Esmee Denters 2: I'll buy you a jet plane, baby

I get that.

that was what i was trying to say.

it's not about cats or checks.

So I wonder if there will be an adjustment among people. Like, we understand the uses of titles in poems and novels, but when the function of the title bends or alters or multiplies on a message board thread, will people recognize the authority of the text or the title? Can they do both? Do you bail because of multiple discourses?

me? no. but then i like titles that are often confusing or unclear and threads that derail and "metal-platen"

No, I know you do, but consider ilx as a culture, or a board as a culture, or Western Internet users.

i think it depends on the promised topic. Like if it's informational - or something that someone is most likely to look for for information and then it becomes a thread with pictures of cats or pizza or animated gifs of penguins, then they'd probably be annoyed. But things like that fads thread - i can't really see that people should be seriously irritated or feel betrayed or wronged that it went the way it did.

A few of the threads we've derailed recently have been pretty unserious, minor threads, but others have expressed sincere consternation and even confusion about that derailing. Not that we weren't sincere in our participation. We were. But the idea that a title can have the same multiplicity or irony that a title of book runs counter to how some would like threads to function, and for others the fact of it (not on paper, but encountered in the wild) is just disorienting, a game-changer or a game-ender.

xpost Obviously. We were writing partly about the same thing at the same time.

"than that of a title of a book" is what I guess I should've written

You are an Internet enabler!

i mean, you can't really blame people that want the "aw" thread to be pristine and solely consist of "aw" and "<3" or picture threads to consist entirely of pictures if that's the constraint they have mentally imposed on such threads - but it definitely makes them something other than a conversation, or following the natural forms of a conversation.

xp - occasionally i'm tempted to post to threads to see if i can get them all on the subject of lj.

Why does a thread have to be about conversation though? If they want aw and <3, and they have that vision, it's its own thing, which isn't a conversation.

Which, I guess was your point.

minus that extraneous comma

i think there's an assumption that threads are conversations - like on other boards - but there are a number of threads on ilx that are not, they are something else.

By the way, I think I have to strike off that example one. I don't think it's a legitimate example anymore.

the kitsch example 1?

No, the derail example 1.

you understand this thread after all?

there was this guy in high school who used to wear hypercolor shirts - i think he might have had a crush on me, which was weird, because i'm someone that people don't get crushes on - but for whatever reason, we were at a Denny's with a group of friends and I threw creamer packets at him and hit him in the face with one, and i think he stopped liking me after that, though he wasn't someone i would have gone out with.

I started this dumb bunny thread!

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put me down. i want to be put down. please put me down now. can i eat now. what is going on?

Okay, you win, I no longer get this thread.

it was a bunny reference! night of the lepus - i like movies with mutant animals that attack/threaten society where the animals are traditionally non-threatening - like rabbits. the rabbits in that movie, they really try to make them look threatening, but the rabbits really just look confused and like they don't want to be held.

the cryptic crossword logic is starting to make sense to me now.

What the hell happened over at iltrmb today? Perfect storm, it seems. At least for them, it was.

i don't know - i don't think it's related to what happened on 77.

What happened on 77?

i will email you.

Oh, man, I'm leaving on this sort of date in less than an hour and I should finish some homework. I like this girl - she's cute, I like the music she makes, but we don't seem to have any chemistry, and so I hope tonight is just a fun night and there's no pressure.

is this a new girl or one you've mentioned before?

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One I've mentioned before, I'm sure, one that lives downtown with Katie.

what kinda music does she do?

She sings and plays guitar, sometimes with this guy Sam. It's sort of ramshackle diy pop.

Sam will play drums, and then sometimes they switch. I think Sam does that in all of his bands.

i emailed you about that thing.

You mean you put a note in one of those pneumatic tubes like at the bank and it's working its way toward me.

Making a shwooooo sound.

yes - i was fascinated by those pneumatic tubes as a kid.

one of my friends suggested i casually hook up with some guy as a way of getting over my ex. i said that i didn't think i'd do that very well.

Susie says that someone she describes as a good conversationalist was describing that map to her.

Haha. Easier said than done.

I mean, you could always hook up with someone who would make you feel icky later.

we're not supposed to discuss that map, or discuss discussion of that map.

Really? I hadn't heard that.

Are there Capri Motels in Florida?

That sounds retarded. And not very clear, either. I didn't know people were more uptight over there than over here. It sort of doesn't make sense.

I don't know about Capri Motels. There are all kinds of motels, especially by beaches.

xp - it's not that you read ilx too much, it's that he's not on 77

i almost otm-ed you, but then i restrained myself - it is no longer otm day.

the things that people post to the regional alumni listserv of the college i went to are like a glimpse into a totally different world than i inhabit.

the freedom socialist party does not offer a way to unsubscribe from their mailing list.

today would have been Layperson's Formalist Approach to a Problematic Subject Day

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