Subcultural engagement for the 21st Century...
Barbelith is a new kind of community (find out more)...
You can login or register.

Underground > Conversation >

Thread for people and things who should fucking well not shut up

*

05:31 / 06.11.07

My classmates, all of us together working on separate Masters' theses, supported by a professor who is motivated by the desire to see at once quality and pleasure in our work, should fucking well not shut up.

Luke Dzmura, who wrote: We should watch carefully those places where we give someone no option but to be a deceiver or a pretender, where no categories for recognition are allowed. Those places are clues that indicate when and where our culture doesn’t fit us any more. These are the cracks queer lives fall between.
should not shut the fuck up.

Paul Feyerabend should not shut the fuck up (at least not for this) but he should pause, take a breath, and occasionally place a period.

Stephen Weil should not have shut the fuck up, but he has, more's the pity; I wanted to interview him for my thesis topic.

Who do you want to tell not to shut the fuck up?

16:17 / 06.11.07

Keith Olbermann. I have a feeling he'll be out of a job after the next election, but still. Loud and proud.

*

20:36 / 06.11.07

Yes! The Olberman makes me happy--especially lately when he has seemed just a little bit more hopeful than before. Or maybe it's only me.

21:16 / 06.11.07

Yeah Olbermann sure makes for some interesting youtube time-killing.

I used to think at times it was sort of easy target shooting ("Mr Bush" instead of "President") and taking advantage of an outlook that doesn't have much representation in (cable) news, but the times I'd watch Daily Show's portrait of other american news venues made Olbermann's reports and special comments seem actually pretty ballsy.

Most of them are pretty good, but one that stuck in my memory (mostly I think for having watched it recently) was his report on how every terrorist threat was coincidently tied with a republican scandal.

He surely deserves to say "good night and good luck".

20:21 / 07.11.07

Seconding (well, thirding) Keith-O. And speaking of the Daily Show - Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert both, I would say, if for no other reason than they have a fairly broad audience and never fail to point out the ridiculous in the American political scene. It's good that the kids are being exposed to something besides Fox News...

00:20 / 08.11.07

Dennis Kucinich! He's introduced a House resolution to impeach Vice President Cheney for deliberately manipulating intelligence regarding Iraq and his threats against Iran.

00:38 / 08.11.07

Joan Nestle, who has started a blog called Don't You Ever Stop Talking. She's been talking loud and long and I hope she never shuts up.

Ex

07:17 / 08.11.07

Thanks, Sorenson - have just been re-reading A Restricted Country and thinking 'I hope Joan Nestle never shuts up'.

07:21 / 08.11.07

Garry Kasparov, particularly after the smackdown he laid on Bill Maher a couple weeks ago.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8S2RT4sHfdY

06:57 / 09.11.07

aung sun suu kyi.

and the dalai lama.

and shara nelson, especially when she's singing.

11:36 / 09.11.07

Sufjan Steven, reading out the story of his house burning down, do not shut the fuck up.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

16:11 / 09.11.07

I will physically fight anyone who even looks at me in such a way as to suggest that they may harbour desires for Charlie Brooker to, even vaguely, in any way, shape or form, shut up even a little bit.

when there's an eventual lull, I think, "Wow, I really need a holiday", but by then it's too late. What's more, I'm single. How, as a tragic singleton, are you meant to go on holiday anyway? I know from experience what couples do on holiday: they argue. But I'm not a couple. Who am I supposed to slowly fall out of love with? I can't slowly poison my relationship with myself. Or can I?

(Well, there's also the fact that he once co-wrote a particularly mean-spirited sitcom based on a guy I used to know who I had previously been dumped for... that gets him extra bonus Stoatie points).

21:38 / 09.11.07

Princess, where did you see that?

I have to disagree at least some with the Olbermann thing again. While I'm usually right with him on his politics, his willingness at times to stoop to low-blow name-calling is distasteful. This is one of the things I saw before that I did not like (I believe I linked to it before, as well). I mean, really— even if Roger Ailes is a total ass, does it make it right to say those things?

Regrettable Juvenilia

10:31 / 10.11.07

Er, Stoatie, you might not want to read his review of the last Dawkins' programme...

