Good morning!
So today is Bazaar Bizarre Los Angeles 2006!
Yikes I can’t believe it’s here already. How fucking cliché right? But it’s true. I have had the usual spate of “flakes” canceling last minute. Like last minute as in the literal day before the event.
I dunno I was talking to my since-preschool gal pal Jenny late last night and I was saying how I am so sick of the “flakiness” cop out. I don’t understand why in LA if you’re some asshole who doesn’t follow through on commitments, you’re considered “flaky.” It’s like this “oops, my bad” kinda care free attitude that people actually accept, myself included, for some reason. Well no more Mr. nice guy. You can’t just act like you’re some dizzy blonde or something. I think it’s time to call a spade a spade.
Wait - is that a racist colloquialism? I should look that up before I use it huh? What I mean to say is that we should avoid the use of forgiving euphemism when we should just call assholes assholes
WorldWideWords.com had this to say on the “spade” issue:
“An oddity is that to call a spade a spade is a mistranslation. The original was a line that the classical Greek writer Plutarch wrote some 2000 years ago about the Macedonians. He intended much the same idea—suggesting that the Macedonians were too crude and unsubtle a people to do anything other than use blunt words—but he used the word scathe, variously a trough, basin, bowl, or boat. It seems the medieval scholar Erasmus misread it when translating the line into Latin and Nicholas Udall copied him when making his 1542 English version. The phrase has been in the language ever since.
If Erasmus had got it right, we might now be telling people to call a trough a trough, and Sacramento would have been spared the recent fuss.”
So I guess the answer is both yes and no. So I guess a culturally sensitive paranoia is what you get when you earn a degree in Gender Studies.
Ok my parents just got to my apartment so it’s time to pack up.
See you at Bazaar Bizarre. Remember, it starts at 11. All the relevant event info is waiting for you at BazBiz.org
So today is Bazaar Bizarre Los Angeles 2006!
Yikes I can’t believe it’s here already. How fucking cliché right? But it’s true. I have had the usual spate of “flakes” canceling last minute. Like last minute as in the literal day before the event.
I dunno I was talking to my since-preschool gal pal Jenny late last night and I was saying how I am so sick of the “flakiness” cop out. I don’t understand why in LA if you’re some asshole who doesn’t follow through on commitments, you’re considered “flaky.” It’s like this “oops, my bad” kinda care free attitude that people actually accept, myself included, for some reason. Well no more Mr. nice guy. You can’t just act like you’re some dizzy blonde or something. I think it’s time to call a spade a spade.
Wait - is that a racist colloquialism? I should look that up before I use it huh? What I mean to say is that we should avoid the use of forgiving euphemism when we should just call assholes assholes
WorldWideWords.com had this to say on the “spade” issue:
“An oddity is that to call a spade a spade is a mistranslation. The original was a line that the classical Greek writer Plutarch wrote some 2000 years ago about the Macedonians. He intended much the same idea—suggesting that the Macedonians were too crude and unsubtle a people to do anything other than use blunt words—but he used the word scathe, variously a trough, basin, bowl, or boat. It seems the medieval scholar Erasmus misread it when translating the line into Latin and Nicholas Udall copied him when making his 1542 English version. The phrase has been in the language ever since.
If Erasmus had got it right, we might now be telling people to call a trough a trough, and Sacramento would have been spared the recent fuss.”
So I guess the answer is both yes and no. So I guess a culturally sensitive paranoia is what you get when you earn a degree in Gender Studies.
Ok my parents just got to my apartment so it’s time to pack up.
See you at Bazaar Bizarre. Remember, it starts at 11. All the relevant event info is waiting for you at BazBiz.org
