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Post by Liiisa on Sept 1, 2023 19:49:59 GMT -5
I'm not going to read any of that - I'll let the clever people I read on Substack digest it for me.
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Post by tzarine on Sept 1, 2023 21:14:31 GMT -5
I'm not going to read any of that - I'll let the clever people I read on Substack digest it for me. ditto soleil rouge the alain delon, toshiro mifune, charles bronson sorta western w ursula andress as eye candy/kind prostitute so 70s
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Post by Liiisa on Sept 3, 2023 11:29:24 GMT -5
Radio playing a version of "Don't You Want Me Baby" that's nothing but the first line ("you were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar") over and over and over again and it has me apoplectic with laughter
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Post by sprite on Sept 4, 2023 12:02:14 GMT -5
It's a bit hot here, which is unusual. A neighbour put up a deck chair for free on our neighbourhood FB page. Within 2 minutes it was claimed.
I think that's a new record.
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Post by tzarine on Sept 4, 2023 12:24:01 GMT -5
Radio playing a version of "Don't You Want Me Baby" that's nothing but the first line ("you were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar") over and over and over again and it has me apoplectic with laughter liisa, i will have to play that later
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Sept 5, 2023 4:28:22 GMT -5
The very smiley man with the stop go sign, who waved as I drove through the road works. Nice to see someone enjoying his job.
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Post by Liiisa on Sept 5, 2023 5:13:49 GMT -5
I always wave at the stop/go people! Well here it's the stop/slow people, not go.
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Post by sprite on Sept 5, 2023 8:17:39 GMT -5
Listening to the radio in the bathroom, Elbow's big anthem came on, "One Day Like This." I heard a noise on the other side of the door, which is fogged glass. Partner was there with his mobile phone flashlight on, waving it back and forth...
snort.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Sept 5, 2023 8:21:12 GMT -5
I always wave at the stop/go people! Well here it's the stop/slow people, not go. Actually, ours are too.
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Post by tzarine on Sept 5, 2023 11:25:49 GMT -5
Radio playing a version of "Don't You Want Me Baby" that's nothing but the first line ("you were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar") over and over and over again and it has me apoplectic with laughter liisa, i will have to play that later i had tzar play the vid on youtube we both had a huge laugh from the makeup to the clothes to their "dancing"
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Post by Liiisa on Sept 5, 2023 11:55:27 GMT -5
Excellent
Two buttoned-up office types walking in ultra-boring downtown Bethesda, gossiping about Diplo and Chris Rock escaping Burning Man
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Post by tzarine on Sept 5, 2023 15:03:47 GMT -5
Excellent Two buttoned-up office types walking in ultra-boring downtown Bethesda, gossiping about Diplo and Chris Rock escaping Burning Man im dying, liisa! its not like they were being held hostage by a gang of mad burners i knew burning was totally square & over when one of tzarevich's classmates dad went. he's a total bougie finance dude, label whore
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Post by kneazle on Sept 6, 2023 20:17:51 GMT -5
I learnt today this:
Mahi - in Maori it means work Mahi - in Tongan it means undies
There's lots of things on TV about 'doing the mahi' or 'hard mahi' and Tongan speakers get the giggles.
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Post by tzarine on Sept 6, 2023 21:30:16 GMT -5
this course i can take @ stanford. love the "close read" of the modern love column
"The New York Times “Modern Love” column, which has been running for nearly two decades, is a holy grail for the personal essayist, launching many book deals, podcasts, and even a TV show. The column’s success is largely due to the genre: a personal essay form that allows for exploration and use of compelling, transformative moments from firsthand experience to communicate meaning to a wide audience, turning life's messiness into narrative art.
