Flippant Friday: Ask sabotabby

[sabotabby]

Really. Ask me anything*. I'll answer it, in a manner of speaking.

Does anyone know, speaking of flippancy, where I can find the equivalent of this for the year ahead? I heard the new colours suck and I'm just dying to know! (Actually, it's for work, but I am curious and the Color Association makes you pay for it.)

* But if it broaches certain topics, I'll lock the post.

Comments

[lovableatheist.livejournal.com]

I see that your friends page shares the same title as a Futurist manifesto. What is it about the futurists that you like so much?

Also, (am I limited to one question?), what's your greatest guilty pleasure?

[sabotabby]

1. I should point out that it's a Russian Constructivist manifesto; while they were arguably part of the broader Futurist movement, they're a world away from Marinetti et al.

In the case of Mayakovsky and the other Russian Futurists, I admire his energy, his urge to smash artistic and literary conventions, his odd combination of fearlessness and sadness, and his political convictions. With the Italian Futurists, it's pretty much the first two (with the exception, perhaps, of Severnini and Sant'Elia, who had decent politics).

2. Porn about Roy Orbison in cling-film. I'll leave it up to you to determine whether I'm actually being serious.

[sabotabby]

Eh, that should have been Severini. I'm having a bad proofreading-my-own-comments kind of day.

[lovableatheist.livejournal.com]

1. I see. I realized where the title came from after taking a Soviet history seminar last summer. I;m not too familiar with all of those people you mentioned, but I'm sure your answer is a good one.

2. You too?

[sabotabby]

If someone wrote a story about Marinetti*, Mussolini, and hot prison sex, it might quickly supplant my Roy Orbison obsession.

Just saying.

* Not my cat.