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Z2K9 — The Day the Music Froze During the Loading Screen
Update 1/1/2009: All better. The thing “fixed” itself. I was this close to composing a strongly worded letter written under only natural light. In the time between beginning this post and finishing it, it looks like Microsoft formally announced a solution to the issue, the always exciting “it’ll fix itself tomorrow.” Of course, that doesn’t […]
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People Who Say “Cheers” Instead of “Goodbye”
Special note on the title: I figured that there must be an opposite of the word “greeting,” and it turns out it’s “valediction.” Instead of using a houty-touty word such as that, I’ve grouped everything into the serves-all “goodbye.” You’re welcome. I saw some of the MTV Movie Awards tonight, and Johnny Depp, accepting Best […]
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Using “Forrest Gump” as a Verb
So I was reading USA Today the other day. Yeah, I know, it’s the best newspaper in the history of ever, and it’s seemingly also the official newspaper of travelling, being that most of its readership statistics stem from the fact that hotels usually give it away to hordes of travellers each morning. “I’ll Forrest […]
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Monicaann F. Spade’s Letter to the editor of the Morning Call
Even USA Today wouldn’t have letters to the editor this bad. I know what you’re going to think” that I have some ridiculous obsession with the dictionary. That I spend all my nights thinking about the new word I’m going to learn the next day, and that I have a huge wall-hanging devoted to Webster […]