December 2010
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Touché
Me, reciting a fact courtesy of Fruit Ninja: “‘The crabapple is the only apple native to the United States.’”
Mom: “Your grandfather had four kids at your age.”
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So You're a Polygamist
“I’m spending Christmas with my wife Lucy” implies that Lucy is one of many wives. Embrace the comma, you guys: ”I’m spending Christmas with my wife, Lucy.”
If the information is unnecessary, include the comma. Your wife. You have one. I get it. You don’t need to mention her name.
If the information is necessary, however, omit the comma: “Last...
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Oh. I thought this would be figurative.
If there’s a video art installation titled “Horse Sacrifice” at a national gallery, it’s a video of a horse being sacrificed. And mutilated. And whose entrails and severed head are then used as props in a nightmarish role play involving a figure who circles the madness with a cardboard crucifix.
Then again, this cafe is playing Barry White and Barry White only, so I guess you’ve evened things...
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