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[08 Aug 2018|03:55pm] Be the trouble you want to see in the world! Party at The Factory, New York, 1st September 1965 (Fred W. McDarrah)  Some things stay behind locks. Would you like a key?     Knock-knock! on my door and I'll show you inside.   00146 post

yesterday I was sunburnt: [26 Aug 2009|10:07pm] More freckles every day; connect-the-dots on my nose and on my shoulders. ( +++ ) 0025 post

bare-ly [22 Aug 2009|05:09pm] This summer's been weighing heavy and though our native winter chill'll be just around the corner, waiting, I think I'll have a better chance at (bearable) lightness if I cut off all my hair. 0031 post

every day is a tiny bit longer than the last [23 Feb 2009|05:19pm]   ( +++ ) 0033 post

Politics and the English Language. [19 Feb 2009|04:20pm] It's human nature-- [...] one needs rules that one can rely on when instinct fails. I think the following rules will cover most cases: i. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. ii. Never us a long word where a short one will do. iii. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. iv. Never use the passive where you can use the active. v. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. vi. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous. (Orwell, 1946)   Hammer and sickle by Andy Warhol, 1976 An interesting addition: Dying Metaphors. [...] Another example is the hammer and the anvil, now always used with the implication that the anvil gets the worst of it. In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer, never the other way about. (A writer who stopped to think what he was saying would avoid perverting the original phrase). 004 post

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