Pedantic Dick.

While we were walking down the street the other day, my wife, who has had a total of 2 hours of sleep the night before, started complaining about her legs and how much they were hurting.

To drum up the appropriate sympathy for her, I will add that her legs were hurting because she had been on her feet for 36 hours at the hospital. There is no doubt that call sucks.

"These are my favorite pair of shoes." She said.

"This. This is my favorite pair of shoes. It's this." I replied.

For the next four blocks we talked about the grammar of that sentence.

It would be "This is my favorite pair" or "these are my favorite shoes", true, but I was arguing for a new application. I suggested that "These are my favorite pair of shoes" was acceptable if you pointed to your shoes as you said it. By pointing at a physical pair of shoes, I think you might be able to get away with saying "These" because you are clearly point to more than one item. I think it works for the other items that fall into a pair. Pants, panties, underwear, twins etc.

Anyone buying this? Or am I just a dick who picked on an overtired-do-gooder?

Geez, these pretzels are making me thirsty.

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Feed The Need For Feeds

So Bloglines is down for maintenance. As I, and others have mentioned Bloglines is the best. So I got a panicky feeling. I'm jonsein'.

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Three Cheers For Tarp!

It really is amazing. I've never been in the city where there was this much communal good cheer. The park was more packed then I have ever seen, even more than during the "Paul Simon In The Park" concert. There was actually a crowd of people cheering for someone de-tangling one of the gates.

Having seen the park hundreds of times in my life, if you throw up a little steel and some saffron tarp, its a whole new world. I felt like I was walking through some sort of surreal painting.

Christo & Jeanne-Claude's intent, apparently, was to just make something beautiful to look at. No political statements, no introspective commentaries, just some good old fashioned fun. I think they achieved it in spades. The dreary leafless park was glowing with orange from the highest peaks of the Great Hill to the valleys beneath the overpass (a.k.a. the public restroom).

I don't think you need to particularly like their work to get a kick out of the enormity of the project. I'm a big fan of universally accessible art, and man, is this accessible. Though it's a crying shame that this installation is so fleeting; 16 days to remember something that will probably never happen again in my lifetime.

I'm happy to say, however, that the Christo's on my wall are looking mighty good right now. Heh.

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It hurts when I do that.

I have some sort of tendinitis. It hurts to type. Any suggestions beyond the obvious?

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You want satellite system? It has Sony guts.

So my friend Shane purchased a Fendi bag for his wife as a gift. The bag was purchased at his local Annie Sez. It was $353.09, down from $669.

At an unbelievable sale, he couldn't resist. But after some minor wear and tear, the bags inner zipper was separating from the lining. He went back to Annie Sez to ask them to repair or replace the bag. They told him that they don't do those types of repairs and he would have to take it to Fendi direct.

So, his wife diligently went to Fendi and turned in the bag. They told her that it would take up to 5 weeks to repair. After a week of "investigating" the Fendi folks called her back and informed her that the bag was, in fact, a shotty knockoff.

Credit card cancellations, and irate conversations later, the plan is in the works to take down Annie Sez, and all of her fraudulent practices (A.K.A. get his money back)

My theory is that Annie Sez is one of those places that buys labels from companies and sews them into child-made second hand products. Buyers beware. There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. [Thanks Shane]

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