I can't really talk to anyone else about this; though it would seem some of you too have been victimized by the brutes of "girth and mirth.” You too have been terrified by their looming massiveness bursting through the walls in your vulnerable dreamspace, while your legs refuse to work at all...
Samuel Huntington famously coined the idea of the "clash of civilizations," suggesting that ethnicity and culture would be as much drivers of conflict as competing notions of organization (ideology). It takes little whimsy to see the serindipity in your forming this group. Indeed, you should be quite thankful, as I no doubt am. Yet the brief respite of illusory peace is not yet ours! You've seen the historical fulcrum that turns upon the conflict between what is bear and what is not-bear. I will not allow you to become another Cassandra, a sad Richard Clarke penning sass for cash.
When I see their leathered hairiness brutishly lording over the passive but peaceful streets of our West coast jewels, I fear for those like us who are willing to call a spade a spade, for we shall be their first prey, once their hunger-lust refuses to be sated by indigenous gay communities.
Their predation will soon exit the club and spill out onto our streets in a bloody menagerie of post-homosexual intifada. When they’ve finished off the smooth but sprightly “twinks” and the spry muscular boys, they will come for the metrosexuals, and having been sated on their sharply-dressed meat, will seek out the bi-curious and the ambiguously gay, working their way up to mega-heterosexual dudes like myself. What is the place of women in a bear-controlled society? I fear it would have scarce little to do with shopping or interpersonal advice. We need to begin a political action committee to voice this dreadful threat to all those who do not sulk beneath the yolk of a autocratic daddy-bear, regardless of his dubious “sugar-daddy” policies.
Yes, we only have two people in our group now, but both of us no doubt know dozens of people who’ve been eyed up and down like a cheeseburger, who’ve been woofed at or chased out of Pegasus to the dark cacophonic shouts of “fluffy manatee faggot.” The dreadful question that our society must answer asks whether we feel our way of life and personal hygiene is not only valuable, but worth enough to compel us to take on these carnivores, be they cub or pocket protector.
― mrbodymassagemachine (mrbodymassagemachine), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 06:51 (twenty years ago)
Examining "The Bear"Lesson Connection: What Blame to Us if the Heart Live OnCopyright The Kennedy Center. All rights reserved. ARTSEDGE materials may be reproduced for educational purposes.As you read “The Bear,” and as you begin to discuss it with the class afterwards, please use the following as suggestions to help you achieve a more sophisticated understanding of the text:1. Give attention to the age of the boy at different junctures of his experiences in the wilderness and to his age in section four and five. Note that the narrative and theme are built around the maturing of Ike McCaslin from boy into manhood and from the retrospective view of age2. Note the diversity of the main participants in the hunt: Major de Spain and General Compson; the boy, Ike McCaslin (all of the old “aristocracy); also, Sam Fathers, part Indian, part African-American; Boon Hogganbeck, the half-savage hunter; Lion, the ferocious dog; the one-eyed mule; the Old Ben, the bear. What is the relationship of each to the wilderness?3. What is Sam Fathers’ role in relation to the boy, Ike McCaslin?4. Note the statement in the second paragraph of section 2: “the wilderness the old bear ran was his (Ike McCaslin’s ) college and the old male bear itself….his alma mater” . What did Ike learn in his “college”?5. When examining the story from a symbolic point of view, Old Ben, the bear, can be perceived as a symbol of the Old South. Consider ways you think the text supports this perception. 6. Explain the “epiphany” of Ike McCaslin as he reads the ledgers that he finds in the “square, galleried, wooden building.” What decision, because of this “epiphany”, does he make about his inheritance? 7. In the last section, the account of what has happened to the ritual of the hunt and the actions of Boon can be perceived as symbolic of the antebellum South. What statement emerges about the changes the Civil War has wrought?8. Give careful attention to the graphics of each section. How and why does Faulkner alter the graphics, in various ways, in section four? What purpose do the italics serve in section five? 9. What words could be used to describe the rhythm of Faulkner’s prose? What are some of the contributing factors in building this rhythm? (In particular, note the elaborated patterns of syntax and repetition.Suggested writing topics: • “Obsession” is a key thread that is played out in diverse ways within the narrative of Faulkner’s The Bear. Build an essay in which you discuss one or more ways the concept of “obsession” shapes a segment(s) of the story. Be sure to document your analysis with specifics from the text.• Draw specific evidence from the text to develop an overview of ways Faulkner manipulates time, alters graphics, and elaborates or fragments syntax to project the psychological “reality” of the narrator.
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 17:54 (twenty years ago)
: How come this bear that is standing in the snow how come the bear is not hiberneting in the bears den.
― VIDEO STRESS (blastocyst), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 18:00 (twenty years ago)
"HI all,
I picked this Boyd Bear up at a Thrift Store, so adorable thought my daughters would like it, well, no.. they are out of that stage, But, I cant find any info on her at all, I have searched all of ebay and internet and cant find her name, Can someone help me. She measures 14 1/2 in from head to toe, *minus hat* Has a tag on her rump that says Copywrited 1988-2000 Boyds Collection LTD Gettysburg Pa 17325 USA REg no# PA1364(CN)Plaid Green Dress, hat is sewn on head, Tags says, Boyds Bears Bearwear and Gen-yoo-wine Boyds, Tj's Best Dressed..
Any help you be greatly appreciated. Heres a pic of her.
Thanks"
― VIDEO STRESS (blastocyst), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 18:03 (twenty years ago)
Is the Old Bear correspondent in the mag Signs and Portents THE Old Bear?
Thanks.
Mario.
― VIDEO STRESS (blastocyst), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 18:03 (twenty years ago)
No, more likely a poaching human.
At 01:22 PM 9/28/04 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>I just returned from a trip to Idaho in the Clearwater National forest.
>One of the guys that was with came upon what he thought was a deer shed
>but as he attempted to pick it up it was the buried head of a 5 by 5 elk.
>My question is could a black bear have done done this?
>
>thanks
> Jeff Stifter
> jeff.stifter at guidant.com
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― VIDEO STRESS (blastocyst), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 18:04 (twenty years ago)