Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. B.M.A.T.C., and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline.
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One should always resist linguistic change: not because it's always a bad thing, still less because the resistance has a hope in hell of succeeding, but simply because by resisting it one gets people to think about language.
—Simon Darragh, Verbatim 29: 2, p. 11
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I received a message from Gary Olsen, who studied and performed with Larry Shue in high school in Glen Ellyn, Ill. He says it was "an incredible experience." posted: 6:12:28 PM |
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monkey visits National Public Radio HQ: the terry-cloth primate has a snack; bakes audio tapes; has a snack; plays piano; has a snack; meets Corey Flintoff, Steve Inskeep, and Scott Simon; and has a snack. posted: 5:38:16 PM |
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McKinney and Henderson tweak their storyabout why they killed Matthew Shepard. Call it a hate crime or not, I wonder why ABC News is wasting air time on these two scum. (Thanks to blogdex.) posted: 1:37:39 PM |
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Paul Primrose takes a refresher course in driving through snow:
95% of successfully navigating winter road conditions is having enough
goddam sense to not try it.
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Nick Hornby interviews Sarah Vowell about her Incredibles gig:
At the first session I was supposed to make a sound into the microphone like
I had just been punched. Like, "Uh!". I was having trouble, not being an
actor, and finally I just told Brad, "You're going to have to hit me." So he
stood next to me and punched me in the arm. We always recorded the screams
at the very end because they wreck the voice. That was super fun. I don't
think I had screamed, really screamed, for about 20 years.
(Thanks to Bookslut.) posted: 10:37:09 AM |
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