March 2009
103 posts
“A first-class mind is a gift. I was given mine, and I expect you were given a...”
– Martin McCabe, Absolute Power
Duly added to my list of put-downs.
joserizal:
eush:
Tsokolate—Smokey, Nutty, Pinoy Hot Chocolate | Serious Eats
This is what I had waiting for me at the breakfast table every morning when I was back in the Philippines. It was so good I actually went without coffee for a week.
I need some Ibarra or Abuelita right now, as a substitute to tsokolate.
Naku, saan kaya ako makakakita nito?
Sa Pilipinas, maraming mahahanap na...
Renowned Hoo-Ha Doctor Wins Nobel Prize For... →
“We should be encouraging an open dialogue with our young women, one that isn’t constrained by some outdated facade of 1950s morality,” Lazoff said to a crowd of people looking down at their shoes.
“Don’t make me go ‘Dog the Bounty Hunter’ on you.”
– My advisor really wants my rough draft done by Wednesday.
Found on the wall
scribbled grafitto: ‘Fuck me like it’s your job’
scribbled riposte: ‘Do I get paid?’
I have seven pounds of Boston Butt roasting in the oven, and I am currently munching on bacon chocolate. Can’t get any more meat than that without resorting to dirty jokes.
Chinese Columnist says: you don’t flex your... →
joserizal:
californiasun:
As a nation of servants, you don’t flex your muscles at your master, from whom you earn most of your bread and butter. As a patriotic Chinese man, the news has made my blood boil. I summoned Louisa, my domestic assistant who holds a degree in international politics from the University of Manila, hung a map on the wall, and gave her a harsh lecture. Sternly warned her...
lucubrate
kbkarma:
tristanjay7:
wordjournal:
verb • /ˈluː.kjə.bɹeɪt/ • to work diligently by artificial light; to study at night.
From Latin lucubro: to work by lamp-light, work at night
kfellows:
I hope someone calls me out on this, but I really don’t think that’s the meaning. Certainly, the word’s origins lie in that meaning. But, I’ve never heard the word used in this way before. I even pulled...
Hark, a vagrant: 32 →
kbkarma:
eush:
kbkarma:
I’d like to thank eush for getting me back into this comic. By the way, the letters are pornographic in content, so NSFW.
Oh man, this one is going to give me nightmares.
The fun part? You brought it on yourself by proxy.
FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUU—-
Hark, a vagrant: 32 →
kbkarma:
I’d like to thank eush for getting me back into this comic. By the way, the letters are pornographic in content, so NSFW.
Oh man, this one is going to give me nightmares.
“Curiosity—that’s what kills us. Not muggers or all that bullshit about the ozone...”
– Greek Chorus Leader (F Murray Abraham), Mighty Aphrodite
“The way [Language Log] call The Elements of Style “horrid” is juvenile, but...”
– Neven Mrgan’s tumbl
I read Strunk & White once. Nothing about it really distinguished it for me as the grammar book par excellence. Maybe it’s because I learned English in the Philippines, at a school where they drill grammar into you well before you hit the 3rd grade, so that I’d heard...
Overheard by a friend of mine
Little Girl: Mommy, do dinosaurs go to heaven?
Mom: Of course they do, sweetheart.
Little Girl: (in despair) NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
(via www.is.gd/oKGj. Stupid chat posts won’t let me put hyperlinks in.)
The Divine Comedy - My Lovely Horse (Father Ted...
Dispatches from Manila →
Robin Hemley is the director of the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. He’s spending the year on a Guggenheim Fellowship in the Philippines with his family. Why the Philippines? Read on and find out—he’ll be checking in regularly.
“Even those of us who habitually favor serious, austere, aesthetically correct...”
– AO Scott. This is henceforth going to be my excuse for my guilty pleasures.
An equation
Missing the Greek islands
+ being bored as shit because all my friends have left for spring break
+ a pirated DVD I got back in the Philippines
+ a giant long-standing crush on Stellan Skarsgård
= I’m watching Mamma Mia! right now. Sweet merciful Jesus.
“I’m not really familiar with ‘Twittering’, on the grounds that I’ve been...”
– Andy Zaltzman, The Bugle
“Ffffghgg csdlkfj gekjl.”
– It’s what the French say. (edited for accuracy)
“Girls, do you know what we would really like? We would like to come among our...”
– Really poor wording from a ‘letter’ from Christian guys to Christian girls. Reading stuff like this makes me want to throw up.
Sufjan Stevens - O Come, O Come Emmanuel
This is...
crumbler:
davidmaddox:
Sigur Ros - “Saeglopur...
“As far as I can tell you’re as guilty as a puppy sitting next to a pile of...”
– Lieutenant George St. Barleigh, Blackadder Goes Forth.
The Divine Comedy - Gin Soaked Boy
I’m...
Stephen Fry will do his level best to comply with...
And our first letter comes from Ms Jennifer Paxton, who writes:
Dear Stephen,
My father died recently after a brief illness, and I wondered if you could do your level best to take me down to the underworld, find my father, and bring him back to the land of the living, just like Orpheus and Eurydice.
Ah. Well, Jennifer, I think we probably could.
………
Well, as you have gathered, there...
“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not...”
– Richard Dawkins (via tmblg)
For being so intelligent, Dawkins does a fine job of sounding like a fool. I’ve no inherent love for institutionalized religions, but this sort of woeful, sweeping generalization smacks of the very same blind dogmatism that legitimate rationalism seeks to dispel.
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