What's it called when the lyrics mimic the melody? There's a word for this. Cohen did it in “Hallelujah” -- “It goes like this, the fourth the fifth, the minor fall the major lift" -- the chords are literally the 4 / 5 / 6m as he says them. What in the hell is that called?
“Cowboys are frequently, secretly fond of each other” is a hell of an example as shit that I wrote about in my thesis (with respect to adverbial ordering and how that gets reconciled in Minimalist Theory syntax, you know the X’ type).
Going to have to consult Ernst and Cinque on this matter.
@qurlyjoe@GayDeceiver There's a thing called a "garden path" sentence, which is like (and this is stupid but it is the canonical example) "The horse raced past the barn fell.”
Where the linear semantics of the utterance makes sense right up until the very last moment and then the whole thing falls apart because of the last word / phrase. They're really fun and happen all the time in the waves hands actual world.
@qurlyjoe@GayDeceiver Vonnegut also wrote a tender little bit about how the semicolon (;) is a hermaphrodtie transvestite ... well hell, let me get it. shuffles about No, I can't find it. But the important part there is that it's important you never meet your heroes. And if you do, and they've said some dumb shit that's wrong, be prepared to kick them in the pussy.
“If I were ever” — that’s the subjunctive, no? I mean it’s a subjunctive within a conditional but still. Yeah? Mood, man. All this time we piss and moan about tense and aspect, and then mood elbows its fucking way in. (I am a tense and aspect man, in case we’re looking for hot dates.)
Related: Somewhere around here, I do have aircheck of my radio show mentioning the DVD re-release of Airplane! and hinting that might be a good Christmas gift for me. And my family came through! I did indeed get the Anniversary Edition DVD, which came with a coupon you could fill out and mail in with some sort of postage, and receive for yourself your own inflatable Otto Pilot.
Fucking yes, I sent in that coupon. I never did get my inflatable Otto Pilot. That last part makes me sad, but 🤷♂️
I will admit, when I saw Steve Scalise introducing Mike Johnson after Johnson won the Speaker vote, I did immediately ask myself “Now who the hell is that Stephen Colbert lookin' SOB in the background?”
In defense of everyone involved, you're working for Donald Trump? Good and goddamn sure you're drinking on a Monday morning: first time, last time, or simply as a prophylactic measure.
One Medical had pins at the front desk the other day. You could choose one to let the folks you interacted with know of your pronoun / gender identification.
That was cool and I wanted one as a souvenir. I didn’t ask. But I am happy if it causes some squirm.
I gotta watch a shooting go down here. And then it happens again in Louisville as it happens fucking everywhere at this point. I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired. Humph. Proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free. What bullshit.