Sentential Links (Page 38)

Yup, after a layoff of a couple of weeks, it’s time to get back into the swing of finding nifty sentences throughout the blog world. As always, click through the get the context. :: Or put it this way: Let’s make tell our prospective audience that we’re arrogant and smug, that we don’t understand the people we’re trying to reach, and that in fact we don’t know much about the world we’re living in. Now there’s a recipe for success… (I couldn’t agree more.) :: Yes, I love back-to-school supplies as much as the next autodidact, but their reduced pricesDown the rabbit hole….

Good sentences from better posts for the week just gone by. :: Still, no gift, however generous, can possibly make up for the empty feeling with which we say farewell to the kindly men and women who once upon a time helped to show us what we were. (Mr. Teachout, with all due respect, if you’ve got it in you to write like this — and you damned well do — then please oh please, stop wishing you could write as well as James Lileks. It’s Lileks who should be coming to you for pointers.) :: A secret: I fallDown the rabbit hole….

Here we go with this week’s installment of Good Sentences from Better Posts. Click and read, because if you don’t, the puppy gets it. (Yeah, there’s a puppy. There’s always a puppy. No, I’m not gonna show you pictures. It’s a real puppy.) :: I always know if a performer is an artist or not by their clarity: not articulation or projection or other technical details, but by how, if an artist, every note makes sense, tells a story. :: What’s really objectionable, though, is the attempt to manufacture a chummy, affectionate bond between fans and players that should springDown the rabbit hole….

The poor sentences were screaming. “Let us free!” They shouted. “You’re prisoners?” Dr. Jones asked, unbelieving. “We can never escape the context!” one of them told me. Dr. Jones set his jaw, rubbed his stubbled chin, put the fedora back on his head and uncoiled his bullwhip. “You’re escaping it now,” he said. “Oh, good,” another sentence said. “You see, our writers are always just making this up as they go.” “I know the feeling,” Dr. Jones replied, as he began the work of freeing sentences from their blog-post context. “Say,” one sentence began as it awaited its turn, “inDown the rabbit hole….

Here we go again. Click for context. :: Holy Shizzy, Trump THIS, Donald! (This is a post title rather than a sentence from the post, because the post is just a picture. But the picture is really cool. Why don’t we build stuff like that?) :: I love this mystery. I will hate the person who exposes the man’s identity, and why he does it. Let us wonder. :: There are lots of evil regimes past and present to choose from, but I’m not sure which ones are acceptable references when describing the use of torture at Guantanamo. Can IDown the rabbit hole….

This week’s roundup of sentences ripped horribly from their surrounding blog-context. Won’t someone please think of the children! :: The mayor’s office has finally realized that this is totally unacceptable and is trying to revive the area (or as my guide more cynically put it, “convince white people that it’s safe to be downtown at night.”) (You’ll be surprised which city she’s talking about.) :: He has already taught me many things (that I was aware of previously but have re-learnt): Texan girls dress way skankier than their Ontario counterparts, the Texan accent is a total babe magnet, men don’tDown the rabbit hole….

Time for the weekly roundup of neat sentences from neater posts around Blogistan. Click for the context, folks! :: You know what’s really awkward? (This one’s not safe for work, really.) :: Tonight, I would like to be able to send bone cancer down phone lines. :: Your blog is like a sausage patty: no links. :: I went looking for Emerson everywhere and made sure I caught him, brought him home, and pinned him like a butterfly on every other page of my notebooks. :: My grandma and grandpa are buried at Park Cemetery in Fairmount just outside ofDown the rabbit hole….

Here we go again, with another round-up of good sentences from better posts. Click the sentence to get the context. I’ve been gathering these all week. Enjoy! :: Gosh… I so did not find zen on the back porch! :: The right can’t lecture to the left about how political correctness stifles and chills speech and thought, while in the next breath exercizing its own brand of PC to stifle and chill speech and thought. :: I am proud to introduce to the world, and in particular to the attentions of British copyright law, my three-act opera Tristan + Isolde,Down the rabbit hole….

I had a good time collecting links and sentences for last week’s version of this, so I may start doing it every Sunday. I’m grabbing sentences from blog posts I read elsewhere, and to get the context, you’ll just have to click the sentences. OK? :: If ve say you vill gamble, then you vill gamble. Und you vill smile vhile you are losing. :: I left the theater emotionally shaken, unable to really talk about the movie. :: So a few days ago, Mars Global Surveyor took a picture of Mars Odyssey–the first time one extraterrestrial orbiter has takenDown the rabbit hole….

I’m not sure if “Sentential” is a word, but hey, who cares, right? Anyway, here are some sentences that recently caught my eye from blogs I read. If you want the context, click the sentence. OK? OK. :: To be a biologist at the dawn of the 21st century is to be a librarian in the last days of Alexandria. :: I would imagine that the new series CSI:Wichita will solve that little problem by having the crime scene investigators simply pray for the suspects to confess. :: Am I the only one who feels the need to sing atDown the rabbit hole….