Posts tagged "words"

comingandcrying: Your copy of Coming & Crying will be hardcover, 168 pages, containing 24 stories by 24 people, sent directly from a box in Melissa’s apartment and carried in a series of bins by Meaghan and Melissa to the general post office in Manhattan, where a woman named Estelle Lee will release it — that’s the word — to you. It will come in a white envelope.$28 ($24 + $4 shipping/handling/Estelle, which will ship in 2-3 weeks) I’m excited.

comingandcrying:

Your copy of Coming & Crying will be hardcover, 168 pages, containing 24 stories by 24 people, sent directly from a box in Melissa’s apartment and carried in a series of bins by Meaghan and Melissa to the general post office in Manhattan, where a woman named Estelle Lee will release it — that’s the word — to you. It will come in a white envelope.

$28 ($24 + $4 shipping/handling/Estelle, which will ship in 2-3 weeks)

I’m excited.

“Fräulein, the diminutive of Frau and grammatically neuter, has caused protest not only among feminists (there is no Herrlein for bachelors!) Unlike ‘Mademoiselle’ in France and ‘Miss’ in Anglo-Saxon countries, this term is now officially outcast. Thus, all girls will be called Frau (+ name) as soon as they are no longer addressed by their first name - probably from around the age of 18, though it depends on the work environment.”
Langenscheidt pocket German Grammar. Brushing up on German grammar, its use of the neuter that seemed assigned randomly at best always annoyed me. But I think the use of complicated word gender assignment has made it easier for Germans to discuss and then get rid of sexist language practices. Pretty convenient. Too bad we’re having a hard go at it.

John Mayer to Huffington Post: 'Go F—k Yourself'

HuffPo must be black then, right?

You’re a stripper wearing reading glasses. Or maybe you’re an insolvent law student willing to dance for a few extra dollars. Either way, it’s uncomfortable to watch you try to wrap yourself around a pole when you have that C-Span scar.

So, his tendency to belittle women hasn’t changed. Apparently it only takes a few months for him to think we’ve forgotten what a douche he is.

libraryland: The Most Dangerous Books in America?  Really? Click the photo for an interactive version of the graphic of the most frequently challenged books in American libraries. I remember lesbianism in ‘The Color Purple’ but there’s no homo arrow for it in this infographic.

libraryland:

The Most Dangerous Books in America?  Really? Click the photo for an interactive version of the graphic of the most frequently challenged books in American libraries.

I remember lesbianism in ‘The Color Purple’ but there’s no homo arrow for it in this infographic.

“Dr.Laura:don’t retreat…reload! (Steps aside bc her 1st Amend.rights ceased 2exist thx 2activists trying 2silence”isn’t American,not fair”)”
Sarah Palin, still struggling with the Twitter straightjacket, in support of Laura Schlessinger using the n-word 11 times. RELOAD! How many n-word shells does an ignorance gun hold? She spends a week spewing hate at Muslims and their community center, then turns around and claims criticism of Schlessinger’s words are violations of the first amendment. I’m astonished at how fast this woman gets worse.

Breitbart Is Amazing, Smart and Honest. God, Also.

Breitbart is a piece of shit journalist, and it’s an amazing stretch to call him that, who deserves to be shunned by politicians and ridiculed by the media until it smarts him enough that a sincere apology to Sherrod finds its way out of his lying liar face and lands on her shiny new gold plated desk courtesy of the White House. Though I don’t honestly believe he’s capable of this, it’s nice to imagine a silver lining to an event that will go down as one of the Administration’s most embarrassing fuck ups. Also, Fox News? Let’s not pretend this is abnormal for you, we’ll see you next time.

Hey, look what I can do too.

Thought you’d enjoy this/already know this, Fransee. via markhauge:(thatwayinclined:weredancinginthedark:deadlovely)

Thought you’d enjoy this/already know this, Fransee.

via markhauge:(thatwayinclined:weredancinginthedark:deadlovely)

New Yorker: The Girl Who Fixed the Umlaut

Aha, Nora Ephron encapsulates everything I found annoying in Stieg Larsson’s posthumous popular mystery, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

But where in Sweden were they? There was no way to know, especially if you’d never been to Sweden. A few chapters ago, for example, an unscrupulous agent from Swedish Intelligence had tailed Blomkvist by taking Stora Essingen and Gröndal into Södermalm, and then driving down Hornsgatan and across Bellmansgatan via Brännkyrkagatan, with a final left onto Tavastgatan. Who cared, but there it was, in black-and-white, taking up space. And now Blomkvist was standing in her doorway. Someone might still be following him—but who? There was no real way to be sure even when you found out, because people’s names were so confusingly similar—Gullberg, Sandberg, and Holmberg; Nieminen and Niedermann; and, worst of all, Jonasson, Mårtensson, Torkelsson, Fredriksson, Svensson, Johansson, Svantesson, Fransson, and Paulsson.

She’s barely exaggerating. A while ago I tweeted a quote from it: Recent ridiculous line from a book: She took the tunnelbana from Zinkensdamm to Östermalmstorg and walked down towards Strandvägen.

Haha, via Fransee

Haha, via Fransee

Ricky Martin: 'I am a fortunate homosexual man'

Sweet:

“If someone asked me today, ‘Ricky, what are you afraid of?’ I would answer “the blood that runs through the streets of countries at war…child slavery, terrorism…the cynicism of some people in positions of power, the misinterpretation of faith. But fear of my truth? Not at all! On the contrary, It fills me with strength and courage. This is just what I need especially now that I am the father of two beautiful boys that are so full of light and who with their outlook teach me new things every day.”

via sexartandpolitics: !!!!!!!!!, mariadiaz