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I have a horse pantomime costume here. Any experience being a horse’s ass?
I was quoted in the Chicago Tribune today by Nathan Bierma.
BlogBurst
BlogBurst, a blog-to-old-media syndication service Double-Tongued was invited to join, has gone live.
Fire in Greenpoint
Here’s a picture of the huge Greenpoint, Brooklyn, fire I took through a subway car window at Queens Plaza, looking south. More and better photos are at Flickr.
Words that rhyme with “orange”
I see with some regularity claims that there’s no word that rhymes with “orange,” “silver,” “month,” or other words. Recently someone on the American Dialect Society email list also included “chamber” as a word for which there is no rhyme in English. Most of those “nothing rhymes with” chestnuts are easily answered because the queries…
Two characters I thought were something other than white
I read a lot of books way beyond my age level when I was a kid. One side effect, besides learning words I couldn’t pronounce (a quirk shared by many people; I’m not the the only one who thought hors d’oeuvres was pronounced “horz dee-vores.”), was that I often missed details or let my own…
I support immigrants and immigration
I support today’s protests by those who believe that it should never be a felony to be an illegal immigrant in the United States. I support nationwide amnesty for illegal immigrants. I support the creation of guest-worker programs. I support giving immediate family members first priority and fast-track status when they apply for residency, asylum,…
Small-Time Scams and Grifts
I love this thread at Gothamist about small-time scams and grifts. I’m always interested more in the mind of the perpetrator than I am in that of the victim. There’s the high level of persistence. There’s the taking chances of running into the same marks again. There’s the low payout. There’s the massive amount of…
Things in my apartment which beep
Totally ripping off a quick jot by Felix Salmon, who ordinarily writes persuasive articles—they’re of such high quality to call them “blog entries” would be to demean them—on politics, urban planning, media, and other public interest topics that need a fresh bird’s-eye view. Things in my apartment that beep or ding and which have not…
Where there’s a small lie, there’s a big one
Now this is the kind of fact-checking I like to see. Patrick Nielsen Hayden exposes liars lying about book sales. One of the main themes Patrick and his wife Teresa always seem to be exploring on their blog could be called the broken window theory of politics: where there’s a small lie, there’s almost always…