August 2011
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Ten Things: Like An Idiom On A Cracker
I love idioms. They tell you a lot about the imagination and personality of the person using them, as well as where (and when) they are from. And sometimes, they’re just so bloody weird. Here’s a random sampling of strange and quirky idioms (and their meanings).
“In two shakes of a lamb’s tail.” Quickly; in no time at all.
“Run around like a chicken with its...
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“This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.”
– Douglas Adams
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“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it...”
– Groucho Marx
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Ten Things: Share The Road, Mother F*cker
We’re all guilty of making mistakes behind the wheel on occasion, but some mistakes are more equal than others, especially when they are made deliberately. Here are the ones that get you labeled that guy by the rest of the people sharing the road with you. No matter how well they think they’re driving or how cool they feel zipping around like a stunt driver in an action flick,...
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“I’ve been accused of not being macho enough to direct the Avengers. Oh yeah,...”
– Joss Whedon
(more on The Avengers here)
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“As long as we live, there is never enough singing.”
– Martin Luther
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“A man who can imitate a Spanish squirrel helping forty-eight men mow a meadow is...”
– Martin Crieff (Benedict Cumberbatch), “Johannesburg” episode of Cabin Pressure
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Ten Things: College Bound
My younger sister heads to college in less than a week and all summer I’ve been trying to fill her ears with little tidbits of advice that will save her some of the painful learning curves of dorm living. I’m almost certain she has found most of my advice random and bizarre, but in my defense, so is college.
Always, always, always wear shower sandals. Trust the hygiene of no one...
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intervals:
The past, present, and future walk into a bar. It was tense.
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'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' App In The... →
popculturebrain:
Hothead Games has announced that it is creating an interactive Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Previously thought to be a game based on Douglas Adams’s works, the studio is instead creating an interactive version of the guide itself. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy promises to include all of the important information on towels, vogons,...
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“The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.”
– Roald Dahl
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“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself...”
– Neil Gaiman, American Gods
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Ten Things: London Town
I have been to London twice in my life and though I have spent less than one week there total, the city won me over without even trying and it remains one of my favorite places to have visited. Today’s list was going to be about something else entirely, but as I am too far away to do anything but watch what is going on in London at the moment, I give you a list of my most vivid memories from...
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“Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was...”
– Brooks Atkinson
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“That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went,...”
– Dorothy Parker (via incapacityinc)
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“If someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill them right back!”
– Captain Malcolm Reynolds
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“There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.”
– Carol Shields (via breathingbooks)
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Antares Road excerpt - Day 6, Antares Road & the...
(on driving into Las Vegas, Nevada for the first time)
“I had never had any interest in visiting Las Vegas, and my reluctance to ‘waste’ time there was such that in the planning stages of the trip, Kit had offered to pay all the expenses of Vegas if I would just agree to spend a night there.
So, I’ll be the first to admit that the city caught me off guard. There’s a...
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Ten Things: Writing Process (NOT a How-To)
I start any story knowing the beginning and the end. I may get little ideas about a story over months and years, but I never write anything down until I know how it ends. (This is probably why I’ve never hated spoilers, because the interesting thing for me is how they get there.)
For me, writing a story is sort of like making a quilt. I write big scenes, important points of dialog and...
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