MDH News

Stuff I find interesting.

• Our foot/sneaker fetish is kicking into high...
  Our foot/sneaker fetish is kicking into high gear these days. We were doing a little online research, dream shopping last night and we came upon these bad boys — black studded Y-3 Honja Hightops. No, that is not a banana in our pocket! (Want more? See NOTCouture)
  thisheartsonfire
• #5352
  Female Reporter: “God my shoes are killing me! It wouldn’t really be ladylike to take them off, would it?” Female Reporter 2: “You still try to be ladylike? Do you realize what it is you do for a living?”
  OHnewsroom
• #5395
  Designer: “‘Gangbang’ is one word.” Sports reporter: “Anyone who spends any time on the Internet knows that.”
  OHnewsroom
• Dancing on Hitler's Grave
  Adolek Kohn’s dance at Auschwitz was a powerful and joyful statement, but it wasn’t the first of its kind. Groucho Marx visited his mother’s home town of Dornum, Germany in 1958. He found that the Nazis had destroyed Jewish graves and the records of Jewish residents. Marx then hired a car to take his travel group to Berlin. It was surprisingly easy to get th […]
  Miss Cellania
• The jumper colon
  Over at The Millions, Conor Dillon notes the increase in use of colon in contemporary journalism, including a new kind of colon called the jumper colon, "the Usain Bolt of literature". For grammarians, it's a dependent clause + colon + just about anything, incorporating any and all elements of the other four colons, yet differing crucially in […]
  Jason Kottke