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On Words: July 2015
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Brigid Daull Brockway is technically a writer. Wednesday, July 29, 2015. Guess what day it is. If a space alien walked into the average business office on a Wednesday, they'd probably wonder what the big deal with humping was and why, if it's so great, it can only be done once a week. Links to this post. Sunday, July 26, 2015. In Breakfast of Champions. Kurt Vonnegut poised to kill Kilgore Trout, a character who showed up in many of his books as a stand-in for Vonnegut himself. But Vonnegut didn't ki...
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On Words: February 2015
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Brigid Daull Brockway is technically a writer. Tuesday, February 24, 2015. Is a 2013 film about the beat poets, starring Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg, behaving in ways Harry Potter certainly never did. Oh my. Those Two, Allan Ginsberg. I don't like that white car under me,. That other tree next to it said. O you're always complaining. You can see by the way you're bent over. A Song, Walt Whitman. COME, I will make the continent indissoluble;. I will make divine magnetic lands,. In the high-towering...
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On Words: Science doesn't lie
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Brigid Daull Brockway is technically a writer. Sunday, July 19, 2015. Some scientists, on the other hand. A little while back, a study was published "proving" that dark chocolate could actually help you lose weight. Shape Magazine reported this finding in its June issue with the headline Why You Must Eat Chocolate Daily. You may not be shocked to learn that the study is bogus; the author of the study meant it to be. John Bohannon, who published the study in International Archives of Medicine. For instanc...
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On Words: Guess what day it is
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Brigid Daull Brockway is technically a writer. Wednesday, July 29, 2015. Guess what day it is. If a space alien walked into the average business office on a Wednesday, they'd probably wonder what the big deal with humping was and why, if it's so great, it can only be done once a week. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Words, words, words. Guess what day it is. That word: I do not think it means what you think . Meanwhile, in young adult land. The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.
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On Words: Socially redeeming value
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Brigid Daull Brockway is technically a writer. Sunday, August 2, 2015. While writing a recent post, I had occasion to view some of the music videos the kids are watching these days and I have to admit, I'm still trying to bleach my eyeballs. Those were the bad old days, and those attitudes are as outdated as a lady mullet. But music videos for Nicki Minaj's Anaconda. And Rihanna's Bitch Better Have My Money. Are simply not empowering. They're not. I've read tons of editorials insisting that the w...This ...
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On Words: June 2015
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Brigid Daull Brockway is technically a writer. Sunday, June 28, 2015. Everybody knows that when your ears burn, it means that someone' talking about you behind your back. Or your head's on fire. Or that mid-life crisis piercing you got is infected and you should probably get that looked at. But how do we know that burning ears means gossip? Because the ancient Romans told us so. Pliny and Plautus. S This doesn't seem to be related to goosebumps. Links to this post. Thursday, June 25, 2015. And so the Con...
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On Words: May 2015
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Brigid Daull Brockway is technically a writer. Sunday, May 31, 2015. Oh English, you're so silly. Phonetically is spelled phonetically, meaning it is not spelled phonetically. Alliteration contains five syllables, none of which begin with the same sound. The word diphthong doesn't contain any. Spondee is a spondee (I think. I'm really bad at meter). It's very hard to say the word. When you don't have any. It's hard to say. When you have one. The word double-u doesn't contain a. A palindrome isn't one.
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On Words: April 2015
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Brigid Daull Brockway is technically a writer. Thursday, April 30, 2015. Ableism Part 2: Happy pills. Eczema is a common condition characterized by itchy, burning rashes. The condition can be a transient annoyance, but in some people it be excruciating, disfiguring, and can lead to lots of health problems caused by skin that's constantly open and raw. Nobody ever says "Eczema drugs? Depression is a common condition characterized by persistent and overwhelming feelings of sadness and despair. The cond...
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On Words: March 2015
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Brigid Daull Brockway is technically a writer. Wednesday, March 25, 2015. Nerds putting words in your mouth. From Jules Vern's moon landing in From Earth to the Moon. To the water beds that Robert Heinlein predicted in Beyond This Horizon. Sci-fi writers have predicted the future in some eerily accurate ways. So when our tech caught up with their imaginations, many sci fi authors had conveniently already come up with the words for our devices. Here are a few, from Vivian Cook's In a Word. In it, the auth...
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On Words: Drop dead
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Brigid Daull Brockway is technically a writer. Sunday, July 26, 2015. In Breakfast of Champions. Kurt Vonnegut poised to kill Kilgore Trout, a character who showed up in many of his books as a stand-in for Vonnegut himself. But Vonnegut didn't kill Kilgore Trout. He said life, even fictional life, has value, and it isn't right to simply throw a life away for the sake of a story. Other authors don't share Vonnegut's view. Yo, dog, we heard you like outdated memes. Funny - Milne didn't really like Pooh, wa...
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