What’s the female term for phallic. Like “wow the Washington Monument is really just a big phallic symbol”.
How do you describe that for a woman.
Like a Gergia O’ Keefe painitng
“ Come on Georgia, we know they aren’t flowers, you’ve been painting vaginas all these years, you’re artwork is so ______”
Maude Lebowski, in the Big Lebowski, says “My art has been commended as being strongly vaginal which bothers some men.
My friends and I came up with some responses even if i don’t know if any of them are fit for print here they are possibly one of the more enjoyable parts about looking at art yesterday, if I exclude getting to wear a sports coat.
But is the term really just vaginal
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Just found out
很多mazel tov Obama...and to you the stick a congradulations is in order , it is easy to get so little attention during a a slow news cycle
week in review a week late
I would do much better in the era of the pony express...
these are my thoughts the week before the elction,,,,
I went to the Kanye West concert on Monday night. It was the first international act to come to China since the Olympics, or maybe just the first one that I was interested in.
Adrock does not like Celine Dion.
The concert dates actually got pushed back several times in the last few months, but it did finally happen. Previously acts like Jay-Z and more recently Nas were rumored ,
and for Nas tickets even sold, but then the Chinese government revoked their visas and they fell through.
So I was happy to see Kanye. It was much better than my usual Monday night. I love hearing live music and Kanye , as much as I think his ego is too big, does have a couple good songs and the places he is taking a lot more chances with hip hop than anyone else is these days.
I left the show feeling slightly disappointed though. I’m going back and forth over whether this was Kanye’s fault or not.
I love seeing live music because I feel like I am a part of the music being created that there is a give and take between the performer and the audience. That the performers respond to the crowd’s energy and visa versa.. I didn’t get that feeling from Kanye. Sure he was spinnin around happily as if he had already found out that his hometown boy already won the election (I’m assuming he voted for Obama, though with the money he makes maybe he doesn’t like his tax cuts) and yes, he was working both sides of the crowd, but it felt like he was going through the motions . That it was the machinations of a staged professional. .
The other fun of going to a concert is feeling like you paid to see something that you wouldn’t hear anywhere else. The way this is accomplished in hip-hop is by free-styling, audience call and response, or by the DJ extending his breaks. Save a few moments of call and response. There was no feeling that this concert was different from one he would play anywhere in the world, but actually gave me the feeling it was worse.
I understood this to be a continuation of a tour that he did this summer at bonarroo, made famous for his not coming out because of technical difficulties with the computer screens and animation for the show. Causing delays until 4 in the morning and the drugged out audience to start throwing beer on stage. But there were no electronic videos or other special productions, for a billed “Glow in the Dark Tour”, the lighting was that of a no-name band playing a club. merely stage lights that changed colors, which weren’t even neon.
I don’t know if this was a result of Kanye not carrying enough to make the show special because of a lack of audience, or a result of the Chinese government which requires the act to submit every word of the songs that they will sing in order to give out a visa, because fucking Bjork has to come and start chanting “Free Tibet” during her concert.
The result was that every song or medley he went through seemed to be lack improvisation and feel like a retread of his practicing five years ago for a music video.
There were two moments that felt like they weren’t just taken from the album. One didn’t even invlovle Kanye, when his band starting playing :Don’t Stop Believing” by Journey to which the expat crowd enjoyed singing. The other involved him featuring a asian singer named Vaness Blu during “Touch the Sky” (though Vaness might benefit from a name change)
As I said some of this was not Kanye’s fault. My seats weren’t that great and when my friends and I moved down another section we all felt that the concert improved. Personally I think a smaller venue would have been better suited for the concert, but a smaller venue doesn’t really exist in Shanghai, especially if promoters are going to make money on bringing Kanye into the country, though my friends and I thought charging one ticket price and letting everyone on the floor, might have solved the problem. I also doubt promoters were looking to book another plane for all stage equipment when just beinging him over would allow them to make money.
