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[sovay]

Just now, I fell asleep for ten minutes and dreamed of a girl who tried to drown herself, but the sea threw her back with dead-black hair and skin as milky and brittle as old ice, her mouth crowded with viperfish needles of teeth. I blame handful_ofdust's Innsmouth pin-ups.

For my birthday, my parents got me a bisexual unicorn T-shirt. I am wearing it out tonight to hear The Phantom of the Opera (1925) with live music at the Coolidge. I have never, actually, seen Lon Chaney in anything before.

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[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

Oh my! I think you will enjoy Lon Chaney's very cheesy-with-pathos schtick.

I hope so, anyway.

My work internet tells me that your shirt is Outside the Parameters of Acceptable Use. I will take that to mean that it is *excellent*.

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

Perhaps your work computer knows more about Dan-Savage-style slang than is good for it.

[sovay]

Oh my! I think you will enjoy Lon Chaney's very cheesy-with-pathos schtick.

I didn't find the movie cheesy at all, actually. Silent acting, and not in a naturalistic style (like The Crowd (1928), which I also saw and loved recently and have written nothing about because of stress and sickness), but really beautiful to watch. Chaney's makeup is still amazing and so is his performance.

My work internet tells me that your shirt is Outside the Parameters of Acceptable Use

. . . seriously? It features a stately sparkly unicorn named Sir Fabulous the Third! With a top hat and a monocle!

It is an excellent shirt, but your work computer needs to relax its parameters.

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

You're right: I shouldn't dog on silent movie acting, because I do love it.

My work computer staggers under the weight of its firewall.