Presumably that AI "history" of The Style Invitational, told with such an authoritative air, will now show up for Googling researchers. For the record, NOT A SINGLE ONE of the contests it mentions is real.
On the other hand, the general description of the Invite is eerily excellent!
So I gather from this um..."excellent" general description that there was a kind of "Victor/Victoria" thing going on of which few, if any of us, were aware. No need to hide your true identities any longer. Free yourselves from your assumed gender burdens !
Peter Marks is a fabulous writer, a great connoisseur of theater, and as far as I can tell, a person of great character.
He caught a ton of flack for paying more attention to New York theater than to DC theater, but that criticism was only sometimes fair.
Peter is, indeed, a champion of DC theater who was stretched thin trying to cover theater globally, and I fear many local theaters will miss his influence.
There are 80-odd professional nonprofit theaters in the greater DC area. It's truly one of the world's best theater towns. The Post is harming the community and ceding any claim to represent culture in DC.
There's little question that Rudy Giuliani will have to sell the wrongs to his life to Hollywood to stay afloat, especially now that his body has been rejected (in advance) by several medical schools --- despite being able to save on formaldehyde. I'm almost certain Netflix would appreciate any thoughts for movies from this group, in particular, might come up with. Possibilities like:
To make this streaming biopic work, he'll need to first go into rehab, come out and embark on a lecture/apology tour (at five figures per event). This creates the illusion that he's now a (probably) reliable narrator and provides the handy framing and narrative device of sober Rudy discussing and punctuating scenes from his dissolute past.
FWIW I've stopped my sub to WaPo. $120 a year is too much. If I wait a day, most of what I read the day before is published in my local Tampa FL paper anyway. They obviously know it's tpoo much as they keep offering me a lower price.
I'm leaving the "tpoo" typo in as maybe we need a new word regarding s#itty deals.
And 2 days later the local paper announced they were dropping their feed from WaPo in Jan!. Oh well, good bye CarolynHax. I hope I see Ann Telnaes sometimes.
Neither! Halfway in between diagonally and horizontally. Life is short, and I'd rather fantasize that I'm in a nice sandwich shop than a middle-school cafeteria.
I cannot answer the Gene Poll in good faith. I always cut my sandwiches on a slight angle, producing two polygons that are easy to handle and more appealing to the eye than either rectangles or triangles.
I’m a adoptive parent (not gay) and am aware of the discrimination against gay parents, partially because some think that such parents would bonk their same-sex kids due to their “affliction.” I assure you, the switch in their head works the same as anyone else’s, including our own to not want to bonk our opposite-sex kids. It carries to priests and an explanation that they are secretly gay and frustrated. That all may be true, but the switch in their head exists too and the affliction only occurs when they are pedophiles.
Every single gay parent (most adoptive) that I’ve ever known has been no different than any of the hetero parents I’ve known. Gosh, it’s like sex isn’t an all consuming thing for them - makes one wonder about the people who think it must be. I have been ... privy to more than one situation in which a teacher was being abusive; in each of those cases, the perpetrator was hetero.
Actually it has less to do with sex among the benighted zealots. It is largely to do with one of their favorite, ignorant bugaboos: grooming. Same-sex couple households are, of course, automatically suspect. I mean, everyone knows you become gay or a lesbian by example.
I think falsity and blame arise in the Catholic faith because they drive non-cis gender underground or to become priests. Still ok, celibacy is a choice. Sexual identity is an analog. Both are ok. Pedophelia is an affliction and not fixing it is a choice, so different from the first two, but associated with the first two unfairly by others.
Forget cutting technique, you have to start at the beginning by defining a sandwich. There's a famous legal case where it was decided that a burrito was not a sandwich. Then again, a hot dog is (according to many, but not all, so-called experts). What to make of the open-faced sandwich, which, depending on the ratio of components is regulated by the USDA ? The standard closed version, on the other hand, is regulated by the FDA. Go figure.
I'm sorry, but cutting a sandwich pales in importance to cutting the cheese (smirk supplied). No--- you are not allowed (in polite company) to casually grab the Valençay, take a bite from the top of the pyramid and replace it on the cheeseboard. Each type of cheese requires a more or less different cut depending on shape and texture and may, for the purist, require a different type of cheese knife.
Presumably that AI "history" of The Style Invitational, told with such an authoritative air, will now show up for Googling researchers. For the record, NOT A SINGLE ONE of the contests it mentions is real.
On the other hand, the general description of the Invite is eerily excellent!
I would like my first entry in the “new euphemisms for death” contest to be “take the Post buyout”.
So I gather from this um..."excellent" general description that there was a kind of "Victor/Victoria" thing going on of which few, if any of us, were aware. No need to hide your true identities any longer. Free yourselves from your assumed gender burdens !
It was certainly news to us as well!
Hahahaha, I was wracking my brain trying to recall those contests!! Invitationalistas, hmmm?
Peter Marks is a fabulous writer, a great connoisseur of theater, and as far as I can tell, a person of great character.
He caught a ton of flack for paying more attention to New York theater than to DC theater, but that criticism was only sometimes fair.
Peter is, indeed, a champion of DC theater who was stretched thin trying to cover theater globally, and I fear many local theaters will miss his influence.
