October 2009
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September 2009
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On a slow night
Recline into the thick green carpet of your room, rest your tailbone, your shoulderblades, look up.
Turn on a yellow reading lamp, look up.
Look up, your crumbly stucco ceiling looks like a map of Mordor from here.
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WHMIS stands for:
-Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System
-Worldly Hay Munching Institute Secret
-Wobbly Hobbits Mobbing Inebriated Subordinates
-Weaning Homeless Monkeys Is Sad
-Wandering Husband Mummifies Immature Skunk
-Weary Hazmat Men Indicating Stubble
-Weepy Hillbillies Mountaineering In Saskatchewan
-Wavy Hair Monster Issuing Solutions
-Weird Hormones Manipulating Insecure Spectators
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Sad, Quiet Anniversary at Dawson
charlottes:
There are no official events taking place at Dawson College tomorrow to mark the third anniversary of the shooting that took the life of first-year student Anastasia De Sousa. However, the gate at 4011 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. will be open for people leaving flowers at the foot of the tree planted in De Sousa’s memory. The college said the flowering almond tree will be the “anchor”...
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momentous occasion
this is my 200th post
(slow day in Short Talks Land, can you tell?)
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Frecklejuice
I don’t have class on Fridays. My morning was meticulously assuring myself that I had nothing to do for the rest of the day.
I read while making lunch, a lunch that made itself while I read. The rest of the afternoon was spent admiring a word combination I found on page 55 of Don DeLillo’s White Noise.
‘Dew, frost and fog. Dew, frost and fog. Dew, frost and fog…’
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I just moved into the Brady Bunch house which has never had Internet and won’t until next week. I’ll be sitting in my giant backyard eating plums from my plum tree until then. Have fun you guys.
Proposition
What if we all jvst went back to Roman times?
That wovld be good. That wovld be a start.
Fixing Fruit
sexpigeon:
shorttalks:
I came to the realization last night that my least favourite vowel is ‘U’. It wasn’t a decision* or an observation** in any way, just a realization.
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And but I find that I even dislike U words that are more sort of positive (e.g. ‘cute’***, ‘fruit’****, etc.), although I am partial to the word ‘dumb’.
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****potential for least favourite English word,...
'Untitled'
I came to the realization last night that my least favourite vowel is ‘U’. It wasn’t a decision* or an observation** in any way, just a realization. U is my least favourite vowel now and always has been (and probably always will be) and I just never really thought about it until last night. The words ‘turbulent’, ‘disruptive’ and ‘cumulative’...
