Yo, Rachel Donadio, I got your literary feud right here.
I was always told to avoid them.
“Boy emerged in Middle English (no attestation before 1240) and first meant ‘servant,’ as it did in more modern colonial English and still does in bellboy, busboy, and cowboy. The meaning ‘male child’ developed later. However, long before that, numerous words designating noisy, dangerous objects and evil creatures began circulating over the huge territory of Eurasia.”
Allow me to translate this from PR speak: Yes, I would have gone on pretending to be a man, as it was hugely successful for my career.
I think I might be un-churchable — regardless, this magazine looks fun (via Bookslut).
“Pity the good Doctor himself won’t be arriving in the Art Gallery to spraypaint ‘Fuck The Pope’ on the wall.”
Much has been written on pet peeves…
“Now it is well known, among those who have received Irish hospitality in the past, that the wise man who attends such a function will take with him a teetotal friend so as to have at least one person, at the end of the evening, who is capable of hailing a taxi.”
I don’t see why you’re so surprised, Scott. I mean, it is just some chick writing about some other chick, right?
“Once we did battle with agents. We no longer do much of that.”