This comic strip is totally gay.
Notes on Camp.
On the other hand, on the playground, "you're/that's gay" and its cousin, "you're gay/queer for So-and-So" are prime epithets.
About a decade ago, when I worked in a coffee shop alongside teenagers, there was one young man who referred to anything negative or annoying as “gay.†As in “Dude, the new work schedule is totally gay.â€
He had no problems with actual gay people (like me or my boyfriend) – but it was so deeply ingrained that, even after I had explained the problems with this expression, he couldn’t stop saying it. He would just call something gay, then apologize to me every single time. “This espresso machine is so gay – sorry, Bill.†Apparently, this new formulation became habit enough that he would apologize to me even if I wasn’t there at the time.
Miriam beetle @ 396: i will be in town from the 21st to the 26th, & selling my comical books at mocca art fest saturday & sunday.
Another small world phenomenon: Hi, Miriam! We met at the Alternative Press Expo in San Francisco. I'm a curator at MoCCA, and I'll be selling my comics at the festival, too. I'll be sure to track you down during the weekend.
PublicRadioVet: The word you're looking for is "demur," or in past tense "demurred" - to make objection, esp. on the grounds of scruples; take exception; object (dictionary.reference.com)
"Demure" means "characterized by shyness and modesty" and given its connotations of "be a good little girl, now" people were right to object.
/end vocabulary lesson>
abi:
If you can solve the problems with the Kevlar book, there's a legislator in Ohlahoma who'd like to speak with you:
http://radar.planetizen.com/node/25768
There's a Mooninite in downtown Manhattan - it's been there for at least a month. I don't recall the exact location, but you can see it if you look north from Houston Street, somewhere between Broadway and the Bowery.
abi (16): A few minutes of googling turns of a couple of discussion of ASL poetry - this page includes a discussion of rhyme, meter, and modifying signs in ASL poems.
I couldn't find any videos of pure ASL poetry in action, but I did discover this Def/ Deaf Poetry Jam segment that I remember seeing once - it may be more accessible to hearing viewers.
I'm curious about two titles on the list:
Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls by Jane Lindskold (trade paperback, reprint of Avon mass-market paperback original)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (mass market paperback, reprint of Bloomsbury hardcover)
With a reprint of a book from another publisher, how much editing is involved? Will you actually be making changes to the text, or is it mostly production work to deal with the new format?
(Note: he may be a were-pigeon.)
Of all the sentences I've read today, this is my favorite.
15k a month? Cripes. NYC might be the Cultural Center Of Everything, but I'd rather live in the boonies. Stuff's cheaper. As a single guy, I spend $800-$900 a month, depending on the boiled rice-to-cheeseburger ratio of my diet that particular month.JonathonMoeller: For a single guy, it is possible to live cheaply in NYC. I live in Brooklyn (relatively cheap rent), and my expenses are only about twice yours. And being in the Cultural Center of Everything provides many cheap entertainment options. In the last 10 days, I‘ve seen the Upright Citizens Brigade perform in Central Park (free), gone to the opening of a new show at the Gay Art Foundation (free, plus free wine), heard a lecture at the comic book museum (free on Monday nights), watched Wallace & Gromit while having a picnic in the Hudson River Park (free), and seen an Off-Off-Broadway play ($18).
None of those options exist in the boonies. In fact, most of them don't exist anywhere else in the world. So whenever I look despairingly at my checkbook and consider moving, the fun factor of NYC pulls me back. (Of course, I’d probably get a lot more writing done if I lived somewhere with fewer options.)
Xopher: The Bush/Hussein reference you're thinking of comes from Neil Gaiman's musing on the phrase "Hussein is not disarming."
Alas, no sodomy. Or dinosaurs.
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