Before you head out the door and do your best “will spook for sweets” routine, take a minute to take this quiz to determine if you’ve been honoring the Halloween spirit properly.
How much do you know about Halloween in fiction?
My spooky score after the jump
For all the lovely technological advances of our era, it still seems that part of the globe is at a disadvantage because of a linguistic barrier.
Take the the most recent example: the fancy schmancy new iPhone.*
Check out the ruckus after the jump.
I never thought that I would see Tina Fey surrounded by such a motley crew of neighbors. Read more…
For those who have known me for long, you can understand the reason why I’m so obsessed with Craig Ferguson’s bunny puppet. For those who don’t know what I’m talking about, observe after the jump:
I bet you knew about the existence of geeks. In fact, a few of you might be geeks (like me). But did you know that there’s a special group of people that are punctuation or even letterhead geeks?
Week after week a diligent group of people dedicates its little corner of cyberspace to documenting these interests.
I guess it’s kind of like those people that collect butterflies in glass cases…
If you love Paul the Octopus (Paul der Krake to the German crowd), then you’ll be happy to know the following…
I think I’ve officially become one of those out-of-the-loop people. It’s only natural that after college and almost a year of not interacting with a large group of young people, watching TV more than 3 days a week or being constantly on Facebook, I don’t know what’s going on with the “young” people.
It’s alright, though. I’ve discovered that the rest of the world is only a few days behind the cool kids.
Keep that in mind when I tell you about my “amazing” discovery: I Write Like.
Apparently it became a big trend online.
For those of you who already who heard of this feel free to roll your eyes long enough for me to explain it to the rest.
By this point everyone and their mother has blogged about this lovely piece of digital ridiculousness.
Gowns, petticoats, manners and..
Yes. Colossal beat downs delivered to your dearest friends.
We’ve all enjoyed a good “yo momma” joke now and then. The utterance of the punchline causes us to reflexively utter, “Oh no you didn’t,” “Burn!” or the staple of academic expression: “Oh Snap!” Society has exiled the “put down” to the fringe of acceptable behavior, often citing it as immature. However, we all know that a good put down bestowed by the right person will be immortalized in local lore due to its lyrical properties. If this happens with mere mortals’ verbal configurations, what can we expect from the most prolific writers in this realm, then?
Only the best, of course.[*] The Examiner publishes a tribute to the most sassylicious put downs uttered by masters of the written word…about other masters of the written work. Here are 10 of my favorites in no particular order…
The winner of the oddest book title (the Diagram Prize) has finally been announced by Bookseller.com . Sadly, neither What Kind of Bean is this Chihuahua? nor Collectible Spoons of the Third Reich won. Better luck to Chihuahua and spoon- collecting writers next year….
The winner?
Check it.
