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  1. I'm usually in nola for NYE week, and it's always fun seeing the sugar bowl fans clowning around in the quarter.

    If you want away from the chaos, head uptown to jaques-imos or boucherie or the bars on freret in the fourteenth. Atchafalaya is a favorite on Louisiana ave. Had an amazing pre fixe meal at Lengua Madre last year. 

    Or head the other way from the quarter to marigny and check out Spotted Cat for music (and really Frenchmen in general) or further on to Bacchanal in Bywater.

    Great town. Best town. 

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  2. Good posts; you clearly know a lot more about these guys than I do. I did listen to the podcast, which felt a bit too indulgent and voyeuristic for me. That said, the article is mostly told in the voices of the people who were there, and their stories feel a lot more consumable in tiny excerpts than they did for me in podcast form. 

    As I think I posted earlier in this thread, I love THE SECRET HISTORY for about as many reasons as I hate it. Didn't love THE GOLDFINCH even though I wanted to. BEE books are on my stack but haven't gotten there yet. Your endorsement will bump them up the list. Cheers

  3. On 12/14/2022 at 11:28 AM, YGIFS said:

    Kinda weirding me out to think about how this all changed from the time I was in grade school to kids of my own in grade school.  That's a complete, tectonic, cultural shift in our biggest holiday in just a three decades.  that's pretty weird to see unfold when you look back on it.  Next time somebody you love bitches about the War on Christmas, remind them "Christmas Season" didn't start when we were kids until a few days before the Solstice.

    Good point and funny because the entire Christmas holiday with the presents and the tree and the food is really an invention of Victorian England and Charles Dickens. Before that the bigger celebrations were the twelve days *after* Christmas, including the New Year's exchange of gifts, in anticipation of the feast of the epiphany. 

    I'm always so confused by the twelve-day Advent calendars that people start before Christmas. They just don't know. 

    Of course if you make it through twelfth night to king's day, you get the start of my personal favorite holiday season, mardi gras. 

    See y'all in New Orleans on the 1st. 

     

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  4. On 12/24/2020 at 1:59 PM, Jive Turkey said:

    in a movie that asks you to suspend all possible belief, those are the two things that bug me because they're not realistic. 

    yeah, the entire movie is unrealistic, but come on, don't say your company Christmas party is on Christmas Eve.  nobody does that.  and USC ain't playing Notre Dame on Christmas Eve.  they play every year during the regular season in either October or November.  pick a different game to show.

    they're continuity errors that should have been corrected.

    Even if these unrealistic things annoy you, they are not continuity errors. Continuity errors are problems with internal logic, discontinuities within the fiction. 

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  5. On 12/18/2023 at 8:39 PM, WholesomeChungusSocialist said:

    Been working my way through Bret Easton Ellis' oeuvre. ... I'm kind of perplexed as to why he's so often regarded as a hack, provocateur, etc. Whatever, you know?

    I don't have a good answer to this other than to point out that many of his contemporaries also have similar reputations -- many of them were wealthy, elite, and arrogant (though of course that's not particularly unusual among the 90s literary set). 

    If you don't know it, this is a great article about the Bennington crew, especially Donna Tartt and Easton Ellis, and the shared influences they derived from this morally bankrupt place.

    https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/a27434009/bennington-college-oral-history-bret-easton-ellis/

  6. On 12/20/2023 at 5:30 PM, SimonBolivar said:

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    Enjoying it so far and just enjoying some literature before getting back into the thesis work in January. 

    I'm a fan of ZS and saw her give a nice talk on campus several years ago. She was super cool and among the better literary speakers I saw at UT. What kind of thesis you working on? 

  7. I'm thinking that Bournemouth-Luton will be have to be played from the start when it's rescheduled. It's the only fair way to enforce that rule. 

     

    Would have totally sucked if one team was up big though. Can't think of a recent example of this happening in the premiere league, but I feel like there must have been. Maybe one where the lights went out?

  8. On 12/8/2023 at 4:33 AM, Prepuce of Doom said:

    One that I still occasionally struggle with is "gypsy" - gypsy curse, threaten to sell the boy to gypsies, etc., (but never "gypped"). 

    This one is interesting. "Gypsy" is usually a slur used to describe roma/romani people (or, like, Irish travelers) and stereotypes about them. But originally it was an exonym, a name given to an indigenous people by outsiders. (The most common one of these for most of us will be "Indians" for Native Americans.) Early British historiographers thought the roma people they encountered or heard about were African, hence their name in Middle English, Egypcian.

     

    So I don't recommend using "Gypsy" or any related pejorative forms, but it's not wildly offensive, just confusing.

  9. 9 hours ago, Parliament said:

    And I thought "white washing" was just painting over something that was dirty instead of actually cleaning it (presumably white paint).  Allegory for covering over a problem instead of actually fixing it.

    Yes, yes, exactly, like in *Tom Sawyer*

    Its figurative use (though not an allegory) dates back to C16 England but it feels like a firmly American idiom. 

    Its connotation in conversations about structural racism, however, is a recent phenomenon, perhaps only emerging in the last five years (e.g. casting white actors for parts written for poc or adapted from material where that was the case)

     

     

  10. Tom Wolfe's *Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test*, William S. Burroughs' *Naked Lunch*, the gonzo journalists like Hunter S. Thompson. For fiction, check out Kerouac's *On the Road* (and Dharma Bums*)

     

    Those are the ones that got me going in high school, at least. Pretty much everything you're looking for is in there. 

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  11. *Lonesome Dove* is so good. Definitely read it before the others in the series, even though they're out of chronological order. 

    I've never gotten around to the miniseries though. Glad I read it before I had those actors' faces in my head. Good casting though

  12. On 12/10/2023 at 2:47 PM, TreatyOak said:

    Your content is engaging and informative. DM me so I can sell you a new cryptocurrency with a guaranteed 400% return!  

    Kinda weird to go all in defending a snooty, rich private school based on their USNW ranking

    You go to law school there or something? 

  13. On 11/26/2023 at 10:52 PM, TreatyOak said:

    You mean the Duke University that is currently ranked the 7th best university in the US? Is that your definition of embarrassment? 

    Yes, it's a disgusting, phony institution from medical center to humanities to athletics. Take one look at their ersatz-ass campus where they felt they needed to sand down their marble staircases to pass for a serious university

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  14. On 11/24/2023 at 8:57 AM, Hate said:

    About what?

    Sorry, those two posts were meant to follow one another. People I knew were Mayer haters early on and then were sporting the "Mayer’s Dead to Me" shirts by the end of his tenure. 

  15. 4 minutes ago, ousux said:
    12 minutes ago, YuppiesOfftheEastSide said:
    fuck duke. Figured Elko would chase the cash. duke is an embarrassment

    Duke knows what they are and ok with it. Win enough to get in a decent bowl every 3-4 seasons while occasionally take down a big boy program and the Duke head corch is a golden god.

    Ha, you must not follow acc sports very closely. Not a single student or booster on that campus cares one bit about their football team. Maybe that’ll change now that coach k has retired, but I doubt football will every be a priority there. 
     

    (All this to say that you’re probably right about the first bit and probably not about the last bit, in my opinion)

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