Kanye and his ego no doubt recognized the myriad of empty seats or perhaps he expected it. Because in a way it felt like he was coming to China to say that he did and not to really impress anyone.
My own expectations of a light show of a light show and freestyles from a “rapper” more famed for his work DJing, may have been too much to ask, but it was A nice change of pace for the nightlife of Shanghai and a chance to see an artist I probably woudn’t have been able to get tickets to in the States for his only performance in China.
these are my thoughts the week before the elction,,,,
I went to the Kanye West concert on Monday night. It was the first international act to come to China since the Olympics, or maybe just the first one that I was interested in.
Adrock does not like Celine Dion.
The concert dates actually got pushed back several times in the last few months, but it did finally happen. Previously acts like Jay-Z and more recently Nas were rumored ,
and for Nas tickets even sold, but then the Chinese government revoked their visas and they fell through.
So I was happy to see Kanye. It was much better than my usual Monday night. I love hearing live music and Kanye , as much as I think his ego is too big, does have a couple good songs and the places he is taking a lot more chances with hip hop than anyone else is these days.
I left the show feeling slightly disappointed though. I’m going back and forth over whether this was Kanye’s fault or not.
I love seeing live music because I feel like I am a part of the music being created that there is a give and take between the performer and the audience. That the performers respond to the crowd’s energy and visa versa.. I didn’t get that feeling from Kanye. Sure he was spinnin around happily as if he had already found out that his hometown boy already won the election (I’m assuming he voted for Obama, though with the money he makes maybe he doesn’t like his tax cuts) and yes, he was working both sides of the crowd, but it felt like he was going through the motions . That it was the machinations of a staged professional. .
The other fun of going to a concert is feeling like you paid to see something that you wouldn’t hear anywhere else. The way this is accomplished in hip-hop is by free-styling, audience call and response, or by the DJ extending his breaks. Save a few moments of call and response. There was no feeling that this concert was different from one he would play anywhere in the world, but actually gave me the feeling it was worse.
I understood this to be a continuation of a tour that he did this summer at bonarroo, made famous for his not coming out because of technical difficulties with the computer screens and animation for the show. Causing delays until 4 in the morning and the drugged out audience to start throwing beer on stage. But there were no electronic videos or other special productions, for a billed “Glow in the Dark Tour”, the lighting was that of a no-name band playing a club. merely stage lights that changed colors, which weren’t even neon.
I don’t know if this was a result of Kanye not carrying enough to make the show special because of a lack of audience, or a result of the Chinese government which requires the act to submit every word of the songs that they will sing in order to give out a visa, because fucking Bjork has to come and start chanting “Free Tibet” during her concert.
The result was that every song or medley he went through seemed to be lack improvisation and feel like a retread of his practicing five years ago for a music video.
There were two moments that felt like they weren’t just taken from the album. One didn’t even invlovle Kanye, when his band starting playing :Don’t Stop Believing” by Journey to which the expat crowd enjoyed singing. The other involved him featuring a asian singer named Vaness Blu during “Touch the Sky” (though Vaness might benefit from a name change)
As I said some of this was not Kanye’s fault. My seats weren’t that great and when my friends and I moved down another section we all felt that the concert improved. Personally I think a smaller venue would have been better suited for the concert, but a smaller venue doesn’t really exist in Shanghai, especially if promoters are going to make money on bringing Kanye into the country, though my friends and I thought charging one ticket price and letting everyone on the floor, might have solved the problem. I also doubt promoters were looking to book another plane for all stage equipment when just beinging him over would allow them to make money.
Kanye and his ego no doubt recognized the myriad of empty seats or perhaps he expected it. Because in a way it felt like he was coming to China to say that he did and not to really impress anyone.
My own expectations of a light show of a light show and freestyles from a “rapper” more famed for his work DJing, may have been too much to ask, but it was A nice change of pace for the nightlife of Shanghai and a chance to see an artist I probably woudn’t have been able to get tickets to in the States for his only performance in China.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Random Thoughts
How many people does it take to parrallel park a car in China. I usually see atleast two people at a time directing the driver when to back up, etc. Today I saw 4 people doing it.
