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TNs: Very Veri Vini--Los Angeles, a reunion and revelation
- Thread starter Sarah Warner
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SteveTimko
Steve Timko
originally posted by Sarah Warner:
Well stated.
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
She is signifying, wordlessly, the absence inherent in VLM's post, previous. Quite poetic, really.
Eden Mylunsch
Eden Mylunsch
Doesn't Sarah have some heavy duty lit degree from a swank women's college in the east?
-Eden (if she was from Cali she'd be a lot more abstruse - I think it's the earthquakes)
-Eden (if she was from Cali she'd be a lot more abstruse - I think it's the earthquakes)
SteveTimko
Steve Timko
Holy crap, she has a whole college named after her.originally posted by Eden Mylunsch:
Doesn't Sarah have some heavy duty lit degree from a swank women's college in the east?
No wait, that's Sarah Lawrence.
Sarah Warner
Sarah Warner
Good, I knew Steve and Sharon would understand. Glad we had this talk.
originally posted by Eden Mylunsch:
Doesn't Sarah have some heavy duty lit degree from a swank women's college in the east?
-Eden (if she was from Cali she'd be a lot more abstruse - I think it's the earthquakes)
Rutgers?
originally posted by Eden Mylunsch:
Doesn't Sarah have some heavy duty lit degree from a swank women's college in the east?
-Eden (if she was from Cali she'd be a lot more abstruse - I think it's the earthquakes)
Ah yes, the Northeastern liberal arts college lit degree. The avocation of choice for the leisure classes.
Sarah Warner
Sarah Warner
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Eden Mylunsch:
Doesn't Sarah have some heavy duty lit degree from a swank women's college in the east?
-Eden (if she was from Cali she'd be a lot more abstruse - I think it's the earthquakes)
Ah yes, the Northeastern liberal arts college lit degree. The avocation of choice for the leisure classes.
Cali all the way. Santa Clara University--Classical History and Spanish.
originally posted by Sarah Warner:
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Eden Mylunsch:
Doesn't Sarah have some heavy duty lit degree from a swank women's college in the east?
-Eden (if she was from Cali she'd be a lot more abstruse - I think it's the earthquakes)
Ah yes, the Northeastern liberal arts college lit degree. The avocation of choice for the leisure classes.
Cali all the way. Santa Clara University--Classical History and Spanish.
Ahh, Steve Nash country.
I had good friends from high school who played lacrosse at Santa Clara.
Scott Kraft
Scott Kraft
New is the new old.
Eden Mylunsch
Eden Mylunsch
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Sarah Warner:
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Eden Mylunsch:
Doesn't Sarah have some heavy duty lit degree from a swank women's college in the east?
-Eden (if she was from Cali she'd be a lot more abstruse - I think it's the earthquakes)
Ah yes, the Northeastern liberal arts college lit degree. The avocation of choice for the leisure classes.
Cali all the way. Santa Clara University--Classical History and Spanish.
Ahh, Steve Nash country.
I had good friends from high school who played lacrosse at Santa Clara.
Didn't Kurt Rambis attend Santa Clara too?
