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Post by Onjel on Dec 18, 2009 18:24:07 GMT -5
Welcome to Part 1084 of the Soulful Spike Society Main Thread!!! Are your workweeks like Snoopy's? Well, rejoice! It's the weekend and we have plenty of places for you to kick up your heels and dance! For your perusal and leisure time enjoyment we have fabulous television reviews, fiction and essays here. If you're in the mood for small screen endeavors, you can waltz over to the forum of television luv and groove to the music of chatter about your favorite sedentary past-time. ;D Or, take a glide out onto the dance floor of our Open Topics Forum where no dance is out of step. Just remember when cutting in or cutting a rug, this dance floor won't tolerate rude behavior or being spoiled. So dance all you want, but please try not to step on anyone's toes. Getting the steps right means reading our rules and by posting spoilers only here or by hiding them underneath the ghost button above. Now, one two three four, one two three four. . . grab your partners or go solo and do si do!
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Post by Onjel on Dec 18, 2009 18:27:18 GMT -5
From the last part, to which there are replies left behind, but still there for the reading: Joss about Twilight: "If people want stories about girls who love vampires, they should have them," Whedon said. "It's not like I came up with it. It's always deeply romantic or deeply interesting or deeply scary, or all of the above, and that's going to be mined long after I'm gone." For another perspective that I think is quite appropriate for the demographics of our board, here's an interesting article about Twilight as related to the dismissal of the female fan in general as a vital part of fandom: “Rabid”, “obsessed”, and “frenzied”: Understanding Twilight Fangirls and the Gendered Politics of Fandom. While the majority of us aren't Twilight fans, I'm betting a lot of us have been ignored as part of whatever fandom we're a part of.
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Post by Onjel on Dec 18, 2009 18:31:32 GMT -5
Also from the last part: I have just caught myself in a error of epic proportions. I have scanned information for one claimant into the folder of another claimant AND scanned the second claimant's information into the file of the first one. This is badness on an apolalyptic scale. I can't delete the documents. I can only copy a page from a good document and delete all the bad pages. I then have to scan the proper documents in and mark all the duplicates.
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Post by Onjel on Dec 18, 2009 18:32:29 GMT -5
And, another. . .. Interesting article about girls and fandom, Erin. Re your other post, too bad about Borders, if true. Rumor has it the US stores may be next. If so, they kind of deserve it; the Brea Borders is badly run and at least half the time, I end up having to mailorder from Amazon simply because it isn't in stock anywhere around here, their database to the contrary, or Borders doesn't carry the book at all. Loyalty to the local venue only goes so far. I was just thinking recently that it'd be really interesting if Joss wrote an episode of Castle (wouldn't that be fun?), or maybe Fringe, or, even though I've given up on attempting to follow it, Lost. I fell asleep after lunch. I had evil incoherent nightmares. I woke up with my heart and my head both pounding. I'm still shaky, and more tired than I was before I fell asleep. Some days you just can't win.
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Post by beccaelizabeth on Dec 18, 2009 18:45:57 GMT -5
Plants vs zombies is so much fun I think I actually want to give them money to unlock the trial version of the game. you plant things! and they eat zombies! and you have to save up stuff and budget and plan ahead and put lots of thought into it but, basically, there's zombies, and plants. fun!
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Dec 18, 2009 19:12:21 GMT -5
Home and indigestion-y. No dinner. Maybe some tea later.
Still feeling the dumbness even though the problem has been fixed.
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Post by Queen E on Dec 18, 2009 20:08:46 GMT -5
Onj:
So sorry; Mom and I ran to Walgreens!
Diane:
Dude, we all make mistakes. No need to smack yourself around, especially since you caught the mistake before anything bad happened!
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Post by Michelle on Dec 18, 2009 20:14:38 GMT -5
Plants vs zombies is so much fun I think I actually want to give them money to unlock the trial version of the game. you plant things! and they eat zombies! and you have to save up stuff and budget and plan ahead and put lots of thought into it but, basically, there's zombies, and plants. fun! It is very, very fun! And I'm not much of a game player, so it was surprising how much I enjoyed it. The zombies are cute!
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Post by Michelle on Dec 18, 2009 20:15:34 GMT -5
Spring! Your fanfic?? HA!! *dies*
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Post by Anne, Old S'cubie Cat on Dec 18, 2009 20:23:22 GMT -5
Home and indigestion-y. No dinner. Maybe some tea later. Still feeling the dumbness even though the problem has been fixed. Mommy Anne says: You caught the mistake. You fixed the mistake. Stop beating yourself with the guilty stick. Don't make me come down there, missy!
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Post by SpringSummers on Dec 18, 2009 20:33:04 GMT -5
Spring! Your fanfic?? HA!! *dies* It didn't work on Pixi, but I have high hopes that it will cure Monnie of her addiction. If it does, I may market it.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Dec 18, 2009 20:37:23 GMT -5
I'm back home. Drive was alright until the last 2 miles I-75 which slowed to a crawl and took a couple of hours to get to the exit. So I ended up doing the last 40 miles in the dark. Several inches of accumulation in Middlesboro by the time I got back (but slush in Harrogate, which is the opposite of what Derek and Drew told me, but anyway). Almost got stuck about a block from my house and then got stuck again in my driveway. I'm probably going to have to borrow a shovel from a neighbor in the morning because I didn't see any in the garage.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Dec 18, 2009 20:50:29 GMT -5
Home and indigestion-y. No dinner. Maybe some tea later. Still feeling the dumbness even though the problem has been fixed.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Dec 18, 2009 20:51:18 GMT -5
Spring! Your fanfic?? HA!! *dies*
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Post by SpringSummers on Dec 18, 2009 21:06:07 GMT -5
Onj: So sorry; Mom and I ran to Walgreens! Diane: Dude, we all make mistakes. No need to smack yourself around, especially since you caught the mistake before anything bad happened! Erin, I found that Chronicle article I mentioned earlier, but can't link you to it, as you have to log-in as a subscriber to read it. BUT, here is the specific quote comparing sports fans to "readers and theatre-goers." In his book The Ghost in the Machine, Arthur Koestler noted that "the glory and the tragedy of the human condition both derive from our powers of self-transcendence." Koestler went on to point out that there was an important difference between primitive identification (fish in a school, birds in a flock) that results in a homogenous, selfless grouping, and the higher level of integration that produces a heterogeneous assemblage whose members retain their individuality. In the first case — which includes the rabid sports fan — there is a surrender of personal identity and responsibility. In the second — that of the reader or theatergoer — the escape from the self is always conditional, transient, and within control.That very last bit made me laugh out loud.
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