In this course, we will close-read an array of “Modern Loves” to examine how they work, learn about what the editor is seeking, and shape our stories into a form that fits the column. We will focus on craft: How do you avoid self-pity and maximize self-implication? What makes a story exciting and engaging for readers? What general structure do columns follow? We will discuss the requirements of a “Modern Love” story—complete self-disclosure (no pen names or pseudonyms!) and deep examination, tension and stakes, character arc, scenes, and dialogue. The instructor will provide students with feedback for revision. We will also discuss the submission process for “Modern Love,” as well as options for other markets for first-person relationship pieces—including The Los Angeles Times’s "L.A. Affairs," Shondaland, Salon, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and The Sun—and teach you how to research other markets on your own. LIZA MONROY Author Liza Monroy's books include two that launched from The New York Times “Modern Love" columns. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, O, Marie Claire, Longreads, Newsweek, Self, and Jezebel, among others. She received an MFA in nonfiction from Columbia University School of the Arts and has taught writing at Columbia and UC Santa Cruz.
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Post by sprite on Sept 7, 2023 10:49:15 GMT -5
I bought a Lakhsa paste packet at the Chinese supermarket, and made a scallops/noodles version of it last night. Nearly took our heads off, which we were not expecting. We've agreed that in future we'll stick the to 'middle class white people' lakhsa paste from Waitrose.
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Post by tzarine on Sept 7, 2023 14:57:51 GMT -5
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Sept 8, 2023 3:26:02 GMT -5
Looking at the map for a Greek festival that is on Sunday - it includes a section for muscle cars, and I got the giggles as that was such a stereotype of young Greek lads on TV here for years.
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Post by sprite on Sept 8, 2023 10:12:50 GMT -5
Anna Erhard's pop song about her friend who refuses to admit she's shorter than Anna.
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Post by Queen on Sept 9, 2023 6:15:09 GMT -5
I went to the Asian Supermarket, and stopped an international incident.
A Dutch woman was looking for 'marmite', and the Chinese-Dutch guys running the store thought it was a type of marmalade.
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Post by tucano on Sept 9, 2023 6:23:06 GMT -5
Well done Q.
Fun fact, in French a marmite is a type of cooking pot.
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Post by Queen on Sept 9, 2023 6:24:56 GMT -5
turns out, "yeast extract" did not come up once in Dutch lessons
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Post by Liiisa on Sept 9, 2023 6:28:04 GMT -5
Why did they think they could find Marmite at an Asian supermarket in the Netherlands in the first place? (But: did they?)
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Post by Queen on Sept 9, 2023 6:51:32 GMT -5
My best guess is she's confused. You can get marmite here in a few supermarkets and in a specialist store that has British/Irish foods.
No, they did not have it at Asian Food World.
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Post by Liiisa on Sept 9, 2023 7:49:45 GMT -5
I could see it if she were looking for Vegemite, since Australia is sort of extremely relatively near Asia
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Post by Queen on Sept 9, 2023 9:08:31 GMT -5
I could see it if she were looking for Vegemite, since Australia is sort of extremely relatively near Asia Well, it's closer than England... but it's a 8 hour flight from Singapore to Sydney.
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Post by Liiisa on Sept 9, 2023 16:22:40 GMT -5
The baffled looks on the faces of the tourists who came out of the Hirshhorn Museum to find 100 people staring in rapture at 2 guys fiddling with laptops on a raised dais while frog noises blared out of a set of speakers.
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Post by tzarine on Sept 9, 2023 21:52:58 GMT -5
the tourists holding up shopping bags & taking selfies on bleecker street some truly hideous fashions sported by some alleged fashionistas
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Sept 9, 2023 22:17:37 GMT -5
I could see it if she were looking for Vegemite, since Australia is sort of extremely relatively near Asia Well, it's closer than England... but it's a 8 hour flight from Singapore to Sydney. But less than 1 1/2 hours from Darwin to Timor Leste.
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Post by Liiisa on Sept 10, 2023 6:13:24 GMT -5
the tourists holding up shopping bags & taking selfies on bleecker street some truly hideous fashions sported by some alleged fashionistas I've decided that much of fashion these days is about showing that you're so rich that you can afford to look deranged in public.
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Post by tzarine on Sept 10, 2023 10:56:37 GMT -5
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