September 30, 2005 at 10:01 am
· Filed under Connections, Kentucky, Music
Lucinda Williams seemed happily surprised by the enthusiasm of the crowd last night. “Y’all are so great,” she said. “What is this, is… is Louisville just a well-kept secret or something?” (Roars of assent, even though she pronounced it “Looeyville.”) “Y’know, Austin used to be like this… back when I moved there in ‘74. Before the Wal-Marts and the Starbucks moved in…”
I wonder if she saw any of the billboards and bumper stickers for Keep Louisville Weird, which is (by their admission) a direct rip of Keep Austin Weird.
The correct pronunciation of “Louisville,” incidentally, has been codified in Elizabethtown, and is audible in the theatrical trailer, I think (can’t check at work, sans sound card). Elizabethtown filmed for a few days and held its premiere afterparty at the Brown Hotel, adjoining the Brown Theatre where we saw Lucinda Williams last night.
Lucinda Williams is a good show! She is also the most awkward-looking human on earth.
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September 29, 2005 at 11:47 pm
· Filed under Writing, Leonard Richardson, Sumana Harihareswara, Slang
About three years after I started compiling it, I finally have a personal slang dictionary. Not as funny as Sumana’s or Leonard’s, but useful, maybe.
It’s been a while since I did any layout with pure CSS, so let me know if it stabs your browser or anything.
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September 29, 2005 at 3:00 pm
· Filed under Fame, Discoveries, X Night Ballers
Whoa, I made like thirty-five bucks off of Dreamhost referrals! Where by “made” I mean “got taken off my annual hosting bill,” but still!
Thanks, Kyle and soltaridj and procura, whoever you are. (I know who Kyle is.)
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September 29, 2005 at 12:27 pm
· Filed under Plugs, Rebecca Borgstrom
Just when I think Hitherby Dragons has spun off into total incomprehensibility, back it comes with stuff like this. Awesome.
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September 29, 2005 at 11:17 am
· Filed under Kentucky, Referrer Logs
Disturbing Search Result (that led somebody to my site):
tv remote control fall down and don't work
Ten bucks says that’s a Kentucky original!
Getting more hits for “thinspiration,” too: Ana has moved up to the #84 Google result.
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September 29, 2005 at 10:23 am
· Filed under Angst, Writing, Naïvete, Books, Religion, Hidden Content
I’m not sure what Fantine was going to say, but here’s my overanalysis: the central ethos of Harry Potter–that one should trust children to be competent, but shield them from the consequences of failure; that a parent should protect them from harm, but never information–is a highly political one. It’s also already stated in about a jillion other YA books, but when was the last time it was distributed on such a scale? When was the last time it was internalized so widely, so willingly, outside the classroom, by children and adults?
It’s at that question that I start to wonder what the book-burning groups are really out to fight.
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September 29, 2005 at 9:33 am
· Filed under Exertion
I’ve been out of my air cast since Monday, and I haven’t felt any soreness except late that first night (after a strenuous day). I am done being sprained! I’ve kicked my bad ankle! In a manner of speaking.
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September 27, 2005 at 11:24 am
· Filed under Writing
Names I have used in Anacrusis:
- Eddy
- Edmund
- Edwidge
- Edgar
- Edwin
Names I have not heretofore used in Anacrusis:
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September 26, 2005 at 11:36 am
· Filed under Plugs
Vocabulary Notebook is back, and damn!
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September 23, 2005 at 1:21 pm
· Filed under Writing, Mild Lunacy
Week Combat!
Anacrusis on Week Combat! been has this, record the for.
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