Just saw a plot description about a kidnapped scientist and a rescue team trying to beat the clock, and I thought, just rescue the scientist and leave the poor clock alone!
Denude and deprivation
The word of the night is deprivation.
Deprivation reminds me of another recent word, denude. If privation is the lack of essentials, shouldn’t DEprivation mean the removal from that condition?
IMpure evil
A movie trailer has a character described as “pure evil.”
Now I want to write a character of impure evil. She’ll kill you, but you can fool around a little first.
If you’re looking for the Super Bowl…
I don’t know how to break it to you other than to just say it:
Super Bowl LI is NOT being played in Long Island, as you might have thought.
…and the winner is…
Both the Screen Actors Guild awards and the NFL Pro Bowl are on tonight. I’ll be switching back and forth between the two, which may result in me seeing an award for Best Acting in Exaggerating an Injury on the Field.
Surviving 2016
The new New Years Eve tradition:
BURNING THE CALENDAR FOR THIS YEAR.
We SURVIVED YOU, 2016.
Reversion, though, implies a lower plane…
I just got an e-mail inviting me to join a spiritual organization whose beliefs include reincarnation, and who said “And if you are interested kindly revert back to us for more details”.
Hmm. If I did that, what would I be reverting back to? What do they know that I don’t?
(I don’t believe in reincarnation. But my past self did.)
I’d… rather not, thanks
The local radio news reported at the bottom of the hour that we are “about to get another taste of Old Man Winter.” Ewww.
We, the favored
I like the way they worded the snowfall prediction in one forecast:
“Heavier amounts in favored snowbelt locales.”
I feel so… special.
#blessed
The plot thickens…
Just exactly how does ‘the plot thicken?’ Do you use cornstarch or flour or arrowroot, or do you just cook it down like a reduction?