April 10, 2009

Best. Sign. Ever.


Thanks to Alex H. for letting me rip this off. It's his photo, snapped outside a Chinese restaurant in Queens. Presumably in a quite noisy (or prostitution-heavy) area.

April 9, 2009

Via Gawker

I'm obsessed with Gawker, and today they had a bit of fun with grammar, which bears repeating:

Here's a sample Meghan McCain bon mot from her Daily Beast column, wherein she recalled the reaction on the part of Daddy's campaign to her suggestion that she start a blog: "A few people even asked me what's a blog." No! You can render that thought as, "A few people even asked me what a blog is," or you can render it as, "A few people even asked me, 'What's a blog?'" But that is not a sentence.


Full post here.