Speaking of Classical, I'm listening to Toscanini's 2-record set of Wagner's Greatest Hits. It's a shaded dog LP and would be more fun if someone hadn't like, danced on side 4. It's not as if I've never heard "Parsifal" before, but it would be nice to hear it all the way through with clicks, pops, and skips. Yeah, I know, I could buy the goddamn CD but then where would the bragging rights come from? It's not like I can name-check tonight's wine - 2004 Mas Champart Saint Chinian. It's not even the fancy-pants cuve, just their basic AOC bottling. But it's fucking great! Lots of nuance mixed in with its Languedocian brashness and rusticity. And its 14.5% alcohol level that's positively buzz-inducing (and I mean that in a good way). This of course raises the question as to whether it is I or the not-exactly-mint-condition LP that is responsible for the NBC Symphony Orchestra's fuzzy-sounding rendition of "Die Gtterdmmerung: Act III; Sigfried's Funeral Music". What the hell do I know? Maybe it was Wagner's intention that this sounds all diffuse and dreamy, like maybe he was trying to turn over a new leaf and be the "new" Wagner, a kinder, gentler version of the original, kind of a rehashed Debussy or Vaughn Williams? Stranger things have happened, you know? Like wasn't Freddie Blassy a villain for a long time but then he found God or the WWF and then he started being a good guy? And didn't The Captain & Tennille crank out lots of really bad MOR music before Toni did her "standards" album that everyone said would have been great, except that Linda Ronstadt had done the same sort of album a year before? And what about Tesla and their brilliant electric car that cost $100,000+ and was brilliant only until Fisker came out with their electric car that runs just as well as the Tesla but looks way cooler, to the point that any middle-aged film company marketing executive (even with a combover and three chins) could get laid by Santa Monica hippie chick just because he was doing right by the environment. And besides, the Fisker sells for like, $20K less than the Tesla, which is still only about $55,000 more than a Prius would set you back, unless it was one of the Prii (Priuses?) with the carpool sticker, in which case that alone is worth an extra ten grand. Having driven a Prius, I'd go the extra dough for the Fisker. I just can't maintain the holier-than-though attitude necessary to get the high mileage in a Prius. In fact, I also lack the discipline - the last time I drove a Prius I averaged 22 mpg. Not that I've got a lead foot or anything, it's just that I was in a hurry and there were lots of hills (but if that's the worst thing I've got to worry about, then I'm doing okay.
-Eden (looking for more valid things to worry about)
originally posted by Eden Mylunsch:
Having driven a Prius, I'd go the extra dough for the Fisker. I just can't maintain the holier-than-though attitude necessary to get the high mileage in a Prius. In fact, I also lack the discipline - the last time I drove a Prius I averaged 22 mpg. Not that I've got a lead foot or anything, it's just that I was in a hurry and there were lots of hills (but if that's the worst thing I've got to worry about, then I'm doing okay.
Great post, as usual, Eden. I know what you mean about the Prius. Try as I might, I just can't seem to find the internal wherewithal for "hypermiling" -- who has the time to drive like Granny with rheumatism? How many red lights can I coast into from a mile out? I get enough aggressive tailgaiting from pickup-driving yokels when I downshift my Civic Hybrid manual going into a stale yellow. And the whole dashboard of the Prius is a bit headache-inducing, too. BUT, it does have the major advantage over my hybrid that you can retrofit an exterior plug into it to make it, like, 90% electric. (Isn't that like the 21st C version of the Rveeco oil-cooling retrofit for VW buses?) For that one reason alone, I'd get a Prius if I had to do it over again (but, having bought my Civic hybrid in '04, ain't no way I'm doing it over again for a good long while).
Mark Lipton
(46.7 MPG this tank)
SteveTimko
Steve Timko
I get almost 40 mpg in my Toyota Echo on the highway and it's not a hybrid. I was sad to see Toyota discontinue the Echo.
Jonathan Loesberg
Jonathan Loesberg
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Eden Mylunsch:
Doesn't Sarah have some heavy duty lit degree from a swank women's college in the east?
-Eden (if she was from Cali she'd be a lot more abstruse - I think it's the earthquakes)
Ah yes, the Northeastern liberal arts college lit degree. The avocation of choice for the leisure classes.
Don't knock it until you've tried it.
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Eden Mylunsch:
Doesn't Sarah have some heavy duty lit degree from a swank women's college in the east?
-Eden (if she was from Cali she'd be a lot more abstruse - I think it's the earthquakes)
Ah yes, the Northeastern liberal arts college lit degree. The avocation of choice for the leisure classes.
Don't knock it until you've tried it.
I have student loans to pay, I can't try it.
originally posted by SteveTimko:
I get almost 40 mpg in my Toyota Echo on the highway and it's not a hybrid. I was sad to see Toyota discontinue the Echo.
I get about 18mpg, but I use a tank of gas every 2 weeks.
Pax vobiscum!originally posted by Sarah Warner:
Cali all the way. Santa Clara University--Classical History and Spanish.
Doesn't have quite the same ring as, "Go, banana slugs!"originally posted by SFJoe:
Pax vobiscum!
Does it?
originally posted by SFJoe:
Pax vobiscum!originally posted by Sarah Warner:
Cali all the way. Santa Clara University--Classical History and Spanish.
Ever hear of Vatican II, old thing? *poke*
Mark Lipton