Category: nonesense
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An Ongoing List of Statistics I’d Like to See When I Die
This is an ongoing discussion between my partner and I. Assuming there’s an afterlife of some sort (which I don’t personally believe, but for the sake of this thought experiment let’s just pretend there is), there’s the cliché of the events of one’s life being reviewed and judged. If that’s the case, and everything has…
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Baby Lore: Good Gift For Mother
Note from the writer: At the time of writing this, my son is about 19 months old. For the entirety of his life, I have voiced him in a terrible Russian accent. At the time of his birth, I had been listening to a Dungeons & Dragons “actual play” podcast by several CollegeHumor/Dropout alumni called…
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My Favourite Rap Term: Swayze
“Swayze,” as in Roadhouse actor Patrick Swayze, is one of the weirdest terms in hip-hop. Hip-hop is a genre very well known for slang: known and popular or otherwise. Like half of the English language’s slang terms come from African-American Vernacular English (AAVE), which is obviously very strongly tied with rap, then dig one step…