Because I've been getting some hits from Google searches on "blanketly," I decided to check it out, and I found this link.
Allow me to declare my opposition to an "open dictionary" if it's going to imply validation of a nonword like "blanketly" and THEN call it a verb. Like most words ending in -ly, it's an adverb. Or it would be if it were a word at all. Which it isn't.
What contumely.
April 23, 2009
April 22, 2009
Setting the tone
Weird how the song or two I hear on the radio on my way to work can set the tone for the whole day.
Bonnie Raitt's version of the song is very nice, especially in this performance; I think it's a little too slow on the record.
The record!
Bonnie Raitt's version of the song is very nice, especially in this performance; I think it's a little too slow on the record.
The record!
April 21, 2009
Blanketly
Blanketly: this is a word I learned in a meeting yesterday ... as in, "we're not going to make these cuts blanketly." To be fair, the speaker was being grilled by an angry mob, or what passes for one at my place of work.
I also listened to a colleague describe an upcoming "Supposium." This one I like ... it suggests a group of people gathered together to discuss the possibilities. Maybe that's just the kind of outside-the-box thinking we need, where the rubber meets the road.
I also listened to a colleague describe an upcoming "Supposium." This one I like ... it suggests a group of people gathered together to discuss the possibilities. Maybe that's just the kind of outside-the-box thinking we need, where the rubber meets the road.
April 14, 2009
Hardy Har Har
Back when I taught Survey of British Literature, we'd be hitting Thomas Hardy right about now, hitting him the way the Titanic hit the iceberg.
(pause for laughter)
(pause for awkward silence broken only by the sound of chirping crickets)
Of course, one of the poems we discussed was "Convergence of the Twain," because it gave me the opportunity to speak disparagingly of "Leonardo DiCrappio" (who, I must admit," is actually pretty good, even if I don't like most of the movies he winds up in).
I would always ask them what "convergence" meant, and what "twain" meant, and then suggested that if they found poetry difficult they might begin by trying to understand what the WORDS IN THE TITLE mean.
A convergence is things coming together, you see (Mike--no.), and "twain" means two things, so it's two things coming together, like two twains on the same twack.
Two ... twains ... on the same ... twack.
Q: How come it's funny when Leno and Letterman repeat their bad punch lines during their monologues?
A: It isn't.
(pause for laughter)
(pause for awkward silence broken only by the sound of chirping crickets)
Of course, one of the poems we discussed was "Convergence of the Twain," because it gave me the opportunity to speak disparagingly of "Leonardo DiCrappio" (who, I must admit," is actually pretty good, even if I don't like most of the movies he winds up in).
I would always ask them what "convergence" meant, and what "twain" meant, and then suggested that if they found poetry difficult they might begin by trying to understand what the WORDS IN THE TITLE mean.
A convergence is things coming together, you see (Mike--no.), and "twain" means two things, so it's two things coming together, like two twains on the same twack.
Two ... twains ... on the same ... twack.
Q: How come it's funny when Leno and Letterman repeat their bad punch lines during their monologues?
A: It isn't.
April 12, 2009
Before the rain came ...
... and before I wussed out and made us bail because I knew my crappy Buick was never going to get out of that hilly parking lock after the rain came.
The video's a better view than we had, that's for damned sure. But hey, I think you can see us in the shots from over the drummer's shoulder.
Oh, uh, embedding disabled by request, but here's the link.
If you ever let me drag you to a show, thanks, dare I say it, for the memories!
The video's a better view than we had, that's for damned sure. But hey, I think you can see us in the shots from over the drummer's shoulder.
Oh, uh, embedding disabled by request, but here's the link.
If you ever let me drag you to a show, thanks, dare I say it, for the memories!
April 05, 2009
Anachronisms
I think I missed my epoch. I would have liked to live in the 40s and early 50s, I'm sitting here watching a half decent procedural called Down Three Dark Streets, and I think I missed my calling. I should have been an old time movie detective.
1. Snappy dialogue, witty repartee
2. Everything looks cooler in black and white
3. Dames saying things like, "You boy scouts got names?"
4. Men in suits, pointy women in dresses
5. Unwavering faith in the law=good equation
6. Voice-overs to provide helpful context
7. Smoking and drinking
But it wouldn't work. I'd never fit in ... and it's all because of the beard. Bearded people barely exist in these films, and if they do, they're suspect at best. It's the kiss of death (if you will), like having a too-wide tie, an accent or an Italian surname. Any ONE of these makes you a suspect ... two or more and you're a marked man.
Fun film, by the way. Grandpa Fred from Sixteen Candles is in it, and so is Claude Akins of B.J. and the Bear fame.
1. Snappy dialogue, witty repartee
2. Everything looks cooler in black and white
3. Dames saying things like, "You boy scouts got names?"
4. Men in suits, pointy women in dresses
5. Unwavering faith in the law=good equation
6. Voice-overs to provide helpful context
7. Smoking and drinking
But it wouldn't work. I'd never fit in ... and it's all because of the beard. Bearded people barely exist in these films, and if they do, they're suspect at best. It's the kiss of death (if you will), like having a too-wide tie, an accent or an Italian surname. Any ONE of these makes you a suspect ... two or more and you're a marked man.
Fun film, by the way. Grandpa Fred from Sixteen Candles is in it, and so is Claude Akins of B.J. and the Bear fame.
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