Kevin's Watch

If you feel an urge to bump vintage threads, use this one instead. View it as a digital stress ball of sorts. That thread I made in 2004 about cats? Don't bump it. Bump this one.

Thanks,
Lord Foul
Gen. Discussion Mod-Candidate

What if I feel the urge to bump the top thread on the list?

*Bump*

Lord Foul wrote:If you feel an urge to bump vintage threads, use this one instead. View it as a digital stress ball of sorts. That thread I made in 2004 about cats? Don't bump it. Bump this one.

Thanks,
Lord Foul
Gen. Discussion Mod-Candidate

i may have a salient point about felines that you failed to make in 2004. i blame you for not being complete back then. i shall bump with impunity and request immunity from your co-mod. hah! verily and oddly i will wend my way back to the machine that sherman marched to the sea, see?

Lord Foul wrote:Lord Foul
Gen. Discussion Mod-Candidate

Excuse me? Whose job are you angling for, exactly?

aliantha wrote:

Lord Foul wrote:Lord Foul
Gen. Discussion Mod-Candidate

Excuse me? Whose job are you angling for, exactly?

i looked it up...

aliantha, balon, creator...

sgt.null wrote:

aliantha wrote:

Lord Foul wrote:Lord Foul
Gen. Discussion Mod-Candidate

Excuse me? Whose job are you angling for, exactly?

i looked it up...

aliantha, balon, creator...

Go, my children! Feast on this minutia for days.

Just know that my original forum name was Tinkerbell, 'cause I make people disappear.

And anyway it's a non-paying job (unless Jay sends you smilies or something).

Lord Foul wrote:children!

Just know that my original forum name was Tinkerbell, 'cause I make people disappear.

Tinkerbelle:

"I've been a go-go dancer, a stenographer, an actress, a comedian, a tap dancer, a dance teacher, a film critic, a maid, a designer, a fashion model, a singer, a publicist, a journalist, a computer operator. I have appeared on national television. I have collected endless unemployment. I have worked, wage-slaved, struggled and triumphed and lost."

Wow, that chick is scary-looking.

Yo Tink, your evil plan is working pretty well, then -- I can't remember the last time I saw Creator in here....

Just because Creator is currently absent from the forum does not justify elevation of his opposite-number! How many modships would be overturned by generalizing that principle?

If changes are to be made, at least consider not shifting from one extreme to another. Perhaps a new mod might actually represent a moderation between polarities...or the heart of the paradox between them?

That last bit is more wordplay than political speech!!!

sgt.null wrote:

Lord Foul wrote:children!

Just know that my original forum name was Tinkerbell, 'cause I make people disappear.

It's nothing but a typo anyway. It shouldn't have been Tinkerbelle, but rather Drinkerbelle.

Vader wrote: It's nothing but a typo anyway. It shouldn't have been Tinkerbelle, but rather Drinkerbelle.

Don't fight it LF, you were more interesting back in 2004.

High Lord Tolkien wrote:Don't fight it LF, you were more interesting back in 2004.

Yes, but like any TV show I can't keep doing the same thing. I'm sorry you don't like the new episodes.

Actually. The show is canceled.

As for this forum: Null has taken my torch.

High Lord Tolkien wrote:Don't fight it LF, you were more interesting back in 2004.

So true, so true. HLT, what season do you feel Foul jumped the shark? I'd say it was 2008. Sure, he had a few clever episodes in 2010, but that BBF spinoff attempt early this year sucked so bad nobody remembers 2010.

I, of course, jumped the shark with my first post.

Excuse me, but the bumping of antique threads is a time-honored refuge for the depressed and bored. *searches "cats"*

Last Dark is a LONG ways away.

High Lord Tolkien wrote:Last Dark is a LONG ways away.

Not as long as you may think. If SRD keeps on schedule like he always does, he'll have the first draft done by Feb/Mar. (in which we can all exhale slowly) and then we got the rest of 2012 to await two revisions, then maybe, (there is no guarantee) we'll get that teaser chapter at the beginning of 2013! Hoo-ray!

How am I coping? I still haven't read 'The Man Who Fought Alone', so I still have one 'new to me' Donaldson book to tide me over. Meanwhile, a massive study of the Chronicles so far, Malazan, John Crowley, and if necessary Ulyssus by James Joyce, ought to be enough to keep me sane until the beginning of 2013. At which point the existence of the book will be too overwhelming.

Reading "Ulysses" will NOT keep you sane, Orlion. Trust me on this.

aliantha wrote:Reading "Ulysses" will NOT keep you sane, Orlion. Trust me on this.

Anything that distracts me will serve its purposes well.

And it has to happen one of these days. I have to face this ponderous tome, read it, wonder why everyone makes a big deal out of it and then go on to the next ponderous tome.

Orlion wrote:

aliantha wrote:Reading "Ulysses" will NOT keep you sane, Orlion. Trust me on this.

Anything that distracts me will serve its purposes well.

And it has to happen one of these days. I have to face this ponderous tome, read it, wonder why everyone makes a big deal out of it and then go on to the next ponderous tome.

A couple of hints to help make Ulysses less daunting:

. . . . . . . . - don't be afraid to laugh. Lots of it is meant to be funny.

. . . . . . . . - starting on p. 51 is not a bad idea. It's the first chapter from Bloom's
. . . . . . . . .. perspective and so is an easier read.

. . . . . . . . - don't try to read it all in one go. Treat it as 18 novels rather than one.

. . . . . . . . - get your hands on The New Bloomsday Book by Harry Blamires. This gives great
. . . . . . . . .. access to each of the chapter's themes and structure.

. . . . . . . . - read Dubliners first. Some of the characters and locations appear there in very
. . . . . . . . .. readable prose.

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