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"A Tumblr blog actually worth reading. Ultimately useless, yes,
but incredibly amusing."
- Encore Magazine

“If you’d been commuting from Staten Island or Jersey yourself this morning, then you would be ahead of the game, seeing the masts of the British ships, the large rowboat landing the soldiers over in Brooklyn, perhaps firing a musket at the occasional stray jet skier. This is assuming the British still had their 18th-century fleet, and assuming, again, that the date is something like 1776/2012.”

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The British Invasion… Again

I’m glad I finally got around to reading this long series about the Battle of Brooklyn that the Awl ran last week.

1 note 06/09/12 #revolutionary war #the awl #battle of brooklyn

50 Shades of “Argh”

I wrote an article for The Awl about the use of the word “argh” during sex scenes in 50 Shades of Grey:

“Of course, there are instances when “argh” is a perfectly acceptable word, like when Batman is rabbit-punched by a hired goon (Argh!), or a sea pirate loses his entire savings in an elaborate pyramid scheme (Argh!), or when the main character in a Serbian knockoff of Cathy, named Gathy, finds out she’s scheduled a date on the same night as an old flame’s funeral (Argh, argh, argh!). But during sex?”

Read the rest here!

4 notes 01/06/12 #50 Shades of Grey #Argh #The Awl