Jennifer Crusie's Blog: Argh Ink

Jen Weiner has a fabulous blog–you must read her take on the Literary Establishment and the slavish love they’re showing Oprah-dissing Jonathan Franzen–and she’s been kind enough to review Maybe This Time, too. You should go look.

How many ways do I love this movie? Tune into #PopD on Twitter tonight and you’ll find out.

Okay, you don’t have to, just look at this picture. THIS is how much I love this movie. You know, until we analyze it to death and kill it. Argh.

If it’s Friday, it must be PopD. This week Father Goose which I KNOW is a romcom. Hallelujah!

Gawker recently ran a bit on Twitter shorthand that for the most part was just plain internet shorthand, and commenter J. Henry Waugh added a link to the Onion shorthand guide (posted after the jump because some of it is offensive which means I love it but you might just want to pass it by). All of which made me think: why doesn’t Argh have shorthand? Like NM (No Meeping) or IOAH (I’m On A Horse). There are probably a million catchphrases that have developed naturally here over the years–okay, a dozen maybe–so all we have to do is identify them and reduce them to acronyms like WTF (Why The Face [I thought that was the funniest line in the Modern Family pilot]). And to inspire you, here’s the Onion list:
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Lucy and I are watching American Dreamer tomorrow night. I may make Chicken Marsala. It’s been that kind of week. We’ll tweet, but we’re not assuming anybody will be joining us because of the incredibly short notice. You better be there for Father Goose on Friday, though. We gave you plenty of time to get that one.