not falling down

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.

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.

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.)

Just when I think Hitherby Dragons has spun off into total incomprehensibility, back it comes with stuff like this. Awesome.

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.

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.

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.

Names I have used in Anacrusis:

• Eddy
• Edmund
• Edwidge
• Edgar
• Edwin

Names I have not heretofore used in Anacrusis:

• Ed

Vocabulary Notebook is back, and damn!

Week Combat!

Anacrusis on Week Combat! been has this, record the for.