Which is why a straight jacket is more comfortable than a straitjacket.
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Which is why a straight jacket is more comfortable than a straitjacket.
I need some good news, so I scroll,
But the horrors I see take their toll.
One last thing to try:
Step away from BlueSky
And maybe go out for a stroll?
#alimerickaday
I could throw a smidgen of support toward Markwayne Mullins if there's a great-than-zero chance that he will get into a public fistfight with Stephen Miller.
Turn a band into theater:
Big Head Sweeney Todd and the Meat Pies
20th-century Sitcoms
Punctuation
Dystopian Fiction
Foods Named for Animals
"That's what your mom said."
“Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,” I said, “art sure no craven,
Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly chug —
Tell me what thy lordly name is, don't give us just a shrug!”
Quoth the Raven, “Give your balls a tug.”
People outside Indiana don't have to deal with this: Search engines know where I am, so if I include "in" in a search, it assumes I mean Indiana.
Which is how a search for "government buildings in hagatna" (the capital of Guam) got me a nice map to the Birch Bayh Federal Building in Indianapolis.
Maybe it's just the writers I deal with, but I keep seeing manuscripts coming in with "N-year olds," and it drives me nuts.
It's the power to sleep that I lack,
An occasional insomniac.
Maybe rhyming will help?
Now that that is done, whelp,
It's either I sleep or I crack.
#alimerickaday #cracking
Jesus REPT.
Today in fact-check lookups:
cat gestation
f-bomb or F-bomb?
languages of Guam
NIL and college athletes
#amediting
Rebuttal: Your society is destroying my salted caramel mocha latte.
Modernity brought us the French Revolution.
Capitalism brought us the half-caff oat milk latte with seventeen shots of caramel.
*Every* time I respond to one particular group text in my Messaging app, it tells me that I can (must, really) name the group and give it an icon. That's why I now have a group text called "I have now named this group four ducking times."
Anyone else have this problem or, dare I hope, a solution?
Story aside, this is why we need punctuation (or better, italics) in headlines. How much time did I waste wondering what sort of tape Gandersman and Hall signed with Gersh and why it was newsworthy that some unnamed man found it?
What's your sign?
In more modern times Ke$ha is now (thankfully) just Kesha, but Pink and P!nk appear to be equally acceptable.
Darmok and Jalad at CVS. Shaka when the blood pressure rose.
Dearest ___?
My sweet ___?
DEAR dear ___?
This is a good day for me to recognize how grateful I am for ALL the women who have come into and gone out of my life, except one. (She knows who she is, what she did, and why it was more disgusting the second time.)
Bright purple flower buds shooting up through the dead leaves.
Hello, Spring!
Where is that website where I can bet that there will be a Trump Hotel in Tehran by 2028? I hear he's got a plan to lower the price of real estate there.
I think the landmine reference is apt, but it doesn't play to his favor. There have been decades-long calls to outright ban them, and 164 states have signed on to the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty. So it should be with all autonomous death machines.
Backpfeifengesicht!
Weird how you can go from keeping four "mole women" in an underground Indiana bunker to running a federal department.
The Diary of Victor Frankenstein and Dissection of the Brain
I don't normally mix fiction and nonfiction, but these two books definitely belong together on my shelves.
Human rights are important, and the U.S. government is committed to deciding which humans get them.
For editors, on National Grammar Day.
On Grammar Day, they get aggressive:
Of their pronouns and nouns they're possessive,
Their subjunctives are hot
(Though we wish they were not),
And their verbs, like themselves, are progressive.
#alimerickaday
There's one in here, but it's from last June. Hope it gets updated and released more widely: www.unilad.com/news/politic...