andy's definitions

poststructuralism

A clearer collective term for many of the texts and trends often subsumed under the misleading label postmodernism. Poststructuralism means theories which arise after the structuralist period in continental philosophy, which draw on structuralism but do not accept all of its ideas. Poststructuralists believe in the importance of discourse for understanding social life and question the idea of the self-determining individual, but they do not believe that people's actions can be entirely reduced to an external structure. Often, they study the ways in which structures can be subverted and broken down through their own limits or through ironic reinterpretation or reconfiguration of the structure itself. See power/knowledge, writerly, differance, line of flight.

Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida, Lyotard and Baudrillard are the best-known poststructuralists.

by Andy May 7, 2004

zlanbeast

a large monster from the Darklands, similar to a Kraan but bigger. The largest, Imperial Zlanbeast, are ridden by the Darklords themselves. Strangely, you can play all the Lone Wolf gamebooks and never actually get to fight one.

You see a zlanbeast from a distance.

As you battle on the bridge, a zlanbeast flies by overhead.

The zlanbeast flies away as the tower collapses.

You are in combat with a zlanbeast. (INCORRECT USE)

by Andy April 17, 2004

jakhsa

In World of Lone Wolf 3: Beyond the Nightmare Gate, a jakhsa is an evil spirit which can adopt the physical appearance of its victim. It tries to kill its target, but with a twist: killing the jakhsa kills its victim, and vice-versa.

The jakhsa follows Grey Star under the command of Shasarak.

by Andy May 9, 2004

small booty

a girl with an extremely small glutious maximus

damn, stephanie got a small booty

by andy November 17, 2003

congress

The opposite of Progress

If Pro and Con are opposite, does that mean Progress is the opposite of Congress?

by Andy May 6, 2004

velma

Verb- To search for your glasses on hands and knees.

1) Jinkeys Scoob! They've got to be here somewhere!
2) My kid walked off with my glasses this morning- I had to Velma for 10 minutes before I found them.

by Andy September 14, 2004

tailfeather

a ghetto word refuring to the posterior.

see also booty, ass, jelly

damn shorty, shake dat tailfeather!

by Andy July 8, 2003