"Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place." William Strunk and E.B. White wrote in their venerated Elements of Style.

It's super foggy outside. Like really hard to see and I expected to be attacked by a werewolf at any moment foggy.

Sadly, no werewolves.

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It's not Christmas until you've seen David Bowie and Bing Crosby singing "Little Drummer Boy"

Happy Holidays, everyone :D

For eight days you have to post something that made you happy that day.

Ovid. Holy crap. No one's really surprised, but just when I think I couldn't love him anymore, I read the Ars Amatoria. It is so funny. I appreciate the various levels in which the poem can be read, but viewed in its use of hunting metaphors? An amazing comedy ( Read more... )

"A hunt (thera) could be called also a hunt (agra), and a hunt (kunegesion), and hunts (therai), and hunts (agrai), and hunts (kunegesia), and a hunter (threutes) also a hunter (agreutes) and a hunter (kunegetes). And the one working with this one a fellow hunter (sunkunegetes), a fellow hunter (suntheros), and a fellow hunter (homotheros)" ( ( Read more... )

For an album that's been awaited for seventeen years, Chinese Democracy is not being talked about enough.

For the record, I really like it so far.

I got new headphones today since my iPod ones were getting defunct. Holy crap, the sound is better.

( You Tube Spam, in brief )

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This is why I love the band. "Why did we do this today?" "Why didn't we do it every day?"

And there need to be more songs about how guys are creepy and stalkerish.

&EDIT: Andy, where are you!? I just got to the part in Livy where Romulus leaves behind a tiny guard and now I can't stop laughing.

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And now that the Week is over, time to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing. Sleeping lots, for starts.

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