Comments on "Romance, matchmaking, and all that" - Faerye Net

Re: merci beaucoup

2004-06-25T09:53:50+00:00

“Was it love at first sight?”
“Did she put up a fight?”

The entire thing is full of dreadful portrayals of gender relations and sexual politics, and the Big Solution and Happy Ending is that the girl subverts her own personality and, it is implied, gives up her moral objections to premarital sex, in order to get the guy. What a great moral! What a great moment! Let’s get up and sing!

Re: merci beaucoup

2004-06-25T08:15:05+00:00

An odd juxtaposition of what I was about to say (“if the movie is about dancing, the dance battle is okay”) and something which could not be further from my opinion (that Grease is the blackspot on the rosebush of life.) Why don’t you like it? Because you did a number in it? I think it’s fabu.

Re: merci beaucoup

2004-06-23T09:40:49+00:00

P’raps the secret is that if the movie is about dancing, the dance battle is okay.

Of course, one could characterize the mambo at the dance in West Side Story as a dance battle if so inclined, and that is, of course, a classic.

On the other hand, Grease has a dance battle, and Grease is the BLACKSPOT ON THE ROSEBUSH OF LIFE!

Re: merci beaucoup

2004-06-23T09:39:10+00:00

A) Hmm, ‘named’ as expletive. Implies it is the essence of the item, that which identifies and makes it unique/existent, which is abhorrent. Very deep.

B) Have you blogged in the last year and a half? If so, your blog provider’s “e-mail me when updated” is UNWORKY.

C) Welcome back, o sister mine. Your wedDING is profiled further down, bien sur.

Re: merci beaucoup

2004-06-23T09:32:32+00:00

I think there was a dance battle in Strictly Ballroom. That movie was excellent.

Re: merci beaucoup

2004-06-22T22:58:43+00:00

Hear ye, hear ye! Bring on the mushiness AND the bad puns! Go EMeta!!

(Which brings me to another movie recommendation: “50 First Dates”—I laughed AND I cried buckets.)

Signed,
The Copious, Overstimulated, Distracted Poster

Re: merci beaucoup

2004-06-22T22:56:26+00:00

damned blog, that is. #(*$( jet lag *sputter

Re: merci beaucoup

2004-06-22T22:55:16+00:00

You want sentimentality? I cried yesterday when I realized I actually had to Get On a Plane and Leave Maui. And I was eating coconut macadamia nut fudge ice cream in a waffle cone at the time.

In other news, we wasted no time upon our return from paradise in implementing a wireless router. It’s still hardwired for the PC but now with my laptop wirelessly equipped, I don’t have to interfere with Mike’s computer time and I no longer need to leave my couch. Ever. Why did I take such a long time to warm up to this idea?!

PS If perchance you want any details on the by-now mundane wireless internet whatsahoozy aforementioned, please consult Pinky; I have no knowledge. No knowledge. Plausible deniability.

Movie recommendation: “American Splendor.”
Movie antirecommendations:
“American Wedding”
“Starsky & Hutch”
(there’s a common thread in the antirecommendations: they both feature a “dance battle” scene. If you are ever watching a movie and there’s a dance battle scene, I urge you to cease viewing immediately, unless, of course, the movie is Saturday Night Fever. Of course, if it’s Saturday Night Fever, you were just watching the hair and the pants anyway. There may be other exceptions to this rule. Sorry for the long post. Guess I should rant on me own named blog.

Re: merci beaucoup

2004-06-22T14:37:39+00:00

Ugh, ugh, ugh, I wish I could reach through the ether and swat you with a hairbrush for that pun!

And I also do like mushiness, but my mushiness quotient tends to operate as the inverse of my caffeine/sugar intake wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

merci beaucoup

2004-06-22T14:27:50+00:00

What’s so bad about mushiness? I happen to like it quite a lot.

-The one whose puns are a-maize-ingly corny