October 04, 2008
Potential Names Discussed Tonight for the Baby-Boy-To-Be
- Galway
- Wolf
- Jasper
- Oliver (pls sir, can I have another)
- Hubcap (That's right, ma'am. H-u-b hub, c-a-p cap. Hubcap.)
- Cowboy
- Hoyt
- Thorsten
- Jefferson
- Plum Dandy
- Miles
- Django
But the #1 name of the evening? Just rolled right off my tongue mid-sentence:
- Riverbone.
Oh yeah, baby. There wasn't a last or middle name that Riverbone wasn't able to mesh with. This was followed by lots of hysterical laughter and then a suggestion of "Floor Pie" (not by me) due to some visuals at Old Town. I guess you had to be there.
(No, no, no. Not MY baby boy to be. Cripes, people. Settle.)
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July 07, 2008
Who writes the ads for Spike TV?
A couple weeks ago I was watching a crapload of CSI reruns so I basically had at least three hours of SpikeTV on every day and they were promoting their big week-end showings of Star Wars. The ads really cracked me up.
I can't remember, was this one said in a Yoda voice?: Being a bad guy isn't bad. There is much to be learned.
Han and Leia: If your sister hangs out with your friends, eventually one of them is going to hook up with her.
Too funny!
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May 16, 2008
Ironic? Or cutting too close to home?
T-shirt of the boy across from me on the El this morning:
ARKANSAS PUBLIC LIBRARY
Helpen People Reed Good.
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April 29, 2008
Word of the Night
Substantialiscious.
Found on the back of the Snickers I am having for dinner. I'm glad to see someone else rocking the "aliscious" suffix, it's one I'm quite fond of myself and often use.
That's right, I'm having a Snickers for dinner. As the Eggplant might say "Fuck you, weight gain!"
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March 18, 2008
Misspoken. Then Defined. Thence Adopted.
"Eulogoy" = eulogy for a goy.
A Silvia/Duff joint project.
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December 04, 2007
Lyrical Mishap #9,735
What it is: You're racing like a pro now...
What it sounds like: You're racing like a pronoun...
(The National "Racing Like a Pro")
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December 03, 2007
Concert review deleted, simile saved.
It was like watching a movie that was 100% special effects and 0% plot.
Just a random piece o' writin' I liked having been the one to write.
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November 01, 2007
J'ai cousu quelques blocs.
I can't imagine very many other people needing this...but in case you ever need to be able to talk about "what you did this weekend" in French, and if what you did this weekend involved quilting, here is a very useful page of quilting terms en français.
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October 04, 2007
Thank you, Get Fuzzy.
I now have a new catch phrase: Oh, sweet monkey sundae...
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September 27, 2007
Faux-Amies*
It is always amusing in French class to watch the "I know too much to look up these words" people get tripped up by what we call *"false cognates" en anglais. I'm hoping for such tonight as one of our vocab words is décevant. Deceiving? No. Disappointing.
I, as you must have known, am an anal-looker-upper. Even when I know that I already know the word in question. I'm always checking to make sure there isn't also an idiomatic definition I don't know about. I waste a lot of time that way. But time...well, that's in surfeit over here.
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It's got the right rhythm.
Paddles whips collars and condoms...*
Lions and tigers and bears...
*On the digital screen advertising Tabou Tabou on the corner of Belmont and Clark this morning...
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September 14, 2007
Use Your Words, Girl.
I was just outed as an obsessive (over?) user of the word "Dude." I can't deny it. The other most commonly used word in my (obviously quite ginormous) vocabulary? Fuck. (Don't tell me you were surprised!)
Thought I'd share with you the comment I left Jen on her post, as it is the one of my made-up words that I a) am most proud of for its clear brilliance and b) use ALL THE TIME:
my favorite mangle is when my mouth was trying to say "jackass" and my mind was trying to say "asshat" and what i said was "Jackhat." isn't it awesome. i use it ALL THE TIME now. "what a jackhat!"
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March 06, 2007
Truth in Advertising.
While I most definitely am not a Sox fan (hello. CUBS.), I do find some of their new El advertisements really hilarious. Like this one:
We haven't won a championship in, like...months.
Hilarious, no? On the other hand, I am not a fan of the new Illinois donor ads that say "I am going to save a life, are you?" Um hello but you are not necessarily saving a life by signing up to be an organ donor. Sure, IF you get in some crazy accident that kills you BUT leaves all your organs intact, your organs MIGHT save someone's life. But there's a lot of other possibilities for your death that do not leave you either a good donor or saving someone's life.
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January 31, 2007
Open Letter to The Shins
Dear Goofy Albuquerque/Now Living in Portland Boys,
You need to fire the copyeditor/proofreader of your liner notes. Seriously. And James Mercer, if it's you...you're smarter than this.
"Reign" = what a king or queen does. i.e. "rule"
"Rein" = the leather stringy bits that you pull back on to slow down a horse, or a fast situation, or what have you.
When you sing, in Turn on Me "You always had to hold the reigns", you mean reins.
Still love you, but come on, that's an easy one,
smooches, CMS
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July 20, 2006
Thought while reading Proust.
"Adenoidal" gets the point across much better than "nasal", don't you agree?
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July 05, 2006
Common Crossword Clues.
Common to all crosswords:
Med. school class = ANAT
otherwise = ELSE
fencer's foil = EPEE
Scottish gaelic = ERSE
Ireland = EIRE
PC key = ESC
Particularly common to Chicago Tribune/Red Eye crossword:
lotion additive = ALOE
false god = IDOL
exist = ARE
picnic pests = ANTS
male red deer = HART
agenda topic = ITEM
hymn ending = AMEN
Chanel's nickname = COCO
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June 05, 2006
Oops, I did it again.
I tryped a new word: "neard" = "never heard".
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May 25, 2006
Un nouveau mot.
Sclerotic.
1) of, relating to, or affected with sclerosis.
2) grown rigid or unresponsive with age (~institutions).
Thanks, Salon, j'aime beaucoup apprendre des nouveaux mots.
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May 09, 2006
What my life has been missing up to now.
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May 04, 2006
I made up a new word!!
"Tryped" = meaning "tried to type." You can imagine how this got started... I was trying to type to someone that I had "tried to type" only I typed "tryped" instead of "tried to type" and yet it so perfectly encapsulated what I was trying to say that rather than type "tried to type" instead I decided to go with "tryped."
Spread the word.
Not to worry - it can also be used in "ing" form. I was "tryping" = "trying to type."
Carry on.
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January 11, 2006
And for those of you who didn't take four years of Latin (or any)...
e.g. = exempli gratia = for example
i.e. = id est = that is ("in other words")
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