Criticism-in-finity!
Posted in Replies & Rebuttals on Apr 25th, 2011
Dear Cutefluff, This is an issue of ownership. I’m well aware that when it’s dark you sit under my car still warm for hours. Bravely, you prance on tiny kitty paws through my yard and use my bushes for your dirty little kitty doings. When I come home tired, I prepare my dinner, most nights [...]
Posted in Replies & Rebuttals on Apr 20th, 2011
I’d like to pretend that I came out of the womb with a fully formed appreciation for single-malt scotches and cask-aged ales, but I didn’t; didn’t drink in high school, didn’t really drink in college until I was of legal age (although there is a sad freshman incident with Guinness, which at 18 I believed [...]
Posted in Reviews on Apr 13th, 2011
Some etymological gymnastics: the word hope is from the Olde English hopian “wish” which is from the Proto Germanic wunskijanan “to strive after,” strive being from the Old French estriver “to quarrel” and after the OE aefter “following in time” … To summarize: to hope → to wish → to strive after → to quarrel [...]
Posted in Reviews on Apr 7th, 2011
It’s kind of like Braille. Uneven, greasy Braille. Braille that if you pushed too hard would erupt in pus and fluid and maybe even blood. To get to this Braille, you have to swipe away the matted, unkempt hair of a teenage boy. You must rub ashes up and down as the teenage boy feels [...]
Posted in Reviews on Apr 4th, 2011
You could be forgiven for overlooking the Bloody Mary’s humble origins. According to the drink’s inventor, Fernand “Pete” Petiot, the Bloody Mary was a somewhat austere combination of salt, pepper, cayenne, Worchestershire, a dash of lemon, and equal parts vodka and tomato juice. But what Petiot really invented was the idea of the Bloody Mary—something [...]