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CULINARY GUILT: Chocolate. As with most of the population. How can you resist chocolate? Or, in another understanding of the phrase "culinary guilt": I always feel slightly guilty about the fact I can't cook when most of my cousins and friends can...
LITERARY GUILT: Still haven't read Tolstoi. Neither War and Peace nor Anna Karenina nor the Kreutzer Sonata, all three of which I really want to read. Damm it. Also, if you mean guilty pleasures: the Star of the Guardians novels by Margaret Weis. Which is a shameless/clever/use word of choice thing using the basic Star Wars: A New Hope set-up (young hero, mentor gets killed, quippy mercenary, Dark Lord who used to be one of the good guys before he turned, noble lady imprisoned) and spins it in a different direction, making the dark lord and the lady of an age and giving them an intense love/hate relationship, and has Weis' usual religious hang-up and very questionable politics (instead of an Evil Empire, we have an Evil Atheistic Republic where previously there used to be a Not Ideal But God-fearing Monarchy, and our young hero is the destined king and brings back the monarchy, don't you know). Also, she sucks at translating Latin. ("...et cum spirito tuo" doesn't mean "and may his spirit be with you" but "and may (the lord) be with your spirit", woman! After Vatican II gave us mass in our native languages, you have no excuse for not knowing that, if you're using part of a formula that belongs to the responses of the community during Catholic mass) And? I still love those books and cry my heart out over Derek Sagan (that would be the Vader equivalent) and the Lady Maigrey (that would be Leia, if Leia weren't his daughter but his age and if he had this telepathic bond with her and they had betrayed and rescued each other a couple of times and...) every time.
A/V GUILT: Currently? I'm trying to get into The Prisoner and it just doesn't work. I expected to fall for it, given that I like my British tv classics and my surrealism, and several people whose judgment I very much respect are fans, but after three episodes, I'm still just going "well, so?" and "neat use of Portmairion".
MUSICAL GUILT: I have been known to visit Andrew Llyod Webber musicals repeatedly. And to buy the cds for same. And not just the three classics he made with Tim Rice, so...
CELEBRITY GUILT: Here I have to stretch, but... after watching The Queen, I thought: if these were fictional characters instead of real ones, I would so 'ship Elizabeth II/Tony Blair...
LITERARY GUILT: Still haven't read Tolstoi. Neither War and Peace nor Anna Karenina nor the Kreutzer Sonata, all three of which I really want to read. Damm it. Also, if you mean guilty pleasures: the Star of the Guardians novels by Margaret Weis. Which is a shameless/clever/use word of choice thing using the basic Star Wars: A New Hope set-up (young hero, mentor gets killed, quippy mercenary, Dark Lord who used to be one of the good guys before he turned, noble lady imprisoned) and spins it in a different direction, making the dark lord and the lady of an age and giving them an intense love/hate relationship, and has Weis' usual religious hang-up and very questionable politics (instead of an Evil Empire, we have an Evil Atheistic Republic where previously there used to be a Not Ideal But God-fearing Monarchy, and our young hero is the destined king and brings back the monarchy, don't you know). Also, she sucks at translating Latin. ("...et cum spirito tuo" doesn't mean "and may his spirit be with you" but "and may (the lord) be with your spirit", woman! After Vatican II gave us mass in our native languages, you have no excuse for not knowing that, if you're using part of a formula that belongs to the responses of the community during Catholic mass) And? I still love those books and cry my heart out over Derek Sagan (that would be the Vader equivalent) and the Lady Maigrey (that would be Leia, if Leia weren't his daughter but his age and if he had this telepathic bond with her and they had betrayed and rescued each other a couple of times and...) every time.
A/V GUILT: Currently? I'm trying to get into The Prisoner and it just doesn't work. I expected to fall for it, given that I like my British tv classics and my surrealism, and several people whose judgment I very much respect are fans, but after three episodes, I'm still just going "well, so?" and "neat use of Portmairion".
MUSICAL GUILT: I have been known to visit Andrew Llyod Webber musicals repeatedly. And to buy the cds for same. And not just the three classics he made with Tim Rice, so...
CELEBRITY GUILT: Here I have to stretch, but... after watching The Queen, I thought: if these were fictional characters instead of real ones, I would so 'ship Elizabeth II/Tony Blair...
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