August 2009
5 posts
Words that are not onomatopoeic...
…but sort of feel like they are. Like they make the sound of the essence of the thing they label even if not the sound of the sound of the thing they label
Chicken (but for the food, not the animal)
Pencil
Pickle
Noodle
I am collecting scrap metal with which to build a...
Because it is becoming increasingly clear that this is no longer an occasional aberration but rather where the language is going now.
That is: “between ____ & I” or “from _____ & I” and all other varieties of following a preposition with “I” because people think somehow to say ”_____ & me” is incorrect even when it is the object of...
Adore
I don’t know quite why this is, but when someone says “I adore ____”, 9 times out of 10 it translates to “I love this and I am simultaneously giving myself a pat on the back for loving it.”
There is some kind of self-satisfaction with the slightest whiff of smugness just hardwired into that word at this point.
Driving around an ocean-front community, I am inspired to create a book of photography called “Dick Move” that will be pictures of the kind of architectural monstrosity created by someone who wants a view but does not really have one from their property.
Cigarette smoking and sincere mullets are alive and well at the Days Inn in Ocean Shores, WA.