Posts by Danielle
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I lived in Fort Collins, CO for ten years.
Oh, how weird. My mother-in-law and sisters-in-law live in Fort Collins, and we're visiting them this year too.
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Heh. Erm, that was me up there. Note to self: do not post from other people's computers.
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I think the end of that Family Guy Gilmore Girls parody might be a Seth McFarlane fantasy, though.
Yeah, I never pondered that possibility. I was always so thrilled to have an on-screen mother-daughter relationship that wasn't fraught to high heaven. (Full transference-disclosure: I love my mother and think she is hilarious and rad, and I hang out with her all the time. The main stumbling block with us becoming Lorelai and Rory is that one of us is horribly confused by any post-1977 pop-cultural reference.)
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I blame reruns of Gilmore Girls on Vibe.
Confession: I was terribly sniffly when that show ended because I was so sad about never virtually-hanging-out with those people again.
(Naturally, someone will be along in a minute to rain on my parade by telling me that everyone in Stars Hollow was way too adorable and quirky, and what the hell, the town was called 'Stars Hollow', FFS, and even if they did watch the show, the latter seasons after Rory went to college got a bit too bloody OC for their liking, what with the rich bland boyfriend and the awesome apartment and blah blah blah and *whatever*. I know all this, and I don't care. I loved Gilmore Girls, and it once had a goddamn teen love scene set to XTC's 'Then She Appeared' [!!!] and so therefore it is made of win. End of.)
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I do give props to Worth for using 'scuttlebutt', though. I love that word.
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Dude, you should try lamb shanks with red wine in a slow cooker: unreal.
Suburbanites unite!
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much of suburban life is (I am told)
I kinda wish that someone would spill the beans on you by saying that you grew up in Levin or something. Heh. :)
I understand what you're saying about the 'ideal form' of suburbanism (I think I just invented a word), but I think it's reductive to assume that there's some kind of oppositional groupthink involved. There are plenty of suburbanites who get people to do things for them. I like my house, but I don't know how to fix anything in it, and I'm not planning to learn; I like cut grass, but I pay someone else to mow the lawn; I decorate using picture hooks, not paint. I don't think apartment living gives you the monopoly on DIY uselessness, or usefulness in other areas of life. It's an oddly impermeable line you're drawing there. I get that you're creating this Urban Sophisticate persona, and it's all very entertaining, but... yeah. I dunno. I'm probably overthinking this.
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a landscape of social interactions, cultural symbolism and economic interdependence
Because none of that happens in the suburbs where all we rubes live?
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Heh. The old 'pretend to be sensitive in order to get laid' trick, eh?
In our household, we call that 'Fuck Me, I'm Sensitive', and it is regarded with huge suspicion. It's pretty funny to watch, though. :)
It's been done.
OK, any list which says 'resist the urge to gossip' is totally bung.
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McCain's horrible airquotes around "the mother's health" when he discussed in during the US campaign
Oh MAN. I had blocked that out but it's all coming back to me now.
Didn't Jon Stewart call those air quotes 'dick fingers'? Heh.