December 2009
15 posts
HERE IS A WORD SOMETIMES USED BY LAWYERS
“Estoppel”
FULL DISCLOSURE
“Interview with Recording Artist Nite Jewel,” Anthem Magazine
Full Disclosure: Nite Jewel and I were both students the same Los Angeles-area college, Occidental, and have a number of mutual friends. I made every effort to avoid letting this fact influence or skew my interview.
“Review of Depeche Mode’s Album Sounds of the Universe,” Filter Good Music Guide
Full...
“He tells Playboy magazine, “These guys were coming down from the hillside....”
– Cheers Saved My Life
IN CASE ANYONE WAS WONDERING
This Tumblr is not just for me to reblog agrammar in its entirety. Sometimes I will also post pictures.
fiction and the decade, 1 & 2
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2. Randall Jarrell - Pictures from an Institution
A novel, of sorts, from 1954, by the poet Randall Jarrell; over the past several years this has joined a certain slim Capote book in the ranks of fiction I would sort of enjoy having memorized. It’s a satire, nominally, of a northeastern women’s college, of certain academic types, and of an author — not the narrator — who has come to...
either Julie Powell is analyzing critics or I'm...
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Anyway. Powell asks: “[H]ow can we be embarrassed for someone who isn’t herself embarrassed by her actions?” There are two possible responses to this.
One is that that’s precisely the point. We’re giving the person the benefit of the doubt that they don’t want to look slightly awful. We’re assuming that their lack of consciousness about seeming slightly awful is some sort of tragic,...
“Tiger Woods is absolutely my target audience. He’s busy, hasn’t got...”
– I’m always saying, “What’s happening in physics?”
“Members of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee are seeking advice on the...”
– I can’t even think of a joke to make about this.
