Happy New Year! I’ve spent the day so far lazing around, eating leftover pizza and listening to music. And that’s about all I’m going to do, I think.
I’ll be back at work blogging tomorrow.
In the meantime, does anyone have any especially fond memories of Tom Martin and/or Steele from the past year?
Oh, and here’s a video from an Old School New Wave band called Polyphonic Size. It was 1983. They were from Belgium.
Well there is a pair of islands in Japan which are married, so I presume buildings can date.
Viscaria – LOL! I read your comment and thought, “Well why shouldn’t trees and buildings have romantic relationships, dammit?”
“Well there is a pair of islands in Japan which are married, so I presume buildings can date.”
XD *dies* As for the flood, that’s large, but not impossible. A worldwide flood would require more water than there is on the planet.
Kitteh — still, my apologies to Mr Kitteh / Louis, guessing is rude/wrong/something-like-that. (Louis or Mr Kitteh? Which do you and he prefer?)
As for Take The Pill! I apparently need refills >.<
@kittehhelp
Nope, but I’ll take a look. I think my dad vaguely knows Kerry Greenwood though actually? Maybe? Not sure.
Buildings can date if they want to I guess, though it seems weird to me that humans would date them. But then, I don’t think it would harm the building (like “dating” an animal would harm the animal) so who am I to poo-poo! Tree-ring adjacent building lovers for all!
I have a friend who thought Scotland Yard was in Scotland. He was 24.
Marrying inanimate objects and building? Yeah, that happens.
At least if buildings and trees were dating the fundies wouldn’t get too upset. I mean, it’d be totally platonic.
Hey, no probs about guessing or names. Mr K or Louis, either is fine. Mr Kitteh is apt because he acts like a cat on occasion, up to and including purring. (Hmm, wonder if there’s some lyrebird in his ancestry?)
I should pinch what George III and Queen Charlotte did – they called each other Mr King and Mrs King, which I always think’s kinda sweet. 🙂
RE: Argenti
It was pretty special. That person was really invested in figuring out what gender we ‘really’ were. She then asked if I was a lesbian. When I reminded her I’d already said I was gay, with a husband, she said that she thought maybe I called my wife a husband to make it easier on my psyche. (???) It was… special.
RE: Kittehs
I’m glad you like! We definitely come from a sorta different ballpark than you, but there’re definitely intersections. And putting up our comics and stuff, sometimes it seems to help people. We definitely come from more the trauma model than the spiritual. (How hubby got here just confuses the hell out of me, so I’ve defaulted to, “there is more between heaven and earth than is dreamt of in my philosophy.”)
Spinoza! I’m kind of a huge Spinoza fanboy because my favourite prof in university was big on Spinoza. Also, I have to admire anyone whose approach to exegesis is “Well, all this stuff is obviously bullshit that didn’t happen, so the best explanation is that the people writing it were kinda stupid.”
RE: Gametime
My interest in Spinoza is less admirable. Not that many folks got cherems, and I needed to know about it for story reasons. Why people insist on thinking our ancestors were dummies, I’ll never know.
“It was pretty special. That person was really invested in figuring out what gender we ‘really’ were. She then asked if I was a lesbian. When I reminded her I’d already said I was gay, with a husband, she said that she thought maybe I called my wife a husband to make it easier on my psyche. (???) It was… special.”
I don’t even…WTF? Really, wtf? She thought you must be biologically female and thus if you think you’re male but are married and gay you must be delusional about being married to a man and thus really be married to a women who you call a man because it’s easier?!
I’ve had an “oh right, that’s what’s in your pants” moment, and that sentence I just tried sorting out hurts my head so much more. (Genderqueer dating genderfluid equals confusing sexytimes, and not remotely in the “so how does that work sense”!) Frankly, you and your husband make so much more sense…though his name is the only one I’m blanking on currently! Bad Argenti, go to the corner of shame!
Love that quote though, particular its Doctor Who appearance (Dickens told The Doctor that about The Doctor’s philosophy…some one really needs to remind 11 of this)
Kitteh — Louis, around the same time as Guy Fawkes, father’s a king…Louis the 8th? Definitely had some nifty facial hair that one… Wouldn’t that make you Mrs King then?
