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Hello Vikram! I just can't be bothered to post much any more, and when I do, I am but a pale shadow of my old self - 'with little to say and even less wit to say it with', as Brainbox said over on Seethru. Best erase me from your mind, or make do with Louche. She's ginger, scabrous, and probably never ever ever gets taken up the Oxo Tower, not even just once just to see what it feels like.
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Hmmm. Searching for a picture of Joally Richardson that looks more like Louche I came across this site about "visible lesbians" - as opposed, presumably, to "invisible lesbians" (which I reckon could be the seed for a great Thorn Davis screenplay). Anyway - check out Nip and Tuck tonight... it sounds awesomely rad.
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quote:Originally posted by ben: Hmmm. Searching for a picture of Joally Richardson that looks more like Louche I came across this site about "visible lesbians" - as opposed, presumably, to "invisible lesbians" (which I reckon could be the seed for a great Thorn Davis screenplay). Anyway - check out Nip and Tuck tonight... it sounds awesomely rad.
Oh Ben. It's Nip/Tuck and Joely Richardson. But I'm glad you're back.
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Whatever she said about me wouldn't change whether my view on her is true, though, would it.
Her posts are all stuck in some kind of northern-gothic 1980s angst-cycle. They are like Adrian Mole in his black-painted-bedroom period. They are the diary of a thirteen year-old listening to "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" on cassette. Thorn also does this morbid life-as-autopsy routine, but only as a base, lazy note: he often springs into surprisingly passionate energy. I can't think of the last time Louche surprised me.
And as I said, really her view of my posts has nothing to do with whether I'm right about this.
Pages 4 thru 7 of that thread Louche aquitted herself in a way I've not seen many do, like, ever in terms of challenging lazywidespread prejudice and assumption with cold, hard fact and hot, muscular argument.
As you say of Thor, the waspish, sour goth may be default position but she's demonstrated way more than that - to those who are paying attention.
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Huff-huff you're a fine one to talk, Bamba, given that Louche ceased posting after you dished out one of your patented Yea,-From-The-Summit-Of-Sinai bollockings because of her posts about Bret Easton Ellis.
quote:Originally posted by ben: Huff-huff you're a fine one to talk, Bamba, given that Louche ceased posting after you dished out one of your patented Yea,-From-The-Summit-Of-Sinai bollockings because of her posts about Bret Easton Ellis.
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Where is Gemini? It hailed the other day and I thought "how bizarre", as I will probably go on doing for the entire rest of my life, thanks to her maiden thread.
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quote:Originally posted by Octavia: Where is Gemini? It hailed the other day and I thought "how bizarre", as I will probably go on doing for the entire rest of my life, thanks to her maiden thread.
I'm glad it's not just me. The other day, I watched Flash Gordon and when Ming's finger hovered over the button marked HOT HAIL, I thought of Gemini's classic line. Judging by his expression, Flash thought much the same.
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Pages 4 thru 7 of that thread Louche aquitted herself in a way I've not seen many do, like, ever in terms of challenging lazywidespread prejudice and assumption with cold, hard fact and hot, muscular argument.
That was just Louche's droning "grimmer-up-north-than-thou" routine: like a cold wind it quickly turns my ears numb and her voice just becomes a dismal assault.
Reading it now, I admit there is solid material there, along with effort, research, determined argument. But --
quote:hardcore spawning lest the scummers take over the earth and drag us all down into some unpalatable pit of poverty. ... I'm not sure from whence comes your experience of parenting
Awkward "Dungeons-and-Dragons" style prose
quote:the days when 15 year olds got put in abusive homes or died on kitchen tables with a knife in their bits
Gothic-horror bombast
quote:The chance is that I’m getting aerated over semantics but your language and approach are anathema to me.
A level English student overusing thesaurus
quote:I have seen kids nominated by the local Youth Offending Team ... I have seen a scheme which took drug addicts, cleaned them up,...I have seen mothers of three who got pregnant at 14 get a NVQ Level 2 in Child Care... One youth centre in Knowsley where I funded a project has a wall papered three thick with thank you letters. ...It’s humbling.
Drafty local council meeting
-- Louche's writing reminds me of the mid-1980s, in a very depressing way.
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Thass better.
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