Comments on: Shorter Amy Alkon

By: Peter Gabriel

Peter Gabriel — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:44:44 +0000

“Is it racist if-” YES.

This has been another edition of.

By: Photography » Blog Archive » Amy Alkon is a Dim Bulb (Second in an Irregular Series)

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:27:39 +0000

[...] The Sadly, No! folks have rightly ridiculed the delightful Ms. Alkon for her racist ranting [1] [2] [3] and now are subject to her wrath. My [...]

By: Kip W

Kip W — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:33:12 +0000

MzNicky – http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page

Free public domain classical sheet music. Reams of it. Just click on a composer and look through it — note that even things like symphonies often include piano versions here. More stuff coming on line all the time (but note that [B] after a title means it’s not up there right now because of a rights issue). Scan quality ranges from wonky to absolutely pristine. I’ve been working on Faure’s “Sicilienne” from here, after years of looking for a solo piano version.

By: Dragon-King Wangchuck

Dragon-King Wangchuck — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:33:53 +0000

I'm starting to think that you guys are ignoring me. To be fair, I have been without internet access for four days (on a canoe trip) and posting in a three day old thread might not be the best place to bring it up. Anyways, I was battling it out there with the wingnuts all by myself for a while, until it became more important to donate blood to mosquitos. To be fair, I was battling it out over there for fucking days.

By: Dragon-King Wangchuck

Dragon-King Wangchuck — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:33:05 +0000

I'm starting to think that you guys are ignoring me. To be fair, I have been without internet access for four days (on a canoe trip) and posting in a three day old thread migh not be the best place to bring it up. Anyways, I was battling it out there with the wingnuts all by myself for a while, until it became more important to donate blood to mosquitos. To be fair, I was battling it out over there for fucking days.

By: Sadly, No! » Shit Moat Destroya

Sadly, No! » Shit Moat Destroya — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:17:37 +0000

[...] learned much from Amy Alkon these past few days that is startling, perverse and downright hi-larious — starting with the notion that poor black women who get shot and [...]

By: sarah

sarah — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:23:01 +0000

congratulations, mznicky! i’ve been pretty happy with the piano books at powells.com. what sort of music are you looking for in particular?

By: Candy

Candy — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:03:57 +0000

She should stick around Sadly for a while. She might learn something. Well, probably not, but it would be fun to watch the Sadlies show her how it’s done.

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:55:56 +0000

I posted a link over there to this one when a particular dope seemed to imply that because she was taking white people to task (ably summed up by Clif) then it must necessarily follow that poo poo on you.

By: Candy

Candy — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:53:34 +0000

I guess La Alkon didn’t discover this thread.

Amy seemed a trifle overwrought. She could use some relaxation therapy.

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:19:24 +0000

With tasteful use of Malaclypse’s precognition talents I have drawn Amy into the previous Amy thread.

By: Just Alison, without Qetesh

Just Alison, without Qetesh — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:16:54 +0000

Matt T. said,

Speaking as a borderline white trash stump jumper, why?

Good lord, Matt, you’re a plough?

(Note: this was invented in mine own state of South Australia, although it happened a bit before my time).

Also, and apropos of nothing, Luschka The Incredibly Spoiled Burmese has just returned from the vet (again), having had a whole buncha teeth removed (again). She’s feeling a bit sorry for herself, but at least she’s alive (yay! When they get to be that old, it’s a worry). She shall hereinafter be referred to as Old Miss Gummy, I suspect.

Oh, and g’day, Bruce. Unlike others here, I am entitled to say this, being as how I’m an Aussie (also a Monty Python fan, but then, isn’t everyone? At least, everyone who’s anyone).

By: Matt T.

Matt T. — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:55:43 +0000

I told my bass player to go down a major fifth and after that he couldn’t play at all.

*Shrugs* What? Don’t look at me to defend bass players. Zappa probably had the right idea.

By: a lesser imp

a lesser imp — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:52:03 +0000

Speaking as a borderline white trash stump jumper, why?

Also, stump jumper? Shit, it appears I left the South too quickly to get all the lingo down…

By: a lesser imp

a lesser imp — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:49:29 +0000

Matt T. asked:

Speaking as a borderline white trash stump jumper, why?

Only in the most pedantic etymological sense possible… in real life I could give a shit.

By: Smut Clyde

Smut Clyde — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:49:26 +0000

Don’t go there, Christopher. Next thing, you’ll be wondering why anyone would ask for advice on child-raising from someone who is not a parent; and next thing you know, you’ll be pounding your head on the keyboard while uttering strange noises of anger and frustration, like the sound-effects from a Don Martin cartoon.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:24:01 +0000

So, if I’m reading that second column correctly, parents in the 90s put huge, unbearable pressure to succeed on their offspring by utterly refusing to put any pressure on them whatsoever.

Okay.

It almost reads like an experiment to see if you can get people to buy a completely self-contradictory argument.

By: Smut Clyde

Smut Clyde — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:11:44 +0000

Holy fucking shit do I love semicolons; they are great.
My excuse for eating meat products (i.e. the black pudding) is to replace the haemoglobin I lose through my ulcerated semicolon.

By: RodeoBob

RodeoBob — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:58:37 +0000

I’m sorry, but the suggestion is that the best way to make vegetables more palatable is to fry them in oil? Reminds me of something my departed grandfather loved to say: “I’d eat ball bearings if you put enough Kool-Whip on ‘em!”

By: Simba B

Simba B — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:33:21 +0000

part of her deal is gagging on anything not entirely bland.

It sounds like your daughter’s case is more severe but boy can I relate to that. Although I tend to be very carnophiliac, so I’ve always been…big, ever since I was a kid, but my rather narrow diet selection (meat, bread, pasta, that kind of thing) has confounded most people who meet me. I can’t really explain it—it’s just one of those things about me.

(I have a diagnosis of mild Asperger’s)