Gritty and snarky – what’s up with these two words? I can’t get away from them. TV reviews and writing standards and passé terms. Is it a fad? We all want to be gritty and snarky like we’re a bunch of comics on a reality show.
That’s about all I’ve got today, folks. I had more, but I forgot between walking in the door from my morning flute lessons and sitting at the computer. C’est la vie. Que sera, sera.
So some filler: I haven’t started Bleak House, yet, but I will. Had some audible/iPod problems. Reading Arlington Park, which is expanding my vocabulary. I’m not ashamed to tell you that. I don’t know every single word in the English language. Of course, I’m telling myself it’s because Rachel Cusk is a British author and they use different words than we do and it is definitely not because of any delinquency on my part. Uh-huh.
Anyone need piano lessons in the north Dallas/Richardson/Plano area? I’m full up on flute, but I have openings for piano.
Randomries.
Update: Began Bleak House yesterday - loving it thus far. Laughed aloud at the tongue-and-cheek descriptions while running .
I suspect I'm neither gritty nor snarky, especially since I didn't even know the terms were currently in vogue. (Hey, one good confession deserves another.)
ReplyDeleteMy friends IRL think I coined the word "snarky"...and THEY think MY vocabulary is extensive (how do I have THEM fooled?? :/).
ReplyDeleteI soooo would take piano from you if the drive wasn't so durn long!
I love Bleak House! I finished it last year. Now it is my favorite of Dickens.
ReplyDeleteI was just thinking about Richard Carstone's accounting system today. If only it worked as well as he has it figured out in his brain.
ReplyDeleteI do like the word, snarky. Smarmy is pretty good too, don't you think?
I've learned new words from word verificaton, such as: FODWOX.
ReplyDeleteHave you ever used the word SNARF?
When I was a little tiny kid ( and I was one once, A LONG TIME AGO, IN A GALAXY FAR FAR AWAY)
my brother told me that a SNARF was someone who walked around smelling bicycle seats.