You could really be anything for Halloween here. Anything can be made here for enough money, but doing any costume with a suit would be a piece of cake. Dumb and Dumber tuxedoes would almost be too easy, but then who really wants a fitted orange tuxedo.
Just playing a scenerio out. The Chinese want to get to the moon. I would bet that they will be able to do it, assuming they do. When they plant the Chinese flag on the face of the moon, does that mean the US needs to go back up and take it off. How else to protect the property rights that people like Tom Cruise have bought?
Do we just let them take it, like in exchange for clearing us out of our debt, they can have half of the moon, Is this what leads us into the next war?
Another scenrio, Bill Cowher is coming back to Football, someone is going to pay him a lot of money to return. Although the rumors with Daniel Snyder and the Redskins who most likely have the deepest pockets have been squashed, that doesn’t mean they can’t start up again, Even some one like the Cowboys might be interesting to Cowher because they have the money and a good quarterback because Cowher apparently doesn’t want to walk into a rebuilding situation.
But What about the Cleveland Browns, who are going to get rid of Romeo Crennel, they have the players, just a terrible coach, and it seems that in Brady Quinn they might have a QB. (He was the reason ND was good, and not Charlie Weiss’s coaching, even if it doesn't translate on the pro level) and Cowher is a former Clevand player. I’d like to say I can never imagine Cowher after his years with the Steelers taking the job of their most historic rival and playing them 2 times a year. But money might talk a lot more than relations.
Was Puffy being serious when he makes idle threats and then cackles after them in "What's Beef", it is not exactly intimidating. Holding Vanilla ICe upside down off the balcony of a penthouse until he hands over the rights to his song is.
Speaking of Rappers from the 90's confusing me, Big Pun might have out done Puffy. What 300 pound Latino thug says "Loser" like a schoolgirl, as he does between verses in "It's So Hard" an otherwise good song.
You could really be anything for Halloween here. Anything can be made here for enough money, but doing any costume with a suit would be a piece of cake. Dumb and Dumber tuxedoes would almost be too easy, but then who really wants a fitted orange tuxedo.
Just playing a scenerio out. The Chinese want to get to the moon. I would bet that they will be able to do it, assuming they do. When they plant the Chinese flag on the face of the moon, does that mean the US needs to go back up and take it off. How else to protect the property rights that people like Tom Cruise have bought?
Do we just let them take it, like in exchange for clearing us out of our debt, they can have half of the moon, Is this what leads us into the next war?
Another scenrio, Bill Cowher is coming back to Football, someone is going to pay him a lot of money to return. Although the rumors with Daniel Snyder and the Redskins who most likely have the deepest pockets have been squashed, that doesn’t mean they can’t start up again, Even some one like the Cowboys might be interesting to Cowher because they have the money and a good quarterback because Cowher apparently doesn’t want to walk into a rebuilding situation.
But What about the Cleveland Browns, who are going to get rid of Romeo Crennel, they have the players, just a terrible coach, and it seems that in Brady Quinn they might have a QB. (He was the reason ND was good, and not Charlie Weiss’s coaching, even if it doesn't translate on the pro level) and Cowher is a former Clevand player. I’d like to say I can never imagine Cowher after his years with the Steelers taking the job of their most historic rival and playing them 2 times a year. But money might talk a lot more than relations.
Was Puffy being serious when he makes idle threats and then cackles after them in "What's Beef", it is not exactly intimidating. Holding Vanilla ICe upside down off the balcony of a penthouse until he hands over the rights to his song is.
