morning miscellany

[asimplechord]

• Callus ≠ callous. One is a noun, the other an adjective. They are not interchangeable, no matter what people seem to think.

• MrIris's grandma is ten kinds of awesome. She's a Democrat in a very Red part of Iowa, and as such she is inundated with calls and info and requests for cottage-meetings for campaigning candidates during the election season. Her comment about John Edwards? "He has really nice buns. I kept staring at his jeans, the whole time we spoke." That doesn't mean she favors him, though.

• John Cusack on A&E this AM. Yum.

• Talk to me about earlobe stretching/gauges. I got into a discussion with a barista (baristo? is there a difference between masculine and feminine? plural is baristi, isn't it?) the other day about his gauges, about how long it took him to work up to his (his next stretch will up to the 10mm size), and how he'd gone too big to begin with and messed up his ears, and then one of his friends came in, and his gauges that were HUGE, like the size of quarters, and he wore eyelets because the solid gauges were too heavy. Gauges that big make me think ouch, not ooh, cool. So, would you go that big?

Comments

[why-me-why-not.livejournal.com]

I love John Cusack. Even if he is like my mom's age...

[angela-snape.livejournal.com]

Mmm, I love John Cusack.

Is red associated with D or R? Not sure ... here red is Liberal & blue is Conservative. Nice buns? Go Grandma!

Pierced ears, yes... anything bigger than that, no way. It just looks painful, you know?

[fleurdeliser.livejournal.com]

No. No, no, no. I would not go that big. And not because of the pain involved. Mostly because when I'm 80, either I will have dangly weird bits for ears, or look ridiculous with gauges in.

[scotrid.livejournal.com]

Callus vs. callous is like mucus vs. mucous.

I like John Cusack too, and so does The_Con_Cept. But of course I wouldn't say "yum". I do think he's managed to stay a good actor but not cocky about it. Identity was great.

My Italian dictionary says the singular "barista" covers both genders, but the plurals are "baristi" (m) and "bariste" (f). Weird.

And I hope MrIris's grandma favors either Kucinich or Edwards. But how could she stare at his backside while they were talking? Must have been in the round.