Public Notice of Awesomeness

[sabotabby]

Public Notice of Awesomeness to rohmie again. What can I say? He's just that awesome. And Tony Kushner is as well. ;)

Speaking of theatre, does anyone want to see Antigone: Insurgency with me? Because it will either be a fine mess or the coolest thing ever. Before I decided not to have kids, I always figured I'd name my daughter Antigone because that was my favourite play for a really long time.

In other news, I went to this tonight, which was amazing. It's always nice to go to a friend's art opening, but even better when the opening goes really well and everyone walks out of it saying, "wow, that rocked."

P.S. Do not go reading the Best of Craigslist without a copy of my Evolutionary Psychology Bingo Card. Otherwise, you will never want to date men again. Or be friends with them, for that matter. Present company excluded, of course.

Comments

[roter-terror.livejournal.com]

I love the bingo card's free space. So true.

[sabotabby]

I think it's almost the same as the one I made for Libertarian Bingo.

So often, bad politics erupt directly from sexual repression.

[ghostwes.livejournal.com]

My mother took me to see Oedipus Rex at Stratford for my birthday.

...which is kind of weird, in retrospect.

In any case. I don't think I would name my kid Oedipus, for obvious reasons.

[sabotabby]

There are so many reasons why you shouldn't name your kid Oedipus, beyond the most obvious one.

How was it, anyway? I'm frequently wary of seeing anything at Stratford.

[ghostwes.livejournal.com]

I quite like Stratford, actually... nice little town.

It was very well done. One thing that was neat about the production was that they added the satyr play. It was... interesting, I guess, but I can see why they went out of fashion. Makes Lysistrata look puritanical, heh.

I was a classics major in university, and the Greek plays were always one of my favourite things to study. I should go and re-read some of them again.

[fidget]

Antigone is an awesome name. But here's an even better story that will ruin the name forever:

When I was in 11th-grade history, Mr. DePascal showed us this video about Socrates that looked like it took about $25 to make in 1982. I won't even get into physical descriptions of the protagonist or the sets.

Rather, Socrates had followers, his favourite being a helmet-haired lad who appeared to be an extra from a Flock of Seagulls video (in a toga, mind you). The guy's name, which Socrates was so fond of saying?

Antigone. As in "Anti-Gone".

It took me a few minutes, I admit. Anti-Gone? What kind of name is that? It sounds like a bug spray. Anti----Gone. Wait! Anti-Gone...Holy crap, do they mean Antigone? They do! Those idiots are pronouncing it all wrong! Not to mention Antigone is a girls' name! Oh my good cracked-out lord, simply what the fuck is going on here? Why am I watching this when they can't even get 'Antigone' right?

So, I threw the television out the window, looted a vending machine, and went home. Well, not really on that last part. But that whole Antigone thing is very true.

[sabotabby]

Uh, what? Yeah, when I would bring up my cunning child-naming scheme, I was reminded by friends to think of the poor kid in school when they call attendance.*

* Though really, that shouldn't stop anyone from naming their kids interesting things. I have a very common name and people still can't pronounce it, and I manage to learn to pronounce less-common-to-honky-Canada names all the time.

[princessrugger.livejournal.com]

people mispronounce my first name all the time. figure that one out.

[ghostwes.livejournal.com]

"Rather, Socrates had followers, his favourite being a helmet-haired lad who appeared to be an extra from a Flock of Seagulls video (in a toga, mind you).

Antigone. As in "Anti-Gone".

I believe his full name was Anti-gone-I'm-gone-so-far-away

[fidget]

That sounds like it should be a Smiths lyric.

[ghostwes.livejournal.com]

...or Flock of Seagulls.

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

Hey, I was an undergraduate who managed not to get laid, despite the best efforts of several women. But I didn't think that entitled me to anything.

[sabotabby]

That's because you're cool and a feminist and all that.

[finding-rowan.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna have to print out the bingo card and break it out when I'm around **cough** "well-meaning" guys who claim that their viewpoints are rooted in science.

[sabotabby]

Do you meet a lot of those?

[apperception.livejournal.com]

For me, it's a toss-up between naming her Antigone or Xanthippe.

[sabotabby]

Oooh, that's a good one too.

I should probably just stick to getting cats.

[apperception.livejournal.com]

Cats will never curse they day they were born because they have some screwed up name like "Xanthippe".

[sabotabby]

Marinetti copes admirably. Then again, his name before I adopted him was "Socks."

[fun-drive.livejournal.com]

Although it doesn't sound appealing at all, I'd still see it just because it has the word, "insurgency", in it.

[sabotabby]

It's not the first time that Antigone has been re-written to reflect the current political situation. Anouilh did it fabulously in 1942.

[maeve66.livejournal.com]

I was absolutely passionate about Antigone in high school too! And loved the name. I would totally think about that for a name. Or Xanthippe. I fully believe in weird, difficult names for girls. My own real name certainly counts. For some reason I believe in Biblical names for boys, even atheist boys. Daniel, David, Jeremiah, Japheth, Simon, Benjamin, Samuel, Matthew -- and Mark, Luke, and John, I guess, though I'd never name some hapless boy either of the last two.

[sabotabby]

I never settled on a boy name that I liked, oddly enough. I'd sort of feel weird not naming a boy after my late grandfather, but I don't particularly like the name.

[lopukhov.livejournal.com]

x-posted@PAB:
Dear sabotabby, pls make one for evolutionary genetics too.

<3,
lopukhov

[sabotabby]

Ewww. I love that Social Darwinism is making a comeback.