tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post1681961984769003302..comments2024-03-07T18:38:58.284-08:00Comments on kidchamp dot net: laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03429404210444847213noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-2864190055392040692010-10-18T13:27:25.000-07:002010-10-18T13:27:25.000-07:001. Yes. Loved Ferris's first novel. Also liked...1. Yes. Loved Ferris's first novel. Also liked Up in the Air, although not as much as everyone else seemed to. Does Dilbert count? Also loved Dilbert. Oh, and Office Space. And I still watch The Office, even though it's terrible. So I guess the answer is I'm mildly obsessed with workplace stuff, of the dramatic or comedic variety, but I didn't realize it until just now.<br /><br />3. Not yet. On the list. We saw The Town yesterday and realized it was literally the first movie we'd seen since Up in the Air. I clearly don't make it out often.<br /><br />4. We missed you too! Also, I just finished Let the Great World Spin, so I've been thinking about reading club for the last week or so.rachel (heart of light)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-61504478322991143702010-10-18T14:38:46.000-07:002010-10-18T14:38:46.000-07:0001 i enjoyed then we came to the end, though i did...01 i enjoyed<i> then we came to the end</i>, though i didn't have a visceral reaction to it. then again, i've always worked in non-profit research-y places, where the energy level and pace is a bit more leisurely (and now i work from home). the number of workplace dramas is pretty low; i wonder why that is? the uk version of <i>the office</i> (yes, yes, i'm that guy who never really enjoyed the remake - not tragic enough) was uncomfortable enough to make me leave the room at times. <i>up in the air</i> was amusing on first viewing, but upon more thought is rather problematic.<br /><br />02 i detested <i>fight club</i> (the movie) when it came out, and i haven't revisited it since to see if i agree with my 20-year-old self. preys upon the continual fear about the alleged feminization of men in the modern age (this is a recurring topic in k-12 education as well). also led to lots of annoying dudes starting their own fight clubs. <br /><br />04 i've been doing more house painting than reading, alas (damn you, dining room wallpaper!), though i picked up <i>postwar</i> after a long absence (rip tony judt). good enough to make european economic integration readable! also a bit of late-era iris murdoch. jacobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-339653080397653412010-10-18T14:50:35.000-07:002010-10-18T14:50:35.000-07:00how was the town, rachel? i want to see it, but i&...how was <i>the town</i>, rachel? i want to see it, but i'm having a hard time convincing the locals to go with me. also looking forward to hearing what you thought of the colum mccann!<br /><br />jacob, you'd have found a number of the mid-2000s new york parties fairly disturbing, i think. kidchampnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-32949333773861481372010-10-18T16:12:18.000-07:002010-10-18T16:12:18.000-07:0001 yes. i cannot however watch anything farcical o...01 yes. i cannot however watch anything farcical or involving bad lies.<br /><br />02 i don't like people to hit eachother. i am ok if they want to pop up from trashcans, i.e. Oscar the Grouch.<br /><br />03 no but i want to<br /><br />04 well that's a good question. how HAS everyone been?LPCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-46750227976436327432010-10-19T07:16:32.000-07:002010-10-19T07:16:32.000-07:0001 It's the waiting tables stuff that makes me...01 It's the waiting tables stuff that makes me nauseous. Office Space just makes me mad.<br />02 First rule of Fight Club, Lauren.<br />03 I don't actually see new movies anymore. I blame Film Forum.<br />04 The Internet is better with Laurens than without them. We've missed you terribly.Amandanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-90535502222494700852010-10-19T09:46:42.000-07:002010-10-19T09:46:42.000-07:00Another was during an early argument when I was de...Another was during an early argument when I was defending Samuel Beckett. Death and approaching death are as about as interesting a literary subject as peristalsis, was his position. But I said The fact is that people don't live as if death made any difference. There are innumerable institutions set up to encourage them in this, they spend years of their lives specifically defending against thinking that death is real and devoting themselves to the contemplation of various fictitious afterlives. But, I said, the world would be better if people incorporated the apprehension of death into the way they run their lives. Beckett makes you want to do that. Therefore he's a moral writer and important. He looked at me as if to say I had a point, and then said That's a very decent point. He would try Beckett again, he said.<br /><br />N. Rush, _Mating_el pulpo paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-71283875650244724712010-10-19T09:57:49.000-07:002010-10-19T09:57:49.000-07:00(i myself like beckett, though his fixation on his...(i myself like beckett, though his fixation on his own ass [according to deirdre bair's biography] has always been a little off-putting.) any new news on rush's <i>subtle bodies</i>? i feel like he's been about to finish a novel for two or three years now. <br /><br />@LPC on the move, for my part, and about to take off again. this trip excites me the most, for we get to wander about aimlessly, which is what we do best. also our hotel has a giant alabaster fireplace. giant alabaster fireplace!kidchampnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-46826278864977492342010-10-19T11:07:31.000-07:002010-10-19T11:07:31.000-07:00just realized that i failed to comment at all on t...just realized that i failed to comment at all on the book at hand. i guess that says something about it? i read it, but felt it fell in the in between space. not quite weird enough to truly take off, but weird enough to be distracting. i don't know. i guess my reaction was "meh".<br /><br />totally with you on those buffy dvd scenes, though. prob the best part of the novel.<br /><br />re: The Town, blake lively is not present in most of the movie. so if you can put up with her in 5 min increments, you'll be totally fine. see it! (only if you like bank robberies and car chases, which are two of my favorite things in movies, honestly) i dismissed it out of hand because the billboards with the nun masks + the name made it look like a horror flick. not on board with that ad campaign.rachel (heart of light)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-87532135168993283362010-10-19T17:46:10.000-07:002010-10-19T17:46:10.000-07:0001: So painful for all their brothers and sisters ...01: So painful for all their brothers and sisters in the struggle.<br />02: Fight Club (movie): sort of great, but its significance is exaggerated just a touch in some circles. Fight Club (book): pretty great, although Survivor is always neck-in-neck in my mind (like, chapter 44 = smiley-face emoticon). Samuel Beckett: I still listen to Krapp’s <i>first</i> tape, ya’mean?<br />03: Real, real good.<br />04: Kidchamp done came up, Got her name up/So when they speak of who <i>blinged</i> up, She’s who they <i>bring</i> up.Milkmaid's dumb friendnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-81814786782540160682010-10-29T21:59:00.000-07:002010-10-29T21:59:00.000-07:0003: they nailed Zuck as a version of a dozen schmu...03: they nailed Zuck as a version of a dozen schmucks I knew, just luckier. The rest of Harvard was painfully close - EXcellent location design, dialogue, detail.<br /><br />04: I thought it was me ... glad to know I didn't miss too much. The NW is nice too, you know. You're welcome any time.Katherine Cortesnoreply@blogger.com