March 2010
2 posts
“The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a...”
– Don DeLillo, “White Noise”
February 2010
2 posts
Women make up 80 percent of the fiction reading... →
Hm.
November 2009
25 posts
Word "teabagger" finalist for Oxford American... →
“I think this is a trick we authors do. If a subject is so grave, so important,...”
– Orhan Pamuk, on Nabokov’s Speak, Memory, from the New Yorker Fiction Podcast, 13 October 2009. (via pornsoda) (via sitdown)
Was a WWII Classic Too Gay? →
Amazing. I’m not too familiar with James Jones, but reading up on him gives you a real sense for how homosexuality was treated during WWII.
“For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous,...”
– Toni Morrison in Beloved
It always amazes me how well Morrison understands so many different kinds of people and how they communicate (or fail to) and the internal monologues they keep.
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Werd of the Day
commiserate (v.): to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity —dictionary.com
Behold the fundamentalists as they commiserate with Carrie Prejean over the egregious, yet entirely pardonable, sex tape scandal.
Can we never use the adverb "multiply" again in...
tristn:
Great word even though it derails my brain every time I read it.
Exception: Hyphenations, as in “multiply-linked” as used in contrast with singly or doubly.
"Threequel," and 14 other new official words from... →
abalooshi:
cyberslacking? blamestorming? :D haha! yes… i guess?
Werd of the Day
cabal (n.): a small group of secret plotters, as against a government or person in authority —dictionary.com
Gunpowder plots blow up unjust parliaments; evangelical cabals seek to deny equality.
How To Use An Apostrophe →
(via austinkleon)
Yes.
Gender-Neutral Pronouns
An old post I wrote on a blog I created for school:
When English Fails Us: Gender Neutral Pronouns
But how could our lovely language fail us? It’s impossible!
*Ahem* Look at the following sentence: A teacher who wants to become a writer should focus on _____ students first.
You’ve likely had this problem before: what word should be used in the blank? Some people will tell you...
Werd of the Day
boisterous: rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy; clamorous; unrestrained —dictionary.com
The boisterous teabaggers marched on Washington, the shit spilling heavily from their mouths.
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I’ve decided to start a second tumblr that I can direct toward my more “academic” interests. I am an English undergrad, planning on getting a doctorate in the field someday. If you’re a geek like me, you’ll fit right in! You can find my other tumblr here.