Insanity

Sometimes I wonder if I'm going insane. Other times--the times that really bother me--I wonder how insane you'd have to be for anyone to notice.

Keller Mulroy, It's Night Time in Minot, ND

New York

Finally, it is worth noting that despite common references to "a Bronx accent," or "a Brooklyn accent," no published study has found any feature that varies internally beyond local names. Impressions that the dialect varies geographically may be a byproduct of class …

I will tell you this: pizzicato violins will get a man every time.

Who knew, dear friends,

that one head

could hold so much phlegm?

Divers

this has also been posted on the Booze Council Blotto

The intelligent man is always thirsty. He stretches his gaze ever outward; he is never satisfied with his body of experience, but instead pushes his horizons as far as resources will allow. He raises himself above …

Great Moments in Movie

In the beginning minutes of the BBC Films movie, Conspiracy, there is a quick couple of shots of a hand calligraphing name cards, for a table setting, in fraktur. Honestly? I got choked up for a moment.

A Planned

This is just to say:

I will be in Italy, the resort town of Cortona, to be precise, from July 11 to July 22. My cell phone will not be joining me, though I might have email access.

Heady

The news rushes about us, a mighty torrent. We cling to the tiny rocks of our understanding.

We all live within Time, and Time is a series of concentric circles nestled within each other, each its own size, wheels with gears in the gears of greater

The Smashing Pumpkins have a new song, and somehow it seems pretty good. Somewhere, across this city, what is going through the mind of Hunter Hunt-Hendrix? And what is the weight of our bodies, and what are the sizes of the dents they make as they move through space?

Just Like

So this weekend one of my little mini-projects was transferring my iTunes library from my old external hard drive to my new one (750GB!)1 When all that was through, I finally had the space to import the 5- or 6-and-a-half GB of music that had been steadily accumulating …

We were all thinking it, but he said

Omphaloskeptic? Please! Who even knows what that means (without looking it up)? It's certainly not listed in dictionary.com. I Googled it just to satisfy my curiosity, and by the way, it's practically meaningless in the context he chose to use it in. Now here's a …

GND

What's the deal with all these fucking 'Productivity' blogs? How have we come up with an entire caste of productivity gurus, each with their own foolproof 13 step 'how to get things done' system? Who, more to the point, would possibly put their faith in some idiot on …

THIS JUST

LET ALL BE ADVISED that on Wednesday, The 9th Day of May in the 2007th Year of Our Lord, I, your humble correspondent, will be broadcast over the airwaves by means of aetheric network radio transmission.

I've got a podcast, like. Internet radio show. It's part of DJ …

See, what it comes down to is, I really wish I could VNC to my desk.

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 …

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 …

Get

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 …

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.

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