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But it gave us the gift of hipster Norville....

I gotta say - there's nothing worse than finding a surprise hill to go up and down. Even us natives don't really think of LA as being built on hills, but it is. Some of the hills behind downtown and adjacent to the ravine (where Dodger Stadium is) are steep as hell. My gf used to live on one of those streets where it starts out with a mild incline, then, at the very end where the road ends in a T intersection, it's suddenly a 20% uphill. Some of the back streets in Silver Lake and Chinatown are worse than anything you'ld ever see SF, including Lombard.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, El Jefe.

Actually, it really isn't.

Just goes to show.... Even Marilyn Manson sounds great singing Danny Elfman.

Ouch...

This entire thread is awful.

Maybe they're going to be so pissed they'll start pumping out babies and making the guys take care of all of them...?

He probably didn't see Fuggs' posts before they were thrown into the dumpster.

This could be the case with any common disease, including those that do not have a vaccine. Proper etiquette (covering mouth with upper arm when coughing, washing hands thoroughly whenever touching any body fluids or membranes, not going in public when exhibiting symptoms of illness) does more for preventing the spread of disease than a vaccine.

Man, you hold grudges for a hell of a long time.

Even by misogynistic standards, that shit makes no sense.

Well, just off the top of my head - the seminal works in the fantasy genre owe an awful lot to the likes of Tolkien and Lewis who relied heavily on the Judeo Christian mythology for their archetypical characters and, on top of that, were informing on societies with a different relationship with native peoples. While the "myth of the noble savage" you describe might, along with Early Modernists, possibly share roots in Victorian and Romanticist literature (as well as the Middle English epic), Americans were still coming to reckon with the systematic abuse of Native Americans at the same time as fantasy was in its formative stage. Whereas elves are portrayed as noble, but aloof - perhaps complicit in their own victimization - Native Americans are often portrayed as noble wounded animals - not responsible for the demise of their culture, per se, but not necessarily capable of adapting to invading white societies. There is a persistent and insidious problem with American Literature having difficulty in humanizing Native Americans in relation to their interactions with white settlers which isn't reflected in the fantasy genre.

Ah.

You sure?

What?

Yeah, I don't know what those would be in reference to "autistic" unless he lives in a house comprised of all autistic people.

HOT DOOOOOOG!

Hot dog?!

He's got a remarkably consistent team.

Relative to what? The styrofoam tray it came in?

No, No, No.