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

[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.

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

She actually favors Richardson or Obama or Clinton. Which sorta freaks me out a little, because Obama and Clinton are Republican-Lite IMO, and I can't say why, but Richardson does not fill me with confidence either.

I didn't think to ask about the front/back issue of the jeans, I was so amused when she came out with that declaration. :)

[scotrid.livejournal.com]

With Richardson, it's probably (for me, at least) the fact that Melissa Ethereidge was so astounded by his belief that homosexuality is a choice that she said, "Maybe you didn't understand the question..."

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there's that. And somehow, I just feel like he's another hanger-on from the Clinton administration. And I'm not really convinced that the "extensive" foreign policy experience that gets touted is really pivotal. At this point, I'd say pretty much anyone else's foreign policy would be better than the Shrub's.