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GIP! And collected mutterings...
Sep. 16th, 2003 06:40 amMy lovely new icon was made by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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ds_icons.
Now, on to the assorted night-thoughts from the land of midnight fluorescence...
1. Carson Daly was doing plugs for Starburst on his radio show. Y'know those radio commercials that are just the DJ telling you to buy whatever instead of an actual commercial? Those. He said the following: "Many people think Starburst is a square, but it's actually a cube. See, squares are only two-dimensional. Cubes are three-dimensional. See? Starburst can even make Geometry fun!"
The word you're searching for is rectangular prism.
2. The Ataris' cover of "Boys of Summer," now that I've heard it 9,000 times, has ceased to be a not-too-bad cover of a song I kinda like, and become a sign of all that is soulless and wrong about my generation. C'mon, guys, it's a song about not being young anymore. If you take it and 'punk' it up, and make it a song about the actual end of the actual summer, when you have to go back to school, then you're just demonstrating how very very very nineteen you are.
Or possibly I'm just bitter because I don't know who they're referencing instead of the Grateful Dead, and it makes me feel old. Going to listen to the Don Henley version again, now...
3. I've been reading Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe on my breaks, which, a) makes for interesting break-room conversations, b) gives me Ideas, which might be a bad thing, and c) generates some interesting quotes which make me (gasp!) regret selling back all my Plato texts from freshman year. Frex:
Wherever, therefore, it has been established that it is shameful [for men] to be involved in sexual relationships with men, this is due to evil on the part of the legislators, to despotism on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.
--Symposium 182, trans. by Boswell
To which I can only say: rock on, and where do I buy the t-shirt?
There's also this, from the text, which, well, yes.
"Often friends lived in each other's houses--sometimes permanently. This is not to suggest that all (or even most) ancient friendships between men were in fact erotic, but rather that the distinction between a "friendship" and a "love relationship," so obvious, intuitive, and important to modern readers, would have seemed odd and unproductive to most ancient writers. ... a consensual physical aspect would have been utterly irrelevant to placing the relationship in a meaningful taxonomy. Moreover most pagan Europeans would have been utterly mystified by the concept "just friends," which presupposes that friendships are less powerful and intense than erotic relationships." --Boswell, p.76
And, um, I guess that's not going to fit on a t-shirt, and, just so y'all know, I'm not writing an ancient Rome AU.
No, seriously, I've already set the plot dingoes on it. I'm going to bed.
heuradys, who kindly posted it to ds_icons. Now, on to the assorted night-thoughts from the land of midnight fluorescence...
1. Carson Daly was doing plugs for Starburst on his radio show. Y'know those radio commercials that are just the DJ telling you to buy whatever instead of an actual commercial? Those. He said the following: "Many people think Starburst is a square, but it's actually a cube. See, squares are only two-dimensional. Cubes are three-dimensional. See? Starburst can even make Geometry fun!"
The word you're searching for is rectangular prism.
2. The Ataris' cover of "Boys of Summer," now that I've heard it 9,000 times, has ceased to be a not-too-bad cover of a song I kinda like, and become a sign of all that is soulless and wrong about my generation. C'mon, guys, it's a song about not being young anymore. If you take it and 'punk' it up, and make it a song about the actual end of the actual summer, when you have to go back to school, then you're just demonstrating how very very very nineteen you are.
Or possibly I'm just bitter because I don't know who they're referencing instead of the Grateful Dead, and it makes me feel old. Going to listen to the Don Henley version again, now...
3. I've been reading Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe on my breaks, which, a) makes for interesting break-room conversations, b) gives me Ideas, which might be a bad thing, and c) generates some interesting quotes which make me (gasp!) regret selling back all my Plato texts from freshman year. Frex:
--Symposium 182, trans. by Boswell
To which I can only say: rock on, and where do I buy the t-shirt?
There's also this, from the text, which, well, yes.
"Often friends lived in each other's houses--sometimes permanently. This is not to suggest that all (or even most) ancient friendships between men were in fact erotic, but rather that the distinction between a "friendship" and a "love relationship," so obvious, intuitive, and important to modern readers, would have seemed odd and unproductive to most ancient writers. ... a consensual physical aspect would have been utterly irrelevant to placing the relationship in a meaningful taxonomy. Moreover most pagan Europeans would have been utterly mystified by the concept "just friends," which presupposes that friendships are less powerful and intense than erotic relationships." --Boswell, p.76
And, um, I guess that's not going to fit on a t-shirt, and, just so y'all know, I'm not writing an ancient Rome AU.
No, seriously, I've already set the plot dingoes on it. I'm going to bed.