Is there really a consensus that Winona Ryder ended up with the wrong person in Reality Bites? That is *such* a wrong take…and/or succinctly represents my wrongness in the world. Your choice. This deserves an essay, but this is all I got.
Shameful. And it figures that (Alaskan) Jim Minnery, a cancerous societal cyst who I can’t share my full thoughts about due to server and community policies, with help from his fondler Gov. Dunceleavy, is at the rotten heart of it.
Great article by @stancarey on "double negatives":
> Negative concord is not a flaw in the countless varieties of English that use it. It’s a systematic, age-old grammatical feature with pragmatic or expressive purpose. Double negatives generally only ‘cancel out’ in contexts where that intent is obvious, or in dubious fantasies of a more orderly tongue.
Check it out: https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2023/02/27/dont-never-tell-nobody-not-to-use-no-double-negatives/
In this age of #entertainment abundance, why bother with negative #criticism (unless one has the chops to elevate it to a withering art form)? There's so much out there, I have no need to be told what *not* to take in. Just share the good stuff. I also find the fact that #critics believe (and thus make) themselves impervious to changing their minds, which is intrinsic to the wares they purvey, more than a little questionable. #music #tv
Patriotism is distasteful to me. It's hard---maybe impossible---for me to embrace it. Yet I see people pushing for #liberals and #Democrats to enthusiastically voice their #patriotism there's going to be any hope of fighting the impending Republican theocracy. I get the #poltics of it as a strategy, but I'd be lying if I did so myself. Why does "patriotism" feel this way? Am I wrong?
A recent USENET trawl revealed some of my earliest poems to be committed to public pixels. November 1990. Until I get my boxes of notebooks and papers from Alaska, these are likely the earliest writings I have access to. You have been warned. #poetry
Just found some of my earliest USENET posts. Among them, in late 1990, was my effort to get a reading group started in the (already) chaotic climes of rec.arts.books -- my approach to the social net has at least had a few consistent threads from the beginning.
The name "pork rinds" is kind of horrific when I think about it.
https://glog.glennf.com/tiny-type-museum-time-capsule-and-more/six-centuries-letterpress
Starting even before Gutenberg, Six Centuries of Type & Printing traces the development of type design, type manufacture, presses, and printing through the present digital era with many stops along the way. The book explains how many aspects of printing and type remain the same, despite a shift from metal to photography to bits, across almost six centuries of constant improvement.
The book was set in hot-metal Monotype Bembo in the north of England, illustrations etched onto zinc plates, and text and illustrations printed by letterpress in London. It is a clothbound hardcover book with its title foil-stamped on the cover and spine, and it comes in a slip case, bound in the same material. Binding was performed in Germany near the Black Forest.
The book is 6 by 9 inches, and 64 pages long, with custom-designed endpapers. The ebook edition, included with this purchase, has three additional pages containing a bibliography and references.