weirdly_sexy nr watching someone drive a standard car super confidently 250107 ... nr ...standard as in stick shift, not standard as in run-of-the-mill. (i suppose it could be a standard standard car.) 250107 ... nr consistently correct semicolon use 250107 ... raze rare as it is now — seeing someone read a book in a public place. 250107 ... raze the ability to slip the word "assuage" into a conversation so casually that it feels inevitable. 260724 ... ovenbird Someone handing you a book of poems and saying, “I think you’ll like this.” 260727 ... epitome of incomprehensibility At a music practice, Sarah leaned back as if awed by a satisfying chord progression in the Act 1 finale of The_Yeomen_of_the_Guard. "Man, that's sexy," she said. For me, the adjective didn't fit. The music was too somber. Funereal. The slow beat tolling doom: someone's supposed to get beheaded (he doesn't, because of shenanigans, because this is Gilbert and Sullivan, after all). The next day, I was walking past a barber shop where a crisp speaker cast out sound: rap over a melodic riff with booming drums. That, I thought, was sexy. I didn't know the music. It didn't matter. The sound quality was sexy. 261003 ... e_o_i In short: For her, harmony. For me, a good quality sound system. (I'm harmony-romantic but speaker-sexual, apparently.) 261003 what's it to you? who go blather from