Finally got off my keister and put up links to two folks whose blogs I’ve been slurping up for a while – Devra and the Armed Liberal. Both feature fine writing from human beings.
Happy Noodles!!! My prof agreed to let me redo my thesis. Skool, here I come! *ahem* So, calling all cars, calling all cars, if anybody out there happens to know of any good books on language and metaphor (besides Sapir-Whorf) puhleez lemme know – I’m going to do a contrastive analysis of selected insult metaphors in Arabic, Farsi and Urdu. I need to go hunt down references on Urdu and Farsi linguistics, metaphor and insults. Oh, and methodology for figuring out same – time to go email like a madwoman! W00T!
White House Staff to Attend Emergency Survival Training – well, as long as they’re not all jumping off telephone poles and shooting down zip lines in the race for the biggest marshmallows to roast while singing “Kumbaya” around the campfire, I feel the economy is safe.