Archive for November, 2007

Intensive Purposes and other Wonders of the English Language

Published Date: November 18th, 2007
Category: Nerdee

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I’m so embarrassed right now I’d gladly let my favorite Language teacher from grade school bury me alive under a mound of old periodical exams.
It took me 27 years, 2 months, and 29 days to find out that the correct term is “for all intents and purposes” — HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH I’m so fucking embarrassed — if [...]

Tribute to Nerds

Published Date: November 17th, 2007
Category: Life as a Peon

Just watched Office Space for the first time in years. I remember being in college and watching it, probably during one of those extraordinarily-long vacants, or blowing off a class or something. We didn’t get it at the time; we were wide-eyed and in college and because we were studying and thought long exams and [...]

Antony

Published Date: November 15th, 2007
Category: Teevee

Oi. James Purefoy as Antony. Sleazy and meaty and odoriferously greasy like an ex-boyfriend, and goddamn if that mascara doesn’t look good on him. I was crying like a jilted girlfriend when he drove himself into the well-made Roman sword.

The second season just finished here (the DVD was released weeks ago), and even though I [...]

Wien

Published Date: November 15th, 2007
Category: Travelogues

Vienna looks like what Manila could have looked like if they kept the old, war-era buildings instead of tearing them down to make carparks. After the war, the Austrian government erected low-cost housing for the thousands who were left homeless, which also explains why there are so many buildings that look like square cement boxes [...]

Lucio Fontana, Spatial Concept “Waiting”, 1960 (2)

Published Date: November 3rd, 2007
Category: Artsy Fartsy

(A year and a half ago I said…)
And then this week Sel posts this.

A portal, or the promise of a portal, the possibility of another world. I wonder what it holds. We have no right to assume that the universe would let us in on all its secrets.
“We were walking and arguing, some stupid little [...]