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This must be mistaken. I was told in no uncertain terms that the former president was worth $10 billion. Plus, the mountains of cash from those golden sneakers. You must be reading this wrong.
Producer’s note for Jerry Cantrell’s guitars on Man In the Box: “Honky-tonk, but make it scary.”
“The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows—a wall against the wind.”
That’s a helluva line for a science fiction novel and never seems to make it into the movies.
People using fulsome to mean complete. Keeps happening (because it is a well-established sense of the word and fine). But some people think fulsome *only* means “aesthetically, morally, or generally offensive.” And my dispassionate descriptivism fails me cuz the former use just bugs me. I’m human.
I believe fundamentally that words mean whatever a community of speakers uses them to mean, and I generally find peeving about usage annoying. But I confess that the fulsome thing bugs me.
Pearl Jam and Taylor Swift are slated to release albums on the same day. Organizing a joint daddy/daughter listening party with my kid that we’re calling the Flannel Era.
I don’t teach political science, but I’d think Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed should be on this list.
Me to l. rev. editors when they ask for a source: “[I write to] those I don’t have to write footnotes to. The footnotes, if I used them, would be a condescension to the people that can’t keep up with me.”
(Kidding. Frost said this about Elliot who put footnotes in poems.)
Curious if this promising illustrator’s work appeared in any other texts.
Noticed that the illustration credit for the cover of Thomas Endicott’s Vagueness in Law was for someone named Joseph Raz. Bet this Raz person was excited to see his work prominently featured in a philosophy book.
Noticed that the illustration credit for the cover of Thomas Endicott’s Vagueness in Law was for someone named Joseph Raz. Bet this Raz person was excited to see his work prominently featured in a philosophy book.
Some boyfriends come with baggage. Some come with a sentient alien symbiote.
You’d think that after a dozen or so diaries, this ‘wimpy kid’ would start doing some pushups and taking karate.
I told this story to an associate at my new firm recently, and she said: “Who’s Vampire Weekend?” Which is funny cuz of think of VW as what the kids are listening too, and they are maybe more like what the kids were listening to ten yrs ago. (I love them, but I am not a kid.)
Once in NY, I was early to a meeting and got to chatting with a senior attorney. Asked about his kids and he said: “Well, my son started a band when he was in school.”
I said: “Oh, I started a band in school too. What did he call his band?”
“Vampire Weekend,” he said.
We used to tease my mom for mixing our names up. She had seven (7) kids. The chances of me getting one of my two (2) daughter’s name right on the first try is, like, 30%.
Need a UN Special Commission on Uniformity in Grammatical Gender. Why are Arabic streets masculine? *la* calle. *la* rue. Streets are *ladies* dangit.
Sometimes being a lawyer with linguistics training is like being the luggage salesman in Joe Vs the Volcano. Joe explains as to how he’s taking a sea voyage to a tiny island (where he’ll be tossed into a volcano) & the salesman says: That’s very exciting…as a *luggage problem*.
Find someone who loves you as much as people who make study materials for Arabic learners hate including transliterations and vowel points. You see the key to studying Arabic is knowing it, I guess.
Today is the feast day of St. Stephen. Please check in on your local Stephens and make sure they are feasting. Thank you.
Nice old lady who teaches German in my kid’s high school keeps a Krampus mask on the wall and if you fall asleep in her class she puts it on to wake you up.
Once in NY we got an organic Xmas tree. Then, before we left town, my wife saw a bug & not being of the bug welcoming type, asked the super to fumigate. When we got back we found under the tree one (1) dillion dead forest-dwelling insects. Turns out tree was VERY organic.
“Bartov is a tenured professor, but all that his testimony proves is that for a million or so dollars, some experts will say whatever you want them to say.”
Hardly fair. Many experts will do this for much less.
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(I prefer Cafrune, on account of I have ears, but still.) youtu.be/ERFvMKyBbUA?...
There is still time for Adam Driver to make the definitive biopic of Alfredo Zitarrosa. youtu.be/u-FXNEUpn7A?...
Alfredo Zitarrosa - Zamba por Vos (Official Audio)
Alfredo Zitarrosa - Zamba por Vos (Official Audio) (de "Antología II 1936-1989")Plataformas Digitales:▶YouTube: http://smarturl.it/ZitarrosaYT▶ Spotify: http...
youtu.beUnfortunately you can’t visit the giant haunted cross where I grew up because it exploded. www.atlasobscura.com/articles/kay...
The Strange, Awful Truth Behind Utah's Eerie Stone Cross
It's more bizarre than the urban legends.
www.atlasobscura.comLoud stuff observation from the swim meet bleachers: The version of State of Love & Trust from the Singles soundtrack is one of the 1st PJ recordings w/Dave Abbruzzese on drums. But the 2009 Ten reissue has a version with OG drummer Dave Krusen. And that Krusen guy could drum, is all I’m saying.
Already told this one, but I once got the chairman of Cravath Swaine to autograph a box of Booberry cereal. (I had my reasons.)
Kid me watching my dad rearrange an already loaded dishwasher: “You are an insane person who should be institutionalized. Seriously, get help.”
Adult me reloading the dishwasher: “There is a beauty and symmetry to this machine that you people obviously do not comprehend.”
I can go post some stupid, rando stuff over there if it would help, stats-wise.
