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Not Dead Yet...
Thanks for the friendly nudge, lifeofreilly. Always good to get some external motivation to buckle down and post, since clearly I'm not exactly managing to impel myself to it ( Read more... ) -
Ba Ba Ba
八八八 is something you can hear sheep saying all the time. That's because, I assume, they're serious about prosperity and numerology. Otherwise, I would guess they'd just say 發發發.
恭喜发财, everybody! -
Uphill. Both ways. In the snow.
I try hard to cultivate within myself the flexibility of attitude towards current trends and social changes and the like that is stereotypically lacking from the more geriatrically inclined minds out there. And yet, living as I do in the city in which I grew up, after a long hiatus between adolescence and true “adultiness” mind you, I find myself ( Read more... ) -
しばらくだね！
新しいノートブックコンピュータが買ったので、何かをすぐ書かなければならないし、まだここに日本語で書くことがない。それじゃー、やっぱりこんな字が読めるしか出きないが、たぶんだれか読める。しかし、日本語の文法は全然下手だから、どちらでもいいと思う。そーして、今英語でね ( Read more... ) -
The Rigorous Art of Journalism
Among my many questionable habits is that of following the newspapers. There was a time not too long ago when people I knew would hold up names of news publications of the US such as the hallowed New York Times, as a paragon of Journalistic Integrity and So Forth. Yet, while I certainly enjoyed the works of fiction that certain authors, publishing ( Read more... ) -
Am I me?
So, here's a neat exchange I had recently over email, and I thought it would be of interest to others. And so, I share...
Stephen ( Read more... ) -
A Full Year
Organizing a wedding, getting married, honeymooning in Tahiti, traveling around Northern California, a new job, a promotion, a friend's death, a funeral, Burning Man, Pirate Encampment, etc. Not necessarily in that order ( Read more... ) -
Chicken Scratch and Monkey Noises
So, yes. It's been a while since I've written. And, coincidentally, that's exactly what I've been wanting to talk about! (the subordinate predicate (i.e. writing) not temporal qualifier ( Read more... ) -
Brilliant words
I have been mulling over, lately, all the things I want to dissertate (or expostulate) on in regards to popular ideological myths held be the broader American culture in regards to language (which, in truth, doesn't often go much beyond the mythology surrounding English). It is often commented on in academic Linguistics circles that prejudice ( Read more... ) -
What is this crazy thing called ... love?
I'd like to take this moment to acknowledge the genius of the writing of some of the cartoons of our age. The specific creations that I deeply feel everyone should be acquainted with being Futurama (taken before its time), Family Guy (risen like Lazarus from the grave) and American Dad (the ugly duckling with a shakey start that has since come into ( Read more... )