As an editor, one of the automatic changes I make to any piece of writing is to change unnecessary big words into perfect little ones.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the big ones! Sometimes big fancypants words are just and precisely the only way to say exactly what you mean!
But sometimes they are just gewgaws [...]
Archive for May, 2006
eschew obsfucation
Posted in Uncategorized on 27 May 2006 | Leave a Comment »
social whirl
Posted in Uncategorized on 22 May 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Yeah so anyway. Don’t look at me like that, eyebrows all raised at me like I never post anymore. Shut up.
So I’ve been a little busy, ok?
It’s a really good busy, actually, a kind of busy I wouldn’t have been able to CONCEIVE of this time last year, in which I go to work early [...]
Dorothy Parker was right
Posted in Uncategorized on 16 May 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Ok, so my voice is mostly back. As long as I don’t overtax it like I did tonight, going out with a friend and eating fries and gabbing about which celebrities we’d like to spend a few intimate minutes on the couch with. And not in the psychotherapy sense.
At the end of that conversation I [...]
Silencio
Posted in Uncategorized on 13 May 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I appear to have lost my voice. It has taken me a few days to figure this out.
A week ago right now I was descending into the jaws of the worst cold I can ever remember having, not counting that airplane sickness I got coming home from Amsterdam. Airplane sickness always kicks serious ass. Everything [...]
Tired of your guff
Posted in Uncategorized on 8 May 2006 | Leave a Comment »
As a creature of habit unto the point of ritual — I’m frankly impressed that I don’t light candles and incense to mark every damn thing I do — I am fairly predictable in my post-work behavior.
Say hello to the cats, change into play clothes. Put on the kettle for some tea. While the water [...]
Words are where it’s at
Posted in Uncategorized on 5 May 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Sorry I haven’t written. Which of the following do you suppose I have I been doing instead?
Making the world safe for art
Making back-room deals with real estate moguls
Making out with Stephen Colbert
Making meringues
Making eyes at famous poets
Making fun of jackanapes
Making love… out of nothing at all
Just about all of the above, really, except for the [...]
