Halfway down the Danube

Carlos, I love Bunuel! Everyone needs more of that. Especially the eye razor cutting. Yeah.

That said, why don't you, dunno, actually, uh, blog about stuff. Less drugs, more Eastern European poetry. Or maybe something about Filipino Catholicism?

Cheers

L

Dude. This isn't the University of the Air. I post things which amuse me, that I think Doug and Claudia might find interesting, and won't distress them too much.

(You may have noticed the three of us have different approaches to dealing with the many disturbed individuals who clutter up the Internet. I'm throttling down my natural instincts to less than 10% of full capacity, but I'm pretty sure they think I redline it too often. Or, as an infamous chart once put it: "KILL!; KILL!; Peace-loving, too trusting; KILL!; KILL!; KILL!; KILL!; KILL!; KILL!")

Right now, what fits those criteria of mine is weird botany. (All three of us like weird botany!) Maybe later, it'll be more poetry. Maybe it will be some new third thing! Who knows?

Carlos,

That is a truly fabulous chart. I liked the way Albania was towards the end, so that there was a big build-up before one laughed out loud.

Wisconsin needs more Albanians.

I much prefer La Loca. as one would prefer you might as well. you know. la fille folle. la dangereuse.

this is the part where I shamelessly admit to turning up here, like a bad penny, spelunking for found text. I thought to myself this morning in the tub, where can I find some words that are boring and dry? kind of science-y pants and alien?? et voila. alors, je suis ici.

it isn't all bad, though, it is for love poems ... I trust in the magic of a stern phone call if it is indeed all-bad. like me.

you know: one of your co-bloggers has this kind of meter that is quite lyric and whose prose feels somewhere between the nyt travel section and the extemporaneous, hypnotic tedium of a history ph.d candidate who smells of expensive wool, bombay sapphire, frost and cigars. hm.

baci!

(oh, "giglet." the irony.)

LL, I stand corrected! Remember, HDTD is always your place to find boring dry science-y pants words like "gnetophyte" and "cyclopropyl".

(I think I'm the only person on the blog who drinks Bombay Sapphire, actually.)

"the extemporaneous, hypnotic tedium of a history ph.d candidate who smells of expensive wool, bombay sapphire, frost and cigars"

PhD candidates in history can afford expensive gin and cigars? (A younger Niall Ferguson not withstanding, of course.)

Bernard,

In defense of my future self, I won't drink gin, but could afford it. Niall aside, of course.

Tacky Brits drink gin; a good American PhD student would drink Harpoon, or possibly Coors. If you're a PhD student in Boston, it's Sam Adams. If you're a PhD student in Chicago, it's Goose Island.

As for hard licker, that'll be Grey Goose Vodka and Captain Morgan Rum, all the way. Let's just not discuss law students and absynth.

Cheers

L

you know: one of your co-bloggers has this kind of meter that is quite lyric and whose prose feels somewhere between the nyt travel section and the extemporaneous, hypnotic tedium of a history ph.d candidate who smells of expensive wool, bombay sapphire, frost and cigars. hm.

Hm, indeed.

I don't quite know what to say. You're a friend of Carlos, so I won't say anything just yet.

But I do not take mockery of my loved one very well.

Actually, Claudia, I'm pretty sure that was a (slightly barbed) flirtatious compliment.

BTW, Carlos, a belated 'attaboy' on the Bernanke call. I do believe I was shooting for Taylor at the time you said that, but I guess it wasn't meant to be.

Bernanke is actually one of the few things I think Tipsy Walker has gotten right. I do hope the fungal growth of incompetence this adminstration seems to engender passes him by. Because if it doesn't...

"Tipsy Walker"? I'll give you creativity points on that one. And a Scotch on the rocks next time we get together. (I'll be toasting the GOP, of course. Nothing in this life is actually _free_.)

not mocking in the least; who doesn't love the nyt travel section?

nor was I being flirtatious (Carlos, have you paid yr dues to the projectionists' union this month?), but what could anyone expect? I was once Carlos's girlfriend. one could correctly presume I find holding forth on nearly anything (with flawless expertise, of course) positively dreamy.

Bernard, I actually liked the last two competent moderate Republican presidents (Pappy Walker and his step-son Bubba). While I suspect there would have been large aspects of a 2000 McCain presidency I would have found disagreeable, I don't think incompetence would have been one of them. Same with a 2000 Gore presidency.

You gotta remember, my point of reference for political losership is not within the American party system. (Ferdinand Marcos.)