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Jun. 26th, 2009 07:51 amI just wanted to say that "vavasoress" is one of my new favourite aristocratic titles. A "vavasoress" is a woman's title, a rank below baroness, but it sounds like a carnivorous dinosaur.
It hasn't quite passed up "voivod" for me -- the title we translate as "count" for Dracula and "governor" for the head of a polish province. But it's better than "margrave" -- lord of a "march," where Christendom borders on pagan lands.
Otherwise, news of dead celebrities has pushed out news of nameless people in Iran dying for a democratic principle we can't even be bothered to support through voting in significant numbers. It's pushed it out even on CBC, which is supposed to be above that sort of thing. I'd rather hear about Iran.
Not that I bear Jackson any ill will. Didn't like his music much, but I always kind of felt sorry for him. I trust juries more than I trust trial by media -- where the verdict is always guilty, even if you're innocent -- so I rather felt he got a raw deal. He was just another emotionally mangled individual who had the misfortune of being in the world's eye, where his every neurosis was played out on the pages of newspapers.
I never post about celebrities. Star systems only interest me when they come with planets. It is a little strange when to think that one of the two people who supplied the soundtrack to my generation's childhood has died, though. The King of Pop is dead, leaving Queen of Pop Madonna undisputed ruler of the divided kingdom.
(Her tragedy was that she got boring. His tragedy was that he never did.)
Now the question remains, though, who's the Voivod of Pop? Or the Vavasoress? Who's the Margrave of Pop, brooding over the border he must protect, where Popdom joins the enemy country of the pagan hordes...?
It hasn't quite passed up "voivod" for me -- the title we translate as "count" for Dracula and "governor" for the head of a polish province. But it's better than "margrave" -- lord of a "march," where Christendom borders on pagan lands.
Otherwise, news of dead celebrities has pushed out news of nameless people in Iran dying for a democratic principle we can't even be bothered to support through voting in significant numbers. It's pushed it out even on CBC, which is supposed to be above that sort of thing. I'd rather hear about Iran.
Not that I bear Jackson any ill will. Didn't like his music much, but I always kind of felt sorry for him. I trust juries more than I trust trial by media -- where the verdict is always guilty, even if you're innocent -- so I rather felt he got a raw deal. He was just another emotionally mangled individual who had the misfortune of being in the world's eye, where his every neurosis was played out on the pages of newspapers.
I never post about celebrities. Star systems only interest me when they come with planets. It is a little strange when to think that one of the two people who supplied the soundtrack to my generation's childhood has died, though. The King of Pop is dead, leaving Queen of Pop Madonna undisputed ruler of the divided kingdom.
(Her tragedy was that she got boring. His tragedy was that he never did.)
Now the question remains, though, who's the Voivod of Pop? Or the Vavasoress? Who's the Margrave of Pop, brooding over the border he must protect, where Popdom joins the enemy country of the pagan hordes...?