Katz — this friend was British I assume? I’ve had fellow Americans ask what country Connecticut is in >.< I could forgive a non-Brit making that mistake, sort of.
American friend. We were playing the game Scotland Yard, the board for which is a map of goddamn London, and he goes “So is this really a map of Scotland?”
“American friend. We were playing the game Scotland Yard, the board for which is a map of goddamn London, and he goes “So is this really a map of Scotland?””
Geography, we Americans are apparently pretty bad at it!
Argenti – change the Roman numeral V for an X and you’ve got it. Louis XIII, Louis Thirteenth. He became king in 1610, his father was Henri IV (who has also been suckered by Katie, heheheh. My inlaws are way cool these days, though I had decades of side-eyeing them for what they were like then).
This is a then-and-now pic – the painting was by Philippe de Champaigne. Seeing it in the Louvre was one of my OMGTEARSOMG moments.
@Kittehhelp
Seeing that name reminds me of seeing it on a ludicrously expansive bottle of brandy named after that monarch in a glass display case at a bottle shop I went to once.
I didn’t know whether it was technically a Cognac or a Bourbon.
Lol, best part here? My search history says Louis XIII, my brain is apparently dumb! Love the beard/goatee/thing! Of course, 17th century French fashion is just stunning in general (social acceptance of men in heels!)
Today in would be hilarious headlines — King of France attacked by cat!
Lowquacks — google says cognac, brain says WTF? That shit looks silly expensive (of course, I drink Jameson’s, so yeah, cheap booze for me!)
Yeah, I boggle at the price of that stuff too. It’s a type of cognac. Silly thing is it has zip to do with him – I think it was named for the style of bottle, or an actual bottle from around his time. I’ve never asked if he drank that sort of fortified wine at all. I know Normandy cider was his preferred drink then, and he wasn’t a big drinker anyway. 🙂
LOL Argenti! Though it’d be down to a small column on page four by now. “King of France gets bitten by cat for third time this week.”
@Argenti
Indeed it was, though I feel the men got a better deal; the odd necklines and big sleeves on the dresses of the time look simultaneously restrictive and prone to malfunctions.
Definitely a fan of the mens’ stuff though – my daily outfits tend to involve Cuban heels (not the nifty three-inch mitred ones Louis and court used to wear, and boots rather than pumps, though I totally would wear ones with the Louis heel shape), long hair parted at the side, a handlebar moustache and beard (previously a small one much like Mr Kitteh’s and now the standard full young-hipster thing), blousy shirts, and tightish to very tight pants… no doublets, breeches, ruffs, or frock coats though.
There’s some really cool and very rock-n-roll silhouettes from the era if you ignore a lot of the slit puffy bits, whether the sleeves on those dresses or the breeches popular at the time.
Speaking of heels on men, have a look at this tapestry of Louis XIV meeting his soon-to-be wife. Louis’s heels are high and solid, but get a look at his brother Philippe’s right behind him, and a couple of the courtiers – their heels are almost into stiletto territory.
It was Philippe who did the Highand fling at our place the other night, btw. 🙂
@kittehs
Brandy isn’t a fortified wine – fortified wine is a mix of ordinary wine and brandy, basically. I was joking about a cognac being named after a Bourbon monarch. Brandy didn’t exist back then, but I doubt the level of thought and preparation that goes into that stuff did, and the old French grapes would’ve been quite different to modern French grapes grafted with American grapes after the Great French Wine Blight.
Do you have any idea why all the courtiers on the right are in flats? Love the various Bourbons’ shoes – funny, I’d always associated that era with the heels named after some Louis or another, but most of the broader heels there look much like more modern mens’ Cuban heels.
I just ADORE men’s clothes from that century, particularly the styles of the 1630s. Falling bands with that rich, rich lace, bucket-top boots, the plumed hats, OMG DIES. Not that Mr King was a fashion leader, anything but, he dressed very plainly whenever he could. It was fascinating watching him play with different styles when we got together. He went slightly 70s for a little while before settling for a basic jeans, tee shirts and lots and lots of knitwear look. Funny thing is I never cared for knitwear, or thought it made a guy look good, but I’ve revised my opinion there. 😛
Geez, lowquacks, I would totally have embarrassed myself staring if I saw you in the street! And then had to go to the Creepy Person’s Corner of Shame. 😀 😀 😀