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derspatchel just told me. I made some eloquent response on the order of "What?" But I typed in the address, just to see, and I realized that though a great voice in political commentary might have been lost when Chuck Tingle decided to devote his considerable talents to the production of increasingly metafictional erotica, our recent global crisis has prompted him to realize the truth that one can, simultaneously and at the same time, get pounded in the butt by current events and work to reclaim reality from them. I am especially fond of the last sentence in the lead article and everything about the reader poll.
2. In other news that does not suck, I had not realized how awesome Annie Glenn is. (Ignore the text of the URL; the story itself is nuanced.) I had known very little about her, mostly from her portrayal in The Right Stuff (1983). Now I kind of want her own biopic.
3. Kirk Douglas is a century old. That's just cool.
4. I am delighted when any lost or incomplete movie surfaces from the fragile and flammable wrack of film history, but I have to say that H. K. Breslauer's The City Without Jews (Die Stadt ohne Juden, 1924) really picked its moment.
5. Dorothea Lange's long-censored photographs of the Japanese-American internment camps did not just resurface, but I had never seen any of them before—or even known they existed—and they are worth, painfully, seeing.
Five things make a post and the sixth is a resolution: I am never going to refer to our President-elect as "The Donald." If I have an unqualified Donald, it's O'Connor. I believe this attitude should explain itself to anyone who has ever seen Singin' in the Rain (1952).
derspatchel just told me. I made some eloquent response on the order of "What?" But I typed in the address, just to see, and I realized that though a great voice in political commentary might have been lost when Chuck Tingle decided to devote his considerable talents to the production of increasingly metafictional erotica, our recent global crisis has prompted him to realize the truth that one can, simultaneously and at the same time, get pounded in the butt by current events and work to reclaim reality from them. I am especially fond of the last sentence in the lead article and everything about the reader poll.2. In other news that does not suck, I had not realized how awesome Annie Glenn is. (Ignore the text of the URL; the story itself is nuanced.) I had known very little about her, mostly from her portrayal in The Right Stuff (1983). Now I kind of want her own biopic.
3. Kirk Douglas is a century old. That's just cool.
4. I am delighted when any lost or incomplete movie surfaces from the fragile and flammable wrack of film history, but I have to say that H. K. Breslauer's The City Without Jews (Die Stadt ohne Juden, 1924) really picked its moment.
5. Dorothea Lange's long-censored photographs of the Japanese-American internment camps did not just resurface, but I had never seen any of them before—or even known they existed—and they are worth, painfully, seeing.
Five things make a post and the sixth is a resolution: I am never going to refer to our President-elect as "The Donald." If I have an unqualified Donald, it's O'Connor. I believe this attitude should explain itself to anyone who has ever seen Singin' in the Rain (1952).
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When I hear 'The Donald' for Trump, I think Duck. There's that same in love with himself, convinced he knows best buffoonery.
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Only I feel much, much more positively about the duck.
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Spy got it right in the Eighties. "Stumpy-fingered vulgarian" has always tagged him in my mind ever since.
Chuck Tingle's Twitter feed is excellent and if you do not do Twitter, it is worth checking on @chucktingle and replies there occasionally. (Conan the Salaryman, @conansalaryman, is also quality Twitter.)
I wasn't much into Twitter, it is indeed the firehose, but I figured I'd better use it while we still have it.
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It's nice when people know the right words.
Chuck Tingle's Twitter feed is excellent and if you do not do Twitter, it is worth checking on @chucktingle and replies there occasionally. (Conan the Salaryman, @conansalaryman, is also quality Twitter.)
Thank you. I do not have a Twitter—like Tumblr and most forms of social media, it is not a platform I could interact with healthily—but I do check up on a handful occasionally, and Chuck Tingle's is among them. (Conan the Salaryman is not.) I am also fond of birdsrightsactivist.
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I thank the Sad and Rabid Puppies for nothing except elevating Chuck Tingle to national fame, because he has used it for good ever since.
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You're welcome!
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Succinct and apt and all that. Kind of like Je suis Marxiste, tendance Groucho only without the French.
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Love. Thank you.
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Nine
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You are very welcome. I am trying not to share only those things which make me upset.
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I'm trying to train myself not to say expletives all the time for Trump--not always publicly acceptable. But it feels like the worst sort of trespass to insert the word President before his name. Can't do it. I couldn't for Bush, either. (Well, I got eight years of delighting in the taste of President Obama on my tongue.) Re the wannabe dictator, I'm trying hard to train myself to a more neutral Gasbag, but there is much audial dissonance with the spouse's preferred Shitweasel.
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You're welcome!
I'm trying to train myself not to say expletives all the time for Trump--not always publicly acceptable. But it feels like the worst sort of trespass to insert the word President before his name.
Understood. Fortunately, it should be possible for me to refer to him by last name without confusion, which is only horrible in a different sort of way.
(Well, I got eight years of delighting in the taste of President Obama on my tongue.)
That was great.
Re the wannabe dictator, I'm trying hard to train myself to a more neutral Gasbag, but there is much audial dissonance with the spouse's preferred Shitweasel.
They don't even scan the same!
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I saw an otherwise not unreasonable internet article refer to him as "The Donald" and every fiber of my being just revolted. He can self-aggrandize all he wants, but I'm not doing it for him and I'm not giving him the name.
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I call him Benito ...
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I cannot believe that any train managed by Trump would run on time as opposed to end up derailed in a wreck of graft, non-union labor, and legal settlements.
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Not the greatest movie, but it did make me think of Wyatt/Doc slashfic; Doc's girlfriend is so transparently jealous of Wyatt :-)
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That's . . . kind of ridiculous, considering that I do not believe the film is otherwise known for its historical accuracy. I am still tempted to watch it for Douglas' Doc; it's a case of historical figure I like played by actor I like, two great tastes ideally.
Not the greatest movie, but it did make me think of Wyatt/Doc slashfic; Doc's girlfriend is so transparently jealous of Wyatt
I would almost bet money you can find it if you look.
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I've seen three film Doc Hollidays in the last month. All were interesting, but so completely unlike each other that I doubt any has very much to do with history.
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Tell me more!
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And that is such a lovely article on Annie Glenn.
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"When countered with the argument that this is flatly illegal, Don Trump opened his face and let thousands of tentacle cosmic horror’s spill forth in a black bubbling mass, screaming and writhing in a way that is impossible to describe using any human dialect."
And that is such a lovely article on Annie Glenn.
I really had no idea and I was so happy.
Chuck Tingle
http://www.polygon.com/2016/8/24/12632560/zoe-quinn-chuck-tingle-fmx-dating-simulator
I had never heard of him before the Hugo slate.
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Oh, that's going to be great. Thank you for letting me know.
I had never heard of him before the Hugo slate.
I had, although I am not entirely sure how; I just remember running across a Tumblr post of his then-available titles and being very impressed by My Ass Is Haunted by the Gay Unicorn Colonel. I continue to believe that is one of the greatest titles ever produced by the erotica market.
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This, in turn, led to one of the more hilarious hours I have ever had in my life, as a housemate and I proceeded to follow the chain of "People who bought this also bought" links, Taking turns reading aloug titles, plot descriptions, and selected reviews.
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I remember that one. It was a relatively memorable premise.
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Amen.