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Whilst in Chicago: I saw a tiny apple, gambled away $4.69, and...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:20:23 -0500

Whilst in Chicago: I saw a tiny apple, gambled away $4.69, and saw a macho man carrying floral luggage.

Some photos of the Aloft Chicago O’Hare Hotel where we...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:16:00 -0500

Some photos of the Aloft Chicago O’Hare Hotel where we stayed for the week.

Some photos from the plane. I was in the middle seat during the...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:10:00 -0500

Some photos from the plane. I was in the middle seat during the flight to Chicago on Tuesday evening so I didn’t get any good photos of the city. Sad day.

My favorite rendition of “Folsom Prison Blue” sung...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:54:14 -0500

My favorite rendition of “Folsom Prison Blue” sung by Jamie Lono.

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Sun, 01 Apr 2012 21:46:39 -0500

"The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world...."

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:41:56 -0600

“The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.”

- Wayne Dyer

Jessica Brown will appreciate this.

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:36:50 -0600

If you can correctly pronounce every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself.

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!

- B. Shaw

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Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:31:15 -0600

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Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:16:43 -0600

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Less than 15 days until the premier of the cinematic version of...

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:56:07 -0600

Less than 15 days until the premier of the cinematic version of one of my favorite books. Christmas Day should be awesome this year.

The first stills from Baz Luhramnn’s The Great Gatsby were...

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:52:02 -0600

The first stills from Baz Luhramnn’s The Great Gatsby were released today. I don’t know if I can wait until Christmas 2012.

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses,..."

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:34:50 -0600

“Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.”

- Sam Ewing

"No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more."

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:31:00 -0600

“No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.”

- Antonia Porchia

Christmas tree!

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:51:52 -0600

Christmas tree!

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Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:33:30 -0500

Ugh.

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 21:31:14 -0500

Well, it’s that time again. For the last 4 years, I have moved every 12 months like clockwork. Seriously, you could set your watch by my relocations. It’s always been just across town but still a hellish endeavor nonetheless. When I moved into my first apartment (a 550 sq. ft box) I had nothing but the bare essentials. 5 moves and 5 apartments later, I have enough stuff for a small army. I can’t even begin to explain how ready I am to settle down somewhere. Working in the apartment industry, I meet lots of people coming and going. I envy those who are able to move in or out of their apartment in one day. Don’t get me wrong, I’m grateful for everything I have but I wish it would all fit into one of those plastic space saver vacuum bag things. I wish I could put my sofa in a plastic bag and suck all the air out to compact it down to the size of a dime, only to have it removed and restored to full size and, of course, be completely unscathed. That was a long sentence, I apologize.

*Sigh* I am very excited about owning my home and settling in for a long time. I’m just really not looking forward to packing, transporting, then unpacking all this STUFF. God help me.

I wish I knew a math major who might enjoy these polyhedron...

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:39:39 -0500

I wish I knew a math major who might enjoy these polyhedron candlesticks. At least I think that’s a polyhedron….

Bow-town Wedges. I kind of like these shoes. Are they...

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:42:31 -0500

Bow-town Wedges. I kind of like these shoes. Are they completely heinous?
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Top 10 Guys

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:32:25 -0500

Top 10 Guys