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Small Dog Haiku FRIDGE MAGNETS
As seen in the Spring issue of Modern Dog Magazine! If you would like to have these on your fridge, email me. Same price as the Why Editors Have No Friends magnets: $2 each, $10 for a set of six.
Notes on a Scandalous Film, Xtra West #352, February 14, 2007
I can’t believe Notes on a Scandal is up for four Academy Awards. Can I just say that I totally hated it?
For those of you who haven’t seen it, Barbara (Judi Dench) is a bitter, frumpy woman obsessed with lovely young Sheba (Cate Blanchett). When Barbara finds out that Sheba is having sex with a teenage boy, she offers herself up as a confidante in hopes of getting closer to Sheba. But her manipulation escalates into blackmail, as Barbara becomes desperate to have Sheba as her “friend.”
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My new vocabulary: dehisce
My new vocabulary: cunctative
Grammar Tip #11: Spit? Spat? Spitted?
The other day I walked by a mom who was saying to her kid, “It’s ‘spit,’ not ‘spitted’!” She seemed quite angry.
I don’t know why this bothers me so much, but I cannot stand it when people use “spit” as the past tense of “spit,” instead of using “spat.” I looked it up in the Oxford Canadian, and they say you can use either. But I think “spat” sounds more intelligent. Plus that’s what I learned when I was young.
So I would say to any kids or adults who want to talk about spitting in the past tense, “It’s not ‘spit’ and it’s not ‘spitted.’ It’s ‘spat’!”
They would probably tell me to get a life.
My new vocabulary: bothy and bosky
My new vocabulary: abulia
Every time I look in the dictionary during a Scrabble game I find a word that I have never heard of before. This is the start of my new alphabet series.
Notes from a Dyke New Year’s Brunch, Xtra West #350, January 18, 2007
On New Year’s Day I ended up at an impromptu brunch where we had a discussion that was like a distillation of conversations I’ve been having throughout 2006, meaning a mix of despairing and philosophical.
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