你[nǐ, pronoun, you] 要[yào, verb, want] 不[ bu, negate word, not] 要[yāo, want] 跟[gēn, preposition, with] 我[wǒ, pronoun, me] 一起[yì qǐ, adverb, together] 玩[wán, verb, play] ? B 对不起[duì bu qǐ, I am sorry
Many years ago a high school friendconfessedto me ( as in, “Don’t tell anybody, but….”) that he liked the Frito-Lay commercials featuring the cartoon mascot,The Frito Bandito, despite having had many of his fellow Chicanos lecture him as to why he shouldn’t. They warned him: if...
That said, if you think you should never again read any book by Charles Dickens because you learned that the man who wrote so eloquently about the plight of the poor and downtrodden in Victorian England was aSOB to his own family, then…don’t. Let that conviction float your boat, but ...
Frontman Tim Kasher introduced the mashup-song, “Recluse I Don’t Have to Love,” giving no hints as to what was about to happen, simply saying, “Let’s see how this goes.” Halfway through the usual jangling version of “The Recluse” on bounded Bright Eyes frontman Conor Oberst as ...
I just don’t have as many people who believe it.” ( Comedian, author, social criticGeorge Carlin, from his book,Brain Droppings) People continue to pay attention to proclamations from the Vatican (or other religious institutions and leaders) as it they were relevant to our century. Coming...
I’ve been doing my pre-breakfast workout for the past few weeks while re-watching someGrey’s Anatomyseasons that I don’t have much memory of. Dateline: last Friday morning I’m on Season 11; it’s the heart-rending episode where Dr. April Kepper gives birth to her and her husband...
I forget the title of whatever one I had on my computer screen; something to do with a male dance revue.[3]The one I’m currently…watching (I don’t know if that is the correct word, as I never seem to finish them) is titled,Christmas in Notting Hill. In arip-offnod to the ...
Many years ago a high school friendconfessedto me ( as in, “Don’t tell anybody, but….”) that he liked the Frito-Lay commercials featuring the cartoon mascot,The Frito Bandito, despite having had many of his fellow Chicanos lecture him as to why he shouldn’t. They warned him: if...