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Showing posts with label curb your enthusiasm. Show all posts
29 Feb 2024

The Funniest and Sweetest Person: In Memory of Richard Lewis (1947-2024)

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Curbing their enthusiasm: Richard Lewis and Larry David (Photo credit: HBO)     I.    Some people think Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were th...
27 Feb 2024

Notes on Socrates and the Ethics of Sobriety (A 6/20 Paper by Maria Thanassa)

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Curbing their enthusiasm: Socrates, Maria Thanassa & Larry David       I.    According to Maria Thanassa [1] , notions of sobriety and ...
17 Dec 2023

On Curbing One's Enthusiasm for Kafka's Drawings

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  " One of these days I’ll send you a few of my old drawings, to give you something to laugh at.  These drawings gave me greater satisf...
14 Aug 2023

On the Daughters of God

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Portrait of Tammi of Nazareth the onion.com   "And I sayeth unto thee: Look upon mine eyes, which rest within mine head;  not upon mine...
26 Nov 2022

Name That Tune

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Tom O'Connor and his two lovely assistants host another edition of  Name That Tune (Thames Television, 1976-1988)     Question 1: Can y...
8 Oct 2021

You Know We're Living in a Society

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George Costanza: defender of society and civilisation - 'The Chinese Restaurant', Seinfeld , S02/E11, (1991): click here .     In th...
19 Apr 2019

Easter with the Anti-Christ: (2019 Version)

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Eric Idle and Graham Chapman in The Life of Brian  (1979) I. Although Voltaire advised that we crush the Church and its vile supe...
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13 Feb 2019

In Praise of the Fatwa Boys 2: Larry David's Finest Hour

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The Fatwa Boys: Salman Rushdie and Larry David  in a scene from Curb Your Enthusiasm [S9/E3] In the long-awaited ninth season ...
9 Feb 2019

On Learning to Laugh at Everything with Larry David, Georges Bataille and D. H. Lawrence

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Credit: durantelallera/Shutterstock I. Everything's Funny As I said in a recent post, one of the things that the phrase torpe...
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30 Oct 2018

On D. H. Lawrence's Fascination with Male Legs

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Robyn H. Fitzpatrick: Male Legs   robynart.com   As David Ellis reminds us in a recent blog post, Lawrence was a great admirer o...
6 Sept 2018

On the Mythology of Wood (with Reference to the Case of Larry David)

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Tile coaster by cafepress.co.uk   I. According to Wikipedia: "Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the st...
6 Apr 2018

Islamism: What Would Nietzsche Do?

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I. If Islam Despises Christianity, It Has a Thousandfold Right to Do So Whilst it's true that Nietzsche does praise Islami...
14 Nov 2017

Torpedo the Ark Means: Everything's Funny (5th Anniversary Reflections on the Death of a Parakeet)

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Sorry about your bird ... The phrase torpedo the ark - borrowed from Ibsen - is polysemic. That is to say, it has multiple me...
26 Oct 2017

Shit Bow: Larry David and Roland Barthes on the Art of Japanese Etiquette

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Larry David and a Japanese restaurant manager  discuss  bow techniques  in Curb Your Enthusiasm  [S8/E7] When is a bow not...