Friday, August 22, 2008

Sing about the body

This website answers the question, "What do we sing about, when we sing about the body?" By far, the largest statistical share of any genre of music is hip hop's references to... see below.Via Metafilter.


This post's theme word (you can see it coming, right?): callipygian, "having well-shaped buttocks."

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Things on a single post-it on my desktop

"I mean that in the Roman sense of 300, which means a bajillion." -- A.
waffle
clippy
bike jousting
pysdens / pysdxes


This post's theme word: epergne, "a serving dish of numerous separate bowls attached to one main stem." I've been trying to work that into a blog post for awhile, and hadn't managed. Bonus points if you can rhyme it in a poem.