Heading North. U.S. Route 281, Encino, TX 78353
headline of the day
Klingon Opera Ramps Up for Earth-Bound Premiere
Amy and Deron, September 30, 2000
Theatre of Great Discomfort
from the comments
O Faceless man, with words contrived
Without you, this long I have survived.My life is full enough without
the ramblings of a childish loutAnd now: your siren song unheeding,
your knee will go on bleeding,
though elsewhere you may be succeeding,Me, you will not be seeing.
Amy said
Last night I dreamed I asked an anteater out. I’m not touching that with Freud.
Night of the Hunter (1955)
Just saw this on the big screen. One of the most beautiful scenes in one of the most engaging films I’ve ever seen. Just watch the first minute and forty seconds.
from someone else’s comments
****Beck Event Safety Advisory****
IN THE EVENT OF HEAVY RAIN, NO MORE THAN 12 PEOPLE WILL BE ALLOWED TO TAKE COVER UNDER ANY MAN’S WIFE/SISTER.
Thank you!
Friday Evening Conversations after Champagne
#1
Daryl: What are you thinking about, Cindy?
Cindy: Oh, I’m thinkin about all those Mexicans trapped in that mine down in Chile.
#2
Cindy: What are you thinking about?
Daryl: I’m thinkin about how in Jesus Camp we sang “How Great Thou Art,” ate Cheerios, and then went to shoot guns.
Some very good advice I found while I myself was not-writing when I should have been writing.
As usual, Sugar nails it. Advice that doesn’t suck.
At the time, I believed that I’d wasted my twenties by not having come out of them with a finished book and I bitterly lambasted myself for that. I thought a lot of the same things about myself that you do, Elissa Bassist. That I was lazy and lame. That even though I had the story in me, I didn’t have it in me to see it to fruition, to actually get it out of my body and onto the page, to write, as you say, with “intelligence and heart and lengthiness.” But I’d finally reached a point where the prospect of not writing a book was more awful than the one of writing a book that sucked. And so at last, I got to serious work on the book.
Internet dating, 7
29-year-old male contacts 26-year-old female in same city. Note: face in profile photos is scratched out like a fatal threat.
Hey, do you happen to have a band-aid? I scraped my knee up pretty badly when I fell for you.
Human Development and the Family, 1
Intermittent reinforcement is worse than negative reinforcement.
Sufjan Stevens – I Walked
The Accidental News Explorer
A search can yield hundreds of articles and bring you down rabbit trails you can only begin to imagine. This is a fantastic iPhone app for $1.99.
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“I’ve Written a Letter to Daddy”
Bette Davis as Baby Jane Hudson in “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?”
Adam Atomic talks about Canabalt
One of the two iPhone games that I find myself still playing a week after purchase. The other? Flight Control.
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Incidentally, you can also play Canabalt on the web.
it took me three reads to get this
(thanks, Rich)
You are desired.
Saw these and thought of Sheila. Of course I would take that nasty cheap ribbon out and put a nice velvet one in place of it.
Decay Is Not What It Used to Be
But what if a well-known — and apparently constant — characteristic of matter starts behaving mysteriously?
I can see it now: the earthbirthers6,000 will find the workings of Glow-ry in the anomaly, without bothering to wait for scientific method to be applied.
The Show Starts in [?] Minutes
the quest for a gender neutral pronoun
The idea is far from new, but nothing seems to stick:
The traditional gender agreement rule states that pronouns must agree with the nouns they stand for both in gender and in number. A corollary requires the masculine pronoun when referring to groups comprised of men and women. But critics argue that such generic masculines – for example, “Everyone loves his mother” – actually violate the gender agreement part of the pronoun agreement rule. And they warn that the common practice of using they to avoid generic he violates number agreement: in “Everyone loves their mother,” everyone is singular and their is plural. Only a new pronoun, something like ip, coined in 1884, can save us from the error of the generic masculine or the even worse error of singular “they.”
Such forms as co, xie, per, and en abound in science fiction, where gender is frequently bent, and they pop up with some regularity in online transgender discussion groups, where the traditional masculine and feminine pronouns are out of place. But today’s word coiners seem unaware that gender-neutral English pronouns have been popping up, then disappearing without much trace, since the mid-nineteenth century
Personally, I am a fan of the singular, generic “they.” We use it conversationally all the time for this purpose and it is more elegant sounding than any concocted alternative or this “he/she” nonsense.
Tilt the Cup and Push Against the Lever
I hope you’ve learned something from it
A Democratic mayoral candidate in Providence goes on a “Coffee with the Candidates” segment of a local morning show and sings a song to the host.
spam name
Quincy Keaffaber.
what a difference a year makes
The planet Uranus was discovered more or less by accident in 1781 by Sir William Herschel, in the course of his search for deep sky objects. As time went by, Uranus’ position wasn’t quite what astronomer’s predicted, and mathematical astronomers began to suspect that there was another planet out there whose gravity was influencing Uranus’ motion.
Also, this week next year Neptune will complete its first orbit around the sun since 18461.
1If I am reading this correctly.
