Ackpth! and other onomatopoeias
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Spirit of the age=time ghost? I like that.
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This'll make you laugh at me. When I first heard the term "Zeitgeist," I thought of a story I'd heard once of a tourist in the 1970's that claimed he saw the spirit of a girl in a house dressed in a Victorian outfit. Not only a ghost, but a ghost from another time period. My brain chewed on that like a chew-toy for days...maybe the word has been around in certain circles for a long time, but I don't recall ever hearing about it before this year. I'll have to do a cartoon on that at some point. You've just got to understand that my brain doesn't work like most people's brains do...
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And following on from that, 50 Shades as narrated by Gilbert Gottfried, aka the voice of Iago in Disney's Aladdin.Beb wrote:For the blissfully ignorant: Fifty Shades of Grey is a Twilight fanfic with changed names and spanking, for the wilfully ignorant. It is currently making a lot of money.
Fortunately, there's a way to learn all about the book without having to read everything yourself. Spiffingly-named author Jennifer Armintrout has spent a long, painful time recapping each chapter. I just spent a long, painful time copypasting the links because the recapping is very good. It covers a) everything wrong with the book and b) everything wrong with the book's presentation.
Recaps linked here because the blog tags were dodgy:
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... and watch that space. She may be recapping the sequels. (There are sequels).
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That is the best video I've seen all year. The reaction shots alone are priceless.
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I agree with the happy fat pony!
Now to talk about ME. Haha! So I just went cold turkey on coke (no, not that one, the brown fizzy liquid) and it's making me very, very irritable. I've been off it for about 4 days and the cravings are insane... fizzy water helps.
Now to talk about ME. Haha! So I just went cold turkey on coke (no, not that one, the brown fizzy liquid) and it's making me very, very irritable. I've been off it for about 4 days and the cravings are insane... fizzy water helps.
* Archonix listens to that audio book again to calm his nerves
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You can get hooked on coke? I'm glad I don't tend to drink it that much...
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It's more of a dependency than an addiction. My body is used to having caffeine and sugar at certain times of the day and when it doesn't get them, it complains. Loudly.
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I've been curious for a long time about the fact that, even though I drink coffee regularly, I don't feel any of its supposed effects -- either positive or negative. It doesn't take away my drowsiness (I've tried that!), and I can spend an entire day without coffee and not feel bad or tired. I usually drink a cup of coffee and milk on the morning, but if I switch that for something else, it doesn't make much difference. I'm really thankful for that: I like coffee only for the taste, and I'd like to stay that way.
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Jennifer Armintrout will now be recapping the two sequels to Fifty Shades of Grey. Stay tuned.
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Hello painful shoulder, you are trapping my nerve! Stop that, it hurts!
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Here are the links, in order, to Jennifer Armintrout's Fifty Shades Darker recaps. I'll put them all in this post as they arrive. The first book is ritually slaughtered here.
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapapter Three
Chapter Four
A brief interlude to introduce 51 TInts of Granite. Get a copy of each and play Poe's Law with your friends!
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapapter Three
Chapter Four
A brief interlude to introduce 51 TInts of Granite. Get a copy of each and play Poe's Law with your friends!
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
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In the last few months, a series of videos has taken Brazil by storm: Marcelinho, a hand puppet, reads crappily written "erotic" tales and makes fun of them all the way through. Incidentally, 50 Shades of Grey was recently published in Brazil, inheriting the status of "best seller in the States" and surfing the waves of mediocrity of our shitty publishing industry. Therefore, the inevitable happened: Marcelinho was hired to read a snippet of 50 Shades of Grey as a marketing ploy.
The result: Marcelinho rightfully destroyed the book, showing clearly its complete lack of eroticism and talent, and most people who watched the video agreed that the reading was much, much better than the actual writing. Therefore, 50 Shades of Grey was relegated to the status of "shitty erotic tale which is too boring to be funny due to the lack of grammar mistakes" by a hand puppet.
I have a new hero.
The result: Marcelinho rightfully destroyed the book, showing clearly its complete lack of eroticism and talent, and most people who watched the video agreed that the reading was much, much better than the actual writing. Therefore, 50 Shades of Grey was relegated to the status of "shitty erotic tale which is too boring to be funny due to the lack of grammar mistakes" by a hand puppet.
I have a new hero.
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I'm covered from hand to elbow - both elbows - in a rash due to being out in the sun for only four hours, and mid calf to the top of my foot on each leg is the same.
Ow.
Ow.
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Ouch. Make sure you take it easy. At least it should go away fairly quickly, I'm sure.
@Fernie: that's genius.
@Fernie: that's genius.
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Vacuum clear just broke again and this time I can't repair it. Hooray...
Our choicest plans have fallen through, our airiest castles tumbled over, because of lines we neatly drew and later neatly stumbled over.
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