“We discovered that it was OK to have a little high-brow as long you have a lot of low-brow. That’s entertainment value. The one thing you want to avoid is the middle brow, because the whole world is frigging middle brow at the moment.” – Jon Langford
Labels: radish, ravage, ravish--it leaves you redface whatever
posted by George at 10:20 AM
George markets only for the forces of good for a living. He has a paid hobby that involves eating, drinking, and writing, things he’d do for free, which is almost what he’s doing it for. In a previous life he taught mostly illiterate and generally ungrateful college students how to write. He has been a body guard for Jodie Foster, a walk-on dancer with French avant garde troupe Maguy Marin, a film programmer, a judge at an Iron Chef style competition, a political activist, a textbook author, a bassist in a band, a two-time league winning fantasy baseball manager, a union local president, a pr flack helping run a red carpet at an Angelina Jolie event, a janitor, a chauffeur to folks from TC Boyle to Andrei Codrescu, a delivery man to Plato's Retreat, a reluctant writer of a non-snarky intro for Colin Powell, a radio DJ, a corn detassler, an escort van driver, a rock journalist, a lab assistant for a company that made everything from mouthwash to super skin lubricant, and even, once, a poet. His biggest brush with fame was when Julie Christie fondled his tie, a tie George Lopez belittled to 1000 people minutes later. The best thing about him is his wife. His dogs aren't bad, either.
5 Comments:
Oh my... I think I have the vapors... *swoon*
That reminds me of an older woman I used to work with at a restaurant years ago who was a great source of malaprops and Spoonerisms. For instance, she would often say of someone, "He was so mad he was vivid!"
Wow! He was so angry you could see him?
If the cirucumstances surrounding the mistake were more funny, I suspect you'd have a million malapropisms by now. Let's hope the fires end quickly. A former university employee here was famous for her malapropisms, the most famous being her references to "the ovulating fan."
I do believe in allowing for basic human error, but a lot of stuff has been slipping through the cracks over there. I believe last Friday one of the headlines on an inside page actually said "Mayor Bloom". Egad.
Do you think any extra pennies I could earn as a freelance copy editor for them could actually cover the cost of a cappucino or two a day (which I'd need to keep me awake for that graveyard shift)?
This headline reminds me of a scene in the film Secrets and Lies in which Brenda Blethyn's character says (before dinner): "I'm simply ravishing."
Say it with me now: "budget"
It's a FREE paper folks, quit complaining!
Anon is right--we should be happy they even can use English half the time....
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