August 2011
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Sadness
I get sad sometimes. I think it happens to just about everyone. I don’t know why it happens, but I think that perhaps when it does I shouldn’t share it with anyone. It seems only to ruin others’ days.
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Blepharospasm
n. an abnormal contraction or twitch of the eyelid.
It comes from the Greek bletharo, meaning eyelid, and spasm, an uncontrolled muscle twitch. Which you all probably knew already. But man, that’s a fun word.
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“Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your...”
– Cherie Carter-Scott
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Pusillanimous
adjective: showing a lack of courage or determination, timid.
This word’s literal etymological definition is “having the soul of a flea.” I need to work this into conversations more frequently.
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“You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here’s a hint - ask yourself who wrote...”
– David Levithan (via atomos)
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“It wasn’t brave because he wasn’t scared: it was the only thing he...”
– Neil Gaiman, Coraline
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Words of Advice:
Drunk is not the answer. It’s the question, and the answer is “yes.”
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Word of the Day: mondegreen
wordsblogger:
mondegreen: a word or phrase that results from a mishearing of something said or sung
pronunciation: \ MON-di-green \
example: “very close veins” is a mondegreen for “varicose veins”
Original Article
That is an exceptional word.
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Officer,
I realize that you observed my vehicle moving rather quickly past yours. However, as you can see, I was driving west; and, as we know, the Earth rotates toward the east. Therefore, compared to those driving at the advertised speed limit in the other direction, my aggregate rate of travel is actually pretty insignificant. Therefore, shouldn’t they be the ones getting tickets, and not me?
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This is so much of what's wrong with the world. →
Or at least with people I’ve encountered recently.
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Who has two thumbs and sets himself up for...
This guy!
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Meteor Shower Tonight!
The moon is kind of bright, though; I’ll probably have to wait until it sets before I can see anything.
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Rebecca Black's "Friday" as Radical Text →
“She offers the camera a hostage’s smile, forced, false. Her smoky eyes suggest chaos witnessed: tear gas, rock missiles and gasoline flames. They paint her as a refugee of a teen culture whose capacity for real subversion was bludgeoned away somewhere between the atrocities of Kent State and those of the 1968 Democratic Convention, the start of a creeping zombification that would see...
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Soundtrack
Every now and then, I stop and wonder: if I were in a movie right at this moment, what music would be playing in the background?
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“What’s most important is that you do what you can, not that you do what...”
– Others have probably said similar things, but that’s something I came up with on the spot.
“I want her so much it makes me hurt sometimes. That’s when I take down the...”
– Looking for the Girl, Neil Gaiman (via adropofred)
“To forgive is an act of compassion, Buffy. It’s not done because people deserve...”
– Giles // Buffy the Vampire Slayer (via mmuhlissaaa)
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“What do you despise? By this are you truly known.”
– Frank Herbert, Dune
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“I lost some time once. It’s always in the last place you look for it.”
– Neil Gaiman
Anonymous asked: What were you reading with Middle English?
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Middle English
I must needs have a respite from books wherein a feudal system is the basis for social order, for such tomes oft require that the author use Middle English, which doth screw up my speech patterns quite a bit. Holey schamoley.
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“A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.”
– Robert Orben
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Sandwiches
They taste better on the beach. Yay, picnics!
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“Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife—chopping off what’s...”
– Frank Herbert, Dune
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“Do you wrestle with dreams?
Do you contend with shadows?
Do you move in a kind...”
– Frank Herbert, Dune
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“There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression...”
– Frank Herbert, Dune
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“My woman stands at her window,
Curved lines ‘gainst square glass....”
– Frank Herbert, Dune
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Oh, By the By....
My mother is awesome. She had a chemotherapy treatment the other day, and then right afterward drove over 350 miles to join the rest of us on vacation. Because she’s a boss.
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