Antipseudoaesthetics in action

[ingwall]

It does take guts to call a pub in the middle of Greenwich Village "Joe's pub".

Also, on the East Side a Japanese restaurant called... ... "FISH SUSHI". But that, of course, is something from the department of redundancy department.

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[khatul.livejournal.com]

Contrariwise, bro! There actually are non-piscatorial sushi in existence; if you ever (and dare you not!) visit us, I hope and pray I can serve you the sushi M. makes; some of them are completely fishless (to wit, tamago-yaki sushi made from, as the name suggests, fried egg Japanese style, and much more...)

PS: as an observant Jew I exclude, of course, any mention of seafood - which is no fish by any means, though it's traditionally sushi-forming - in this posting (except for this particular sentence).

I stand corrected

[ingwall.livejournal.com]

(BTW, "dare you not" в качестве "попробуй только не", doesn't quite cut it, or, should I say, не совсем катит. Surely you meant "I dare you not to", not "and don't you dare") :)))

Another thought on a related note. Why is English so much better suited for snide comments and certain kinds of занудство, as it were, than Russian? Yesterday I watched both Russian and American versions of Wilde's "An Ideal Husband", and found that all those wonderful Wildecisms (now, is that a word?) become positively lackluster in the translation.

And also, Happy New Year to thee, brother!

Stupid question

[mirichka.livejournal.com]

actually even two
1) What's wrong with the Joe's pub?
2) I heard that you want to meet with Dimka on wednesday. Can I join you? I can go to another room to discuss stuff with antaran while you'd be busy creating a character =)

My child! There are no stupid questions -

[ingwall.livejournal.com]

- there are stupid people.

But the thing is - my meeting with Dimka will happen either at our place or on the 86th street, depending on how antaran is feeling. You're welcome to join us at either location, provided that I expect you to come up with a short quenta by that time.

[mirichka.livejournal.com]

O'k, deal =)
.... But you never said what was wrong with Joe's pub =)

You see, Greenwich Village...

[ingwall.livejournal.com]

...is an urban area only surpassed in pretentiousness by Montmartre, or possibly Cambridge. Whereas "Joe's Pub" sounds very much like the name of the one and only pub in Elephant Shit, Iowa.