January 2009
7 posts
“Her: and so I’m like YOU KNOW I HAVE A BOYFRIEND....”
– from a Serious Conversation with my best friend.
People keep telling me that Twitter is a great social tool.
Yeah, just like a hammer.
A big, dick-shaped hammer.
Smashing away at my real-life social skills.
Into pieces shaped like tiny owls and hobovaginas.
“God willing, he [George W. Bush] has gone to hell.”
– -Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Um, sir? You know, er… we don’t kill our former presidents, sir… just so we’re clear, here… um…
“oh baby
i want to be your direct object.
you know, that is to say
i want to...”
– “Watch Your Tense and Case”, a favorite grammar-related sex poem by SF slam poet Daphne Gottlieb.
Iraq fails to sell Saddam's yacht →
This cracks me up.
Radio Freetown →
Scott Simpson twittered this earlier, and I wanted to wholeheartedly back it up.
West African pop from the 1970’s. Really awesome.
“Cerquiglini, Bernard. Elected to the Oulipo in 1996.
‘Obscure philologist...”
– Oulipo Compendium edited by Harry Matthews and Alastair Brotchie.
I just like the idea of a “vagabond grammarian.”
The Oulipo, or Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle (Workshop of Literature in the Making), is a pretty cool movement that deals with literary inspiration through...