| Re: a comment on inverse square by ex0teric |
13-May-04/9:10 AM |
"Jesus." is a fine catchphrase.
I've decided on nothing. "Oh." and "Jesus." have just made more sense to me recently than "OMG you're right ;)" or "Dear Lord, you're a gibbering lunatic", respectively. That's bound to change.
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| Re: a comment on inverse square by ex0teric |
13-May-04/9:01 AM |
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Kindly cast your gaze upon my comment of 8:11 AM on this very page.
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| Re: The Blood-Stained Body by Phalkon |
13-May-04/8:59 AM |
"Could it be, as Rush Limbaugh mentioned in passing on a recent broadcast, that the perpetrators of the alleged crime are homosexuals? If that's the case, maybe the motivation for their activities was far different than from what has been discussed in the media's wall to wall coverage of this incident. If these individuals are homosexuals, maybe they were getting stimulated by looking at naked Iraqis in sexually provocative positions.
Of course, as Limbaugh said because of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy concerning homosexuality we'll probably never know the answer, but I think the scenario is still definitely worth considering.
After all, it would answer why the alleged activities took place and it would also provide a solution to the really bizarre question as to why pictures were taken of the humiliating and sexually suggestive poses.
Why, you ask? Many people believe that homosexuals have a much greater potential than heterosexuals to be sexual predators. In addition, a sizeable number of sexually dysfunctional individuals (aka sexual predators) take pictures of their illicit acts. It gives them an opportunity to glory in their "conquest" as they visually relive their sickening activities.
But here's an interesting scenario to ponder that Limbaugh also mentioned. If this was ever found out to be the case, what would those liberal defenders of homosexual marriage and "gay" rights do?
Would liberal Democrats have to adopt an different attitude to this situation and quit their incessant criticism of the Bush Administration and the liberation of Iraq? It's definitely something worth thinking about. After all, if the individuals involved in these alleged crimes were homosexual, or there was a homosexual element involved, who can blame them. They would just be acting out their natural biological inclinations, right? And (so the theory goes) who could fault them for that because their actions would have been a result of the way they were born, not in any way the volitional actions of a lifestyle choice."
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| Re: a comment on inverse square by ex0teric |
13-May-04/8:11 AM |
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| Re: a comment on inverse square by ex0teric |
13-May-04/8:04 AM |
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| Re: a comment on inverse square by ex0teric |
13-May-04/5:48 AM |
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Replying to one's own comments is acceptable for postscripts, fucktard. Perhaps you'd have done better to actually read your Poemranker Instruction Manual, instead of just rolling it up into a "telescope" to "spy" on your secretary's "knockers".
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| Re: FINGER PIE by titan69 |
13-May-04/5:33 AM |
Congratulations on posting the worst title on this site since SupremeDreamer's "Ravings of a Dreamer"!
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| Re: FINGER PIE by titan69 |
13-May-04/5:32 AM |
Why does the poem have a line through it?
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| Re: Bleeding in the American South by wilco |
13-May-04/5:25 AM |
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How do you "satisfy a fact"?
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| Re: Prophets by unknown^user |
13-May-04/5:21 AM |
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| Re: a comment on inverse square by ex0teric |
13-May-04/5:20 AM |
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And why did you put this on your own favorites list?
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| Re: inverse square by ex0teric |
13-May-04/5:19 AM |
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For dozens of reasons, I don't think the inverse square law is really the one you want to use here.
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| Re: a comment on Dial Tone by cuddlytiger17 |
12-May-04/6:14 PM |
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You confounded clod! -=Dark_Angel=- can't get wings of shame. He practically invented them. And incidentally, just in case you've forgotten, you're the interloper here, not him or any of the rest of us. Please, do sit down. You're bound to only further embarass yourself.
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| Re: a comment on Dial Tone by cuddlytiger17 |
12-May-04/6:10 PM |
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No, just a little overexcited at finally being able to Hold Forth on Topics of Public Interest in Polite After-Dinner Discourse. And more than a little late for his bedtime, which has made him grouchy and prone to Faux Pas, the Subtle Markings of Inexperience.
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| Re: Me and My sense by Prince of Void |
12-May-04/6:16 AM |
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You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, do you?
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| Re: ...So We Stayed In The Water by Fear of Garbage |
12-May-04/6:13 AM |
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The best part is the spiders that cover you like insects.
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| Re: a comment on A Portrait of Antonio Machado (Edit) by Sasha |
11-May-04/7:35 PM |
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It could be "Ponme otra copa" or something such.
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| Re: a comment on A Portrait of Antonio Machado (Edit) by Sasha |
11-May-04/7:22 PM |
Twentieth-century, maybe some nineteenth as well.
It's hard for me to say, because of course there is and always will be a high market value for good translations of old poems. And besides that, pretty much my only experience with untranslated poetry is as a stoned undergrad Spanish major about three years ago. I did a lot of work with Nicolas Guillen, Armonia Somers (not a poet), Luis Garcia Montero, Juana de Ibarbourou, Emilia Bernal, Alfonsina Storni, and some assorted Catalan and Spanish speakers whose names escape me now, but I find I've forgotten almost all of it. When I looked into translating at the time, I found there were no English translations of any of the above (besides Langston Hughes' famous translation of Guillen,) though there is some interest in it in America. But again, I can't say. I would recommend you find something that appeals to a modern aesthetic, something a little ambiguous, showing more than telling, etc etc etc. There's stuff like that going back ages in any language. That's what would interest me, at any rate.
PS-Do you know a poem that begins something like:
"Traeme otra copa
y veremos"?
I've been looking for it all day.
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| Re: a comment on A Portrait of Antonio Machado (Edit) by Sasha |
11-May-04/5:35 PM |
Truth be told, I can't separate it from the melody. "Moi je t'offrirai des perles de pluie venues de pays où il ne pleut pas" really gets me, though, especially in your version.
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| Re: a comment on A Portrait of Antonio Machado (Edit) by Sasha |
11-May-04/5:30 PM |
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Um, it's a great song anyway.
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