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infanttyrone

To Dote, Has Doted, Is Doting

Oct 03, 2007 16:35

On the whole, I have been pretty content to be single. I'm not big on socializing, don't care for sharing my bed while sleeping, and I'm happy cooking for one. Sure, I miss sex, and once in a great while I'll feel a little lonely, but on the whole I think the pros outweigh the cons. I'm not very good at being a boyfriend, and thus I'm saving ( Read more... )

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halifax_slasher October 4 2007, 04:41:56 UTC

This...this combination of books is melting my mind. I understand it's just an alleged statistical sampling, but having Dan Brown and Nabokov on the same list, any list, cuts me to the quick.

It's just a strange of Classic Literature, respectable middlebrow fare, and utter crap. Which I guess is the gamut, really, so I shouldn't be moaning.

infanttyrone October 4 2007, 06:00:15 UTC

I think the unifying factor here is that these are all books that are talked about a lot, yet many of the people talking about them might not have actually read them. (Lolita of course, being a perfect example.)

And I think that Nabokov guy totally stole from Angels & Demons for his Pale Fire book.

halifax_slasher October 4 2007, 06:27:15 UTC

What kind of loser talks about Memoirs of a Geisha and then fails to read it? This isn't a challenging slog here. (Of course I haven't read it, what do I know?)

I once read an interview in which Umberto Eco was asked about The Da Vinci Code. He was very gracious, and did not mention that Foucault's Pendulum was over 10,000X better.

"I was the shadow of an angel slain
By the false demon of the windowpane..."

infanttyrone October 5 2007, 00:10:56 UTC

I used to try and sell Foucault's Pendulum to people during the Da Vinci Code craze, but one is written at a 5th grade level, and the other has portions in Latin.

bluebellrock October 4 2007, 05:15:47 UTC

Ouch!

(I'm gonna do that meme on mine.)

infanttyrone October 4 2007, 06:00:54 UTC

Go! I'll be over to your place in half a 'mo to check!

bluebellrock October 5 2007, 02:44:09 UTC

This is completely off-topic, but I was wondering if you could do a post about the dogs you walk. Which ones charm you? Which ones are sluggish? Who's a good boy? Who gathers the most olefactory information at tree trunks? etc. Do some make you feel sad when you pick them up?

infanttyrone October 5 2007, 16:40:42 UTC

I've been considering opening a new journal that's all dogwalking. I could take pictures of my ladies, and keep a daily score (six #1's, plus four #2's...). But I'm not sure how to mention it to my clients. It would be the ethical thing to tell them/ask them if I can post photos of their dogs, but I don't think I'd want them looking at the journal. So it's all still in the development stage.

bluebellrock October 6 2007, 16:49:14 UTC

That's a tough one but definitely a project worth nutting out. I agree with you that asking for permission is the ethical way to go, but in this case - because I don't like my LJ life to cross paths with My Real Life (such as it is) - I think I'd sneak the photos in without permission if only for the sake of anonymity. Mind you, you could open it on Blogspot or somewhere that doesn't link you back to LJ and ask people not to use their LJ monikers in comments...? Yeah, it's a tough one. I know there's no such thing as being 'half-ethical' but at least they'd 'only' be photos of (mere) dogs, not your clients' human children... Wait, what am I saying? Aw, I just wanna hear about them!

infanttyrone October 6 2007, 23:02:12 UTC

I think I could do it on LJ, and I would do my damnedest to refrain from gossiping about the owners, so that even if they were to stumble across a photo of their pet, there wouldn't be anything objectionable along with it.
It's just that I'm lazy, and I'd have to bring my camera with me, and maybe have someone who knows what they're doing put together the layout... Lazy man is off to the couch.