Swiped from
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... The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms is so engrossing that you amble to the bathroom while still reading it. Just saying.

I use the *Living Social: Visual Bookshelf* application on Facebook. It's got a bunch of cool features which this post is not about. But when I was going through just now and updating some things, I wrote an informal review of the third or so translation of the Iliad I've read and stumbled upon another review ... written in the style of Robert ( Read more... )

According to Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition, "an idiot is a stupid person with a mental age below three years, while a moron is a stupid person with a mental age of between seven to twelve years."

Just thought you should know.

My mom emailed me this article: Its [sic] a catastrophe for the apostrophe in Britain (I'm not sure if the author of the article was being funny with the title or if that was just ironically bad copy editing.) Her comment at the top of the email: Too funny for words'

Two things (or so) I want to know:

1) If the issue is that the king no longer owns ( Read more... )

I resolve to eat less
(vegetables)

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I have nothing of substance to say today. So I'm posting this thieved  post from my friend Lexi, http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=13701966&blogID=357019322 it amused me, so I'm sharing it:

The Oresteia: A Colloquial Version

I'm reading Aeschylus' The Oresteia for one of my classes right now, and I just finished reading ( Read more... )

 
Ok, bunch of stuff:

First, thanx SOOO MUCH to everyone who was praying or just putting out good vibes for me about the job with Butler Hill. They’re sending me a contract and I’ll begin training next week!!! Of course, the switching around with my ISP is now going to make things a little hari kari because they want me to start so soon, but it will ( Read more... )

 Warning: if you're a man you may not enjoy reading this.

Disclaimer #1: on the spectrum of feminists in the world, I am usually pretty low, but this is extremely funny.

Disclaimer #2: I normally am not a huge fan of body-humor, unless it was written by ancient Greeks, but again, this is really good.

The following email came from one of my favorite ( Read more... )