"Poems are rafts clutched at by men drowning in inadequate minds."

- Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral MindI'm still enjoying this book - I'm a little over halfway through - but this line in particular just jumped out at me. The idea that language evolves as a series of metaphors, always increasing in ( Read more... )

"...the placement by Price Waterhouse of "sex stereotyping" in quotation marks throughout its brief seems to us an insinuation either that such stereotyping was not present in this case or that it lacks legal relevance. We reject both possibilities."

- Justice Brennan, Price Waterhouse v. HopkinsI kind of love this. Brennan is calling Price ( Read more... )

My one beef with Glee, as fantastic as it is, is that now I have that ridiculous, inane, insipid, Kanye-approved, monogamonormative yet upsettingly catchy song stuck in my head ( Read more... )

I finally broke down and ordered some of the books that have been on my Amazon wish list for a long, long time. See, I have the wish list so that my family stops asking me what I want for holidays and also stops getting me stuff that I have no desire/use for, and my family has largely responded by sending me more money, which is cool. But anyhow ( Read more... )

"Oh no! A scourge of anger has struck America's seventh most popular sport and thirty-eighth most prestigious awards show! We're all doomed! This is almost as bad as Y2K."

- Lewis Black

I'm listening to the new Melissa Ferrick album, and it's quite enjoyable. Better than the last, in my opinion.

I just typed "handle" to refer to a username in a conversation with kinfae. In the early days of networked computing - I'm talking BBS here, although it persisted into the late 90s, I think - we used to say "handle" pretty much without thinking. We borrowed it from truckers on CBs. At some point it switched to username, and I haven't seen "handle" in ( Read more... )

Hilarious.

Wow. Everyone needs to see this if they haven't already.

Sitting with a number eight platter at the restaurant ( Read more... )