is there anywhere I can find old print issues of LPTJ?

[John]

conor with two n's is an abomination - the word is a Latin verb, deponent though I don't remember which conjugation, it means "I try"

with two n's it means "I don't know how to spell conor," no disrespect to any two-n conors in the house

[Andrew_TSKS]

That's not true. With 2 n's it's a Gaelic name, is all.

[alex]

I'm sure hannah will be along shortly with authoritative truth, but meanwhile I'll say that I'm quite certain that the name is of Gaelic origin in either spelling.

[Ignatius]

Yeah jesus I better call up the O'Connors and let em know how to spell their name.

edit xpost with alex

[donblood]

None of this changes the fact that Bright Eyes is twee and precious and awful.

[Ignatius]

twee?

[Thermofusion]

thread is going places

[donblood]

Not twee in the strictest musical sense, seeing as the usage of the word has gone far beyond that.

[Ignatius]

Fair enough. I don't keep up with him, but I was under the impression that he hasn't been recording that angsty, indulgently adolescent stuff for a while. Since he was 20 or so, I guess.

[Andrew_TSKS]

I mean, that really depends. Sure, it doesn't sound like "Fevers And Mirrors" anymore, but it's an open question as to whether anyone thinks it's any less angsty or self-indulgent.

[coldforge]

Connor and Conor are the same—Irish—name, the former simply being a normal and expected Anglicization of the latter. The single-N version is therefore earlier but John's argument is quite remarkable in its wrongheadedness.

[elpollodiablo]

However the fuck you spell his name he needs to leave Gillian Welch alone

[Greg Nog]

I con
You con
He/she cons

[andronicus]

However the fuck you spell his name he needs to leave Gillian Welch alone

WHAT DID HE DO?

[Thermofusion]

you'll find it on Smoking Gun if you dig around enough

[John]

I stand corrected, damn I hate that, I thought I was a clever h.s. latin student when we were conjugating "conor" way back when

[Greg Nog]

Oh man, I had no idea it was a corruption of Conchobor.  I'm reading the Táin Bo Cuailnge now, and was just wondering the other day why there aren't any modern-day folk named after the guy.