January 2012
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Things I read & watched in 2011
Behind the cut, because it’s a pretty long list
Books:
1) Here There Be Dragons - James A. Owen
2) The Red Dragon - James A. Owen
3) The Painted Boy - Charles De Lint
4) The Indigo King - James A. Owen
5) The Shadow Dragons - James A. Owen
6) The Dragon’s Apprentice - James A. Owen
7) Extraordinary - Nancy Werlin
8) The Clockwork Angel - Cassandra Clare
9) Mortal Coils - Eric...
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December 2011
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END OF YEAR MEME, WHAT FUN
brofisting:
kaeferlein:
dobie:
HOW TO: open a new text post and type letters a-z into the tags and take your favorite tag it suggests and post it out of context. this only works if you use tags as obsessive conversational add-ons like me, and if your computer saves the tags you’ve used before.
WHAT YOU COME UP WITH SHOULD BE SOME SORT OF REFLECTION OF YOUR CHARACTER. ENJOY.
A - also...
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ketchup-catsup:
wearingraincoats:
The Beach Boys song “Vegetables” features the sound of Paul McCartney eating raw celery. (source)
Paul McCartney: celery
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Linguistic Acrobatics
historical-nonfiction:
Charles Ollier observed that GHOTI can be pronounced “fish”:
GH as in laugh
O as in women
TI as in nation
Melville Dewey, who devised the Dewey Decimal System, suggested that GHEAUGHTEIGHPTOUGH spells “potato”:
GH as in hiccough
EAU as in beau
GHT as in naught
EIGH as in neigh
PT as in pterodactyl
OUGH as in though
This sort of thing can get out of hand quickly....
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In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the...
– warm bodies by isaac marion (via famouslast)
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