Blog Eugene Fischer | 28 Nov 2009
Who Is This?
For months now this ad has been reliably showing up on my Facebook profile. Who is that supposed to be a cartoon of? It looks to me vaguely like Edgar Allen Poe.
Archive for November, 2009
Blog &Writing Eugene Fischer | 27 Nov 2009
A Linguistic Blind Spot
There is an interesting article on The Language Log about a particular type of misnegation that, until it was presented to me in a context that said, “this is wrong,” I was unable to see the problem with. It has to do with phrases of the type No NOUN is too ADJECTIVE to VERB. For [...]
Video Eugene Fischer | 20 Nov 2009
More Molly
Because I miss her, I wish I’d learned of her work years earlier than I did, and because Molly Ivins’s insights in 2004 are still more relevant than what most commentators who are actually alive have to say. (Video is about half prepared talk, half Q&A, and filled with both the brilliantly funny and the [...]
News &Texas &Video Eugene Fischer | 19 Nov 2009
Texas Is For Lovers. Spouses, Not So Much.
So way back in 2005 the Texas legislature, in its alarmingly finite wisdom, passed an amendment to the state constitution to outlaw gay marriage. So eager were our elected representatives to protect us from the loathsome evil of same sex unions, it seems they may have overshot the mark somewhat and protected us from all [...]
Video Eugene Fischer | 18 Nov 2009
A Sober Discussion of God’s Definition of Man -or- Gee Whiz!
“A man is he who pisses against a wall!” “That’s where we’re heading in this country, my friends…. We got a buncha pastors who pee sitting down. We got a president of the United States who probably pees sitting down. We got a buncha preachers and leaders who don’t stand up and piss against a [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 08 Nov 2009
Grandma’s Grand Tour Part 7: Paris
Days 28 through 31 of my grandmother’s 1936 trip to Europe, covering her time spent in Paris. (Previously: Introduction, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6.) Paris, Tuesday July 21, 1936 We left Brussels this morning at eight for a short train ride to Paris. Our first view of Paris [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 07 Nov 2009
Back From California
And it was quite nice there. I went to my first World Fantasy convention, got to spend time with many friends, old and new, and see some very beautiful things. It was a long trip, and I was more invested in living in the moment than noting down what I was doing, so I don’t [...]
