Farewell to the 2000s: A Retrospective

... 2000 electoral primaries were still months away. I had never heard of furry or any other internet subculture (indeed I hardly used the internet at all except for sending e-mail), but had just finished a ... the handle 'Procyon', which at first was little more than a cute moniker representing the double meaning of liking astronomy and animals. 2002 - A quiet year with few changes or developments. I ...

Culture Fail: The Secret

..." into the acquisition of it (and the word "energy" is a misnomer, mostly meaning brain-time, but popularly used in this subculture to mean good will or intention). You have to input if you want output, ...ll let you win the lottery but buy a bloody ticket!" If you crave success, meaning, and comfort, you have to put a little bit more effort into it than ...

Renge Houshakuji - Ouran High School Host Club

... manga, or video games. Because cosplay is awesome . But she'll only go all out (meaning, wig, props, contacts, etc.) when she's attending the mecca of otaku: Comiket. ♥ Psychology: There...a shut-in. Perhaps because she missed her childhood home, Renge became obsessed with the otaku subculture. She became especially enamored with one dating sim/otome game called "Ukidoki Memorial." Renge fell in...

on The Conservative Bible Project

...as a bulwark against the liberal manipulation of meaning in future versions. I might note though, ..., updating words that have a change in meaning, such as "word", "peace", and "miracle". ... economic parables with their full free-market meaning 8. Exclude Later-Inserted Inauthentic Passages: excluding... kind of a collaborative fanfiction project- a subculture claiming and reshaping a point of (what...

Happy Holidays, escargoat!

... I could about ... well, about just about everything related to his work and the law enforcement subculture (which was, with its paramilitary, rigid authoritarian hierarchy, attention to regulations and use of weapons, as ... of ancient texts, including the Bible. But he wasn’t waiting for me to divine his meaning and was talking again. “Be not afraid and fear no evil,” he said breathily, “for my ...

Claire’s Adventures in Late Adolescent Ennui (Part 5)

... impassioned, and involved in same subculture as I, seemed potentially monumental ... it is empty of any meaning, but it is at the ...of containing just about any meaning a teller wants to put...free of any intrinsic, profound meaning in themselves; instead, they are...ancient mythological references to lend meaning to themselves, but usually that...one may inject their own meaning and emotion into the framework...

...me: yes, because it would no longer feel like a ghetto subculture. Being a geek is about being intensely interested in things that ... making friends in the workplace, at college, or anyone outside a subculture. Rachel: And you think this is common to most geeks? me:... with radial categories adds flexibility to language without giving up on meaning. If I say "every geek can quote Monty Python", I'll...

Burnt Thoughts

... unusual perspective, how might one build the necessary amount of similar views in others to form a subculture. Potentially, those with strong natural charisma can use that to draw people around them and, provided they... doesn't believe in casual sex, but she feels that sex has a very strong social meaning and that it should be shared only between people who are in a long-term relationship with ...

The Behr Legacy 2.11

... this was happening over at the Behr House Two Point Oh. Athena Isela got vamped by a well-meaning Count and she proceded to share the life everlasting with her niece. In the smallest room of the... reprogrammable sentry bot. ARE YOU POORLY DRESSED? Or perhaps indulging WAY too much in an overdone 90s subculture? :D :D :D TIME FOR TASER! :D :D :D See Burleywood there? The kids bring ...

Whole Lotta Random Media Stuff

... a lot of the history and ethnography of gypsy culture, but then focuses primarily on Romani subculture in the Los Angeles area. Particularly noteworthy is how, because of their extreme outsider status,...’s very hardcore. THOMAS DEMAND Thomas Demand, Corridor Speaking of War Crimes, I’ve been meaning to tell you about Thomas Demand. He is catalogued as a photographer, but really his ...