Overheard in a bar… There once was a dyke named Louise With pubic hair down to her knees. Her crabs got together And knitted a sweater So in winter her twat wouldn’t freeze. I worked from home today, spending almost all eight hours editing the TDI Users Guide. I did stop long enough to send … Read more
It’s riotous stuff like this that makes me want to rethink not having a television for almost five years now. NEW YORK — In response to a revealing paparazzi picture, Rosie O’Donnell wants Britney Spears to start wearing underwear and to stop hanging out with Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan. Spears has been photographed more … Read more
To measure the speed of meme. He’s trying to measure the actual “organic” rate at which a meme can traverse the Internet. Results to be presented at the Modern Language Association. Interesting project. Help the guy out! The simplest way to help is just to click on the link above. If you want to help … Read more
Haircut Of The Year I was up at 9:00 today, and spent most of the day putting the final touches on my “Sounding Gay” survey for my final paper in ENG 525 Variety in Language. I got to school at about 5:30, and the class that meets in the room we meet in at 6:00 … Read more
Thanks in advance to anyone willing to help! From the perspective of the study of sociolinguistics, there is only a small body of work around the idea of “sounding gay” — both in terms of what that means, and how it is learned (or not). The phenomenon has been studied, again linguistically, with varying amounts of research … Read more
I got out of the bed at 10:13; checkout time was 11:00. I dialed 0, and in my most tired morning voice, I said, “Can we please have a late checkout at noon?” “Yes, that won’t be a problem,” she said. Checking out, she asked, “Was everything okay?” “Yes, everything other than that huge water … Read more
We got up at about 10:00, and at about 10:40, were just about to cross the street to try breakfast at Daily Bread when Joe’s phone rang. He and Nitton had talked about having brunch together today, and he was checking in on that. Nitton said to invite me, and to meet their group at … Read more
I picked up Joe at about 10:00, and we took I-40 W to Benson, where we picked up I-95 S and took it all the way to Savannah. We exited onto 17 S in Savannah, and we could see our hotel while crossing the bridge into the city. We stayed at the recently-renovated Thunderbird Inn, … Read more
I ended up getting out of Raleigh at 10:00 instead of meeting my planned 9:30 departure. Most of they way, I kept my mind busy memorizing my list of 18 puns. I had planned to listen to a couple of podcasts on the way, but after the exercise in gray cells, I listened to some … Read more
One word: Prudie. Two words: Love her! A couple of well-deserved bitch-slapping responses to this week’s letters, which includes one about a possibly gay stepson, a woman whose heart is “fluttering so much that it’s cutting off the oxygen to her brain,” and a mother who can’t get over the son-in-law she never even had. … Read more