Speaking of Rappers from the 90's confusing me, Big Pun might have out done Puffy. What 300 pound Latino thug says "Loser" like a schoolgirl, as he does between verses in "It's So Hard" an otherwise good song.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
They might have to carry JoePA off the field, and it still might not be enough
I’m happy for Penn State. I don’t consider myself a Penn State fan. I like to have some allegiance to Michigan for some six degrees of Kevin Bacon connection that my sister, mother, cousin went there and I once saw a game there and like most Big Ten schools , under Lloyd Carr they subscribed to a philosophy that works well in Steelers football, Run the ball and play great D.
Besides the Family connection, these things manifest themselves at Penn State as well. I’ve even been to a few games there, my favorite instance being Homecoming 2000 when I got to see my camp counselor cry when Penn State lost a perfect season to a terrible Minnesota team. That weekend I also experienced for the first time, on my way to the Bob Dylan-Phil Lesh and Friends show, why Santonio Holmes keeps marijuana in his car. Plus the school is in Pennsylvania (that’s where I’m from!), though I already had a rooting interest in Pitt over Penn State.
But with both of those teams out, and Penn State playing the way they are, I would much rather them play in the Championship game (with in state players) than see Texas or Alabama. I might even get my wish, and then the feel good story of the season would play itself out, with JoePA getting a chance to ride off into retirement as his players carry him off the field after winning the National Championship.
I just don’t see it happening…I mean the National Title could surely come to Happy Valley, but I just don’t see JoePa stepping away that easily, (no pun intended). He still wants to coach. It is a matter of semantics to discuss how much “coaching” he does anymore, and a dicey situation to try to ouster out a living legend especially after a national title, but I can’t see him just giving up control of the one thing he has known for decades.
Maybe the title will be enough validation and he will want to walk away on top. But I think he is sticking around because more than a national title he wants the All-Time wins record. If Bobby Bowden (his closest competition) would step down, I think you would see Paterno do likewise, but he doesn’t want to leave the game with the chance that his greatest legacy would be overtaken in his lifetime.
Penn State could be in for a Brett Favre Summer
Besides the Family connection, these things manifest themselves at Penn State as well. I’ve even been to a few games there, my favorite instance being Homecoming 2000 when I got to see my camp counselor cry when Penn State lost a perfect season to a terrible Minnesota team. That weekend I also experienced for the first time, on my way to the Bob Dylan-Phil Lesh and Friends show, why Santonio Holmes keeps marijuana in his car. Plus the school is in Pennsylvania (that’s where I’m from!), though I already had a rooting interest in Pitt over Penn State.
But with both of those teams out, and Penn State playing the way they are, I would much rather them play in the Championship game (with in state players) than see Texas or Alabama. I might even get my wish, and then the feel good story of the season would play itself out, with JoePA getting a chance to ride off into retirement as his players carry him off the field after winning the National Championship.
I just don’t see it happening…I mean the National Title could surely come to Happy Valley, but I just don’t see JoePa stepping away that easily, (no pun intended). He still wants to coach. It is a matter of semantics to discuss how much “coaching” he does anymore, and a dicey situation to try to ouster out a living legend especially after a national title, but I can’t see him just giving up control of the one thing he has known for decades.
Maybe the title will be enough validation and he will want to walk away on top. But I think he is sticking around because more than a national title he wants the All-Time wins record. If Bobby Bowden (his closest competition) would step down, I think you would see Paterno do likewise, but he doesn’t want to leave the game with the chance that his greatest legacy would be overtaken in his lifetime.
Penn State could be in for a Brett Favre Summer
Overhyped
I’m not really in a position to talk about the game, I didn’t see it and was more than a little confused reading that James Harrison was playing long snapper for the Steelers, until I read a little bit more about the game. As I read about Roethlisberger’s 4 INT, a touchdown being taken away for holding, and a defense that had a goal line stand but was on the field too long because of a dismal 3rd down success rate. I started to think that maybe the loss wasn’t attributed to that play alone.
