Who would've thought that last week's Torchwood would contain not one but two Christopher Isherwood references? Is he a household name in Cardiff?

This just in from the New York Times: The semicolon has become a pretentious anachronism used only by oddball MTA workers, '70s-era serial killers, and long-winded dorks like myself. The comma's next, people! We're gonna just string everything together with a whole bunch of ands!

"I believe that every time a book reviewer writes a boring sentence an archangel gets fed, headfirst, to a gorgon."

Over at Bookslut, Margaret Howie interviews NY Mag's Sam Anderson.

[on a rickety transatlantic phone call with Wolfgang, who is yet again in Italy ( Read more... )

My boss' confetti-cannon style of delegation is giving me serious ADD.

Spent 90 minutes last night painstakingly recreating Dinty Moore beef stew. Thanks, Cooking Light!

Goddammit, Scrabulous, vaxen is too a legitimate word!

My boss has correspondence with folks in Britain, so every once in a while I open up an envelope and unfold a piece of A4 paper. And then I get slightly dizzy and can't figure out why.

GalleyCat reports on Anthology Builder, a service that allows you to construct your own paperback anthology from public domain and licensed short stories. Interesting concept. Though I think GalleyCat misses the most likely potential sales driver: make a literary mix tape for that new special someone ( Read more... )

I still hold out hope that someday, somehow, the cats will learn English.