I would just like to definitively state that I am in favor of verbal neologisms - Googling, IM-ing, etc. They are all awesome. Without verbing, we have to use those smarmy and insinuating 'helper verbs' far too often, and our sentences are long and tedious. I like instant semantic gratification, pow-snap! I realize that by doing so, I am going ( Read more... )

I'm at South Station, waiting for the Acela to come and take me away. Driving here this morning was pretty damned crazy; the conditions were more or less terrible in both Vermont and NH, though everything was fine in Mass. I got to drive back to the rental car place on memory alone, which was fun. Driving in Boston is fun. It feels like you're one ( Read more... )

Last night it rained, then froze into a thick layer of ice, then snowed. So today I drove to work at about 16 miles per hour. People were fishtailing like all get out. Damn. Also, my car rental place didn't include an ice-scraper, so I used a combination of the car's defrost system, my jacket sleeve, and my knuckles, yee haw. It took like 45 ( Read more... )

I saw B&P with Jenwa and Jessie last night. IT WAS EVERYTHING I HAD EVER HOPED FOR AND MORE. I encourage all of you to see it! There were a lot of cuts of second sisters and beloved Aunts and minor subplots, but generally it very much preserved the original gist of the story. Jenwa, I noticed, was quite dazed afterward, and sensibly pointed out ( Read more... )

One of the reasons I love Eminem's "Till I Collapse", which has a sort of plain rhythm and isn't immediately appealing, exactly, is the way he answers questions that no one asked. Namely: "that's why you see me walk around like nothin's botherin me," and "that's why I'm clever when I put together every verse." Of course, these are exactly the kinds ( Read more... )

Today's Qwantz is pretty hilarious.

This morning, I gave Peter a frilly heart I fashioned from tissue paper and curly ribbons. Inside: a lump of coal. Or rather, a hunk of chocolate-covered peanuts. For Peter is, sadly, a Valentine's curmudgeon. Lucky for him he's also squishy and adorable.

In other news, I watched X this weekend, and I'm ( Read more... )

No, Jason! There was nothing "prehistoric". That word was created to brainwash us.

Oh man, I'm in real trouble ... thanks Adam!

To keep from getting too out of control, I decided to place some wilder tangents from my last entry into a new one:

• ( Iliad = Anime? )

( books I mention in this book-length babble: )

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