From the Raven: “Xtreme” Blogging! “I’d like to find the guy that coined that usage, because if I did, I’d wrap him up in kerosene-soaked rags and set him on fire while dragging him down the street tied to my rear bumper and I’d cut him loose into a gator-infested swamp, smoking, bleeding, and screaming. It would be Xtreme…. This isn’t just the devaluation of a word, it’s a full-scale linguistic holocaust.” Raven traces it back to the ’70s usage “Terminate with extreme prejudice,” which of course was a line from “Apocalypse Now.”
Kat Donohue takes on Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera and Shania Twain.
Portrait of a “fringe family” in difficult straits, from Rayne.
ExplodedLibrary.info reports on anti-linking policies at the L.A. Times.
Julie/Julia: “Something about the physicality of cooking, especially something complex and/or plain old hard to handle, is enormously sexy. Beef marrow bones are sexy. Chopping up a lobster is sexy. Making a three-layer cake is sexy.”
Tips for writers from Gareth Branwyn. [link courtesy Boing Boing]
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