tistis a roundup.

i want my native lanuage to have different words for a grammatical subject and a grammatical agent. i even suspect it does, in which case i want people to use them. i don't care if "agent of history" sounds like it should be thedoctor or indianajones or whoever. there's also "actor of history" but then it sounds like they're all pretending.

never be overly familiar with the source material if you want to be able to tell people about it. thought i'd learned that by now. (also see, "if you want to talk about fortifications that badly, you will talk about fortifications" ["do you want me to draw the PA wall for you?"] and "it's okay to insult people's intelligence")

i'm a genius. in other words, serendipity. autumn'11. a blog near you.