actually, I do wear a black beret when it is cold, which it is 9 months of the year here.

I've been dressing like a beatnik since I was 12.

"Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms." -Dostoevsky

by poemless on Thu Apr 16th, 2009 at 02:45:26 PM EST
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Re: George Will rips off poemless' argument (4.00 / 8)

Have you seen the best minds of your generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz?

If so, was that pancakes you could believe in?

by ATinNM on Thu Apr 16th, 2009 at 03:03:29 PM EST
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Re: George Will rips off poemless' argument (4.00 / 8)

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars..."

Jack Kerouac, On The Road, 1957

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.

by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Thu Apr 16th, 2009 at 03:15:02 PM EST
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America (4.00 / 4)

When can I go into the supermarket and buy what I need with my good looks?

"Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms." -Dostoevsky

by poemless on Thu Apr 16th, 2009 at 03:35:55 PM EST
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Re: George Will rips off poemless' argument (none / 1)

I started wearing shades as a cameraman, because the amount of light you got through the 'finder, made it difficult to adjust from sunlight to dim optics. Shades keep your pupils dilated and is less damaging than meth.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Apr 16th, 2009 at 02:57:23 PM EST
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Re: George Will rips off poemless' argument (none / 0)

It's very good for the eyes - uv protection.

"Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms." -Dostoevsky

by poemless on Thu Apr 16th, 2009 at 03:00:22 PM EST
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Re: George Will rips off poemless' argument (none / 0)

I can't get on with shades at all. They don't suit me for a start but I really find it hard to adjust to wearing them.

Ad astra per aspera

by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Thu Apr 16th, 2009 at 03:11:27 PM EST
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Re: George Will rips off poemless' argument (none / 0)

Not even in sunny Italy?

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Thu Apr 16th, 2009 at 03:18:13 PM EST
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Re: George Will rips off poemless' argument (none / 0)

No. I have owned them but end up not wearing them even in the middle of summer in really hot and sunny places. I don't think I had a pair when I was in Thailand. I'm incapable of being stylish with accessories and shoes too, which doesn't help.

Ad astra per aspera

by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Thu Apr 16th, 2009 at 03:42:05 PM EST
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Re: George Will rips off poemless' argument (none / 0)

Well, is there any sun in Wales?

"Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms." -Dostoevsky

by poemless on Thu Apr 16th, 2009 at 03:36:34 PM EST
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Re: George Will rips off poemless' argument (none / 0)

You'd be surprised!

Ad astra per aspera

by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Thu Apr 16th, 2009 at 03:42:22 PM EST
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Re: George Will rips off poemless' argument (4.00 / 4)

Yes, it is generally surprising.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Apr 16th, 2009 at 03:52:19 PM EST
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Re: George Will rips off poemless' argument (none / 1)

ah but you're all spoiled so don't apreciate it properly when you get it.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Apr 16th, 2009 at 09:46:35 PM EST
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Re: George Will rips off poemless' argument (4.00 / 5)

I have trouble functioning without sunglasses. My eyes are so extremely photosensitive that I find it painful to not wear them when it's really bright. My eyes just squeeze shut, nothing I can do about it. About 10 years ago I started investing in really nice sunglasses with high-quality polarized lenses, and training myself to take good enough care of them to justify the expense, because I decided I just can't take chances with my eyes....

by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Thu Apr 16th, 2009 at 07:01:18 PM EST
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Re: George Will rips off poemless' argument (none / 1)

So how come you ended up working where you did? I would have thought somewhere with a tendancy for lack of sun rising for 6 months a year would have been more your scene.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Apr 16th, 2009 at 09:48:22 PM EST
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Cool shades (none / 1)

I have a polaroid prescription pair that I always use for driving even in winter if it is sunny, and especially if there is clean white blinding snow. All that low Finnish sun can be painful, if you are going toward it.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Apr 16th, 2009 at 03:28:30 PM EST
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