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March 18, 2006
black comedy
this morning laying in bed letting the cats walk all over me in their pathetic attempt to get me to get up and feed them, i somehow remembered two awesome vocabulary-related mistakes of my childhood:
1. "war of the roses" came out in 1989, when i was 11. there was a lot of press about it, and it was repeatedly called a "black comedy". what i couldn't understand was how it could be a black comedy without any black people in it. so then i thought maybe it was a movie written by black people, but for some reason they decided that danny devito should be allowed to use it and have an all white cast--you know, kind of like "white face".
i think i was about 15 when i finally realized that "black comedy" did not mean a comedy written or about black people.
2. there is some home show on hgtv or discovery home (I am now obsessed with home shows) where the woman's last name is something like "Butiguet", pronounced in the french way, so "butt-eh-gay", and I'm sure her name is what led me to remember this: when I was little (under 10) I read all of my mom's old books from the 60s, including the "Bobbsey Twins" and "The Three Investigators" and in one of those books somewhere I ran across the word "fatigue", which I had never heard pronunced and so of course I thought was pronounced "fat-i-gay". This went on for several years in my head until, thankfully, I used it in a sentence in front of my mother and after politely laughing her head off, she corrected me.
Posted by me at 07:03 AM | Comments (0)
March 16, 2006
thank you
thank you to everyone who came out for my birthday. i was truly surprised. just yesterday i was 23 years old and in law school going to cafe iberico and now i'm (jesus) 28 years and a lawyer going to cafe iberico. and then i saw some 17 year old girl side swipe a car outside the restaurant, which made my post-birthday suprise birthday dinner PERFECT.
since TMR and J-man missed it, I think on Saturday after we take Mordec(h)ai to the vet we'll feed Moby and bring Mordec(h)ai into visit. May the strongest fat ass anti-social cat win.
thanks again.
Posted by me at 09:51 PM | Comments (2)
March 11, 2006
back deck
Just one more--the back deck. It is highly unlikely that I will buy anything to cover my deck furniture (I'll leave that to C...), but this thing is so freaking huge, I'm thinking of it as the 4th bedroom. Do you think sleeping on it during the summer would violate Home Owners Association rules? (I could tell you the answer to that question if the sellers evil real estate agent from hell would actually get me a copy of the rules...)
Posted by me at 08:38 AM | Comments (1)
door to nowhere
Ever since I got to Chicago for law school in 2000, I have complained about the fake balconies on new condos. You know, the ones where they have these huge french doors/sliding glass doors in front, but no deck? So instead they put an iron railing there so you don't open it and fall out, and call it a day? I know what the point is--they probably aren't allowed to put balconies in front because of zoning, it lets in more light, it's cheaper than a huge bay window, blah blah blah...
but still, it looks stupid.
and now, on April 14th, I will have my very own DOOR TO NOWHERE (knock on wood, if all goes well, please god, let it go well).
Posted by me at 08:32 AM | Comments (0)