Posted on July 3, 2008 by Sweet Machine
Several years ago, my brother J coined what has become an eminently useful phrase in my repertoire: spaghetti language. Spaghetti language is what you speak when you’re half-asleep and you think you’re having a real conversation but actually are spewing gibberish. (The phrase, naturally, was coined in spaghetti language: J was trying to have a [...]
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Posted on June 27, 2008 by Sweet Machine
It’s summer here in the northern hemisphere, and the living, as they say, is easy. Or at least, it’s been easy for me the last week because I’ve been on a little staycation since my classes/orals/grading frenzy ended; I have stuff to work on over the summer, but suddenly I live in a world of [...]
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Posted on June 20, 2008 by fillyjonk
I would like to wish a very happy blogiversary weekend to the wonderful Miss Conduct, who is not only a consummate advice columnist but also one of the brilliant minds behind the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (which Dan will be joining as soon as I can get his luxuriant hair and his rather [...]
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Posted on June 13, 2008 by Sweet Machine
In honor of our new bouncy castle theme (and because we just can’t seem to stop posting this week!), please enjoy this bouncing banjo baby. I can’t figure out how to embed it with this newfangled Flickr video nonsense, so watch it here for now (link warning: music plays automatically). (If any WordPress users can [...]
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Posted on June 6, 2008 by fillyjonk
I have a tattoo appointment tonight, after putting it off for about two years. This is pretty much how I operate with ink; I get an idea in my head, I sit on it forever, and then I suddenly get a bug up my butt to get it done RIGHT RIGHT NOW. (”Right [...]
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Posted on May 30, 2008 by kateharding
So, Ozlem from Igigi wrote the other day to ask if I might mention a couple of their new summer dresses, and because she gives me discounts for these things, I shall oblige.
I kid! Sort of. I like the discounts and I genuinely dig these dresses. (For the record, I actually don’t like a lot [...]
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Posted on May 23, 2008 by fillyjonk
I want to draw everyone’s attention to this post by our advice columnist ally, the spectacular Miss Conduct, at whose dinner parties I would dearly love to be a fly on the wall. (I had an advice-columnist crush on Miss Conduct even before I found out that her husband publishes my beloved Annals of Improbable [...]
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Posted on May 16, 2008 by fillyjonk
TropicalChrome just pronounced it “a lose all my faith in humanity kind of day,” and that’s the kind of day that Friday Fluff was made for. We get into some heavy shit here, and sometimes we need to lighten up. So in honor of this Craigslist posting, I declare a haiku-off!
I will write [...]
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Posted on May 9, 2008 by Sweet Machine
Open thread!
What’s on your mind? Got any plans for this weekend? Have you seen Iron Man yet? (My opinion: fun, but Robert Downey Jr’s facial hair is tragic. Speaking of which: should Mr Machine attempt to grow a Mustache of the 19th Century?) Which is cuter: teensy bunny, or kitties in love?
Have at it, Shapelings! [...]
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Posted on May 2, 2008 by kateharding
It is a truth universally acknowledged by pedants that spell checkers are pretty much the worst thing ever to happen to civilization. Back in the day, at least people tried to proofread, but now, everyone assumes their built-in spell checkers and grammar checkers will take care of that for them. (At least, everyone who came [...]
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