Comments on: Fop? moi?

Fop? moi?

amberglow — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 21:15:17 -0800

Lord Whimsy--Mammal of Paradise --Essays, Charts, Trifles, and News. A COMPENDIUM of DEEDS and THOUGHTS never before seen in this, our Benighted Age; the BRILLIANCE of which cannot last long in our WORLD of MUD and TEARS.

By: tss

tss — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 22:01:40 -0800

Wow. I was just thinking how much the style of this site reminded me of the thorough tongue-in-cheek old-schoolery of the Philadelphia Independent. And lo, I was right. I, uh, was in the same philosophy class once as one of the PI's founders. So there.

By: tss

tss — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 22:06:33 -0800

Hmm. The fact that Lord Whimsy's columns appear in each Independent makes my gut intuition seem a little less probing now, I suppose. I guess that shows (1) how much I read the PI (2) how closely I read the LW website.

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 07:08:23 -0800

: both great design and writing, and good advice as well. Heed the fop.

By: poopy

poopy — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 07:21:52 -0800

living dead girl

By: kenko

kenko — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 08:16:16 -0800

[this is good]. Right down to "den of ubiquity", which really nails the modern condition: wherever you go, that's where everyone else is, too, yammering on a cell phone. Certain denizens of alt.religion.kibology used to label me a fop.

By: sciurus

sciurus — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:12:16 -0800

I can only dream of reaching such heights of rarified dandyism. By my troth, I regret that my lot is relegated to that of the impious boor and rascal. I dig.

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:26:12 -0800

Cool! I just re-subscribed this very day to the Independent, and I encourage everyone who happens across this thread to do the same, preferably by arranging to receive, via the postal service, the printed-on-paper, too-big-for-the-subway version of this periodical. It is inarguably the second-best newspaper in Philadelphia.