For the love of books, read!

Teacher, feminist, bibliophile, philomath, and logophile.

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One thing I like about Pixar films is how the happy ending isn’t always what you think it’ll be. The toys don’t go with Andy to college, Gusteau’s restaurant gets closed down, Mike and Sully get kicked out of university, Carl never gets Ellie to Paradise Falls. But they find out that what they wanted isn’t necessarily what they needed, and I really like the fact that kids get to learn that life doesn’t always turn out the way they dreamed and that’s okay.

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why the fuck does english have a word for

but not for “the day after tomorrow”

???

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Because you’re not looking hard enough! ;)

Overmorrow = the day after tomorrow

Ereyesterday = the day before yesterday

Example: I defenestrated my brother ereyesterday. I shall defenestrate my sister overmorrow! Because I hate my family and also windows.

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english has some of the best examples of stupidly specific words, tbh

Rhotacism (n): excessive use of the letter “R”

Lingible (adj): meant to be licked

Whipjack (n): a beggar, specifically one who is pretending to have been shipwrecked

Yerd (v): to beat with an object with a stick

Roddikin (n): the fourth stomach of a cow or a deer

Balbriggan (n): a type of fine cotton, most often used in underwear

and my personal favorite

Cornobble (v): to slap or beat another person with a fish

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This makes the English nerd in me extremely happy.

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Who even made these words I’m going to cornobble them

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My dick is lingible

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there is a dictionary that has all of these stupidly specific and obscure words and a whole lot more. It’s absolutely beautiful.

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THIS

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Typing “lol” at the end of a message is the literary equivalent of nervous laughter

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9 words to make you really think.

This. Is. Profound.

This is something everyone should see

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The Avengers: if they were old books.

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Do want

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mood board: Tenth Doctor

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People Of Color Recreate Iconic Movie Posters

Video

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Watch: You will be appalled by where their funding for abortion services really comes from

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“Planned Parenthood overwhelmed me with the ability to make my own choices, without having to ask my Congressman 😱”

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Heavenly Nostrils: If Hobbes was a snarky unicorn and Calvin was an awesome little girl

Phoebe and Her Unicorn is the first collection of Dana Simpson’s syndicated Heavenly Nostrils cartoons – it’s a book that I insisted on reading to my kid, because I didn’t want to miss a single strip.    

We almost didn’t read Phoebe and Her Unicorn; it sat on my daughter’s shelf for months, untouched, because it looked like something pink and princess-y, and that’s not really her thing. But the kid got it down and started reading it to herself – really reading it to herself, as in, we’d have to take it away from her when it was time to get ready for school. My wife glanced at it, and asked if I’d ever really looked at it: “It’s really funny!”

So that night, I started reading it to Poesy at bedtime. Even though she’d already read halfway through, she was very happy to have me re-read those early strips to her. And I was even more glad to do it. I quickly discovered that Dana Simpson was doing something wonderful with Heavenly Nostrils: telling a hilarious, sweet, and unsentimental story about a kid and her imaginary friend ripped straight from the Bill Watterson/Calvin and Hobbes playbook, but with new, lateral moves that are strictly her own.

Phoebe meets Marigold Heavenly Nostrils in the woods one summer vacation, coming upon the magical creature transfixed by her own reflection in a pond (being captivated by one’s own lovely reflection is the unicorn’s downfall). Phoebe throws a rock in the pond and is offered a wish for rescuing the unicorn: “to be my best friend.”

Unlike Hobbes, Marigold isn’t a toy, and unlike Hobbes, Marigold can be seen by people other than Phoebe. However, Marigold has an adjustable SHIELD OF BORINGNESS that she can dial up in the presence of Phoebe’s parents so that they find nothing remarkable about the fact that she’s invited a unicorn over for dinner. This is a great wrinkle on imaginary friends, a reversal of the Calvin and Hobbes world where Calvin sees the world as he wants it to be and everyone else contends with dull reality-as-it-is; in Phoebe’s house, she and Marigold alone are living in the real world and everyone else is blinded by magic and unable to see things as they are.

Like Calvin and Hobbes, Phoebe and Calvin’s adventures work on many levels – anarchic kid humor, snarky adult humor, slightly over-their-head jokes that kids enjoy once they’re explained. We read from Phoebe and Her Unicorn every night a bedtime and when it was done, we followed the directions in the appendix and practiced drawing our own unicorns and little freckled girls.

Peter “The Last Unicorn” Beagle wrote a tremendous introduction to this volume, and in looking it up, I discovered that a second collection, Unicorn On a Roll, is due in May. I’ve pre-ordered mine!

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Elizabeth rendering Darcy speechless

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Between Saving Private Ryan ($70 million), Interstellar ($165 million), and The Martian ($108 million), America has spent nearly $350 million trying to rescue Matt Damon.