The word of the day is execrable. I had to look up the word origin on this one, because I was wondering if it was related to excrement. Turns out, it isn’t. Execrable is from the Latin ecrābilis – accursed, detestable.
The Republican job interview
Imagine a carousel filled with Republican Presidential candidates, with job interview questions being shouted at them as they revolve by.
That’s what this Republican Presidential debate format is like.
The special is…
McDonald’s is advertising that a burger that was $4.99, is now… $4.99.
It’s probably $4.99 tomorrow, too.
The rising moon
The rising moon
does not escape
the teeth of the hungry trees
whole.
Apples in a tree by the roadside
I saw a roadside tree with ripe apples, and considered stopping and taking one, but that never goes well in fairy tales, does it?
The writer paid by the word
How you know a writer is being paid by the word: when he writes something like this –
“Behold us, turned to birds, a prey to the talons of kites, hawks, and falcons! Behold us made companions of water-hens, snipes, goldfinches, woodpeckers, jays, owls, magpies, jackdaws, rooks, starlings, woodcocks, cocks, hens and chickens, turkey-cocks, blackbirds, thrushes, chaffinches, tomtits, jenny-wrens, lapwings, linnets, greenfinches, crossbills, flycatchers, larks, plovers, kingfishers, wagtails, redbreasts, redfinches, sparrows, ducks, fieldfares, woodpigeons and bullfinches!”
(To which the editor replies, “I think we got the point after, oh, the first half-dozen birds listed.”)
The evil writer
“I’m not saying he’s evil… but he puts the sin in synopsis.”
Who loves ya, baby?
“There’s something very soothing about hanging out with people who know all about your faults and like you just fine anyway.”
~ Maggie Stiefvater
Impossible!
Whenever I reject a writing idea as impossible, it becomes both irresistible and inevitable.
(Don’t be) the world’s biggest jackass
Lindsey Graham recently advised “Don’t be the world’s biggest jackass.”
I must admit, there may be better ways to get yourself into the Guinness Book of World Records.
I’m sorry to say that this statement has crowded out all the search results for just how big the world’s biggest jackass is or was. As a result, he remains in obscurity.