Laughing: as Christopher Rowe does a 70s-cop-flying-tackle citizen’s arrest of Sentator Bill Frist for possession of Latin. Confused: at why Donna Martin is in a movie called Cthulhu. Why not just call it “Shadow Over Riversmouth”? Sad: upon hearing of the death of John Kenneth Galbraith. Awed: at the size of Stephen Colbert’s balls. Pleased: to see local comic retailer,… Read more →
Day: May 2, 2006
Science Fiction Authors Say Smart Things: Sean Stewart
From the introductory page at Sean’s website: Art is fundamentally embarrassing. It requires you to expose how you truly feel. It demands that you admit the things that make you laugh and cry, that scare you or turn you on. And when you do that, there will always be people to tell you you’re sentimental, or perverse, or over-intellectual, or… Read more →
For All Intensive Purposes
I thought my little brother was the only person who thought the expression “for all intents and purposes” was actually “for all intensive purposes”, but it appears not. TNH, in a post that follows on nicely from the Guardian article I linked to yesterday, has a giant list of such mistakes, in what is clearly an attempt to make my… Read more →
