I’ll leave the World AIDS Day comments to the Chron (whom I agree with emphatically):
Nov. 29, 2003, 5:15PM
AIDS REALITY
From city streets to globe’s corners, a true pandemic
Today is World AIDS Day, a designation to which too many people will say, “So what?” — if they have any response at all.
Perhaps buoyed by the progress made in the treatment of the HIV virus or the misimpression that the disease has no effect on them, many people have turned a blind eye.
That’s exactly the wrong response.
“I got drunk,… as a skunk… because it rhymed.” – Drunkard’s Lullaby, The Minus Five
Studing the lingo that is Texas English, aka TXE. I thought it interesting that newcomers were particularly quick in picking it up.
The by-line is dated coincident with the start of the major ass whoopin’ that was put upon the Aggies this year. If it wasn’t for two Texas fumbles, it would have been 46-3. “Poooor Aggies”.
Scholars of Twang Track All the ‘Y’Alls’ in Texas
Fri Nov 28, 2:34 PM ET
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL The New York TimesCOLLEGE STATION, Tex. “Are yew jus’ tryin’ to git me to talk, is that the ah-deah?”
That was the idea. John O. Greer, an architecture teacher at Texas A&M University, sat at his dining table between two interrogators and their tape recorder. They had precisely 258 questions for him. But it waddn what he said that interested them most. It was how he said it.
My family doesn’t have an ingrained Thangsgiving routine, and I like it that way. Every year I spend it with a different family. Often very extended, only knowing one or two people in the family before being there. I really enjoy getting a one day expedition into an extended family chemistry – and there have … Read more
an early shout out… ‘Tis the season… for holiday parties. Of course, I’m having mine again. Well, to say it’s mine is overstating, but it is at my house. If you’ve been before, I’m sure I’ll see you again, and if you haven’t, you should try to check it out this year. The website isn’t … Read more
mostly recovered from whatever was coming on, still gonna take it easy, hang with the nieces. So, I’ll miss the Ringwalds and Los Scarnales. Tomorrow is the Art Crawl, hope I’m up for it. Whoever will I go with? -b