I’m trying to write up a how-to on writing minor characters, but I feel like I’m just making an ass of myself. I mean, I feel like I know something, because I keep running across useless minor characters and going, “No, that’s not it,” but I’m still working out what it is that would make […]
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By Alvin and the Chipmunks, Yo! …And the Mt. Rushmore T-Shirt.
Let’s mess with him. (From Wondermark, via Lee.)
Bad cakes. Bad. My sibs decorate good cakes. But these are bad cakes. Why did I not see Cake Wrecks before? Why? Even Lee’s seen it before!
Site on errors in American-English usage. Includes many useful things, including verbage/verbiage, please RSVP, and brunt/butt.
It just doesn’t feel like it. Too big a burg? Too entirely modern, both in its shiny surfaces and its rusty ones? Not haunted enough, not like the way Minneapolis shimmers in the night like Tir na Nog’th? Dunno. Anyway, that’s where we’re going to meet the folks and pick up Ray. Update: I’m still
I have this theory that certain species of mammals have a “tribal” instinct. Like dogs, monkeys, and humans. Because an excessive amount of inbreeding is a bad idea, the markers for determining your tribe can’t be based on anything genetic — if the only people who are part of your tribe are related to you,
And lays out a new energy policy. (via Randy, who says, “Paris Hilton (watch it anyway) actually did something I like. Now I gotta keep an eye out for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.”)
