Category Archives: language

Checking in on the list of band names

Latest editions to the list include, but are not limited to, the following: Near Trousers Gucci Rush and the Super-Neons Secret Culottes Asbestos Hobbits Morning Bunny Loofah Tribe Agriwidgets Surfeit of Birds Budget Brains Lucifer’s Lemon Weapons Grade Lentils Infinite Ladybugs Flying Pasties Prairie Dog Diversity Love Biscuits Lucky Krill The Electric Girdles Druid Pubes [...]

Regional

Jibber-jawed comb gettin’ red lay a corpse lay there a-punishin’ rough as a cob don’t know cake batter from cowshit poverty sop granny woman blue as a gander’s eye piss-burnt brown hot as ginger tea heifer-headed mean as a striped* snake sorry as gully dirt shirttail child puke a dog off a gut wagon gimlet [...]

Dreadfully incomplete list of names

…that I thought would make excellent band or stage names: Luminous Sharks Creeping Phlox Magnetic Death Star Magic Fluteball Flirtatious Sarah Palin Transvestite Mock Meat Stir-Fry Weenie and the Instant Noodle Imitation Duck Clownbeast’s Nether Trunk Sugar-Crazed Bear Posse Figaro and the Tulips Neanderthal Genome English Math Nefarious Eyeball Asswise Boston Molasses Disaster Feral Canary [...]

Other Buttons Facebook Needs [updated]

Dislike. Sympathy. I’m glad you posted this link although it is an unpleasant topic so I want to make it clear that I don’t actually like the unpleasant topic contained therein. I ALREADY KNEW ABOUT THIS. I’M WAY AHEAD OF YOU AND MUCH COOLER. Hellooooo, you forgot to credit me for this link. Oh shut [...]

Steering wheels

Yesterday I listened to a radio preacher for a while while driving through the Shenandoah Valley. He said, among other things, that God didn’t put steering wheels on humans because God wanted to do the steering instead of us steering ourselves. Discuss.

The world is not as I thought it was.

“I have been viewing it through a filter. It is like a kaleidoscope, splitting and fracturing what I see and hear and smell, what I experience, exploding outwards, colouring and recolouring things, tinting and changing, morphing, stretching and squeezing everything around me. My memories fold in on themselves like origami; they are pretend paper creatures, [...]

Uncontrolled substance

“In its purest form, a newspaper consists of a collection of facts which, in controlled circumstances, can actively improve knowledge. Unfortunately, facts are expensive, so to save costs and drive up sales, unscrupulous dealers often “cut” the basic contents with cheaper material, such as wild opinion, bullshit, empty hysteria, reheated press releases, advertorial padding and [...]