y’all – “it’s science”
Posted on June 29, 2007 - Filed Under Language, Music, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
Grammar Girl, in a discussion of speech regionalisms, etc… And, here’s an aside about y’all. Most sources agree that y’all should only be used to address groups (8, 9), and Southerners say that Northerners give themselves away as Yankees when they use y’all to address one person (8). In addition, I’m not absolutely certain about [...]
Read More..>>I’ve got a feeling I’m not in Kansas City any more
Posted on June 26, 2007 - Filed Under Ask The Internet, Food, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
Playing around with “Windows Live Search for Mobile” 1, I thought I’d test out search/browse: Categories >> Restaurants >> Barbecue Restaurants (waiting a second, anticipating tomorrow’s lunch) only to find the top results: McDonald’s 701 3rd St. San Francisco, CA 94107 (415)278-0416 back to the drawing board, I guess. 1 Who’s the ad wizard who [...]
Read More..>>I will DARE
Posted on May 18, 2007 - Filed Under Books, Language, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
44 Years in the making, the final volume of DARE (Dictionary of American Regional English) will soon* be upon us, Andy Erdman reports in the Wisconsin State Journal: For example, DARE explains that the children’s game most Wisconsinites call “duck, duck, goose” is called “duck, duck, gray duck” in Minnesota and “duck, duck, drake” in [...]
Read More..>>back in the saddle
Posted on May 10, 2007 - Filed Under Books, Drinking, Food, Music, Now Reading, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
Last weekend (the 5th of May for those scoring at home), I went to North Beach for the first time in a while. I guess I tend to steer clear because it can be a little crowded with enough tourists & striped shirts to dissuade me — my own feeble hangups, I know. Regardless, a [...]
Read More..>>Walk-A-Thon
Posted on March 9, 2007 - Filed Under Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
San Francisco is the #3 most “walkable” city in the U.S. of A. Omaha checks in @ #25, hot on the heels of #24 Lincoln, NE. Rounding out the top 100 is Newark, NJ.
Read More..>>You can’t stop progress
Posted on March 6, 2007 - Filed Under Books, Music, Turf Wars | 1 Comment
Some of my happiest hours where logged in the Antiquarium. Not too many more (if any) it seems. Despite the short shrift given by the OWH, this may be the sadddest change I’ve heard coming out of Omaha.So it goes.
Read More..>>Ah, democracy…
Posted on February 14, 2007 - Filed Under Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
Sure you weren’t allowed to vote for this fiasco. But you can sure join in the mess!
Read More..>>USA, Baby.
Posted on January 24, 2007 - Filed Under Music, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
Tim McMahan chronicles a night about town in Omaha with Lightspeed Champion, headed by Devonte Hynes – formerly of Test Icicles. “They want to go to Target,” Ian said. “I’m sorry about all this.” There’s nothing like Target in London — at least not in the part of London where Dev and Tom are from [...]
Read More..>>Executive Summary
Posted on January 12, 2007 - Filed Under Death, Politics, Robot Brains, Turf Wars | 1 Comment
Aside from warm woolen mittens, two of my favorite things: (1) Brevity (2) Robot Brains. Happily these two passions of mine collide in Microsoft Word’s “Auto-Summarize” feature, as brought to my attention by Maud Newton. To make a long story short: here’s the “executive summary” of our state’s executive’s summary: “Our troops in Iraq have [...]
Read More..>>What I Want For Christmas
Posted on December 4, 2006 - Filed Under Race, Religion, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
Amazon’s plot synopsis of A Time for Burning: In the mid-1960s, 1200 White people attend Augustana Lutheran Church in Omaha, Nebraska. Nearby, Negro Lutherans worship at Hope Lutheran Church. Reverend Bill Youngdahl, Augustana’s pastor, proposes that ten couples visit ten Negro families from Hope. It’s a controversial idea; within weeks, Youngdahl resigns. The camera observes: [...]
Read More..>>There’s telemarketing going down in the middle-west
Posted on November 29, 2006 - Filed Under Language, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
From Jeff… and what’s with quizzes giving, GIVING us crappy HTML? What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland “You have a Midland accent” is just another way of saying “you don’t have an accent.” You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for [...]
Read More..>>Squatters
Posted on October 24, 2006 - Filed Under Deformities, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
Favorite blog comment section of the week!
Read More..>>???
Posted on October 23, 2006 - Filed Under Perception, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
“The Cog Factory was a really elite crowd for a while“
Read More..>>Monday, Monday
Posted on October 16, 2006 - Filed Under Drinking, Language, Music, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
Miami football game breaks out at Houston Two Gallants concert. – Johansson sings Waits, which is all well and good, but I would have gone for Johansson sings Nilsson sings Newman … I’m just sayin’. {via} – New Yorkers have no sack. – I’ll be seeing Cursive in a few days. Here’s a review of [...]
Read More..>>It Takes A Village
Posted on October 4, 2006 - Filed Under Sports, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
I know critiquing Tim McCarver is shooting fish in barrel… but from the Sports Guy’s live journal of the Tigers/Yankees game: 7:47 — Toronto reader E.H. Zwick chimes in: “McCarver should be congratulated for raising our cultural awareness for noting in amazement that Wang and Kuo come from the same ‘village’ known as Tainan City [...]
Read More..>>Yahoo! No Google?
Posted on September 5, 2006 - Filed Under Language, Robot Brains, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
I rarely spell-check, but found myself using the embedded spell-checker in Yahoo’s web email. Curiously (or not), Yahoo! did not recognize “Google”, instead thinking I meant “Go ogle”. Luckily, Yahoo was able to recognize itself as a word (even though Merriam-Webster does not, at least as a web company — “a boorish, crass, or stupid [...]
Read More..>>What’s your favorite commandment?
Posted on September 1, 2006 - Filed Under Religion, Sex, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
Playing the fiddle today, came across this Woody Allen interview of Billy Graham. God bless Youtube.
Read More..>>Fear and loathing in the Richmond District
Posted on July 18, 2006 - Filed Under Money, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
Ahhhh, a landlord with style: Sometimes late at night I can hear you scuttling around out there on the internet; packs of feral tenants, slavering and cackling as the rents on craigslist sink ever lower, heedless of the landlords you have broken: kindly, decent family men who built this city brick by brick with their [...]
Read More..>>Carhendge NOT a Target
Posted on July 14, 2006 - Filed Under Politics, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
According to Homeland Security….but for how long? The inspector general puzzled over the fact that California, the most populous state, is listed as having 3,212 possible targets, a total that is less than the totals in each of seven other states, including Nebraska (3,457), Wisconsin (7,146) and Indiana (8,519). The report also notes that Nebraska [...]
Read More..>>Piss Off, Salon
Posted on July 10, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Turf Wars | 1 Comment
Does it mean I have an inferiority complex if I tell you to get off your high horse? “Nebraska, where a collective inferiority complex tends to give way to the proud knowledge that those who live here and remain here (or even drive here without using the interstate) have endured extraordinary geographical, meteorological and existential [...]
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