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Monthly Archives: November 2009

Horrible Turn

Watch a prequel to Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. It’s fan-made and kind of slow to start, but the second half is pretty good and Captain Hammer in a bathing suit is comedy gold. (via)

Silly terms were used, like ‘electrolysis,’ which her friend Rose said hurt like the dickens.

Read “Irma Splinkbottom’s Recipe For Cold Fusion” by Janene Murphy.

She walked into my office on legs as long as one of those long-legged birds that you see in Florida – the pink ones, not the white ones – except that she was standing on both of them…

The 2009 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Results make for some terrible hilarious reading. (This isn’t news or anything – I can’t tell when they were announced – but I ran across them and was reminded of how delicious they are.)

The dead are always looking down on us, they say…

Robert Frost’s “Now Close the Windows”

Now close the windows and hush all the fields; If the trees must, let them silently toss; No bird is singing now, and if there is, Be it my loss. It will be long ere the marshes resume, It will be long ere the earliest bird: So close the windows and not hear the wind, [...]

This cow’s got my nuts in a goddamn vise.

Milk Men (via)

Frequently! I meant frequently!

Check out Qwertial Aphasia at xkcd: a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

weasel words – pin down your source on this

Disgruntled Star Editor Takes Constructive Revenge

Fructify was one of those, a word imported from better times. When Mario Cuomo was the governor of New York State, he’d used it in a conversation with the former Senator Patrick Moynihan. She’d been driving somewhere, too stoned to follow the context, when the word blazed out of the radio. She was surprised a politician had the courage to use it. But that was a long time ago, when the public would tolerate unusual language.

Read “Salt” by Megan Staffel.

the past is imperfect, the present is tense

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