How else to explain how much pleasure I got from this piece on that important question: Who would win in a fight between Cthulhu and Godzilla? Just in case you don’t click through for the metatextual analysis, here’s the best sentence from it: “He’d eat a few thousand people, make a giant throne of their bones, and just generally do… Read more →
Day: April 10, 2006
More Moyers
Last year my impression of Bill Moyers as a stately intellect was shattered when I discovered that he is actually a really intelligent rabblerouser. Well, this year he’s still rousing the rabble, this time about campaign finance and K Street corruption, and making a lot of sense while doing it. He starts out with a pithy summary of the problem,… Read more →
Grammar question
FARTHER/FURTHER: according to the AP style guide you use “farther” to refer to physical distance and on “further” to refer to an extent of time or degree. So you had to wait a further two hours past the appointed time because I had hiked 10km farther than I expected. So, what happens if the extent of degree is also a… Read more →
Confusing The Art and the Artist
It’s one of the classic mistakes, isn’t it? The quality of the art has no dependence on the character or personal qualities of the artist, right? It’s entirely possible for a complete bounder and an utter cad to be a brilliant and gifted writer, who can produce sterling prose that informs the mind and touches the heart, isn’t it? Actually,… Read more →
