Tag: memes

  • John Edwards is the Grisham candidate

    Too lazy to pad out to my front drive and pick up the Sunday Chronicle, I’ve been reading New York Times op eds and now skimming Slate. There’s a tight little William Saletan article from Thursday, Wise Counsel – Edwards copies Clinton’s message—in invisible ink, that makes the point that John Edwards has mastered the…

  • Chatterbox adopts 'Meme Watch' term

    It looks like Slate launched a feature called Meme Watch back in November and refers, semifacetiously, to a MemeTracker™ device. Hey, as long as they pay us royalties! No, honestly, the more of us tracking memes the better. Timothy Noah’s latest column observes the ups and downs of the “Lucky Duckies” meme.

  • Slate adopts our lingo

    It looks like Slate launched a feature called Meme Watch back in November and refers, semifacetiously, to a MemeTracker&tm; device. Hey, as long as they pay us royalties! No, honestly, the more of us tracking memes the better. Timothy Noah’s latest column observes the ups and downs of the “Lucky Duckies” meme:

  • Another incorrectly dated post (actually

    Another incorrectly dated post (actually from 12/24): Drowning Mona. About 5 minutes before the end of this movie, Danny DeVito’s character says, “Know this….” A good example of lame Hollywood writing, a crutch-phrase I’ve never heard anyone use in real life….

  • You've got blog

    According to CBS MarketWatch.com, AOL is preparing to support some form of blogging: America Online reportedly will furnish subscribers the tools through which they can publish diaries and commentaries on the Web. Known as “Blogs,” or Weblogs, they are easily produced one-page Web sites, popularized by entertainment artists and journalists. They are also used by…

  • Memebusting the 12 days of Xmas

    Leading up to Christmas this year I was several times sent chain mail claiming that the lyrics to the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas” encoded forbidden Catholic catechistic information under Anglican repression. Something smelled fishy about this, not least because it was presented without any evidence, and the correspondence seemed fairly weak for most…