Queue on 16/10/2010 at 23:20
Growing up watching
Leave It To Beaver reruns on channel 50 out of Detroit, (
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101016/ap_en_tv/us_obit_barbara_billingsley) Barbara Billingsley was my first television crush.
What's funny is that, later in life, my first wife wanted to live this idealized 50s/Leave To Beaver lifestyle...and I hated the slut for it.
Tocky on 17/10/2010 at 03:11
Well bless her cotton socks she had a long run didn't she?
Uh... can you be a slut and June Cleaver at the same time without being schizophrenic?
Kolya on 17/10/2010 at 11:38
Not at the same time, but the same person, sure. The Madonna-whore dichotomy exists not just as a male complex (damn you Freud) but also as salient personality aspects actively pursued by females, who want to be a loving mother in the morning and a hot lover in the evening (...and a professional at work and an artist in their hobbies, etc). Quite normal.
In fact the depiction of a person with just one of these aspects, as this series seemed to had it, is unrealistic.
demagogue on 17/10/2010 at 20:01
I was more interested in the passing of Benoit Mandelbrot, father of fractal geometry, which was more of an actual icon of my own childhood. I still remember having a Trapper Keeper in the 80s strewn with the colorful plumes of the Mandelbrot set and thinking it was the coolest design ever. Hell I still think it is. But I especially loved the "mind-blowing" idea of things that get more complex the deeper you look into them, a very profound thing to a technophilic fourth-grader.
Stitch on 18/10/2010 at 00:20
why was your ex a slut
Shug on 18/10/2010 at 01:27
It's good that he's moved on in a healthy fashion, at least
Tocky on 18/10/2010 at 04:00
And took acid in the fourth grade.
Queue on 18/10/2010 at 12:27
Quote Posted by Stitch
why was your ex a slut
Cause she ran off with Biff down the street.
Didn't even make me pancakes.
You ever notice the rainbow of colors in syrup? And how it
flows?
demagogue on 18/10/2010 at 15:40
Quote Posted by Queue
So was acid.
I didn't mean to imply they were mutually exclusive.
I read an article about doctors starting studies on hallucinogens after a 30-year hiatus. For the tests there's a doctor and medical equipment on hand; your family is around you; you get into a sensory deprivation tank... and people have just one controlled experience. Then they come back with reports like it was a religious experience, the most profound experience of their lives, it inspires them and gives them hope and they change their outlook on life. Things like that. I could sign up for something like that if it's all very controlled & fail-safe... Not short of that, though; I worry when my heart beats fast from too much caffeine.
