tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post115871042923965726..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: “They only call them pigs when they’re alive.”Cord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1159040804115902042006-09-23T15:46:00.000-04:002006-09-23T15:46:00.000-04:00Oh, and DV, just be careful you do that only with ...Oh, and DV, just be careful you do that only with <A HREF="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4748292.stm" REL="nofollow"><I>your</I></A> cat.Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1158890110119432312006-09-21T21:55:00.000-04:002006-09-21T21:55:00.000-04:00DVirago: no shame in Esquire, at least none from m...DVirago: no shame in <I>Esquire,</I> at least none from me. I'm addicted to Gawker, and I admit to paging through the Esquires that come for the upstairs neighbor (although I have to say I leave the <I>Lucky</I> alone).<BR/><BR/>--<BR/><BR/>Nothing yet on the possible erotics of slaughter. Sorry! Paging M. Bataille?Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1158792898817835062006-09-20T18:54:00.001-04:002006-09-20T18:54:00.001-04:00And I am the Queen of Typos! Woo-hoo!And I am the Queen of Typos! Woo-hoo!Dr. Viragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03960384082670286328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1158792851741437902006-09-20T18:54:00.000-04:002006-09-20T18:54:00.000-04:00I, too, enjoyed the line JJC singled out. I used ...I, too, enjoyed the line JJC singled out. I used to look at my (dearly departed) cat when she was sitting on my lap purring and say, out loud, something along the lines of: "OK, cat, this is just weird. And kind of pervy. What *is* this relationship we have, because, right now, it's not just because I give you food." And she'd just purr louded.<BR/><BR/>Meanwhile, Karl, you might actually find this month's Esquire's "Funny Joke from a Beautiful Woman" funny and interesting. (Yes, I read Esquire. Don't mock me for that and I won't mock you for your last name.)<BR/><BR/>And I wish I could say something smarter right now but I'm realllllly tired.Dr. Viragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03960384082670286328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1158769782810810882006-09-20T12:29:00.000-04:002006-09-20T12:29:00.000-04:00Writing briefly because I really should be getting...Writing briefly because I really should be getting my class plan in order right now--but who wants to do that?--but a brief word on "cinaedis." My footnote says:<BR/><BR/>“Sodomite” is admittedly an inadequate translation of a term meant to indicate men whose contemptible feminine morphology is compounded by their unwillingness to maintain proper masculine deportment in their sex acts; they were men who had abandoned the struggle to remain men. For a review of the term and its glosses, see David Halperin, "Forgetting Foucault: Acts, Identitities, and the History of Sexuality," Representations 63 (1998): 100-04.<BR/><BR/>--<BR/><BR/>I wanted to say that the Testamentum belongs to a very minor genre in Occidental literature (where two or more are gathered in my name....). There's also the 'Lament of the Roast Swan' in the Carmina Burana, OE Riddle 77 is an Oyster being eaten (perhaps EJ or heocwaeth can tell us about that), the mid-sixteenth century Legende van Sinte Haryngus (Legend of St. Herring), the Flevit lepus parvulus (the wee hare wept), the angry deer in Marie de France's Gugemar, and a few more I don't have time just yet to find in my notes or list. Voice of the Hind indeed! Not to get. too. (pre)professional. but there's probably an article in there.<BR/><BR/>--<BR/><BR/>The photo's one I took at Coney Island. As for me and my household, we serve the Skee-ball, and the larger prizes in Skee-ball arcades tend to collect dust and grow a bit sinister, since those who would want to win them cannot and those who could win them wouldn't want to collect. The twin of that photo is one I took in pre-Bush <A HREF="http://static.flickr.com/30/60124678_de6612ae74.jpg" REL="nofollow">New Orleans.</A> <BR/><BR/>Not to worry: the bedroom's built around a huge depiction of chicken genetics that is more informative than creepy.<BR/><BR/>--<BR/><BR/>Expect more on your D & Gish musings, JJC, perhaps tomorrow?!<BR/><BR/>--<BR/><BR/>Who's the king of typos? Me! Me! Heocwaeth: I had a friend who once declared "you" for "your" his favorite typo, especially when combined, on menus, with the word "enjoy": as in, "Enjoy you delicious meal!"Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1158767590830102582006-09-20T11:53:00.000-04:002006-09-20T11:53:00.000-04:00PS Where oh where did you get that nightmarish pic...PS Where oh where did you get that nightmarish picture of dangling plushies from? Please don't tell us this is your bedroom.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1158767547597685512006-09-20T11:52:00.000-04:002006-09-20T11:52:00.000-04:00This is great. I love the line about pleasures of ...This is great. I love the line about <EM>pleasures of the hidden, unacknowledgable truth about the carnal companionship of animals with humans</EM>. That carnal companionship makes the giving of "muscles to sodomites" [<EM>cinaedis musculos</EM> -- I guess that's the Greek word <EM>kinaidos</EM> in there] especially suggestive, but I'm not fully sure of what. Is there a joy in being torn apart? Is it an intersubjective joy? (To get really fancy, is it an intersubjective joy in desubjectification? In multiple subjectification?) Do cook and pig partake of this enjoyment in the same way?<BR/><BR/>Fascinating post. Welcome to the blog!Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1158728127598235852006-09-20T00:55:00.000-04:002006-09-20T00:55:00.000-04:00Ugh, *your* ideas.Ugh, *your* ideas.Heohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15790601758953554870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1158728092183556312006-09-20T00:54:00.000-04:002006-09-20T00:54:00.000-04:00Just popping up to say, "Yay! Karl has a blog-hom...Just popping up to say, "Yay! Karl has a blog-home!" I'm buried in reading right now, and so will engage you actual ideas later, when I can proscrastinate like I mean it.Heohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15790601758953554870noreply@blogger.com