http://blog.fawny.org/2005/12/18/smatter/ blog.fawny.org Thu, 26 May 2011 13:52:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-alpha-19861 http://blog.fawny.org/2005/12/18/smatter/comment-page-1/#comment-581 Hip – Le «blog personnel» de Joe Clark Sun, 22 Oct 2006 20:21:07 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2005/12/18/smatter/#comment-581 [...] Who should be behind the counter but the severe, mysterious, formidable, deeply impressive and memorable barista from Balzac’s (q.v.) – the one with the rectangular glasses, the jet-black hair and hairless milky complexion, the zero-bodyfat forearms on whose insides are tattooed passages in Korean. (Hangul smatter?) I had chatted up this icy, unsmiling, offputting and alluring figure at Balzac’s, where he admitted the tattoos were “a gift” from former students. (How do you give a tattoo as a gift? The same way you give a pacemaker?) [...] [...] Who should be behind the counter but the severe, mysterious, formidable, deeply impressive and memorable barista from Balzac’s (q.v.) – the one with the rectangular glasses, the jet-black hair and hairless milky complexion, the zero-bodyfat forearms on whose insides are tattooed passages in Korean. (Hangul smatter?) I had chatted up this icy, unsmiling, offputting and alluring figure at Balzac’s, where he admitted the tattoos were “a gift” from former students. (How do you give a tattoo as a gift? The same way you give a pacemaker?) [...]

]]> http://blog.fawny.org/2005/12/18/smatter/comment-page-1/#comment-260 The Solid Bore of Language – Le «blog personnel» de Joe Clark Tue, 09 May 2006 20:59:15 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2005/12/18/smatter/#comment-260 [...] This is the mistake that wiggers make when they go in for tattoos that, unbeknownst to them, will someday end up on Hanzi Smatter: They’re responding to pictures, not words. Maybe their girlfriends will do the same thing, but wait till they find somebody who can actually read what’s indelibly inscribed. [...] [...] This is the mistake that wiggers make when they go in for tattoos that, unbeknownst to them, will someday end up on Hanzi Smatter: They’re responding to pictures, not words. Maybe their girlfriends will do the same thing, but wait till they find somebody who can actually read what’s indelibly inscribed. [...]

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