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You know, that’s not what holographic writing actually means, but it should be…
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[QUOTE=LavenderBlue]
Rilla of Ingleside is the worst L.M. Montgomery novel.
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Ha ha…that’s awesome. Good one! 
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer]
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“Holographic writing”, as it stands now, means a piece of writing entirely in the hand of the author, usually referring to a will or bequest.
However, there is a definition of “holographic” that means “having its entirety in all of its parts”…the Holographic Principle. Your phrase: “every sentence an author writes contains all the information in the novel in which it appears” is a perfect description of that definition of “holographic”. So it’s what “holographic writing” SHOULD mean…
[QUOTE=jayjay]
“Holographic writing”, as it stands now, means a piece of writing entirely in the hand of the author, usually referring to a will or bequest.
However, there is a definition of “holographic” that means “having its entirety in all of its parts”…the Holographic Principle. Your phrase: “every sentence an author writes contains all the information in the novel in which it appears” is a perfect description of that definition of “holographic”. So it’s what “holographic writing” SHOULD mean…
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Many thanks. I knew the first definition, but I’d never heard of the second.
[QUOTE=JohnT]
Tattoos. Completely fugly.
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YES! I wholeheartedly agree with this! So many people in my age group (mid-late twenties) are breaking down the doors of tattoo parlors to get some weird crap inked into their skin forever. All I can think is, “How saggy will your tat look in twenty more years? Thirty? Forty?”
In local news, the Avett Brothers suck syphilitic monkeys who throw poo and then roll in it. I don’t care if they’re “local boys who made good,” they suck.
Oprah.
Oh sure, I admire how she rose above a horrible childhood and made it against all odds.
But I can’t stand her new-agey babbling, especially when she assumes everyone agrees with her, and that she, in her exalted wisdom, knows things that the rest of us low-life can’t comprehend except by emulating Her Highness.
So I will say for the record: No, Oprah, I do not believe the Universe has plans for me. I do not believe anyone is “destined” to greatness (Does this mean other people are “destined” to failure?). And no, Oprah, there’s no evidence that we’re “closer to God” when we sleep.
And if I had my own personal trainer, my own personal health guru and my own personal chef, and enough money to spend every day in a fat farm and new cosmetic surgery every week . . . and if I worked out every single day, as you claim to . . . I don’t think I’d still be fat.
South Park is a big, steaming load of crap, and I suppose it may be necessary to explain to the fans that this isn’t a compliment. Critics, poseurs, and latte-sipping pseduo-intellectuals will say that South Park mixes toilet humor with brilliant social satire. Actually, it mixes toilet humor with utterly idiotic social satire. They have to put every so-called joke in the most blatant way and carry it on for ten minutes because they seem to believe that the audience wouldn’t ‘get it’ otherwise. It might as well be called The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Irony. And they apparently aren’t aware that bragging about being “offensive” and “politically incorrect” ceased to be hip in the early 90’s.
[QUOTE=Argent Towers]
The American version of The Office is retarded. The British version is the only one worth watching.
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Wow, my sacred cow is the British Version. I couldn’t watch it. I love the American version, though.
[QUOTE=Tess Trueheart]
John Williams… too many of my music-major friends, who listen to classical/jazz/opera/something else that most teens aren’t into and have interesting things to say, also claim to loooove John Williams. I think they’re just confusing it with loving Star Wars. At least, I hope they are.
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Listen to any of his big scores, they’re all the exact same song, maybe slowed down or sped up a bit, but otherwise the same. He is to film scores what Avenge Sevenfold is to rock music.
As far as sacred cows I could do without, the only one that sticks in my craw right now is:
Awareness du jour: AIDS, Breast cancer/cancer in general, Global Warming, all of it. Trendy idiots jumping on something because all the cool kids are doing it make me less likely to support the cause they’re fighting for for at least the next day or two or until some celeb tells them otherwise.
Jack Nicholson – just eww.
[QUOTE=LavenderBlue]
Rilla of Ingleside is the worst L.M. Montgomery novel.
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You never read Pat of Silver Bush, did you? 
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki]
You never read Pat of Silver Bush, did you?
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And here I thought I was done with L.M. Montgomery novels. Young adult section of the public library here I come!
The polio vaccine. Totally overrated as vaccines go. What was polio going to do anyway, kill me? Wait, it was? Forget everything I just said, then.
[QUOTE=LavenderBlue]
And here I thought I was done with L.M. Montgomery novels. Young adult section of the public library here I come!
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Umm… Seriously - that was not an recommendation. You might find this review illuminating. Your tastes may vary, of course - but I can’t let you think it’s on the same level that Rilla was. And I’m not one who liked Rilla all that much.
Missed the edit window. Pat was so bad I stopped reading L.M. Montgomery, and so I’ve never even heard of The Blue Castle. Now I’ve got another book I have to hunt down and bag. 
[QUOTE=Justin_Bailey]
Ruby, you’re fantastic and I love you, but would you even dream of writing something like that about books, music, movies, poetry, sports or theatre?
Video games are just another mode of entertainment and it’s ridiculous to tar and feather the whole medium just because you don’t like it.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburgers. I see I just bit into one of yours. Yum!
But seriously, that’s seriously how I feel, and I think the comparison to the other media is rather specious. Not to mention that people in this thread HAVE said poetry sucks, Shakespeare sucks, sports suck… so I have my one, sweeping, possibly irrational opinion. Video games are huge timewasters that kids even admit to me have screwed up their grades because they spend so much time on them. I know people who have had marital problems (no, not that kind) because their SO spends so much time playing video games. Never heard of that happening because of poetry, or books.
I’m not calling for their abolition nor protesting their content. I felt the same way about Atari when it came out. I just don’t fuckin’ like 'em.
Lenny Bruce
Maybe it’s because by now we’ve gone through so many faux-witty political “humorists” and those who go to extreme lengths to push the envelope, but I’ve tried listening to some of his stand-up act and didn’t find a thing funny about it.
When a comedian is better known for being “obscene” than being funny, he probably isn’t really that funny. Lenny Bruce wasn’t.
[QUOTE=vivalostwages]
Gone with the Wind is the ultimate suck. Topple that cow!
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The movie, or the book?
[QUOTE=TheLoadedDog]
Disney characters and animated movies: Cutesy, devoid of character, and the doe-like eyes make me want to puke. If I want that shit, I’ll turn on Sesame Street and look at Elmo. Even Donald duck is “cutesy cranky”. Bleh. Warner Bros cartoons kick their arse with real, flawed, complicated characters.
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Totally agreed.
Totally agreed, and rather appalled that your friends have apparently never heard Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring
John Williams is schmaltzy. Howard Shore’s the way to go.