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LONG TIME NO SEE RANDOM POST
Up here in New York, I've picked up the habit of mispronouncing any Spanish word as badly as I can to see if anyone notices or corrects me.
Taco = "tack-oh"
Burrito = "burr-it-oh"
Quesadilla = "Kwes-ah-dill-a", "dill" as in "dill pickle"
Jalapeños = "jal-o-peen-os", with the j sound in "jar ( Read more... ) -
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: GROCERY LIST
Everybody's said just about everything about this election already, so there isn't too much I need to add. So instead, and in keeping with my NaNoWriMo theme of snatching up other author's styles (in case you haven't been following) I give you a modern-day trip to the grocery store, Coleridge-style. I'm calling this one
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MAYA ANGELOU: COOKBOOK
I'm sure I posted this one somewhere else before, so sorry if it's a repeat for some folks, but I realized it fits in to this whole current NaNoWriMo theme of gaffling other authors' styles.
Anyway. Maya Angelou has an honest dang cookbook out there, and Oprah's favorite recipe out of it is apparently the banana pudding.
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HEMINGWAY: THE CHILDREN'S BOOK
He was a magic dragon who frolicked in the autumn mist in Honah Lee and it had been eighty-seven days since he could be brave. In the first days of summer a boy had been with him. But after forty days of painted wings and giant rings the boy's parents told him that the dragon was now definitely and finally fábula, which is the worst form of ( Read more... ) -
NaNoSomethingortheother
I was wondering what to do this year for the ol' Novel Writing Month, which has basically turned into this thing where instead of writing a novel, I make up some sort of weird nutty writing assignment and go to it until I get busy with something else.
And then drinky_lemur mentioned in a post yesterday that he was once given an assignment to write in the ( Read more... ) -
not the mason-dixon line but possibly just as important
This world is made up of lines, lines that often don't exist anywhere except in our heads. Where one country or state leaves off and another begins. Property rights. Things that divide us, things that we don't even know have been dividing us for years.Like mayonnaise ( Read more... ) -
JOE THE PLUMBER
McCain mentioned Joe the Plumber something like 21 times during the debate. In fact, I felt like the whole thing was kind of a love letter from McCain to good old Joe. But who is Joe, really?
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Movie meme: last two.
Here's the answers to the quotes no one guessed-I'm going to do this in the form of really obvious quotes.
2. "I have just shot someone, I did it on purpose."2nd quote from 2. "'Rubber baby buggy bumpers.' Ha! You did not know I would say that ( Read more... )
