Fantastic:
After watching his sister try three times to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee, Sameer Mishra put himself on a mission. “I told my mom I was going to do the bee,” Sameer said. “And if I was going to do it, I was going to win it one day. And I guess it [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Homogenous, Homogeneous
Published May 31st, 2008 in Celebrity, Education, Indiana, Language and People. 5 CommentsBecause You Don’t Get to Decide What is Meaningless
Published May 26th, 2008 in Election and Grown Ass Men. 10 CommentsWhat is meaningless to a self-styled politico who has the privilege of treating politics as a game is not meaningless to the people, the citizens, who, as good citizens, in good faith, take part in the democratic process. Moreover, declaring an already disenfranchised part of the country meaningless because it bolsters your candidate’s numbers [...]
In the Basement of the Ivory Tower:
We think of college professors as being profoundly indifferent to the grades they hand out. My own professors were fairly haughty and aloof, showing little concern for the petty worries, grades in particular, of their students. There was an enormous distance between students and professors. The full-time, tenured professors [...]
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While doing some research, it appears that the vine I planted on the side of the garage is a fast-growing, invasive species. Stupid me, I thought the local nursery wouldn’t sell invasive plants.
This Racialicious project turns the annoying Canadian Club Whiskey ads from this:
Basically, they are appealing to men who miss the days (whether or not they were born yet) of grabbing the asses of their secretaries, playing a few rounds at the all-white private golf club, and then going home to their wives, the happy homemakers [...]
All rules had their exceptions, but the way I came to see things they generally went like this: Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off writing bad poetry. Merits were for sex addicts, Salems for alcoholics, and Mores [...]
*snort*
Keenan also said that everyone would get over their “broken hearts.” And if they don’t, I guess she’s got a list of shiny new donors to keep her warm!
As mentioned in posts below, NARAL wears its motivations on its sleeves.
I was pointed toward the entry on “Grammar” at Stuff White People Like and saw a link to the Wikipedia on the Oxford Comma, a term I’ve never heard before. Turns out it’s nothing more than the serial comma, the thing that makes the difference between
sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll
and
sex, [...]
Ethan’s old CD player broke so we went out and got him a new one along with a new CD. Since then he’s been playing this song on repeat, and switching between whistling the melody and singing along with an appropriately wistful, rock-ballad-esque vibrato:
Next: black fingernail polish, bangin’ moustache, and glittery leotard.
Excellent Trends That Haven’t Caught On Yet, But Totally Should
Published May 16th, 2008 in Bloggery, Humor and Weirdness. 1 CommentIn chat, Auguste brought up something that I’d never considered, the possibility of LOLtattooz:
So, so many possibilities. If you make one I’ll post it.
Today at the office I convinced a coworker to use his clout to write an email to massage an inter-office political situation I’m trying to alleviate (vague enough for you?), and he started the email by writing, “Dear X, the girls in XYZ department are concerned about…”
The “girls in XYZ department” happen to range a [...]
Chef answered a knock on the door to find the mailwoman on the doorstep looking sheepish. “Can I ask you a weird question?”
“Sure.”
The original picture by the realtor. I’d have a before and after shot if it would STOP RAINING already.
She goes on to explain that she’s been driving past our house for [...]
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