This post is all Eddie’s fault.
Things that are exquisitely fortuitous
- her sudden and unexpected departure with a drunken Hanes waving a gun
- timing
- positioning
- several kinds of parameters of the universe
- that they chose sh** to describe this newest of Beetoven’s competitors
- that Phaidon, the British publisher, is issuing new editions of Ungerer classics, including “Moon Man”
- the Boston bombing
- mutations
- a meteor strike landing on the venue of a future presidential debate
Exceedingly beautiful, yet …
- frightfully poor
- profoundly sad
- whose beauty was her least charm
- cruel at the same time
- it seems not to rest upon solid masonry
- Mary Howitt was–and you could not help but feel it–queen among them all
- the sculptor proceeded with little pleasure
- the soil is much thinner than that of the flat bottom land near the Mississippi
- not one of the sailors responded to the offer
- perfectly practical and becoming
- in tropical scenery, the entire newness, & therefore absence of all associations, which in my own case (& I believe in others) are unconsciously much more frequent than I ever thought, requires the mind to be wrought to a high pitch, & then assuredly no delight can be greater; otherwise your reason tells you it is beautiful but the feelings do not correspond
- in our opinion neither of them equals our old superb warbler or Blue Wren
- she rubbed her face with pepper so as not to tempt anyone or take any focus from God
- intellectually inept person
- very aggressive
- simple setting was designed for the Senior play
- damaged
- sad when an old campaigner reaches the twilight years
- it never mattered
Things that are monumentally egregious
- practices of the IRS
- s*** you post
- man-made errors and mistakes
- displays
- compensation
- mismanagement
- miscarriage of justice
- mistakes in understanding
- price-gouging
- a betrayal of trust
- crime
- idiocy
- errors
- a blunder
- their behavior
- typos
- the traffic on the way there
- a failure of judgement
- government censorship
- gaps in logic
- Steptacular or 5ive’s Greatest Hits
- officiating blunders
- exercise of power
- ethical, moral and legal transgressions
- operator error
- the recent bank bailout bill [that] includes a provision which tacks on a $450 charge at closing for any residential real estate financing transaction
- the behavior of Tech fans
Things that are too frightening to seriously consider
- the thought of attempting to produce crops with these people
- the prospect of walking away
- that topic itself and the implications that follow
- our sinfulness apart of comfort of the Cross
- regard[ing] the Law as authoritative
- the thought of quitting a career after over ten years of unquestionable success
- the implications of Berger’s proposed ban
- the thought of stepping off into independence
- the implications of that finding
- highly radioactive waste being perpetually stored on California’s seismically active coast