November 2010
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“‘That’s funny,” I said, “because ‘The Resistance’ is the actual name I’ve given...”
– For the First Time, the TSA Meets Resistance - Jeffrey Goldberg - National - The Atlantic
October 2010
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WatchThe Onion - “Breaking News: Some Bullshit Happening Somewhere”
If you haven’t seen it, don’t miss this.
I’m just some fucking guy.
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Eleanor
Eleanor Flannery Mann
was born in San Francisco, California
on October 27th, 2007 at 5:37 pm, Pacific Time.
At birth, Eleanor was 21 inches in length and
weighed in at 9 pounds, 12 ounces.
That is not a typo.
Her parents, Madeline and Merlin,
really like her a lot.
Three years in, still the best thing ever.
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turbine
I often tell my students to throw out their thesauruses. The fancy sounding words they substitute for regular ones often have wide-ranging connotations, sometimes derived from something as simple as the word’s component phonemes.
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It might also be useful to advise them to throw out their dictionaries, periodic tables, and atlases. Geez. Especially those atlases.
I mean, what...
bobulate:
“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.” — Stephen King
I’d agree with this if he’d substituted “exceptions” with “benefits.”
Rules that discourage people from learning new things produce better Maoists than writers.
[said the web’s most vocal fan of On Writing.]
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“Societies have the criminals they deserve.”
– Alexandre Lacassagne, Book Review - The Killer of Little Shepherds - By Douglas Starr - NYTimes.com
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Queen - “Keep Yourself Alive” (Demo,...
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“I’m less moved by the one-off masterpiece in a career of otherwise half-wrought...”
– Live from Fargo
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“What is so great about sincerity if it leads not to understanding but to...”
– Poverty And Famine In Ethiopia Since Live Aid | The New Republic
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“Lore can go almost anywhere he wants inside the warehouse…But there is one...”
– What Amazon Fears Most: Diapers - BusinessWeek [via] 