Grammar Guru: Ugh, renovation!
I hate renovating, and try to avoid it every year. So both of these options are nothing I’d look forward to. But they might be necessary. Which one uses correct grammar? If we were to renovate our flat, I’d have to take a week off. If we would renovate our flat, I’d have to take […]
OK Go: This Too Shall Pass
The new OK Go video doesn’t have them dancing. Instead, it’s all a fantastic machine of falling dominoes and rolling marbles and levers moving handles to open latches, tipping seesaws that release springs to shoot balls into the air that, falling, trigger further chain reactions, like water running through tubes and pouring into vessels that […]
Second graders
Joan sent me a presentation with quotes from German second graders. Most of them are mondegreens that won’t work in English, but I’ve translated some of the others into English for fun: Garden gnomes have red hats so they don’t get mowed down. Men can’t get married to men because then who would wear the […]
Joni Mitchell: Night ride home
Joni Mitchell: Night ride home Once in a while In a big blue moon There comes a night like this Like some surrealist Invented this 4th of July Night ride home Hula girls And caterpillar tractors in the sand The ukulele man The fireworks This 4th of July Night ride home I love the man […]
The Onion Radio: Rules Grammar Change
Nonsense rules!