There are 80-odd professional nonprofit theaters in the greater DC area. It's truly one of the world's best theater towns. The Post is harming the community and ceding any claim to represent culture in DC.
I answered "diagonally" but it's not a corner-to-corner cut. I make two trapezoids (US definition). I'm a rebel.
I cut diagonally, but eat the corners first.
I can see the wisdom of the trapezoid.
I picked "horizontally," but generally my sandwich bread isn't square, so it kind of moots the question.
I was. When the label on the ice cream box said "close this flap first" I closed the other one. Nobody bossed me.
I’ll bet you were a terror on removing the tags on pillows and mattresses that said “Do not remove under penalty of law”, too!
I read all of the tags, including "except by consumer ..." and did remove them from some pillows. But this was many years later.
It's not just you, Jeff. I like it that way because it feels more like a restaurant.
I didn’t answer the poll because “vertically” wasn’t one of the choices. I have never seen anyone cut a sandwich horizontally.
When we were living together but not yet married, I sometimes referred to my girlfriend as, "the near missus."
There's little question that Rudy Giuliani will have to sell the wrongs to his life to Hollywood to stay afloat, especially now that his body has been rejected (in advance) by several medical schools --- despite being able to save on formaldehyde. I'm almost certain Netflix would appreciate any thoughts for movies from this group, in particular, might come up with. Possibilities like:
*The Kamikaze Counselor
*America's Mayor to Moron: The Rudy G. Story
*From Here to Infirmity
*Dye Hard
*WTF: A Day in Court with Rudy G.
"From Combover to Hangover".
To make this streaming biopic work, he'll need to first go into rehab, come out and embark on a lecture/apology tour (at five figures per event). This creates the illusion that he's now a (probably) reliable narrator and provides the handy framing and narrative device of sober Rudy discussing and punctuating scenes from his dissolute past.
https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/1737901562998272281
I wonder if The Post Store stocks the 2024 Dogs Pooping in Beautiful Places Calendar.
FWIW I've stopped my sub to WaPo. $120 a year is too much. If I wait a day, most of what I read the day before is published in my local Tampa FL paper anyway. They obviously know it's tpoo much as they keep offering me a lower price.
I'm leaving the "tpoo" typo in as maybe we need a new word regarding s#itty deals.
And 2 days later the local paper announced they were dropping their feed from WaPo in Jan!. Oh well, good bye CarolynHax. I hope I see Ann Telnaes sometimes.
I don’t bother to cut my sandwiches. You needed a “none of the above.”
Neither! Halfway in between diagonally and horizontally. Life is short, and I'd rather fantasize that I'm in a nice sandwich shop than a middle-school cafeteria.
I cannot answer the Gene Poll in good faith. I always cut my sandwiches on a slight angle, producing two polygons that are easy to handle and more appealing to the eye than either rectangles or triangles.
I’m a adoptive parent (not gay) and am aware of the discrimination against gay parents, partially because some think that such parents would bonk their same-sex kids due to their “affliction.” I assure you, the switch in their head works the same as anyone else’s, including our own to not want to bonk our opposite-sex kids. It carries to priests and an explanation that they are secretly gay and frustrated. That all may be true, but the switch in their head exists too and the affliction only occurs when they are pedophiles.
Every single gay parent (most adoptive) that I’ve ever known has been no different than any of the hetero parents I’ve known. Gosh, it’s like sex isn’t an all consuming thing for them - makes one wonder about the people who think it must be. I have been ... privy to more than one situation in which a teacher was being abusive; in each of those cases, the perpetrator was hetero.
Actually it has less to do with sex among the benighted zealots. It is largely to do with one of their favorite, ignorant bugaboos: grooming. Same-sex couple households are, of course, automatically suspect. I mean, everyone knows you become gay or a lesbian by example.
I think falsity and blame arise in the Catholic faith because they drive non-cis gender underground or to become priests. Still ok, celibacy is a choice. Sexual identity is an analog. Both are ok. Pedophelia is an affliction and not fixing it is a choice, so different from the first two, but associated with the first two unfairly by others.
That is, their victims were always the opposite gender.
Happy Holidays to all!
Splendid Solstice (note I'm not hemispherically biased to "Winter"). Also, a Cool Yule to all those who follow the Wheel of the Year.
Forget cutting technique, you have to start at the beginning by defining a sandwich. There's a famous legal case where it was decided that a burrito was not a sandwich. Then again, a hot dog is (according to many, but not all, so-called experts). What to make of the open-faced sandwich, which, depending on the ratio of components is regulated by the USDA ? The standard closed version, on the other hand, is regulated by the FDA. Go figure.
I'm sorry, but cutting a sandwich pales in importance to cutting the cheese (smirk supplied). No--- you are not allowed (in polite company) to casually grab the Valençay, take a bite from the top of the pyramid and replace it on the cheeseboard. Each type of cheese requires a more or less different cut depending on shape and texture and may, for the purist, require a different type of cheese knife.
Please select all that apply:
(1) Merry Christmas
(2) Happy Kwanzaa
(3) Have a wonderful time of year
(4) Already had my happy holiday, thank you
(5) GFY and the horse you rode in on
Bless this ship and all who fail on her.
I know which one Lewis Black would pick.