Roundtable: Shut Up Shutting Up

RW is apparently talking to you. Yeah, you!

Or, at least, those of you who like to go on and on about whatever it is you're pontificating on *cough*JJ*cough*.

RW wonders what the hell makes you think he'd be interested in your prattle. Seriously, you go on too much. At least, according to RW. Frankly, RW believes that the world would be a better place without your incessant and insipid input, okay?

What, you got a problem with that? Tell it to him.

Roundtable: Immortality and Stuff

You ask me, immortality's overrated...Yeah yeah, you get to live forever, but after having done everything three times over, what are ya gonna do?

Would quality of life lose its significance to us, if we didn't have to worry about dieing someday? Would you get annoyed by pissant little comments when you're feeling pretty shitty?

Carol, who hosts this week's Roundtable over at Feeling Peevish, wonders about these and any other implications that immortality brings.

Pop in and give your two cents.

Roundtable: The ( ______ ) Decade

Or: How will the Aught years be defined?

John Sadowski, host of this week's Roundtable, asks this very same question, and I must admit to be hard pressed to come up with a feasible answer.

Can you? Well, don't tell me about it, head over there and pipe up, Chachi!

PS - Working on plenty of stuff out in 3d-land, but will have new material here, hopefully real real soon.--tbo

Roundtable: Are Pleasures Ever Truly Innocent?

I mean...what if the majority of your pleasures are of the guilty kind?

How else to explain all of the Stephen King in my book collection? Fletch and Flynn? The Buffys alongside my DVDs? So are Bring It On, Freddy Got Fingered, and Dick (Kirsten Dunst/Michelle Williams vehicle with Dan Hedaya as Richard "Titular Nickname" Nixon, ya pervs)...The fact that I own Big Audio Dynamite IIs Globe (highly highly underrated), or The Best of The Blues Brothers, or Deee Lite's World Clique.

Anyway*, Suzanne, over at Perfecting the Fine Art of Procra..., shares some of her guilty little habits, and wishes that you share yours with her. Go. Take a look. Discuss. No one will bite.

*This is quickly becoming my trademarked Roundtable Segue.--tbo

Roundtable: Echenspray izay Eutschday?

One of the fringe benefits of learning another language is the learning of colloquialisms that just do not translate into your own language.

Frankly, no one has it worse than those trying to learn English for the first time. I know this from first hand experience; it took me years to understand things like: "Blow your top," "knock your socks off", or "have your cake and eat it too." I'm sure there are plenty more that I'm currently forgetting.

Steph, aka The Incurable Insomniac, shares some examples she has picked up in a myriad of languages, and asks that if you have some examples of your own in either English, German, Mandarin, or even Swahili, that you please share.

Whydonchaheadonovah? Oh, and beware the Ides of Pong.

Roundtable: ...And Don King as TBO

One of Stine and Ly's favorite games is casting shows and movies using nothing but the people we know in our immediate circle.

Occasionally, the game is turned around, in order to cast famous actors in our lives.

Invariably, my choice is Forrest Whitaker, preferrably the younger, slimmer version, but, like Oprah, my profile goes up and down.

However, knowing Hollywood's propensity to think "whatever, don't they all look alike anyway?", based on the average yokel's comments about me, they'd probably cast fuckin' Al Roker.

At which point, I'd contact my lawyer, and sue the fuck out of the production company.

Anyway, Prego's hosting this week's Roundtable over at Rustbelt Ramblings, and he asks "who would be you, in the movie of your life? Can you think of some particularly astute casting choices by Hollywood in previous biopics? And Esai Morales or Desi Arnaz?"

Prego, hate to say it, but I'm thinking Desi.