John Blumenthal’s The Case of the Hard-Boiled Dicks is supposed to be a spoof of hard-boiled detective novels. The cover has a number of visual puns (hard-boiled eggs, a stiff wearing shoes with gum on the bottom), and the humor inside doesn’t get much better. A really good spoof understands the material being mocked; […]
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Faith, Books, and Stuff
Last night I saw Pixar’s latest movie, Up It was brilliant. For those of you who either haven’t seen it or, hopefully, haven’t even seen the trailers, I will just say this: go see it. Personally, I try not to watch trailers anymore, as it seems some of Hollywood’s most talented people make awesome trailers for […]
So I’m working and I hear this guy use the word ‘afterneath,’ as in “there is some stuff afterneath this other stuff.” I’ve never heard that word beforeneath now.
There is an infrequently used word that describes someone who is stingy or miserly. You logophiles out there probably know the word I am talking about. For the rest of you, here it is: niggard If this word is new to you, it has no racial connotations. After the definition, the New Oxford American Dictionary […]
n. the epithet ‘jerk’ when pronounced with a non-rhotic accent; rhymes with ‘buck.’ Example: “Pahk the cah in the Hahvad Yahd, ya juhk.”
I wish to apologize to the people who sat behind us at the spring concert at the middle school. It was quite rude of us to schedule and play a concert right in the middle of your conversation. My only regret is that we didn’t pick a more intuitive location for a concert other than […]
We had been out of town for a couple of weeks due to a death in the family, and as we heard later, our daughter’s best friend took the absence kind of hard. Finally one day she sat down mopily and said: “I’m friendsick.”
X-Men Origins: Wolverine isn’t really that great of a movie. It doesn’t stink like X-Men 3, but it doesn’t rock like X-Men 1 & 2. The movie has a number of completely superfluous characters who, if you removed them from the movie, wouldn’t change the plot one bit, Gambit and The Blob being the most […]
My husband finds some of the best websites (and gets me hooked on them) and I will share them all with you. www.neatorama.com I love this website because it updates several times during the day and the posts are very interesting. Not every post is something that I am interested in but about 80-85% of […]
The McDonald’s I get my coffee at frequently gives me a discounted senior coffee. I figured it was because they liked me, or they just like rewarding their frequent fliers, not because of all the gray in my beard. But some time ago I was at a McDonald’s in downtown Kansas City and they gave […]