11:37 / 10.11.07

If you freeze-frame the footage you can isolate the second that Stoatie's heart breaks.

12:13 / 10.11.07

Petey: link pls?

Stoatie: name-naming gossip pls?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

14:04 / 10.11.07

Well... it just so happens that many years ago I got dumped for a guy who was working in a computer games emporium with a certain Mr Brooker, who had done a comic strip based on said guy's attempts to run an industrial club night. The character was then developed into a Mr Barley in Brooker's (word whose use in frowned on on Barbelith) TV precis, which then became the show Nathan Barley. Apparently the guy is fully aware of this... and in true NB style, thinks it's a compliment.

All Acting Regiment

14:10 / 10.11.07

Yes, Brooker unfortunately went along with Dawkins kind of whole-sale. Which was bad form. I was hoping to see Dawkins attacked by someone I agreed with.

16:34 / 10.11.07

Well, in a Screen Wipe on the filthy lies of advertising, he did point out a clip where an interview in a park conducted by Dawkins appeared to show him becoming distracted by a squirrel running up a tree...

But no; if this whole think is about the show aired in August then I have read that review, and it wasn't very good.

17:48 / 10.11.07

See, I don't want to fight Stoatie, because I like him, and he'd probably beat me up and then set Sheena on me as a finisher, but am I the only lither that doesn't like Brooker? From what I've seen of the man, I find him really irritating.

If you don't like the ads Charlie, you can always press the mute button. And that television does actually switch off you know. There's plenty of wholesome activities you could be turning yourself to that wouldn't provoke all that bile.

17:52 / 10.11.07

I think that's the problem with Brooker. He makes some good points about the media, and in a very entertaining way, but he's made such a career out of it now it does become something of a "well, if you hate it so much, why watch the telly?". And the answer is, if there wasn't so much shite on tv he wouldn't be as half as rich as he is.

18:24 / 10.11.07

Henry Allingham (scroll down).

One of only five British veterans of the Great War still living. A hundred and eleven years old, and he still pops over to France a couple of times a year to speak to school children about his experiences at Ypres, the Somme, Jutland; bearing witness.

13:33 / 18.11.07

Rick, I love you. Please don't ever shut-up!

"Harper's moving out of domineering boss territory and into David Koresh land. At this point the only thing that he is missing are the robes and eleven wives. He's starting to wear the fact that he just doesn't like people like some sort of badge of honour." - Rick Mercer

Less searchable M0rd4nt

17:58 / 20.11.07

Chesterton should not shut up.

I didn't even know this existed. Hooray for Chesterton, also for Princess who sent me the link. I'm happy.

Hydra vs Leviathan

01:02 / 23.11.07

But... but... isn't he... kinda dead?

People who should definitely not shut up:

Amanda Baggs (Ballastexistenz)
Lisa Harney (Questioning Transphobia)
Charles Johnson (Rad Geek)
Emi Koyama
Stacey aka Miss Crip Chick
Trinity (The Strangest Alchemy) (warning: Livejournal, in case it does strange things to anyone else's computers)
Elizabeth McClung
Dave Hingsburger
Darren Naish
Mighty Quare Dewd (even if hir site does take, like, forever to load)
Little Light (especially for this)

Our Lady Has Left the Building

08:05 / 28.11.07

Where did Miss Wonderstarr go? I miss her.

09:02 / 29.11.07

I jolly well hope that the cast of The Mighty Boosh, especially that lovely Noel Fielding, never, ever shut the fuck up. That would make me quite sad.

Ex

10:25 / 29.11.07

They can tone down a bit on the transbollocky stuff, though (I felt Old Greg was a bit misjudged). But they can definitely do more fantastic genderbending - including Vince having an affair with Vince-in-a-frock ('I know, how can I do it? With a lovely Vince at home, and the two little Vinces...').

Other than that, they should totally keep talking. I can't believe the new series has only just started.
Particularly, they shouldn't stop doing that joke where they ask the small child shamen if he's been doing terrible things. Presumably they block his tiny ears, then film him saying 'Yes!'. I don't often get sucked in by running jokes, but they can do that every episode.