yourDictionary.com offers 100 Most Often Mispronounced Words. I’m sorry to discover a few mispronunciations that I’m guilty of (“cardshark” for “cardsharp,” “lambast” for “lambaste”) — or maybe I should feel glad to now know how to pronounce them properly. I am pleased to see that I already say most of these properly, including “February.” (Link …
Author Archives: Cynthia Closkey
Frozen River
From Parenthetical Note: Frozen River I’ve been thinking about how many times I’ve ridden the ferry since he vanished: at least twice a day on weekdays, back and forth to work, and then some on the weekends to drink Budweiser and shoot pool when I had a friend in town. Then there was that night …
Tupac caput!
From Yankee Pot Roast, Celebrity palindromes. A sampling: “Oprah deified Harpo.”
How to film a zeppelin docking at the Empire State Building
John Hodgman reveals to us Kerry Conran and the technological blockbuster movie he started in his bedroom: Word of ”Sky Captain” began to spread around the Internet only after Conran finished primary shooting in London last spring — extraordinarily late for the Internet, which often seems invented specifically to track movies with giant robots in …
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Jesus Christ: Flavor of the month
From the Detroit News: What a trend we have in Jesus. Even before “The Passion” hit screens, pop culture had reinvented the image of Jesus. Tabloid fashionistas such as Pamela Anderson, Ashton Kutcher, Ben Affleck and Lara Flynn Boyle have all been seen sporting the popular “Jesus is my homeboy” T-shirts. Los Angeles-based clothing company …
Saints in everyday life
Saints in everyday life.
Pittsburgh-area bloggers, unite!
The Post-Gazette has a nice feature today on blogging in Pittsburgh. They explain blogging pretty well. They also mention several interesting local sites, although they fail to provide links to any of them. Fortunately, the article mentions Tube City Online (UPDATE: OK, so TCO isn’t mentioned after all … I’m not sure how I found …
Love is like a rock
Esquire magazine will publish a list of “cities that rock,” and they’ve ranked Pittsburgh number 1. The Tribune Review talked with people in the local music scene. Naturally, everyone’s pleased and hoping that this will lure young people to the ‘burgh. And everyone’s also a little surprised — or more than a little. I’m curious …
And while we’re looking at the neat and the new…
Better Non Sequitur looks pretty cool. Here’s how they describe themselves: We are a small, independent media company located in San Diego, CA. We specialize in the publication, production, and distribution of books, films, and music; but we are open to basically any artistic achievement. So, they do fun, valuable work and they live where …
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Also: Lying, cheating, stealing
More on Swink (see below): Until March 15 they are accepting entries on the theme of lying, cheating, stealing. Read more and then submit.