May 2013
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Lets face it
shitmystudentswrite:
So lets face it, at one time we have all been in love and swept off our feet across the mall area.
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“(SPEAKING GIBBERISH)”
– Stephen Moffat, Name of the Doctor
Or at least that’s how the iTunes Closed Captioning rendered Archie’s heavy Scots accent in the Glasgow bar brawl with Strax. [Which was actually something closer to “…and here’s where I’w’ll kill ye, ye filthy wee...
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wanderlogged:
Nobody cares at all, let alone at this obscene hour, but I’m going to say it. Really not looking forward to having a 12 hour day with a headache that’s settled in from yesterday when today’s show is 70 little children in tap shoes. Ugh.
Jean-Paul Sartre always said Hell was other people, but I think you’ve just topped that.
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Yahoo 'to buy Tumblr for $1.1bn' →
Okay. If this all goes south, by which I mean if Purple Punctuation starts appearing in my posts, I’m going to be giving ReadWave a try. Fortunately, again under the name rossbennett.
Just a contingency plan. Not bailing just yet.
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A Critical Theory Musing on The Name of the Doctor
Okay. New stuff in the season finale, so here’s a Readmore.
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Brilliant stuff to ponder in the new episode, innit?
I suggest we might think of the Great Intelligence is a metaphor for the collective mind which authors the Doctor Who series itself.
The Dr. Simian character husk, which we now know as the Great Intelligence is nebulous and unnumbered, indistinct, yet seems to be...
“The TARDIS chooses the Time Lord, Doctor. That much has always been clear.”
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Unexpected Wedding Gifts
I went to a wedding today for a couple of splendid young people. It was a Catholic service, which I’ve only experienced a couple of times, and it was almost completely in Spanish, which I regret I don’t speak. I recognized a couple of words in most sentences—more than I expected—no doubt because I had the structure to fall back on.
The ceremony was as one usually finds it—just about...
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Making Good Art…
[If one reads this, one benefits from knowing we have one car and—when medicine happens—only one driver in the house.]
Last Thursday: Telephone line torn down from pole. Found out on Friday. Phone company can’t get to it sooner than Tuesday.
Last Friday: While walking dog in city park, stray golf ball through back windows of car. Golf hooligan does not leave note. $498.
Monday morning:...
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Fucking Tories.
(Probably) Not Wrong: wanderlogged: I think one of... →
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wanderlogged:
I think one of the PMs is trying to kill us. He keeps making calls longer and cutting breaks and talking to us on breaks about work and just not letting up. The guy is falling apart but he’s going to try and take us with him. And the schedule for next week is ludicrous too;…
Oh you misunderstood. PM = production manager in my world.
<grin> Well, truth be...
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wanderlogged:
I think one of the PMs is trying to kill us. He keeps making calls longer and cutting breaks and talking to us on breaks about work and just not letting up. The guy is falling apart but he’s going to try and take us with him. And the schedule for next week is ludicrous too; two days in a row with 9.5 hour calls with a meal penalty (meaning no meal break).
Guh. If the...
dlynnm:
“conference and event planning specialist” and “communications specialist” (AKA A WRITER) jobs posted in the marketing department today.
TELL ME WHAT TO DO, PEOPLE. do i apply just in case? can i just do ALL the jobs? ugh. such great opportunities while i’m the middle of (hopefully) taking another.
Oh, apply absolutely, of course! There are no just-in-case situations when looking for...
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Names for Roman Dogs →
This came to mind after the recent thread on Κέρβερος / Cerberus.
The Cambridge Latin Course point loads of people to this page early on. In their Unit 1 book Cerberus—the family dog—appears on page 2 and has his own storyline by page 7.
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“A good friend you can trust to tell you truth.
A great friend you can trust to...”
– Philopithicus
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bemusedlybespectacled:
if you ever think mythology is boring or serious business or whatever shit
just remember that cerberus, the hell-hound and guard dog of the underworld, comes from the root indo-european word ḱerberos, which evolved into the greek word kerberos, which got changed to cerberus when it went from greek to latin
ḱerberos means “spotted”
that’s right
hades, lord of the dead,...
johnwatsonandjenniferjareau:
do you ever listen to broadway music and think
they just wrote a song about women killing their husbands
and its good
I bet there are more songs about women killing their husbands than we can ever know. Clytemnestra was onto something.
“The Chamber of Secrets has been opened. Enemies of the Heir, Beware.”
– Sylvia Plath (via incorrectsylviaplathquotes)
Entitled Generation: ME ME ME
ishouldbewhat:
This is something I wrote a long time ago, but it coincides with that post going around Tumblr with the TIME cover. This phrase, this “entitled twenty something” moniker being thrust upon pretty much everyone in my peer group is getting out of fucking hand. At this point I’ve heard people who are barely thirty something use it, and that’s just sort of the straw that broke the...
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Huge Payoff
I have hit a milestone. My classical Greek, which is still extremely wobbly, has risen to where perusing Sappho has blown my mind.
The translations don’t even start to show how brilliant these are. Sappho cuts exquisite diamonds and the translation says “colorful white rock.” Not to mention the Bowdlerizing of much of it.
I can see there’s still much going over my head,...
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“Ἄγε δὴ χέλυ δῖά μοι φωνάεσσα γένοιο.”
– Sappho [Come, heavenly lyre—sing my voice into being.]
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“Gosh, these cigarette packs sure are hard to open.”
– Nobody, Ever
GET A CLUE CD AND DVD PACKAGERS!
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When Harry Potter Met Frodo: The Strange World of... →
Novelist Naomi Alderman investigates the extraordinary subculture of internet fan fiction.
Oh, look! Someone made a BBC Radio program about…basically…Tumblr. And we can listen to it at this page.
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katemacetak:
I’m crowd-sourcing my job applications again.
If you are applying to an artsy creative writing organization, is it okay to break the usual cover letter template and do more of a narrative nonfiction style? Or should I stick with my usual “I would like to apply for the position of Blah and here are two paragraphs on my work experience as it applies to Blah.”
Also, writing...
Police have praised the bravery of three women... →
And, this being Ohio, let us all lament the tragic end to their kidnapper’s promising football career.
[Obviously this is said with industrial-strength facetiousness.]
Writing in Various Mindsets
I have learned this week I should not write critiques, emails, or notes late in the day, and in no way write anything I want to be coherent in the post-Ambien time run-up to bedtime.
No kidding…at one point I got into paragraphs about the body language of a character’s cigarette smoke directed across the table while pouring maple syrup over pancakes. And that was after the brief diversion...
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Sometimes I title moments in my life like a...
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and it annoys me but I also love it
The one where I drank a whole bottle of malbec
That’s a pretty good game. Here’s the title for April in our house:
The One Where It Wasn’t Cancer
hurricane-emily:
jimgaffigan:
Ladies I hope getting your nails done feels good because not a single man notices you got them done.
maybe
just maybe
women do some things for themselves and not just for men
what a concept
If your main concern about other people is what they’re doing for you, don’t be surprised if they’re never inclined to do anything for you again.
April 2013
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