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English the Slut

Add to that the kind of language that English is. For all its richness and flexibility, and its grand literature, it is just a slut, picking up vocabulary and grammar promiscuously from other languages. It started out as Anglo-Saxon, a Germanic language, and then slept with Norman French and Latin. — John McIntyre English, the slut language

I feel a little dirty now.

Then and Now

Then:

The Sonnet – Deliberate Gentle Love Dreamer (DGLD)

Romantic, hopeful, and composed. You are the Sonnet. Get it? Composed?

Sonnets want Love and have high ideals about it. They’re conscientious people, caring & careful. You yourself have deep convictions, and you devote a lot of thought to romance and what it should be. This will frighten away most potential mates, but that’s okay, because you’re very choosy with your affections anyway. You’d absolutely refuse to date someone dumber than you, for instance.

Lovers who share your idealized perspective, or who are at least willing to totally throw themselves into a relationship, will be very, very happy with you. And you with them. You’re already selfless and compassionate, and with the right partner, there’s no doubt you can be sensual, even adventurously so.

You probably have lots of female friends, and they have a special soft spot for you. Babies do, too, at the tippy-top of their baby skulls.

Now:

The Window Shopper – Random Gentle Love Dreamer (RGLD)

Loving, hopeful, open. Likely to carry on a romance from afar. You are The Window Shopper.

You take love as opportunities come, which can lead to a high-anxiety, but high-flying romantic life. You’re a genuinely sweet person, not saccharine at all, so it’s likely that the relationships you have had and will have will be happy ones. You’ve had a fair amount of love experience for your age, and there’ll be much more to come.

Part of why we know this is that, of all female types, you are the most prone to sudden, ferocious crushes. Your results indicate that you’re especially capable of obsessing over a girl you just met. Obviously, passion like this makes for an intense existence. It can also make for soul-destroying letdowns.

Your ideal match is someone who’ll love you back with equal fire, and someone you’ve grown to love slowly. A self-involved or pessimistic woman is especially bad. Though you’re drawn to them, avoid artists at all costs.

On My Violin Career

Speaking of my violin career, Guitar Hero and Rock Band have FUCKED MY SHIT UP BAD.

Man Is Obsolete

Who knew writing genre fiction was so easy?

Your title is: “The Black Wars”

In a coal-powered Soviet Russia, a young brooding loner stumbles across an otherworldly portal which spurs him into conflict with a profit-obsessed corporation, with the help of a sarcastic female techno-geek and her welding gear, culminating in a philosophical argument punctuated by violence.
– generated by the Electro-plasmic Hydrocephalic Genre-Fiction Generator

Sarcasm? Welding gear? Mrrowr!

Now that the pen has been conquered, on to the camera!

PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage from Tao Chen on Vimeo.

Lust

Lust: Number of STD cases reported per capita.

Lust: Number of STD cases reported per capita.

View the rest of the sins here: American Vice: Mapping the 7 Deadly Sins

Truth

Pick your favourite novel. No, not the one you talk about to impress people; being a writer begins with truth.

– Nicola Griffith, What kind of writer are you?

Yes, You Can Go, But You Won’t Make It Home

Buffalo

Playing Small Ball in a Long Ball World

Chicks who dig home runs aren’t the ones who appeal to me,” he said. “I think there’s sexiness in infield hits because they require technique. I’d rather impress the chicks with my technique than with my brute strength. Then, every now and then, just to show I can do that, too, I might flirt a little by hitting one out.

– Ichiro, on the sexiness of infield hits

It Was You and Me and a Long Night

Hold Tight London

Beatbox: Dub FX

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