From ***Dave and Kate, a writing exercise. The weird thing about this one is–I hate it. What [sensory experience/concept] is [typically unrelated item]? Fill in the blanks for a cheap poem…this was the kind of thing they made us do in college instead of teaching us about, um, anything useful, and they bug me now. […]
I hit my first happy metaphor today. The main character has just come back from the Army Nurse Corp after WWII. She’s looking for a job: The next stop was the University’s General Hospital, spreading like a castle or an old English manor house across the frozen landscape. Steam rose from a pair of barely-visible
Or just one. My sister-in-law, Erica, won a hundred bucks for her last-minute costume. Oh, God. It’s worse than the guy with red-colored Fruit Loop boxes all over his shirt: the Cereal Killer.
I was bugging people at work asking them, “What does falute mean?” After about, oh, five hours, this was the result: Pronunciation: hai-fê-lut-ên * Hear it!Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: (Regional slang) 1. Highly pompous, bombastic (speech). 2. Showing off, ostentatious, pretending to be above one’s station in life, putting on airs. Notes: The amazing
“Ninja Parade Slips through Town Unnoticed Once Again“ (via The Onion) Update: I fixed the link. Let’s see how long it takes before the ninjas change it again…
…a documentary about Ben Underwood, a boy who had his eyes removed (cancer) at age two. He is the only person in the world ever really to have used echolocation to replace eyesight. That we know of. Because Daredevil, you know, wasn’t a real guy.
It sounds like researchers have found a way to negate the effects of HIV in human beings. Not a vaccine, not a cure — but a way of eradicating the symptoms. Hope? (via Neatorama)
Phantom Limb. This is one of those songs you listen to and go, “I should find out who sings that.” Sometimes this feeling comes about when the song is really good or you can’t get it out of your head. Sometimes it’s because it has interesting lyrics but you can’t really catch all of them.
nosism (NO-siz-em) noun The use of ‘we’ in referring to oneself. [From Latin nos (we).] As it’s often used by editors, it’s also known as the “editorial we”.It’s also called “the royal we” owing to its frequent use by royalty.Mark Twain once said, “Only kings, presidents, editors, and peoplewith tapeworms have the right to use
