17 posts tagged “statements”
Phone rang. It was Dave, a writer friend. We talked for over an hour, mainly about punctuation. He has big plans for the ellipsis. He's mad for ellipses. I tell him yeah, I have similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as not to call undue attention to the glaring fact that I cannot think in complete sentences, that I think only in short fragments or long, run-on thought relays that the literati call stream of consciousness but I like to think of disdain for the finality of the period). - Sarah Vowell
There's a power interruption at the SixApart datacenter and the only product that's affected is LiveJournal, not Vox, TpePad or the 6A or MT sites which says to me that 6A hasn't consolidated their servers into one location which is, at the very least, poor asset management.
I have developed a burgeoning (and, I imagine, soon-to-be overwhelming) addiction to Rold Gold Honey Wheat Twist pretzels.
It seems I'm a podcaster now.
I had forgotten how good Muenster cheese is, but I'm going to pay for this overindulgence.
It's unnerving to realize that you may be operating on autopilot as a parent; the proof is that when two kids barf on the back deck, your first response, and in fact, your reaction is to send everyone else inside, ask someone to come back with towels - dirty towels - and to water both barfy kids and the deck down with the garden hose until the only lingering evidence of the incident is the sound of water dripping onto the mulch below the deck as you go inside with naked, drippy kids wrapped in towels, detouring only long enough to drop an armful of generally clean but soaking wet clothes into the washing machine.
As I sit here and listen to Justin Timberlake declare that he's "bringing sexy back" because "motherfuckers don't know how to act" I realize that once again, I am forced to tell my daughters that the music of one of their favorite artists is inappropriate for them to listen to right now... as I secretly enjoy it when they're not around.
For an upcoming episode of Bringing Home Baby the provided description is: First-time parents want to raise their son in their vegan lifestyle." and I'm making myself queasy trying to figure out why this would be enough of an issue to warrant it being the only description of the show when, after all, this requires nothing more than breastfeeding the child... and not dressing it in a leather onesie.
Whenever I see a dress code which claims to be a "business casual" standard and then, in the clarifications, demands that women wear shirts with collars, I know without a shadow of a doubt that the writer of said dress code is a man -- and a dumb one, at that.
I have invites, but I'm not going to make anyone else endure the suckfest which is posting on Vox - especially now that I've learned that it's not Safari-friendly.
