PJ Evans @ #5:
In fact, some of our more, um, serious Christian friends are already praying for John McCain's election and death, in that order:
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/9/3/11483/34706
Steven Erickson seems to be pretty much made for this. I nearly did give up on the Malazan Books simply because Anomander Rake was, at first glance, a shameless mashup of Elric and Drizzt Do'Urden (with flying castle! and he can turn into a dragon!) that would have done discredit to any fanfic.
Dal LaMagna? Tweezerman is running for prez? Good Goddess.
I can never hear "philtrum" without this bit of Willard Espy doggerel running through my head:
I have a little philtrum
Wherein my spilltrum flows
When I am feeling illtrum
And runny at the nose.
Yeah, the one Phil just posted ... *feels silly*
#24: What I think of is that classic Doonesbury strip with Mark Slackmeyer yelling "GUILTY! GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY!" into his mic.
Learning any language can be difficult for the deaf, and especially so for those who were born deaf or lost their hearing before they learned to speak. But there's also a certain cultural resistance. Deaf culture puts heavy emphasis on ASL as our native, natural language, all that we should ideally need; English is something you learn only because, well, you have to.
I think some of the coolness toward English comes from the mainstreaming days of the '70s, when educators denigrated ASL in favor of English instruction, with generally poor results. (I was mainstreamed, and I turned out well, if I do say so myself -- but I was lucky in many respects.)
On the subject of poetry in ASL: I once saw a man named Eric Malzkuhn -- who usually went by "Malz" -- perform "Jabberwocky" and some other poems in ASL when I was an English student at Gallaudet. (Which is rather like being an oceanography student in Tibet, but never mind that.) Malz was fairly well-known in the deaf community, and I'm sure there must be video of him somewhere.
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