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Jun.18.2012
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STRONG WORDS
Serious language, deep language, real language helps me by grounding me. I don’t have to be nice for company when I can just tell the truth. I needn’t have guests with virgin ears or unrealistic expectations, and I no longer pander to such...
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Jun.16.2012
Let's talk about vaginas. Excuse me, did I offend you?
What would you have me call it?
Before you answer or I make suggestions, do you know LMFAO's song? The duo's hit, Sexy And I know It, is a mash up of words, rythms and catch phrases -
Girl look at that body
Girl look at that body
Girl...
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Jun.07.2012
I once thought of myself as a poet. I'm not sure now whether I thought this was a way into girls' hearts, or whether some stray muse had captured my heart. But as more than one poet has claimed, verse rarely strays from one of two subjects: love and death. So I moved on.
Short...
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Jun.07.2012
A passing thought: among the many homages to Ray Bradbury being published today, a significant number of them mention “Fahrenheit 451” (1953).
As ChiTrib critic Julia Keller describes it, "Fahrenheit 451 is a cautionary tale about the insidious creep of censorship; its sinister evocation of a...
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Jun.06.2012
A few years ago, I was looking at Africa across the Strait of Gibraltar. Africa looked enormous and I felt minuscule, like the grain of sand in Ingrid Jonker’s poem.
Part of its population still speaks Afrikaans, a language closely related to Dutch. Wikipedia provides a sample sentence: De man wat...
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May.29.2012
In case you haven't heard it already, Arthel Lane Watson, known to millions of guitar players and roots music fans as Doc Watson, died today following a long illness.
image via rockymounttelegram.com
I won't attempt to re-write what's been written in the article linked below, nor to...
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May.29.2012
And, it's a list which makes me go, not only ho-hum, but 'what?' as I never heard of two out of the five. Nevertheless, it is an interesting idea. I imagine we all can think of a few which are our favourites. I will go with "wisp" and "plash".
Elbow
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What's the...
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Apr.26.2012
Okay, this appeals to word lovers but people who like data may also enjoy it.
First, I've just discovered Ideas Illustrated through Good Morning Silicon Valley. I like the site and its presentations. They present...ideas...illustrated....
Ideas Illustrated shows English word, suffix and root...
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Apr.24.2012
Sometimes, its important for everyone to take their jobs less seriously. People feel very serious about publishing, but as my first boss said, “it’s not life or death, Lucy.” (Until that moment of relief, I thought it was.) And so with this post, I’m poking a little fun, while hopefully...
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Apr.18.2012
Rule Number One to be truly English. Banish at once the following two words from your vocabulary: 'yes' and 'no'.
They are unsightly, un-English, and compromising. They state an absolute, and that is bad-mannered. After all, who gives you the right to...
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