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Feb. 25th, 2011 01:00 pmI thought about continuing the War In Heaven here, but I have too much in my collection of things to talk about. After all, there's a revolution in Libya, and Gadaffi (may the spellings of his name be many) says that the Libyans want people with beards in power. What the crap? Dude, you don't even have a beard! And there are cherry-flavored baby ruths that I wish they'd repackage for May Day and replace the hearts with hammers and sickles or something. And I read a book by Lem and then I read a book that made a reference to Lem (the books in question were Pirx the Pilot and The House of Discarded Dreams, this is as much for myself as it is for you).
Sigh. I will always hate the far-right blogosphere more than I hate the Something Awful forums. Someone says the ideal outcome out of the Arab Revolution (Libya's fall might result in a world revolution) is a Shi'ite-Sunni civil war. And someone else is saying that Mubarak should have done what Gadaffi is doing and defends European colonialism, because atrocities never happened in the colonies ever. Vox Day said Scott Walker should do what the Bahraini regime is doing to the protestors in Wisconsin.
And that's why I'm getting my discussions from Revolutionary Left (who have been clamoring for the destruction of Melgibjad's regime, despite what the right wingers want you to think - also, I refuse to call the president of Iran anything but Mel Gibson or Mel Gibjad or variants, mostly because I can't spell his real name and he's not Qadaffi. You're never wrong when spelling Qaddafi's name. Ever. Even if there are four Ms and a silent Q), Quarter To Three, and ilxor.
Speaking of which, "Al Jazeera switched translators after an hour. Maybe the first failed his sanity check and is now gibbering softly about undersea R'yleh."
I wonder what they think about Kadaffi funding their beloved BNP and EDL. They'll probably just ignore it and lament that the governor of Wisconsin hasn't used live ammo on the protestors and that vegetarians are allowed to be teachers. Those from a forum that isn't specifically right wing. That's a special kind of reactionary.
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Vox says Summa Elvetica, which I will not be reading, as it is an incredibly boring discussion on whether elves have souls, is far more ambitious in literary terms than just about anything else anyone except Neal Stephenson is writing, and the only reason people don't like it is because it is over their heads, and not because it is incredibly boring and poorly written. Yours is an inflated ego indeed, Vox.
He also thinks his shitty "do elves have souls" novel has more literary merit than Soldiers of Paradise, which is actually happening right now, and he thinks that "it wouldn't add to the richness of the genre to give the fantasy warriors ray guns and lightsabers." This is why I trudge through this literary miscarriage called The War In Heaven.
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for some reason, I thought the Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis was Five Variants on Dives And Lazarus and was wondering why Benjamin Zander didn't point out the similarity to Jupiter when he talked about the origin of the piece and such.
Also, the second violin concerto by Szymanowski (this is why I am very glad I'm typing and not speaking because I could never pronounce that) is awesome.
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burning question: Where do you want to see a revolution?
burning question 2: are there songs that you are intimately familiar with but you don't know who sings them or what they're called because you can never be arsed to look up the lyrics, and not because they're instrumental or in a foreign language you don't understand or anything?
Sigh. I will always hate the far-right blogosphere more than I hate the Something Awful forums. Someone says the ideal outcome out of the Arab Revolution (Libya's fall might result in a world revolution) is a Shi'ite-Sunni civil war. And someone else is saying that Mubarak should have done what Gadaffi is doing and defends European colonialism, because atrocities never happened in the colonies ever. Vox Day said Scott Walker should do what the Bahraini regime is doing to the protestors in Wisconsin.
And that's why I'm getting my discussions from Revolutionary Left (who have been clamoring for the destruction of Melgibjad's regime, despite what the right wingers want you to think - also, I refuse to call the president of Iran anything but Mel Gibson or Mel Gibjad or variants, mostly because I can't spell his real name and he's not Qadaffi. You're never wrong when spelling Qaddafi's name. Ever. Even if there are four Ms and a silent Q), Quarter To Three, and ilxor.
Speaking of which, "Al Jazeera switched translators after an hour. Maybe the first failed his sanity check and is now gibbering softly about undersea R'yleh."
I wonder what they think about Kadaffi funding their beloved BNP and EDL. They'll probably just ignore it and lament that the governor of Wisconsin hasn't used live ammo on the protestors and that vegetarians are allowed to be teachers. Those from a forum that isn't specifically right wing. That's a special kind of reactionary.
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Vox says Summa Elvetica, which I will not be reading, as it is an incredibly boring discussion on whether elves have souls, is far more ambitious in literary terms than just about anything else anyone except Neal Stephenson is writing, and the only reason people don't like it is because it is over their heads, and not because it is incredibly boring and poorly written. Yours is an inflated ego indeed, Vox.
He also thinks his shitty "do elves have souls" novel has more literary merit than Soldiers of Paradise, which is actually happening right now, and he thinks that "it wouldn't add to the richness of the genre to give the fantasy warriors ray guns and lightsabers." This is why I trudge through this literary miscarriage called The War In Heaven.
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for some reason, I thought the Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis was Five Variants on Dives And Lazarus and was wondering why Benjamin Zander didn't point out the similarity to Jupiter when he talked about the origin of the piece and such.
Also, the second violin concerto by Szymanowski (this is why I am very glad I'm typing and not speaking because I could never pronounce that) is awesome.
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burning question: Where do you want to see a revolution?
burning question 2: are there songs that you are intimately familiar with but you don't know who sings them or what they're called because you can never be arsed to look up the lyrics, and not because they're instrumental or in a foreign language you don't understand or anything?
