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Bad sentence of the week
Matt Davis, in the online car mag Winding Road, re: the new Audi S5:
"Audi is impetuously tearing open its sensible shirt and flashing its formidable man breasts." -
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Woke up somehow hung over without having consumed any alcohol ( Read more... ) -
QOTD
"Writing about technology is like having sex in a bathtub: If you don't know anything about sex, it won't help to know a lot about bathtubs."
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Windbag alert and attention conservation notice
I have developed a manifesto-sized idea and am about to blog it out. You have been warned. Long essays making a large cultural point can't be sold and published conventionally unless the author is a respected and eminent intellectual or a rock 'n' roll star. Those who can, do; those who aren't, blog ( Read more... ) -
I actually like Panera just fine...
...but whoever wrote this needs to be taken out to the shed and shot:What is bread leadership?
With the single goal of making great bread broadly available to consumers across America, Panera Bread freshly bakes more bread each day than any bakery-cafe concept in the country.
From writing, no, what, soup, panera, corporateprose, bread, marketing, coffeeTHERMOBARIC
- The initial anaerobic detonation reaction, microseconds in duration, is primarily a redox reaction of molecular species. The initial detonation reaction defines the system’s high pressure performance characteristics: armor penetrating ability.
- The post detonation anaerobic combustion reaction, hundreds of microseconds in duration, is primarily a ( Read more... )
ripples
One of my dad's former students and a family friend is Marti Leimbach. She has been a successful novelist since the MFA program, with one of those kaboom debuts. Her first novel was Dying Young, which was not only a very good book but was made into a movie, causing fame and money, etc. (The book is way better than the movie for anyone who only ( Read more... )Chabon on MFA programs and being a little shit
This is interesting. Michael Chabon was a student of my father's in the UCI MFA program more than 20 years ago. He's been a family friend since, and I also admire his writing.
In his website column this week he writes about the value of the program. He's given props to my dad before by name, many times, which was gratifying. This is more ( Read more... )My Orwellian Day
Nick and I talked for about an hour about Orwell and specifically 1984. People use the word "Orwellian" a lot or say "That's so 1984", but it's a lot more than just totalitarianism and the abuse of language. 1984 is rich in detail and just about every single little detail is accurate almost to the degree of prophecy. If you haven't read it, or ( Read more... )Who broke who in the what now?
ludickid points to an almost completely incomprehensible review of Brokeback Mountain by a very confused guy, and the discussion thread produces much hilarity.
We are all Junior High School Newspaper Editorials now.
If you don't have time to read the entire mess of a review, this very short silent video the guy posted of himself off his xanga (!) ( Read more... )