I always thought that la-la land referred to Shangri-La that fabled utopia of fiction and film, but I guess that there is a link through filmdom.
Welcome. It makes me think of la-di-da land.
Yes, how is it that this week's theme never took us to Shangri-la or [incredibly] to the grandmother of them all -- Utopia?
I was wondering the same thing myself, thanks for bringing
it to the forefront.
Welcome
Yes, how is it that this week's theme never took us to Shangri-la or [incredibly] to the grandmother of them all -- Utopia?
perhaps this is why..
from the week of May 10, 2010:
This week's words
utopia
cockaigne
shangri-la
Garden of Eden
Land of Oz-
joe (obviousizing the facticity) friday
See, we already had the old Utopias. Now that we have this dubble list would there be still some paradises we overlooked?
Luilekkerland? ( lazy-goodies-land )That was our childhood paradise.
"Finding shapes in clouds is an old endeavor. There's
even a word for it: nephelococcygia, literally cloud
cuckooland, from the Aristophanes play The Birds.
Thoreau practiced it, describing a sunset in which he
saw a "phantom city." About a hundred years later
cartoonist Charles Schulz created a Peanuts comic
strip in which Linus gazed at the clouds and spied
the outline of British Honduras, the profile of artist
Thomas Eakins, and a group of forms reminding him of
the biblical stoning of Stephen. "I was going to say
I saw a ducky and a horsie," Charlie Brown responded,
"but I changed my mind."
- Chris Dodge, Utne Reader Jan/Feb 2007