In his thoughts after the game, Don Banks of SI.com said he doesn’t see the Steelers playing into January because they are missing some indescribable thing. Perhaps what Don Banks isn’t seeing is that the Steelers have been one of the best teams in the league with pro-bowlers missing significant time on both sides of the ball (Casey Hampton, Willie Parker) to say nothing of all the other injuries the Steelers have been plugging in players for. But by watching the game I might realize how he could, at this juncture in the season, come to his opinion.
The Pittsburgh media has been quick to blame Santonio Holmes for his share in the loss. He definitely was missed in the passing game, even with Nate Washington remembering he is in a contract year and forgetting to drop the ball. A touchdown loss to the promoted “best team in the league” isn’t something to beat yourself up about missing two of your biggest threats on offense. However if we lose the next couple games suddenly we are right back in the pack.
It feels a lot of the concern is that the National media advertised this game as a preview of the Super Bowl. Suddenly it was a must win game because it would tell the country that the Steelers were the best team in the league. In reality the game was one of the least important ones on the schedule and even though now they will make a big deal about the Steelers inability to beat the NFC east all this week. The Redskins game is equally unimportant. They are not in our division. Beating the Colts and the Chargers could be the difference between being a 2 seed or fighting for a wild card spot with a team we could have knocked out of the playoff race. Beating the Redskins gives us another win.
The Giants game and the Redskins game are glorified barometer games, and what it told the league is that the Steelers are a quality team that still needs to sure up a few things. Opinion of the Steelers didn’t slip too much after the game, with many in the national media still believing it could be the Super Bowl match-up.
I’m not saying I didn’t want to win the Giants games or next week, but I would much rather be coming into form later in the year than being considered the best when it doesn’t matter and there are still 9 weeks for anything to happen.
The Steelers have a lot of things that they can do better, but they have time to get those things fixed. Even though we lost, they have to feel good that the Defense has yet to play a bad game, (one sure way to get to championships) and the Offense should be much better when healthy and fully stocked.
In his thoughts after the game, Don Banks of SI.com said he doesn’t see the Steelers playing into January because they are missing some indescribable thing. Perhaps what Don Banks isn’t seeing is that the Steelers have been one of the best teams in the league with pro-bowlers missing significant time on both sides of the ball (Casey Hampton, Willie Parker) to say nothing of all the other injuries the Steelers have been plugging in players for. But by watching the game I might realize how he could, at this juncture in the season, come to his opinion.
The Pittsburgh media has been quick to blame Santonio Holmes for his share in the loss. He definitely was missed in the passing game, even with Nate Washington remembering he is in a contract year and forgetting to drop the ball. A touchdown loss to the promoted “best team in the league” isn’t something to beat yourself up about missing two of your biggest threats on offense. However if we lose the next couple games suddenly we are right back in the pack.
It feels a lot of the concern is that the National media advertised this game as a preview of the Super Bowl. Suddenly it was a must win game because it would tell the country that the Steelers were the best team in the league. In reality the game was one of the least important ones on the schedule and even though now they will make a big deal about the Steelers inability to beat the NFC east all this week. The Redskins game is equally unimportant. They are not in our division. Beating the Colts and the Chargers could be the difference between being a 2 seed or fighting for a wild card spot with a team we could have knocked out of the playoff race. Beating the Redskins gives us another win.
The Giants game and the Redskins game are glorified barometer games, and what it told the league is that the Steelers are a quality team that still needs to sure up a few things. Opinion of the Steelers didn’t slip too much after the game, with many in the national media still believing it could be the Super Bowl match-up.
I’m not saying I didn’t want to win the Giants games or next week, but I would much rather be coming into form later in the year than being considered the best when it doesn’t matter and there are still 9 weeks for anything to happen.
The Steelers have a lot of things that they can do better, but they have time to get those things fixed. Even though we lost, they have to feel good that the Defense has yet to play a bad game, (one sure way to get to championships) and the Offense should be much better when healthy and fully stocked.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Shanghai's multiple choice question
Why does the sky look like this?
a) fog
b) pollution
c) something far worse
d) all of the above
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