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18. "RE: Try, Try Again"
In response to message #14
 
   >Good lord, two movements of Symphony of the Sword in two months.

Eh, summer vacation (possibly the last one, but I'm trying not to think too hard bout that). Enjoy while lasts, etc.

>2003 called. It wants its update schedule back. Also its lawnmowner,
>and those DVDs.

I know, right? Actually, 2001 is the year that really makes me step back and go "what". I noticed that when I was recording the Symphony 1 and Symphony 2 audio.


>>heads down and kick it all school-project stylee.
>
>I'm hesitant to even bring this up, because I'm usually wrong, but is
>that a typo?

No, it's a thing: "kick it all {big time|old school|etc.} stylee". I think the extra "e" is just so you know it's pronounced with the E sound at the end. Either that or it's an Internet typo that's become its own word, like "newsfroup"* or "filk".

* I just dated myself**
** Fortunately I'm a cheap date

Stephen Fry has used it, in a highbrow ironic way, so one imagines it's not that recent. :)

(On an episode of QI he described cheese as "a celebration of what happens when milk goes off big-time stylee.")

>>Keiko shrugged. "I dunno, man, they're dressed
>>like a SWAT team and they're wearing makeup like
>>Gene Simmons. What would -you- call them?"
>
>This reference seems... off, coming out of Keiko's mouth. She's a
>native Cephirean who hasn't spent much time in Midgard, watching her
>make a reference that's even a little dated -now- (to say nothing of
>400 years in the future in another dimension) just doesn't scan right.
>Seems overly precious.

I'm sure the Student Council have movie nights. It's hardly beyond the realm of possibility that someone will have rented S.W.A.T. at some point.

(Yes, I know what you actually meant, but, well, consider: dated or not, you understood what she was getting at, right? If it helps, think of it as like one of those movies where everyone is speaking English even though you know they really aren't. :)

>I know that it's nowhere near the top record, as back in the early
>nineties Ben could see something new and interesting and have 20,000
>words integrating it into UF written that same night, but man, he went
>from 'I don't know what that series is, you crazy forum dwellers' to
>'tightly integrated' in like three weeks. That's FAST these days. :)

That's all down to Phil. As seen in another thread, my TiVo went on a bender, I was very confused, and then there were DVDs. :)

My obvious love for its protagonist notwithstanding, I actually have a somewhat... complex... relationship with The Legend of Korra, which I don't want to sidetrack this thread by getting into in depth, but the original show was one of those where-were-you-all-my-life moments.

>Stylistic quibbling: maybe consider replacing that 'but' with an
>'and.' Fluid BUT surefooted implies that you would normally expect
>those two states to be exclusive

No, what it means is that she's very firm on her feet without actually stomping around like an earthbender. If there's a word choice problem, it's "surefooted", not "but". :)

>>"After you guys had your, uh, adventure here,"
>>she went on, gesturing generally around to Cephiro,
>>"word got back to them somehow, I'm still looking into that,
>
>I'm prepared to blame Clef in some capacity. It's like Bumi said: "ALL
>old people know each other. Don't you know that?"

This would probably not be a crazy bet.

>>"No, no," Korra assured him as she followed him back
>>out of the room and down the hall. "Well after my time.
>>My boys made it to the semis that year, though!"
>
>On the chance she's using "my boys" in a literal sense

It's deliberately ambiguous. She might mean a team her sons (if she has any) were on; she might mean a team she coached, or one she sponsored, or possibly just one she was rooting for.

>>it didn't sit well with her that he'd disappeared, not just
>>from her life, but, as far as she could tell, from -everyone's.-
>
>Wait... what? People have seen Saionji. Anne saw him just a few weeks
>before the wedding.

Well, yes, she knows that, but he hasn't been seen since then, and they don't actually know where he is. Or why. Or what his game plan is. Or if he has one. Or what he was planning to do for backup, if anything. It's all a bit annoying.

>Shizuru really is the complete package when it comes to any of the
>traditional feminine arts, isn't she?
>
>(I bet she knows how to walk in heels, too.)

I bet she does.

>ending in violence) argument with someone like Anakyn shar Atrados or
>Rianna Santova about fear, anger, and rage being "cheap imitations"
>and invalid paths to power.

There are certainly hairs to be split there (fear is always shit, even the Reform Sith would probably agree to that, but there's the whole directed v. nonspecific anger thing), but not when you're talking to a confused teenager who sets things on fire with her mind.

>Calling it now: Duran -is- Naga.
>
>Reincarnation is neat that way.

I'm not sure it's that weird; Duran's a robot. :)

>The ceremony was lovely, and I know you guys had to wrangle a million
>and one cast members for this one... but, no Clef? Not involved in the
>ceremony at all, not even mentioned at all in the movement?
>
>Although I do get that he might not be physically present. Sort of a
>'You never have the President and the entire Cabinet all in the same
>place at the same time thing' maybe; he's off guarding the doors to
>make sure that anything that thinks the wedding is a GREAT time to
>pull some shit is disabused of that notion.

Yeah, that's good. Go with that.

Also, he's afraid of Toph Beifong. Soon as he heard she was coming? Straight up the tower.

>You know, I'm not real sure that Korra should be taking semi-secret
>society managing advice from the woman who founded the Dai Li. It's
>not a line on Kyoshi's resume that inspires confidence. Although the
>Dai Li WERE good at what they did.

On the contrary, I suspect the way the Dai Li turned out is precisely why Kyoshi wanted to be the one to Have A Word With the leaders of the White Lotus.

>A little surprised there were no dudes on it (you'd think someone
>would put money on that, even at long odds).

There might've been, and Kaname just didn't mention it. She didn't say anything like the full list out loud.

>(I do suspect they may encounter a nasty surprise or two inside the
>gift pile; Akio in particular seems like he'd do some sort of overly
>dramatic dick move like send Utena a single heartbreakingly exquisite
>red rose with a card that says "Thinking of You" on it. But that's
>post-wedding.)

There isn't really a gift pile, as such. I mean, they're grown-up people who already have all the kitchen stuff they need; the traditional reasons for wedding gifts don't really apply, and they would've felt strange expecting stuff just for stuff's sake anyway. There were a few very personal items we'll get to later on, but no general Swag Table.

I thought I mentioned that someplace in the story, but I might've just thought about it. Stuff gets dropped...

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