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Mary Anne Ginger Mr. Jin

I'll be perhaps necessarily more interested in keeping it living than keeping it live, perchance methinks.

I don't intentionally keep myself alive as much as I do just wake up and start going. Not a lot of directed motivation there, just reflex. Motivation has never been my strong suit. I think the least offensive term for suicide is "drove themselves to Vermont". Unless of course the person already lived in Vermont, in which case...I don't know. Again, motivation is not my strong suit.

How would somebody "on" themselves?

Well, just keep in mind three things, fwiw - it's dark and dry as shit, not very many LOLgutbusters moments. Very little, if any, broad humor here. there's a really strong feminist subtext going on at almost all times, not "militant" or "anti-male" or anything, just a mirror held up to what women have to deal with every day from "men", and how clueless the men are that they're doing it, almost as clueless as the women are aware of it. Valerie Cherish is a lot less clueless than people think she is. It's how she handles it that lets people - including herself, really - think she's not aware of it. She may be a lot of things, but clueless she is not. This is not immediately apparent, btw, but the deeper into the seasons you get, the more obvious it becomes. for either season, the final/ultimate payoff doesn't come until the final episode. For the first season, that payoff is damn near shattering, for the second it's damn near touching. Enjoy, hopefully!

Nobody's been watching this?

Just saw the Season Two finale...missed season One, wasn't into it then, whatever etc, but saw the first episode of Season Two, was hmmmm-ed out the ass, so went back and caught up/got sucked in and turned on, and now...whoa. Don't call it "comedy". It's some of the driest, darkest, and sharpest/biting-est satire (or perhaps, simply, commentary, or perhaps just mirror-holding-up-to), there is no moment that is too awkward to derail this trainwreck, train keeping running off the tracks full speed ahead seems to be the point, perhaps because the tracks...tracks gonna be tracks, uh, right? Final "comeback" is proof that if you ever leave home, you can never come back unless you never forget where it is, in which case, maybe the tracks don't go there, that explains a lot of things about staying on them and/or not. Or something like that, I don't know. All the time during Friends, all the blab was like, yeah, Lisa Kudrow's really pretty smart, really! And i was like, who cares, she's smart, a lot of people are smart, bfd, but no, Lisa Kudrow is indeed very smart. Layers of smart in this show. Smart. Layers of it.

Jerome Weeks http://arthurmag.com/2006/09/17/jerome-weeks-farewell-column/ Earl Muntz Red Callender

Pacesetter Babysitter Louis Satterfield

Philly Joe Jones Billy Joe McAllister Frank Bridge

Enzo Ferrari Ezio Pinza Elio Di Rupo

Sugar Pie DeSanto Mom's Apple Pie Popeye

Dill Jones Dow Jones Jerry Mathers as The Beaver

I think she's got a great sense for visual humor/puns...the Christmas light thing in her latest post cracks me up. The hula-hoop in The Black Angel, etc etc etc. And this is one of the most cogent things I've read in a long time, anywhere. I'd like to think that people's like/dislike is based on the commentary as well as the visual.

Are we all goofy in a way? Well, sure we are! But not all blogs are.

Also see "DIY" used a lot to refer to musicians who make their own records, have their own labels, etc.

Nothing, exactly...generally, it means a little silly, and maybe not fully intentionally so.

Funny (to me) story - I was doing a road trip with this really really good "western Swing" guitarist who also had big ears (and hands) for many many different kinds of guitar playing, and I put on Franticdiagnosis, advising him to check out Von & George, of whom neither he had heard. Well, ok, he's digging the shit out of Von, and then George starts to play. He's digging that too, and then George goes off into his special thing (has anybody ever adequately described it?).... Well, this guy's jaw dropped about as far as it could. After a few seconds, he looked at me and said "....FUCK THE CHANGES!!!" and then started laughing this maniacal laugh for the duration of the solo. It was like after he got over the shock he was totally into it, but that initial shock was...intense!

Dr. Joann A. Kwah, MD Dr. Peterkin Lee-Kwen, MD Yxod - PROMODJ

Gotta add Gene Roland...Adventures In Blues, one of the greatest WTF? records ever, relative to time/place/people.

Dee Barton.

With all the nightmare customer service tales we hear here about the faceless warehouse nameplate operations, it's a pleasure to deal with people who have a direct stake in delivering a successful outcome to a customer who has not yet had one. I've signed up for the mailing list, and will definitely stay tuned going forth. BIG props to Amir & Jordan for the way they handled all this, very hands-on, effective, and personable. Kudos!

Mark Trail Gil Thorp Captain Kate

And people like me gave people like you somebody to try to break!

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