BANNER FEB2010

On That Super Airplane Review Again

by Brian on February 25, 2009

in Authors,Books,Education,NBA,PTSA Reviews,Super Airplane

(BOSers – I think you’re fooling yourself if you think Marblebury is gonna be good for the Celts.

Not only can he not play subordinate and never been a winner, but he hasn’t played at all in like forever, and this is gonna give him flashbacks to the Timberwolves years, when he couldn’t handle The Shadow of Garnett.

Suddenly everyone has forgotten he’s insane just because of some bus stop funnery.)

So here’s a list of everything I didn’t understand in that excellent Prelude to a Super Airplane review.

I’ve refrained from looking any of it up until I did this, so included in parentheses are what I currently think these things are/mean/etc.

Susan Sontag (Actress)
Jean-Luc Godard (Star Trek guy)
Neal Pollack (director)
erudite (“of listlessness”)
Swift, Flaubert, Joyce, Pynchon (a random family)
Diderot (a building in France, and it’s on a beach, where it seems out of place)
Jacques the Fatalist and His Master (book)
Martin Amis (poet)
London Fields (duh it’s a field in the LON lol)
George Saunders (Army general)
insufferable (annoying)
Tao Lin (Chinese Army general)
in media res (“excessive usage of the color blue”)
hiccoughs (snooty version of hiccups)
didactic (angular)
penchant (like a magic bracelet for girls)
Javier Marias (poet/director)
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me (poem about the Army)
ubiquitous (random)
elongated gerunds (like a super hero who can stretch his gerunds has these)
saccharine (tasty in a bad way)
magisterial (like a king in the Army)

I still really don’t feel like looking them up, but if you wanted to point out where I may be off-track, feel free.

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  • dave
    of course, alana. i've had a crush on you since your fanhouse days. you are fetching.

    but i should warn you that i'm a boston fan and people usually hate us.
  • dave
    i guess we'll see, bob. i personally don't think he's going to be that disruptive because he'll be playing such a minimal role on the team. if he's that much of a monster that he can poison the locker room in a matter of weeks then i would hope they would just cut the bastard.

    plus we should all hope he does well so he can end up baron davis-ing it for the warriors or clippers for the next 5 years.
  • I still wish Isiah had found a way to trade for Baron back then - we could've had a line-up of Baron Davis, Stephon Marbury, Steve Francis, Jalen Rose, and Eddy Curry.
  • Why must you taunt me with such unimaginably tantalizing lineups. We'd suck (who'd guard anyone...oh, wait, no one does now...), but it'd be a great show.
  • dave
    i can personally attest to that
  • Dave, Boney is being mean to me!! Will you go out with me?
  • wtf???
  • WHATEVER AZZHOLE I STARTED READING YOUR SO-CALLED "BOOK" LAST NIGHT AND I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN BONEY-ING SOME OTHER CHICK JULIE!!!!
  • I writed a book?
  • I have a penchant for elongating guys' gerunds.
  • easy now Alana G... this is a family blog
  • says he with the PG-13 screenname.
  • my "name" doesn't have an "r" on the end, so how is it PG-13?

    I believe your mind is still in the gutter Alana G.
  • :(
  • dave
    yea their "team" approach is crumbling...to the tune of a 46-12 record. they should really try a different approach before they sink to the bottom of the standings.

    i predict crazybury will do just fine with the c's and then, yes, some sucker will sign him to a 5-year deal next year and we can all enjoy that.
  • They were being crowned champions back in December, and then they stopped playing team D and they've come back to earth a bit. I'm not saying they're bad by any stretch - but whatever they had going at the end of last year and the beginning of this year is missing in some regard. Maybe it's fatigue, who knows.

    And look, the guy is not just a grouch, he's insane. INSANE. I live in NY and love the Knicks, and he's been absolutely selfish and disastrous. I admire Boston's optimism, but they're making a big mistake.
  • joe
    duh, everyone knows that Javier Marias is that guy from "no country for old men" with the cool gun thing.
  • dave
    marblebury will be fine. he just needs to come off the bench and hit a few jumpers once in a while, then disappear. he'll behave because he only has like two months to pretend he's a good teammate so he can get paid next year.
  • I don't watch the Cs because, well, because I hate everyone on the team, but it's my subjective opinion that their vaunted "team" approach is crumbling, and I don't see Marbury helping with that. Of course, I'm a Knicks fan so I'm prejudiced.
  • I agree it makes sense but I don't think he has the capability to see that. I hope I'm wrong, because it would be awesome to see Golden State give him a 5-year deal.
  • Other foods I've never had - honey and blue cheese.
  • Also, yeah, have fun with Starbury Celts fans. The cancer is going to kill your team slowly but steadily for a while, and then one day it'll go from mild, manageable illness to full-blown attack of the immune system.
  • Ha ha ha ha ha ha...

    You've got three right: hiccoughs are indeed snooty hiccups; insufferable is pretty much the same as annoying, but maybe uber annoying would be better; and Jacques the Fatalist and His Master is a book.

    And half correct for Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me: it's a book title taken from a Shakespeare play, and those lines are both written in verse form AND about an army battle.
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