1. 30 June 2009 · 06:33 PM

    Who just left work crying?

    carlyj:

    Yeah, sometimes I’m “THAT” girl.

    I hate that when I’m really, really pissed off I don’t have a different coping mechanism. I always end up crying and it is never cute.

    Good thing there are margaritas and chicken nachos with my best friends in my near future.

    This is also how I cope with anger. I haven’t bawled in the newsroom ever, but there are times when it’s /thisclose/.

    Why don’t dudes cry? They throw stuff instead, which is also childish, methinks. Maybe we’re all just 5-year-olds masquerading as adults.

  2. 30 June 2009 · 06:56 PM

    Wordplay par excellence

    My fave play on convention this week comes courtesy of Mos Def.

    In “Pistola,” One of the songs on his new album, he asks:

    “If you’re gonna fall in love, where should you stand to begin with?”

    It goes on:

    “And when the fall is done, how bad should you plan to get injured?

    And if you land on your feet, do it count as a fall or a jump?

    And do it feel like a fall when the hands that pushed you were holding you up?”

    I wish everyone knew language was so elastic.