My latest CL blog entry is live. This time out: the CMA's, lolcats, Birthers, and texting soda cans. Link follows:

Word's Worth: Forget-meme-not

Older crazy by clickinghere.

Tags: commentary, hype, writing

New post on the Creative Loafing blog. Hit the link below for ramblings on South Park, GLAAD, and Professor X:

Word's Worth: Sacred cows and coddling sheep

As before, older posts at this link

Tags: hype, lgbt, television, writing

I talked my way into getting a slot at Creative Loafing's blog a few weeks ago. The basic subject matter is language, though as you'll notice, I'm not especially strict in how I apply my "beat." This is the most recent entry:

Word's Worth: Traditional definitions

There's an 'author archive' with the first blurbs from all the others and links to the full entries by clicking here.

Tags: hype, lgbt, writing

So, I'm supposed to be getting money for something I wrote (which: hooray!), but it's coming via PayPal. I've never actually received money that way, only purchased through the account. Anyone familiar with how I get the money after it's in my PayPal account and / or what the best method of doing so is (looking on the site it looks like there are a couple different options)? Ideally, while I certainly want the money to go to my bank account, I don't want to wind up having my PayPal draw directly from my bank account for purchases after this is all over.

Tags: anecdotes, technology

Just so you know...






Jo-Ann Fabric meets all your pimp coat needs.

Tags: anecdotes

So, depsite having just watched this episode the other day, I still managed to forget the word when I broke the aglet on my lace last night. In service to the public, then, Phineas and Ferb shall remind us once again:

Tags: anecdotes, television

This is why you should watch Glee. The hilarious-awesome starts at about the 2:30 mark:

Tags: recommendations, television

This is on a loop in my head right now, so I'm sharing:

Tags: recommendations, theatre

I don't blog dreams a lot, but my dreams aren't usually this creative, so what the heck.

Okay, actually, the first part of the dream isn't especially creative. I was at a fashion show, and the first designer's concept involved making all of his models look like Fern Mallis. Clearly that's just too many hours of Bravo TV talking.

But the second designer had these crazy male models on horses, only they were rigged with some combination of mechanical harnessing and prosthetic makeup so that they looked like honest to goodness centaurs. Well, they had weirdly spindly legs as part of the contraption that combined the two of them (there was some sort of stilt assembly that let the rider control the horse's legs with his own since it couldn't see), but centaurs. And in the dream, this wasn't just some fashion statement, but there was a whole community of people who lived like this. They had a name, but I have no idea what it is now.

It was weird and bizarre and absolutely cool, which my brain never dreams, so: go brain!

Tags: anecdotes

So, watching Troy on TV inevitably made me think of Handy, which lead to the YouTube:



EDIT: And here's the original:

Tags: anecdotes, television