The Off Topic Topic

[CountDeMoney]

Fuck.
So, my grandad has died.
On the plus side it relieves my dillema of visiting home this summer.
But shit...

Fucked up.  Sorry, Tyr.

They couldn't lift him- and he's not that big a guy, a bit fat but no more than 12 stone, especially in the past few weeks apparently. They had to ask my uncle, probally the closest of my grandad's kids to him, named after him even, to help lift him out. That's just...fucked up.

I had to help bag my grandfather when they came to pick him up, too.  Didn't think that was part of the deal.

[CountDeMoney]

For all you Rousseau fans, good piece on the author recreating JJ's journeys--

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/rambling-like-rousseau-in-switzerland/2012/05/31/gJQAaTg46U_story.html?hpid=z4

[mongers]

For all you Rousseau fans, good piece on the author recreating JJ's journeys--

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/rambling-like-rousseau-in-switzerland/2012/05/31/gJQAaTg46U_story.html?hpid=z4

There's something to be said for the landscape influencing the writings of more than a few writers. 

No doubt Shelf will like your link.

[Jaron]

For all you Rousseau fans, good piece on the author recreating JJ's journeys--

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/rambling-like-rousseau-in-switzerland/2012/05/31/gJQAaTg46U_story.html?hpid=z4

DYNO-MITE!

[jimmy olsen]

Fuck.
So, my grandad has died.
On the plus side it relieves my dillema of visiting home this summer.
But shit...


Apparently the undertakers sucked. One of them was a skinny little guy in makeup. They couldn't lift him- and he's not that big a guy, a bit fat but no more than 12 stone, especially in the past few weeks apparently. They had to ask my uncle, probally the closest of my grandad's kids to him, named after him even, to help lift him out. That's just...fucked up.

[Sheilbh]

For all you Rousseau fans, good piece on the author recreating JJ's journeys--

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/rambling-like-rousseau-in-switzerland/2012/05/31/gJQAaTg46U_story.html?hpid=z4

There's something to be said for the landscape influencing the writings of more than a few writers. 

No doubt Shelf will like your link.

I did!

My dissertation supervisor was a pretty big writer in 'eco-criticism' which is a horrible name for an actually very interesting school of criticism.  But his major specialty was sense of place and the importance of place in literature, in particular he was big on Hardy.  Really interesting stuff though.

[Lettow77]

 I can't stop unwittingly doing injury to my roommate

Yesterday I fumbled in an accident that resulted in the top of his hand being stripped of flesh and pulsing painfully all day; today I squashed a banana in his bed I didn't realize was there.

My attempts at helping are inexpert, clumsy, and barely justify the input of effort involved.

[CountDeMoney]

I can't stop unwittingly doing injury to my roommate

Then let him do the ass-banging.

[Razgovory]

Rode up to Columbia to give my little bro some cash.  His new job isn't working out as he hoped.  For one thing, they don't always pay him.  It's not clear if they are doing this because they are incompetent and not writing the checks correctly (Which they are doing.  They got his name wrong on his last one), or they are actively trying to cheat him.

[mongers]

For all you Rousseau fans, good piece on the author recreating JJ's journeys--

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/rambling-like-rousseau-in-switzerland/2012/05/31/gJQAaTg46U_story.html?hpid=z4

There's something to be said for the landscape influencing the writings of more than a few writers. 

No doubt Shelf will like your link.

I did!

My dissertation supervisor was a pretty big writer in 'eco-criticism' which is a horrible name for an actually very interesting school of criticism.  But his major specialty was sense of place and the importance of place in literature, in particular he was big on Hardy.  Really interesting stuff though.

Which in turn is very interesting; I could have really have seen you leading literary tours of the author and their 'landscapes', and not just the obvious ones like Hardy and the Brontes. 

But now, you're about to be a lawyer. 

[Ideologue]

For all you Rousseau fans, good piece on the author recreating JJ's journeys--

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/rambling-like-rousseau-in-switzerland/2012/05/31/gJQAaTg46U_story.html?hpid=z4

There's something to be said for the landscape influencing the writings of more than a few writers. 

No doubt Shelf will like your link.

I did!

My dissertation supervisor was a pretty big writer in 'eco-criticism' which is a horrible name for an actually very interesting school of criticism.  But his major specialty was sense of place and the importance of place in literature, in particular he was big on Hardy.  Really interesting stuff though.

So it's actually much more boring than what the name suggests, and was already covered by the term "setting"?  Lame.  I want to know why Captain Ahab should be smashed to pieces by a surfacing submarine, like so many Japanese "fishermen."

[PDH]

Ide, you have all the romanticism of a turd.  A green turd.  And I mean that with all due respect.

[Lettow77]

 Romances can typically be hard for me to relate to or enjoy, but I am quite liking Emma's tasteful faux-victorian sensibilities. In an appreciation for the age and culture the anglophile exceeded the model- It is notably superior to the Jane Austen work of the same name.

[Sheilbh]

Emma's a good film. I also loved the 20th century update, Clueless.

[Tamas]

how shitty is to travel to/from London via Ryanair?