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rsadelleSlang I don't understand.
I'm strangely taken with R. Kelly's "Ignition Remix." "It's the freakin' weekend" cracks me up every time. However, "Runnin' her hands through my 'fro / Bouncin' on 24's." 24's? This I just don't get. If you're cool, or know someone who is, please explain it to me.
A true story. (Dialogue and page number approximated by my memory.)
(RUTH and FENNEC browse the sci fi/fantasy shelves at the Barnes & Noble in Redwood City. PROTO-SLASHER 1 wears a cloak over pants and a white tee shirt. PROTO-SLASHER 2 wears a white shirt, plaid schoolgirl skirt, knee socks, Catholic school shoes, and a cloak. PROTO-SLASHER 3 wears shorts, a "hookd on fonics wurked four me" shirt, Catholic school shoes, and plastic Harry Potter glasses frames taken from the cauldron-full at the front of the store.)
(PROTO-SLASHER 3 makes a high pitched noise of joy. RUTH moves out of the way of whatever it is she's squeeing at.)
PROTO-SLASHER 3: Look. (Pulls a copy of the Orlando cover edition of The Two Towers off the shelf.) They're always complaining that his hair's always perfect. But he's all dirty.
RUTH: Can I take your picture?
PROTO-SLASHER 3: Me?
RUTH: All three of you.
PROTO-SLASHER 2 (Suspiciously.): Why?
RUTH: Because you're in costume, and I think that's really cool.
(PROTO-SLASHER 1 holds up the copy of The Two Towers she's clutching.)
PROTO-SLASHER 1: Can we have it taken with our idol?
RUTH: Sure.
PROTO-SLASHER 3: With the magazine too!
(RUTH stands amused as PROTO-SLASHER 2 rushes off to grab the magazine. PROTO-SLASHER 2 returns quickly with a copy of Teen. PROTO-SLASHER 3 takes it from her.)
PROTO-SLASHER 3: Page 71. (Turns to the page and turns the magazine around to show RUTH.) He's with Maude.
(PROTO-SLASHERS line up and pose. RUTH snaps a picture of them. PROTO-SLASHERS wander off.)
(RUTH and FENNEC make quiet, high-pitched noises of joy and discuss how cute the PROTO-SLASHERS were. FENNEC suggests the need for a slash mentoring program. RUTH comments that she can't wait to meet the PROTO-SLASHERS on a list in five years. RUTH and FENNEC rush off to find MOLLY, SKY, LESA, and LOVELY POET to tell them about it.)
Best "Who cares?" moment of the day.
Kevin Costner is engaged. Please, please explain to me why this should be the top entertainment headline on Yahoo! News.
People sorts the celebs.
I bought People because it has a Wills-Ashton Kutcher head-to-head (Ashton is hotter the more I know about how smart he is, but Wills still wins), and they also have some Harry Potter stuff. They sorted Eminem, Christina Aguilera, Martha Stewart, and Simon Cowell into Slytherin. Matt Damon and Jodie Foster are in Ravenclaw. For some reason, they put the Olsen twins (who, yes, are hot if underage) in Hufflepuff. Or, as the CoS DVD subtitles it in French, Poufsouffle!
I love that man.
From Anthony Lane's review of 28 Days Later in The New Yorker: "From the start, Boyle and his editor, Chris Gill, chop and chivy the images along, and they don't even realize that, when Jim calls for help in a desolate London, he is actually crying out for a slow tracking shot."
I'm strangely taken with R. Kelly's "Ignition Remix." "It's the freakin' weekend" cracks me up every time. However, "Runnin' her hands through my 'fro / Bouncin' on 24's." 24's? This I just don't get. If you're cool, or know someone who is, please explain it to me.
A true story. (Dialogue and page number approximated by my memory.)
(RUTH and FENNEC browse the sci fi/fantasy shelves at the Barnes & Noble in Redwood City. PROTO-SLASHER 1 wears a cloak over pants and a white tee shirt. PROTO-SLASHER 2 wears a white shirt, plaid schoolgirl skirt, knee socks, Catholic school shoes, and a cloak. PROTO-SLASHER 3 wears shorts, a "hookd on fonics wurked four me" shirt, Catholic school shoes, and plastic Harry Potter glasses frames taken from the cauldron-full at the front of the store.)
(PROTO-SLASHER 3 makes a high pitched noise of joy. RUTH moves out of the way of whatever it is she's squeeing at.)
PROTO-SLASHER 3: Look. (Pulls a copy of the Orlando cover edition of The Two Towers off the shelf.) They're always complaining that his hair's always perfect. But he's all dirty.
RUTH: Can I take your picture?
PROTO-SLASHER 3: Me?
RUTH: All three of you.
PROTO-SLASHER 2 (Suspiciously.): Why?
RUTH: Because you're in costume, and I think that's really cool.
(PROTO-SLASHER 1 holds up the copy of The Two Towers she's clutching.)
PROTO-SLASHER 1: Can we have it taken with our idol?
RUTH: Sure.
PROTO-SLASHER 3: With the magazine too!
(RUTH stands amused as PROTO-SLASHER 2 rushes off to grab the magazine. PROTO-SLASHER 2 returns quickly with a copy of Teen. PROTO-SLASHER 3 takes it from her.)
PROTO-SLASHER 3: Page 71. (Turns to the page and turns the magazine around to show RUTH.) He's with Maude.
(PROTO-SLASHERS line up and pose. RUTH snaps a picture of them. PROTO-SLASHERS wander off.)
(RUTH and FENNEC make quiet, high-pitched noises of joy and discuss how cute the PROTO-SLASHERS were. FENNEC suggests the need for a slash mentoring program. RUTH comments that she can't wait to meet the PROTO-SLASHERS on a list in five years. RUTH and FENNEC rush off to find MOLLY, SKY, LESA, and LOVELY POET to tell them about it.)
Best "Who cares?" moment of the day.
Kevin Costner is engaged. Please, please explain to me why this should be the top entertainment headline on Yahoo! News.
People sorts the celebs.
I bought People because it has a Wills-Ashton Kutcher head-to-head (Ashton is hotter the more I know about how smart he is, but Wills still wins), and they also have some Harry Potter stuff. They sorted Eminem, Christina Aguilera, Martha Stewart, and Simon Cowell into Slytherin. Matt Damon and Jodie Foster are in Ravenclaw. For some reason, they put the Olsen twins (who, yes, are hot if underage) in Hufflepuff. Or, as the CoS DVD subtitles it in French, Poufsouffle!
I love that man.
From Anthony Lane's review of 28 Days Later in The New Yorker: "From the start, Boyle and his editor, Chris Gill, chop and chivy the images along, and they don't even realize that, when Jim calls for help in a desolate London, he is actually crying out for a slow tracking shot."
I'm not cool…
Date: 2003-06-27 10:05 am (UTC)I don't know what is meant by 24's, but I suspect that it's a reference to 24" rims, i.e. a very expensive tire accessory, the point of which I don't understand (and which, I believe, come in various sizes). If not 24" rims, it is perhaps a reference to some sort of hydraulic system in the car. (Some Californian hipsters like to raise and lower their cars, sometimes in rapid succession so they bounce. Why? I do not know. I also don't understand rollercoasters, so….)
Re: I'm not cool…
Date: 2003-06-28 09:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-07-20 02:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-07-20 06:32 pm (UTC)