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Get Fuzzy really is pretty great. Bucky (that's the cat) has been giving people the 'I'm Watching You' hand gesture all week.

I don't know how I feel about the fact that my interest and appreciation for serial comic strips has really ramped up in recent months, due to …

Temba, His Arms

Tenser, Said The Tensor (reference uncomprehended EDIT: see comments for reference gloss) has put up a rather thorough and thoroughly entertaining linguistic analysis of an old Star Trek: The Next Generation episode: "Darmok". This is why no one ever called linguistics …

Deadtide.com

Let it be known to all that your humble correspondent has become the newest reviewer for the metal reviews site, Deadtide.com. You all should check out the site--it's really nicely designed, the dudes there can write actual English sentences, and honestly, it deserves …

Skins

I caught the first several minutes of Skins, a new drama on UK Channel 4, before I got disgusted and had to close it. I realized pretty quickly that these people were exactly the same sort of entitled wastes that I spent the majority of my high school years wishing …

De Praescriptiva

Another Language Log post. I feel like a real parasite, but I can't help it--they just keep knocking it out of the park over there, especially with regards to one of my own deep-seated hatreds: those fucking odious, obnoxious, supercilious (and deeply trendy) wankers …

Twitter.

I have a twitter account. You may subscribe to my updates. I have nothing further to say on the matter at this time.

Roninspoon's Interview

My buddy Ed has been soliciting requests to be interviewed. Unfortunately, concomitant with the ego boost of having someone ask you to talk about yourself is the obligation to actually furnish them with a proper answer, and moreover to put it up on the internet, for all …

A Short Review of Randomly Selected Metal Band Names and Song

"War is My God", by Draugr

Rather good, I think. It makes a statement, which is a rare thing. It also employs metaphor, which shows that they're putting a little bit of effort in--unless it's actually about being a worshipper of the Greek god Ares, which is something I …

"Maigret, showing no excitement, looked at the ears of the man in green. That settled it." --Maigret and the Enigmatic Lett

The Lake

O God, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves,

Give me in due time, I beseech you, a little tobacco-shop,

With the bright little boxes

piled up neatly on the shelves

And the loose, fragrant cavendish

and the shag,

And the bright Virginia

loose under the bright glass …