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JMO
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu
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 Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 5:44 pm Post subject: Ok I'm declaring a moratorium on... |
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...music reviews that do the "band a is like band b on illicit drug" thing. This also applies to literature and movies.
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And, just like on 2006's Boys and Girls in America, they're finding new ways to come off as a band , not just as a vehicle for Craig Finn's deranged honk and Flannery-O'Connor-huffing-glue rants |
http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7573-the-50-best-albums-of-2008/3/
Anything you want to declare a moratorium on? |
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ekul
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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| I'd like to declare a moratorium on moratoriums. |
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JMO
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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| ekul wrote: |
| I'd like to declare a moratorium on moratoriums. |
Admit it. You just googled moratorium to see what it means didn't you?
Must be thrilling to use it in a sentence! Tw*t. |
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ekul
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| Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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JMO
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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yea..
I'd also like to declare a moratorium on the excessive nitpicking of players in the run up to the nfl draft. Yea I read way too much on the NFL draft but still.. |
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DorkothyParker
Joined: 11 Apr 2009
Location: Jeju
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| Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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Consider this my official 'cease and desist' notice to newly created English words that lazily combine two other words to describe concepts which really don't require a new specialized term.
Example: Sexting
Exception: Words which have yet to be co-opted and beaten into the ground by politicians and trying-too-hard mass media personnel.
Example: Webcest (courtesy Jeffrey Rowland)
PS. In my review of House of Leaves for my school paper I said it was "the literary equivalent of snorting crushed SMARTIES." I am retroactively guilty.  ( |
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