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Life is boring without electricity. I'm getting reminded of that
today.
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I hear this line all the time in TV shows and the occasional movie:
"What are you doing here?"
This strikes me as something you never hear in normal life, because it's kind of rude. But it must be in a screenwriters' manual somewhere as an all-purpose trick to advance the plot. -
How many marriage proposals do you think the Barefoot
Contessa,
Ina Garten, gets per week? I'm thinking it's gotta be dozens. At least.
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I have no problem with people pronouncing "nuclear" as noo-kyoo-lur.
But hearing "artic" or "antartica"—it's fingernails on the
chalkboard.
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Actually, I've never been that bothered by fingernails on the chalkboard
either.
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I wish we had more newspapers with Picayune in
their names.
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I've always been fond of Jefferson Starship's We Built This City on
Rock and Roll. (Ah, here's the video. Knee deep in
the hoopla, indeed.)
Wikipedia has a good summary
of why this shows my complete lack of musical taste.
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Irony:
Consumer Reports sends its subscribers piles of junk mail hawking
add-on products: newsletters, website goodies, gift subscriptions. Without exception,
they use cheesy marketing gimmicks ("NON-TRANSFERABLE. For Recipient
Only", blares their latest envelope). Pretty much the same kind of
tactics they deride in the magazine.
Dec
12
2008