today_i_learned
auburn That you and I long for the same type of love.


The love we've never had.


I wish us both the best of luck. 		100217
...
epitome of incomprehensibility "Kvell" - Yiddish word. Sort of the opposite of "kvetch" (complain). Expressing pride in something. In littlegirl 1990s Canadese, "Being all like 'yay'".

Oh, and apparently there's a town in Ohio called Wanker's Corner. 		170204
...
e_o_i No. Not right. It's in Oregon and there's no apostrophe.

Someone with too much time on their hands made a list of dirty-sounding town names in the U.S. To me, things with "wood" in them don't really count, unless there's something else about them that's suggestive. Same with "beaver".

But there's something very poetic about "Humptulips". (Also... how?!) 		170204
...
nr that people sometimes take high doses of the cough suppressant dextromethorphan (DXM) to get high, and it's called robotripping.

i feel a bit naive for just having learned this. i also learned today that, at normal doses, it can take over an hour to start working for a cough. 		211027
...
raze that talking with a mouthful of orange juice isn't the best idea. 220428
...
kerry that the FDA is moving to ban menthol cigarettes. my first thought was, "wes is going to be so pissed." 220428
...
raze that whatever i'm looking for, however long it's been since i saw it, the last place i expect it to be is exactly where it is. 220625
...
tender_square the inside of your forearm is the exact length of your foot. 220626
...
tender_square there’s a plant called “dusty miller,” which sounds to me like a great name for a country star. 220722
...
kerry dogs sweat through their paws. 220722
...
raze "flark" isn't just some nonsense word you say when you don't feel like dropping an f_bomb. it's a depression or a hollow within a bog, typically occurring as a series of parallel depressions separated by intervening ridges called "strings". 220723
...
tender_square in the 1980s fatboy slim was a bassist in the housemartins. 220731
...
tender_square that heated sidewalks are a thing that exists. (they're in holland!) 220804
...
tender_square that kate bush was on retainer with emi for the first two years of her recording contract when she was signed as a teenager, and she used that time to take interpretive dance and miming while working on her music. emi didn’t want her to be too young to withstand rejection when her debut album was released but wanted to invest in her deepening her artistic abilities. 220805
...
tender_square toni basil (of “mickey” fame) was a choreographer for the talking heads and david_bowie. 220814
...
tender_square there is a difference between corn for human consumption and corn for animal consumption. 220823
...
raze our skin is smarter than we are. 220826
...
tender_square (the hard way) that those 3 gallon plastic jugs of water can break when dropped. 220828
...
raze squirrels can carry things in their mouths that would cripple mine. 220829
...
raze empty_threats are an acceptable substitute for attentive parenting. (but i knew that already.) 220830
...
tender_square that the naked eyes version of “always something there to remind me” is a cover. THE MORE YOU KNOW. 220914
...
raze the copyright and trademark symbols *and* superscript text all show up here. so, you know, if you ever feel like writing an essay with footnotes on blather, that's a thing you can do. 220915
...
tender_square equine dentists exist and that horses have to be tranquilized to have their teeth cleaned. 221005
...
tender_square elon musk has sired ten children. 221016
...
tender_square that members of a sorority or a fraternity have to pay rent to live in their chapter house. 221102
...
tender_square jerry springer is now a tv judge. 221130
...
raze i can outrun and outmaneuver an unscrupulous blue jay. in slippers. in the rain. 221231
...
raze prolonged sleep deprivation leads to an especially talkative stomach. 230103
...
raze a tree squirrel's brain gets bigger in the fall so they can keep track of all they need to do to get through the winter. 230104
...
tender_square that taxidermied animals in museums often come from zoos, rescue centers, animal control, and private donors. 230117
...
raze animals make some strange sounds when they're sex-starved and frustrated. 230118
...
tender_square james iha supplied all the bumper music for "that 90's show." 230120
...
past it is possible to print blood vessels. 230120
...
raze i can do crunches unimpeded with tears in my eyes. 230213
...
tender_square manfred mann wasn't even the lead singer of his own band, he was the keyboardist. 230306
...
tender_square the n & d market in sandwich is a dollarama (and probably has been for sometime). i always loved that that market was one of the last small grocery stores in the city, it felt like a throwback to simpler times. 230307
...
raze a fruit fly's brain contains more than three thousand neurons connected by over half a million synapses, with regions that correspond to decision-making, learning, and navigation. 230311
...
raze this_city doesn't care about me. it never did.

(i knew that already. but it's a lesson that keeps growing exciting new wrinkles the longer i'm alive.) 		230329
...
raze i'm a homemaker, more or less.

and i'm okay with that. 		230419
...
past if you forget about your chickpeas, they'll still look okay up until the moment they dissolve into the curry. 230419
...
raze all froot loops are the same flavour, regardless of colour. 230422
...
raze when what's left of your deodorant becomes airborne the instant you pop off the lid, it's time to get a new stick. 230423
...
raze someone just paid eighteen thousand pounds for freddie mercury's leather_pants. 230427
...
tender_square windsor's rental market is about to get even tighter, which makes me feel like it will be even more difficult to boot my tenant. 230428
...
raze tina turner wrote the humble_pie song "black coffee". 230525
...
tender_square that robert smith and his wife mary poole are high school sweethearts; at a recent show in california, he sang "love song" to her as she stood on stage near the wings and she was beaming at him like a teenager. #couplegoals 230616
...
raze the iq of the average person and the average squirrel is more or less the same. 230628
...
tender_square that fresh fruit tastes amazing on from-scratch waffles. 230722
...
e_o_i In English, "decade" = ten years.

In French, "décade" = ten days.

Thankfully, it's not that common. And apparently French speakers have trouble with it too.

Decade (ten years) in French is "décennie." 		230801
...
tender_square that david lowery was in both camper van beethoven and cracker. (i thought that voice sounded familiar.) 230801
...
tender_square that even though sinéad o'connor was right about the abuse occurring against women and children in the catholic church all these decades later, snl refuses to rebroadcast her 1992 performance of bob marley's "war," the one where she tore a photo of pope john paul ii and said "fight the real enemy." instead, nbc replaces that footage with a rehearsal of o'connor performing the song anytime its aired. 230803
...
raze exhaustion pluralizes things in unwanted places. 231020
...
raze you can't swallow a sneeze, but sometimes you can talk it into not showing up at an inopportune time. 231209
...
raze safflower seeds turn translucent when they get wet. 240103
...
raze a new word: proprioception. 240109
...
raze muskrats are basically miniature beavers. 240727
...
raze there's a keyboard shortcut that will allow me to create an em_dash without the need to copy and paste.

this makes me happier than it probably should. 		240915
...
e_o_i In blather? I can't figure it out, or it doesn't work on my computer. 240916
...
e_o_i (In other words, I'm asking if you can share the secret code because the ones I find online don't seem to work. But maybe again it depends on the machine.) 240916
...
raze i'm not sure if you've got a macbook, but on mine it's the shift key, the option key, and then the normal dash key, all held at the same time. the internet tells me on a windows computer it should be control, alt, dash. i hope one of those works! 240916
...
e_o_i test test 240916
...
e_o_i OK, not in the blather window, apparently. But thank you! 240916
...
raze "la belle et la boeuf" is the name of a real_life burger bar in montreal.

jean cocteau, eat your french fries. 		241024
...
raze john candy improvised all of his dialogue in "home_alone", hungover, at 4:30 in the morning, as a favour to john hughes. he was paid $414. 241107
...
raze a group of skunks is called a surfeit. 241120
...
raze national hairball awareness day is an actual thing. it falls on the last friday in april. 241203
what's it to you?
who go 		blather
from