July 2009
June 2009
Hey, look! Now you can vote in the great ”Black or White” MJ postage stamp debate!
Of course, you need to register as a Wordsmoker commenter to cast your vote. But maybe now’s a good time to do that!
Commenter Lolcait + editor Richard Lawson = The...
So long, Richard. You will be sorely missed.
A question for all these people posting loving...
You DO know that he was called that because it rhymes with “Wacko,” right?
“After ‘Thriller’ was completed, but before its release, Jackson, a...”
– From Salon.com. I’ve never heard this story before. Pretty interesting stuff.
According to the Daily Mail, Michael Jackson will... →
pleasedontsqueezetheshaman:
(For some reason I think this might actually be true. Yipes.)
“Von Hagens said that he spoke with representatives of the Jackson family ‘many months ago’ and it was agreed that his body will be plastinated and placed next to Bubbles, his late pet monkey who was plastinated a number of years ago and is exhibited at The Body Worlds & Mirror Of Time exhibition at...
Befuddled.
katiebakes:
Does this paragraph strike anyone as really odd? I re-read it like five times and it still seems weird.
The portion of the ruling exempting the officials from liability is likely to be greeted with relief by thousands of principals, teachers and other school officials who work to impart knowledge and maintain discipline in a fast-changing world, where children are growing up (or...
"Elizabeth Falkner's boar was boring, which was... →
I KNEW it ...
doublethink:
misterhippity:
Sanford went public because he HAD to.
…
I found all this talk today about how “admirable” his press converence was — because he was he was being so honest and forthright — to be terribly naive.
I don’t know, I find these e-mails to make him an empathetic figure. He is/was obviously crazy in love with this woman - no one would otherwise write the...
I KNEW it ...
Sanford went public because he HAD to.
E-mails between him and this woman have just been made public. Here’s the story in The State: http://www.thestate.com/sanford/story/839350.html
Sanford must have known the story was coming.
Here’s how I’m guessing the sequence of events went down: The State probably called Sanford for comment on the e-mails they’d uncovered between...
The distance between South Carolina and Buenos...
That is one long-distance booty call.
“He was writing something and wanted some space to get away from the kids,” Jenny Sanford told The Associated Press (from “SC governor’s whereabouts unknown, even to wife”)
That’s understandable. When Father’s Day weekend rolls around, probably a lot of Dads want to “get away from the kids” … you know, before they start coming at you...
Well, having perused a few thousand anagrams for...
… I have to say my favorite so far is “My hip, ripe tits.”
“I tip my hipster” is a close second, though.
(Yes, I’m still looking at this site. It’s downright addictive.)
Hie, Prim Typist
This is one of 8,362 acronyms that this site generated from the letters in “MisterHippity.”
In fact, it’s the first one listed. Which is apt, really, because if I had a prim typist, I would totally tell her to “hie” …. hither. And once she did, she wouldn’t be prim for long, you know what I mean?
No? That’s ok. I don’t either.
Thanks in advance. And goodnight!
“In the Northern Hemisphere, based on astronomical definition, summer begins on the day of the June solstice, which is at 1:45 A.M. EDT on June 21, 2009.“
That would be just about one hour from now. Trouble is, I can stay up for it - I’ve got to get some sleep.
Could someone who’s awake at that hour please ring in the new season for me?
When the moment arrives,...
I want to be a part of it, New York, New York ...
inothernews:
misterhippity:mercurypdx:sarahheartburn:misterhippity:
Hey look: New York magazine has discovered the Gawker Top Chef live blog.
http://nymag.com/daily/food/2009/06/wylie_dufresne_tries_his_hand.html
…
Sniff….how proud we all are of you….
Enough with the fucking sentiment. Can you make some money out of this, Hippoid?
Book Deal in 5…. 4…. 3…. 2….
No, not a book deal....
I want to be a part of it, New York, New York ...
mercurypdx:
sarahheartburn:
misterhippity:
Hey look: New York magazine has discovered the Gawker Top Chef live blog.
…
Sniff….how proud we all are of you….
Enough with the fucking sentiment. Can you make some money out of this, Hippoid?
Book Deal in 5…. 4…. 3…. 2….
No, not a book deal. Instead, I’m gonna turn all the live blog comments into a “Pop-up Video”...
I want to be a part of it, New York, New York ...
Hey look: New York magazine has discovered the Gawker Top Chef live blog: http://nymag.com/daily/food/2009/06/wylie_dufresne_tries_his_hand.html
They even quote me in the piece (calling me by my other pen name, “a commenter”).
It wasn’t the most memorable or intelligent comment I’ve ever posted on Gawker, but hey … anything that promotes the live blog is fine by me.
And That's Why They Call Him Joe "Commando"...
The one vote in opposition came from Mayor Joe Bernadini. He said the underwear edict “takes away freedom of choice.”
— “City to Workers: Wear Underwear, Deodorant”
Mon aéroglisseur est plein des anguilles.
Saját légpárnás tele van angolnából.
我国气垫船充满了鳗鱼。
Min luftpudebåd er fuld af ål.
Αερόστρωμνα μου είναι γεμάτη από τα χέλια.
Mein Luftkissenfahrzeug ist voller Aale.
मेरा हूवरक्राफ्ट eels से भरा हुआ है.
Aking hoberkrap ay puno ng mga eels.
Моя воздушной подушке полна угрей.
Benim ve havada gidebilen taşıt Eels doludur.
Mój poduszkowiec jest pełen węgorzy.
Mjet lundrues me jastëk ajri ime...
"The chefs will have to butcher and cook a polar... →
One day, when you are old, your granchildren will...
minou:
misterhippity:
“What did YOU do during the great Top Chef Masters Commenter Live Blog?”
…
I might have to tell my grandchildren that tonight I found weevils in the rice I was cooking so, with no back-up plan, and starving because yesterday I climbed a mountain and today I swam a mile, I ordered a pizza from Domino’s which I then ate way too much of and in order to ameliorate the...
One day, when you are old, your granchildren will...
“What did YOU do during the great Top Chef Masters Commenter Live Blog?”
Will you have to avert your gaze and mumble something about how busy you were back then?
Or will you be able to look them straight in they eye and say with pride, “I PARTICIPATED!”
Well, the live-blog post goes up on Gawker.com in just about one hour, and the show starts at 10 pm Eastern. So...
Why Hemingway rarely used exclamation points
In his day, there was no “!” key on the typewriter. Creating an exclamation point was a three-step process:
1. Type an apostrophe.
2. Push the “backspace” key.
3. Type a period.
The extra work involved created a natural incentive to avoid overusing exclamation points. So writers were … calmer in those days.
Suffer only as directed
“Many Zicam users have also reported experiencing horrific, almost unbearable burning after using the nasal spray.”
If they handed out literary prizes for dramatic drug-side-effect descriptions, ”horrific, almost unbearable burning” would probably be a good candidate.
20 Billion Zerks Is A Lot Of Zerks
I was reading a tractor manual today and I came across a word I’d never seen before: “zerk.” Apparently, my new garden tractor has several of them.
A zerk, I have seen learned, is a special kind of grease fitting named after its inventor, Oscar Ulysses Zerk. Some 20 billion zerks had been manufactured by 1968, according to findagrave.com. Zerk’s other inventions include leg-slimming...
spiers:
“You can’t start blogging at 23 and call yourself a journalist.” - Malcolm Gladwell
Well, not when you can start blogging at 19 and call yourself a journalist.
(Here Gladwell has rightly discerned that having a blog does not make you a journalist, while missing the reality that having one and being 23 doesn’t not make you a journalist, either. But then it’s just that sort of...
