January 2010
10 posts
“I’ve likened the editing process to a fertility doctor using all his own semen.”
– Truer words, coworker-who’s-about-to-bounce-for-book-leave. Truer words.
We’re all awaiting the arrival of Bookdeal’s stand-in from the Globe feeder farm. You do know that when people use the phrase “put out to pasture,” that there is, in fact, a pasture? It is not a...
'The Lovely Bones' Hoodwinks 'Twilight' Fans Out... →
Award for participial adjective/adverb combo of the day goes to
Peter Jackson’s critically farted on The Lovely Bones
without question. I will even forgive it its missing hyphen.
Maybe it's time to graduate to a pharmacy that's...
Indian CVS Employee: Next! [Asian male, apprx. 20 years old, approaches the counter] Do you have a prescription?
Asian Student: No, actually, I have a question. So when I drink, you know, alcohol, I get Asian flush. Like, my cheeks get red. And I heard there was this medication, like this pill you could take, so you don't get Asian flush. So I want some of that.
Indian CVS Employee: Um, hold on. [Goes to back, retrieves coworker. Muffled conversation ensues.]
Asian Student: When I drink my cheeks get all red! I just want to know which pill gets rid of that.
Asian CVS Employee: There's no pill for that. It has to do with your enzymes. You should just drink less.
“The software industry has a concept known as “legacy code,” meaning old stuff...”
– Michael Kinsley writes 1,809 words in the Atlantic on why “newspaper articles are too long.” A part of me wants to begrudge the Atlantic its characteristic hand-wringing; every article seems to find a way to turn the writer’s own upper-middle-class myopia into a civilization-ending...