March 2009
19 posts
I like Steve Earle, I like The Wire, I like “Down in the Hole.” I do not like Steve Earle’s version of “Down in the Hole” for The Wire.
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“The middle class is immobilized by the heaviness of paying bills, borrowing...”
– Charles Mudede
You can easily judge the character of people by how they treat those who can do nothing for them.
—Anonymous or Malcolm Forbes, not sure.
It's verbal tic week! presidential edition!
Sometimes I just get like this. Unable to concentrate on content, I instead focus on delivery. So add this to the below posts on pharmaceutical ads and Baltimore patois:
Obama needs a list of phrases that are synonymous with “a whole host.” (They should maybe be on a slim sheet of paper on his podium, or maybe in a little column running alongside the speech on his teleprompter.)
I...
Episode 1 Million in My Speech Pattern Obsession
Unlike the speech pattern that inspired the last couple of entries on this topic, this one doesn’t incite irritation, just curiousity.
In The Wire, some of the street kids’ occasionally use an “oo” sound that sounds like what you hear in East London grime music like Dizzee Rascal.
I’m not quite sure how I can write it out phonetically, but it’s a highly...
WatchI would like to read that fan magazine.