I just got home from a very enjoyable evening at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston with my Continuing Studies Advanced Visual Arts classmates and our teacher. We stormed the European Galleries building and saw lots of cool stuff, but more importantly discussed the lives and times of many artists, the tragedies and joys and physical hardships that ( Read more... )

So after my brief Twitter encounter with Jaye trying to figure out how to say "Fuck you, bitch!" in Latin, I mentioned it to the guy sitting next to me in class - right when one of those brilliant silences fell upon the classroom ( Read more... )

So I enrolled in a credit Latin course at the university, because I can. I opted for the Intermediate course as a review, and boy am I glad I did because the first assignment is kicking my ass. I am almost two hours in and almost halfway through the paragraph we were assigned. (The paragraph! Argh. I used to sit around reading Cicero's letters all ( Read more... )

For some reason this morning I just cannot get past this stupid, ridiculous issue. I know it's probably going to be totally irrelevant because of common usage shifts and things, but damn it!

"Box set" bothers me. It looks wrong, and it sounds wrong. I run into it all the time. It's the frakking standard listing on Wikipedia! Yeaaaargh!
Box: not ( Read more... )