January 2011
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“In the middle of the last century, a now-outmoded technology—the manual...”
– Slate: Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period.
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Little Leprechauns
Joey: The antithesis to the burden of all the stuff left to do on the site is the energy I get every time someone accomplishes a goal and I get to resolve it. It's like Irish Spring soap on the mountainside. Little leprechauns accompanying me on my hike.
Joey: "Little leprechauns" might be the most ridiculous two words I've ever put together.
Holly: You don't know. There could be tiny leprechauns we don't know about.
Joey McAllister: Microleprechauns.
Holly: They're basically another species, and maybe they are afflicted with their own form of dwarfism.
Joey: Like germs, but they bring you rainbows instead of illness. You are full of rainbows.
Holly: A dwarf leprechaun would be pocket-sized though, and they would probably not be able to keep up with you on the hike.
Holly: Unless they can enchant their little feet to move REALLY fast.
Joey: Oh, right. Like Hanna-Barbera leprechauns. They don't even have feet, just swirls of cartooner's ink.
Holly: And really high-pitched voices. Why do little things always have high-pitched voices?
Joey: Because they also have little ears that can only hear in especially high registers, of course. They're not just speaking in a high-pitched voice to amuse you.
Joey: What if lions had really high-pitched roars? I think it would be hard to take them seriously as predators.
Joey: There's a slight chance that I haven't gotten enough sleep this week.
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“This is just to say we have taken some plums
we found in our mailbox.
You were...”
– Taken from Making Light: Slushkiller. (I remember when this was posted, but I can hardly believe I’ve been reading Making Light steadily since 2004.)
This is still one of the coolest rejection letters I’ve ever read. The context, here, is a post at a now-defunct site called...
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“So, raise a glass to turnings of the season,
and watch it as it arcs toward the...”
– NPR Music First Listen: The Decemberists, The King Is Dead