Using movies as an analogy for why you shouldn’t assume songs are autobiographical

[Nobody] goes up to Quentin Tarantino and goes, “You must shoot a lot of people. You must do karate all the time.”

-Craig Finn of The Hold Steady

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Why you should donate your organs

As regular reader and commenter Deron Arnold said in a comment,

If you’re gonna die anyway, I could sure use your lungs.

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What small fears of yours are all the more dreadful because they’re inevitable?

Some phobias like heights and public speaking are easily avoided. Others—alas—are altogether unavoidable.

Like bats and vomiting.

What are yours?

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Replace whimsy with evidence: Use Merriam Webster’s Concise Dictionary of English Usage.

[W]hen a question of English usage comes up, it’s one of the first places that  you should look for an evidence-based opinion.

-Mark Liberman

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Thanks to you (and other folks with good taste) David France is in the YouTube Symphony.

Some of you voted for David France to be in the first online-auditioned orchestra.

Well, I’m happy to say he made it.

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