•In Friday’s NY Times, in a review of State of Play (Russell Crowe et al), critic A. O. Scott referred to Ben Affleck “…wielding a Philadelphia accent as thick and inauthentic as low-fat cream cheese.” NYT, 17 April 09
•Dashiell Hammett:
“Smoke Stink. Heat. Noise….” -Red Harvest
“Beginning night had reduced night to a thin smokiness when Spade sat up….” -The Maltese Falson
“A bullet kissed a hole in the door-frame close to my noodle….” Red Harvest
•California license plate the other day: OBVS
•Jonathan Greene just wrote to say that the quote I attributed to Mark Twain (“I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”), was in fact by Blaise Pascal, and research turned up the following:
“Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.”
Translation:” I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”
Blaise Pascal, Lettres provinciales, letter 16, 1657:
•Words I dislike: veggie/yummy/goody/munchies/impact (as a verb)/”have a good day”
•Mel has a sign on his studio door saying Don’t Tell Me What Kind of Day to Have!
•Just leverageing some content here…
