Showing posts with label literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label literature. Show all posts

Monday, June 11, 2007

Top what?

The worst thing I've ever seen? How about this list of novels -- whose Top Ten feature no less than seven books by either Ayn Rand or L. Ron Hubbard.

Super Red Herring
to these paste-eaters.

I've got a lot of work to do for school today, so I'll leave you with that.

-Zed

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"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes."
-Marcel Proust

Sunday, May 20, 2007

But cake is ironic?

For those of you cribbing for Mrs. Williams' 6th grade English, a few examples of what's ironic:

The fact that Alanis Morissette's song Ironic is not ironic... is ironic.

The fact that Gmail has a spell-check function, which does not recognize the word "internet"... is ironic.

(A rare Red Herring Today to Google, who should bloody well know better.)

In Good Will Hunting, Robin Williams' character offers to buy Prof. Lambeau a drink at an upcoming reunion, and Lambeau retorts that drinks are free at such events. Williams responds, "I was being ironical."

By the way, if you for some reason (don't like horsey-faced women? Sheryl Crow will be angry) did not click on that Alanis link above, I'd really recommend reconsidering. Here's a consolation click.

Don't thank me now, with cake. Thank me later.

-Zed

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"If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal."
-Ray Charles

Friday, April 27, 2007

Living in XS


Think your house, apartment, or condo is too small?

I'm betting it's more than 40 square feet.

Yeah, 40.

And if you think yours is a tad pricey month-to-month, how's around a thousand bucks -- on down to a sale model for $20 -- out the door? So to speak, of course.

The website is TumbleweedHousing.com, and the builder is an artist-type named Jay Shafer.

I just got a little more ashamed of my closet.

And, in Literature, a wee dollop of Red Herring to the lady author who wrote an entire website on top of her refrigerator.

No, not really. She wrote some of it on her stove.

Who, me? Yeah, I'm creative. I spent the last two days filming a fat guy riding a bike.

-Zed

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"Housekeeping ain't no joke."
-Louisa May Alcott

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

A very, very, very, very sad day

Kurt Vonnegut has died.

A truly great man. Thanks for many great laughs, thoughts, and memories.

Rest in peace.



-Zed

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“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’ ”
-Kurt Vonnegut