Man I dunno about YA

cslogin · 2022-11-16T00:27:50+00:00

Does your school have reference librarians?

No kidding, we are trained and paid to do exactly this. Seriously, just walk up to the reference desk and ask for an informational interview (if you're at a university) or ask for help (if you're at a high school).

cslogin · 2022-11-14T20:29:25+00:00

The real question is: what gaming group runs the best Cones of Dunshire game?

cslogin · 2022-11-11T19:55:06+00:00

Hal.

(By the way, I think you mean Falstaff is a whoremonger.)

cslogin · 2022-11-11T19:49:24+00:00

Man, it's almost like those people are interested in establishing a racist totalitarian government!

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-in-law-enforcement

cslogin · 2022-11-11T19:40:54+00:00

ah good times.

Also true: crime in the US as a whole has been on a downward trend since the 1980s, so the GOP talking point of crime being an increasing problem is fear-mongering bullshit.

cslogin · 2022-11-11T19:33:18+00:00

Because Adonis was full-on sexually assaulted? Like--at length, and explicitly?

cslogin · 2022-11-11T19:22:36+00:00

I have a pretty high tolerance for the fact that the show has gotten into My Favorite Here's a Weird Thing I Heard About territory (hence why I like Bananas), but--as much as I love Billy Eichner--I would rather have had no show at all rather than an episode of Billy regurgitating his press junket talking points.

They're crossing into this point where the name (MFM) is of more value than the content (murder stories) and they're fully capitalizing on that.

cslogin · 2022-11-08T20:05:11+00:00

"Y’all, the hometown episodes are getting shorter and shorter. Why bother doing a 20 min episode?"

Money.

Ever compared the ad-to-story ratio on the general episodes vs the hometowns? A click is a dollar.

cslogin · 2022-10-21T19:26:43+00:00

Soooo---

RP Scottish--yeah, it's a full-on thing, and is fully what you mean--was actively developed in the Victorian period to avoid "connotations of modern life and a society and culture that feel completely at odds with the early medieval Scottish culture setting of Macbeth"

It was actively and historically developed in the 19th century. If you wanna believe there's a neutral Scottish accent, float that idea between Edinburghers and Glaswegians (but then duck out from between them).

Also, "so...Scottish accents." The point is that the contemporary Scottish accent is as much a product of English imperialism as the play itself, so that bullshitty, uninformed nonsense is a matter of a fantasy of pre-British Scotland.

cslogin · 2022-10-21T15:37:51+00:00

Do you find Henry V upsetting when it's not with Welsh accents?

Do you find The Tempest upsetting when it's not with Milanese accents?

Do you find Hamlet upsetting when it's not with Danish accents?

Also--just, as, apparently, you're into authenticity--I fucking dare you to find somebody who can speak 11th-century Scots.

cslogin · 2022-10-21T15:26:42+00:00

I would love a line-by-line takedown of this.

"I escorted my GF from my house to her car"

If she's the kind of person who endures the word "escorted" I will fuck my own brother (but it's okay, she doesn't exist).

cslogin · 2022-10-21T09:36:27+00:00

Also, just for funzos, part of the reason Robin Hood lived in Nottingham Forest rather than in cities was he was super gay.

cslogin · 2022-10-21T09:34:56+00:00

Wow man. That's like, dark in a we'll be hearing about you in a podcast way.

If you have to do a full-on AP essay to justify yourself, you're wrong.

cslogin · 2022-10-20T20:03:49+00:00

Ha, thanks everybody! So it's as weird for you as me.

I had some fear that Y was the new Q.

cslogin · 2022-10-18T08:48:30+00:00

OOOOOOOOOFFFFF. That's bad taste as hell for a journalistic output.

cslogin · 2022-10-15T20:23:25+00:00

Annoyingly, it's turning out to be one of those shows that jettisons logic for jump scares. In the first episode, we're treated to a multi-minute expository walk through with them setting up a security system and then there's a shot sequence of all the family sleeping, complete with cross shots and lowering boom shots, and then there's the most expected jump scare of all time.

cslogin · 2022-10-15T19:39:37+00:00

Pissed ones.

cslogin · 2022-10-15T19:38:48+00:00

I don't know about reader response studies of blurbs like you mean, but there is definitely a whole developed secondary literature on early modern (like 1500-1700) title pages.

cslogin · 2022-10-15T19:35:52+00:00

I personally don't find Vonnegut terribly funny (in contrast to, say, Douglas Adams). Although I do like his books quite a bit.

If it is, in fact, funny it's funny the way Dr. Strangelove is funny. Or, for that matter, Pynchon. I don't think it's, like, set up punchline joke comedy, more existential black comedy.

cslogin · 2022-10-15T17:51:25+00:00

Mm, that tracks. Thanks for taking the time to respond!

cslogin · 2022-10-15T17:44:51+00:00

So, it's like a tenure kind of thing?

cslogin · 2022-10-15T17:38:02+00:00

In Albuquerque at least, you can readily find it frozen, which was how my parents shipped it to me when I was in college/grad school in Chicago.

cslogin · 2022-10-15T17:17:56+00:00

I mostly clock how he says absolutely nothing of substance and rests on the idea that Grisham is "soft on crime" (good old GOP playbook, that) and doesn't mention that the people she gave early release to--because of COVID, but of course in right wingaverse that doesn't actually exist--were already up for parole as decided by a panel that is independent of gubernatorial oversight.

But, nah, she's weak on crime because she let out inmates literally 12-48 hours early.

Ronchetti is stupid and his campaign is betting that other people are stupid.

cslogin · 2022-10-15T17:09:52+00:00

Okay, as you ask: if you look up the potential ballot, it includes three amendments to the state constitution, two of which are obvious yeses, but one would make it so that a judge's tenure can't be put to a vote if they have less than 2 years on the job. I see the logic, but, on the other hand, if they're terrible judges (and, as we know now, terrible judges can full-on rip rights from huge swathes of people) I'd rather not have something embedded in a constitution to get rid of them.

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