That Moment...

I don't know how learning how to process a whale is going to be entertaining to anyone outside those doing research into life as a 19th-century whaler. I mean, really. I'd read Dickens over Melville, and I personally find Dickens a boring chore to slug through.

TMW you resist the urge to go on a rant about Dickens stories.

 

Yep, hard times.

But a better pun I read last year:

Charlemagne mustered his Francs to assault and pepper the Saracens with great relish, but he couldn't catch up. (Frankly, I never sausage a pun. It's the wurst!)

 

That's some man love right there ...

 

Come on MR...there's room in here for three...kussy, kussy kussy.

That's enough now, time for sleep, a whole week off work, wehhh

 

Oh, I love me a threesome!

Being off work is the whole point of staying up late.

 

Oh I've already read it! It's one of the reasons why I was thinking about it, 'cause I already know how it's read. It's actually not too dry. There's a bit of false modesty and recitation of facts but the content itself is interesting. It's funny you said, "out to entertain the masses." He begins the list of charges against one such witch (Martha Carrier) with the statement: "But I shall no longer detain my reader from his expected entertainment in a brief account of the trials which have passed upon some of the malefactors lately executed at Salem..."

Mather had quite a perspective on the whole thing.

Rip Van Winkle was on my list of things to check out. I think you've just moved it up on the list to the next thing I read. I could see it being fun to spend the next semester writing about..

I've never read Moby Dick. It's kind of odd, because it's referenced so many times in our culture. I've just never had an impulse to read it.. Humph. I'll look at Last of the Mohicans though. Isn't that about the American Indians?

I don't mean this in a rude way to black people, but I live in the south . Racism, Civil War, How Bad The Africans Had It, and everything else is thrown in my face every day. I'm sick of hearing about it D: I'm dreading our race chapter... I wish we would all equally hate each other and get over it. <grin>

What in the heavens is Leaves of Grass about? You've piqued my interest.

 

Aah, it shames me to say that I forgot mostly about it, but from what I understand, it was Whitman's personal philosophies and observations on humanity, the good and the bad. In it's grossly basic form, it's the celebration of humanity. The mind, the spirit, everything about humanity and every individual's role in the most interestingly curious species on Earth. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass)

As for the civil war thing, well yeah, there is a lot of 'White Guilt' going around, but way I see it, it'll ensure that if some sick prick decides to reinstate slavery or Jim Crow, the rest of us will be sure to strike that sicko down. It's like the whole Holocaust thing over in Europe. As soon as they forget, the Holocaust deniers will suddenly shoot up and pretend none of that happened. It's a double-edged sword, but I'd rather not live in a world where the bad side is washed away, even if it does come off as relentless at times.

Yes, The Last of the Mohicans is about the Native Americans, specifically the Mohicans during the French and Indian War.

Rip Van Winkle is an interesting read, would recommend.

You can check out Mathers and Moby Dick if you wish. I may not find them interesting, but you might.

 

TMW there is a lot of talk of 'big white dicks' on this thread ...

 

Guess Ahab felt like he was. . .compensating for something when he was chasing after the big white dick he called Moby.

 

TMW you spend over 2,000 words on the introduction to a short story.

Guess I'll have to go up to 7,500 or so to balance it out.

 

TMW you think the Google homepage seems to be making a series of animated cartoons with its own logo where the little 'g' fantasizes about being in with the big lead football players (played by the other letters) and goes to join in.

Not sure if anyone else had noticed this, but it's been happening on my Google homepage. The big 'G' seems to be the big football jock, the little 'l' is the cheerleader, the 'e' is a coach and the two 'o''s are other football players. Right now on my homepage, the little 'g' just arrived saying, "I'm ready for the tryouts! Let's do this!" while everyone else looks at it either bored/confused or annoyed at its very presence. And they all attend 'Google High' from what I can see of the banners in the background.

Seriously, am I just seeing things because the world's most cliché 'high school football fantasy' cartoon is playing out on the Google homepage with the characters being the various letters of the frickin' logo!

 

TMW you go to the MOMA (museum of modern art) and you're looking super close at a painting to see if textures and shading vary at all, because you can't tell if some of it is screen printed, or if it's all done by hand ... and then you get reprimanded by one of the staff members for being too close to the painting. WELL! I needed to know!

 

I can't see the dots until I am right up near it, back off a second, security person!!

Love analysing paintings up close and personal too

 

TMW you go to bed at 9:30, your earliest time in months, and your body rewards you by waking you up at 3 in the morning.

 

TMW a few weeks has passed since you finished reading that book series you thought you really liked, only to realize that no, no you don't like it anymore. The main character grew detestable at the very end and there was a giant OBVIOUS* plot point the author apparently just forgot about and went ‘Eh, whatever’. But mainly because of the main character who hates her son and favors her daughter because the kid happened to be born a male calling him her 'boy-child' rather than 'son'. And she's the one we're supposed to be rooting for. I'm all for strong female protagonists, but hating your child because he/she was born differently screams 'abusive parent' to me.

* The plot point about how the son was to be sacrificed to some demon god of pain, but yet one conversation that consists of "Yeah, you're not having my boy-child demonic god of pain." "OK, fine, I won't try to exert my will and send my enforcers/followers after him." and the plot just vaporizes. So much potential for conflict there!

So yah, TMW you start to see the flaws in the book series you thought you loved and realize that it wasn't a perfect little piece of work you thought it was.

 

TMW your teacher still makes fun of you for not keeping up with people sometimes, but you finally got straight As.

 

TMW you suddenly realize that your lease has been up for a month, and you haven't heard from your landlord, so you text him like, "hey ... want me to sign a lease or something?" and he's like, "Oh, right. I'll write one up."

Lol. Best landlord ever.

 

That moment when you feel someone losing interest in you....

 

That moment when scouring for the perfect word ruined the mood. -.-

 

"Yes"

 

TMW you have to pay $7 for parking and you put in a $20 bill before realizing the machine only gives coins back as change, and you end up with 13 gold dollars. On a related note, TMW you have to use google to remember that Ulysses S Grant is, in fact, not the same person as Robert E Lee. #Historied

 

That moment when, for some reason, you write the "new" bits of your story in BRIGHT ASS BLUE and can't make out the punctuation.

Is that a period? I think that's a period.

 

TMW you read a thought-provoking phrase from a centuries old paper you're sorting through and plan to use it in a future novel. To whoever wrote that quote on that paper from the 1890s, thank you.

Hope that wasn't weird or anything.

Ok, any American Civil War question you have, come to me ok?

 

TMW you have to stand up and say " My name is DeadMoon and I am addicted to - The Big Bang Theory."

 

Deal.