Writes all the things. Most of the things never write back.
I learned today that dogs may understand a human vocabulary of 150 words or so.
And I thought, I hope those 150 are the most utilitarian, and not something esoteric like sesquipedalian.
I mean, sesquipedalian is a fine word, but a dog’s not gonna have that many chances to hear it and act on it.
Two fire trucks
Backing into the fire station
Each at their own pace
Their backup beepers
At perfect pitch —
Synchronous to start
Slipping out of phase
And into a perfect
Syncopation
In a performance worthy of
Phillip Glass
🎶 We wiff you a Merry Chriffmus
We wiff you a Merry Chriffmus
We wiff you a Merry Chriffmus
and a Happy New Year! 🎶
Man. These fangs are making enunciating Christmas carols difficult, the werewolf thought to himself.
The word of the day is promontory.
But then, is anyone really antimontory?
I keep hearing these portentous (BONUS word of the day!) radio news people proclaiming AMERICA ON LOCKDOWN!, and I have to question their responsibility in doing so. It’s not accurate – public officials have been excellent at communicating that we are NOT on lockdown; travel is discouraged and non-essentials are not to go to work (at least around here).
But officials have been at pains to convey that we are NOT on lockdown, there ARE no travel restrictions, there ARE no curfews. In the face of that, I consider it irresponsible of the news media to use inaccurate terms which unnecessarily increase public anxiety.
Note that these are the syndicated/national news people, so it’s clearly NOT accurately as reported on a national basis. And they fail to give local examples where that is the case.
I was hearing an ad on the radio for Lincolns, and as they rattled off the model names, one sounded familiar – and I made the connection. In 2019 there’s a Lincoln Corsair, but in 1958 and 1959 – there was an Edsel Corsair. I guess sixty years was a safe distance.
Other Edsel model names have since been reused. There was an Edsel Citation (Chevrolet), an Edsel Pacer (American Motors), an Edsel Ranger (Ford), an Edsel Viilager (Mercury), and an Edsel Comet (Mercury).
The Edsel Bermuda and Edsel Roundup are still waiting to be used again as car model names.
Heard on the radio: a local road is going to be closed “24/7 for the next week.”
I wonder what they thought the 7 in 24/7 represents?
“I’ll do that for you if you give me that cephalopod you’re holding.”
“But that would be…”
“Yes. A squid pro quo.”
Every time I see the Cyrillic alphabet pop up on my tablet, it reminds me that I wonder sometimes whatever happened to Love Potion No. 1 through 8? (There’s a single keystroke in Cyrillic for No. )
Was there a foundational Love Potion No. 0?
Is there one ur-Love Potion to bind them all, and in the darkness find them?
“You understood that the love potion was experimental, and you assumed the risk.”
“BUT I DIDN’T ANTICIPATE I’D DEVELOP AN OVERWHELMING LOVE FOR MATHMATICS! I’M NOT EVEN GOOD AT MATHMATICS!”
— The Failure of Love Potion Number Pi
My neck of the woods has snow sliding down it.