Someday I will open a nightstand and it will have the Shorter Oxford Dictionary, and I will die of happy right there.
One of the things the American Poetry & Literacy Project [link] does is put books of poetry in hotel rooms. Perhaps we could start something similar for dictionaries. Or Firefly DVDs.
I once checked into a hotel after a very long day and found the Gideon Bible open to a particularly gloomy part of Job.
Tim's going to be watching Jam? Best. Show. Ever.
And by 'best' I mean 'sickest' and also 'wrongest'.
Oh Melon King...
Oh Melon King...
Symptomless comas!
I have to do all the laundry in the world, too.
SULK.
How much do I love the possibility of getting to hear a television character call something "craptastic"?
I had a meeting at NBC last week and the executive's assistants told me "Drive" was their favorite pilot script (they rank the competish).
Ack! Variety-speak!
How much do I love the possibility of getting to hear a television character call something "craptastic"?
We had a television character call something "sucktastic" on VM a couple weeks ago.
Russell T. Davies had a character use the term
chavtastic
in Doctor Who s2 ep1 "New Earth".
Just ordered it, David
A sound investment. It's like a very cold cynical and tonic served with a twist of lime.
Even after watching Arrested Development and Adult Swim shows and various other boundary pushing efforts, I still watched Action and kept thinking, "They aren't really going to go there are they? They did!"
Or, not "fun", because of the gasping and the oh-my-goodness and the ouches in my head. So some other word, that's less merry than fun, but still keeps the meaning?
Exhilarating? As that's what came to mind while reading your "ramblings".
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