'Bred Crumbs

10:50 AM We love the fun Washington Post story about Wonder Woman. (Big thanks to John B. for sending the link.) We love that so many gay men have worked for DC Comics. (Perfect news in the week that The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay won the fiction Pulitzer.) We love Phil Jimenez, who now draws Wonder Woman, and who is gay and way cute. We love that he's decided she's currently reading a book on gender theory. We love, again, that he's gay and way cute. We don't know why we're using the royal we.

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11:28 PM Is anyone else offended that the long-running exercise in lameness called Star Trek: Voyager spends episode after episode spinning out treatises on the rights of computer-driven holograms -- yes, the civil rights of absurd light projections -- but the show can't be bothered to include even one recurring gay character or relationship? Oh, what fun, I can't wait till the future gets here.*

* Last eleven words -- Ben Folds Five, "Video"

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11:27 AM When you reduce something to an abbreviation, it sounds like you know what you're talking about.

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11:38 AM I was gravely remiss in my duties by forgetting to report this yesterday so that D.C. readers could attend, but: the World Championship of Hand Hygiene was today at the Marriott Wardman Park. I guess you'll just have to catch it on SportsCenter. "The challenge," said the press release, "will be to see how well participants wash their hands after touching a solution containing plastic fluorescent particles." Sounds like a good doubleheader with Iron Chef.

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10:26 AM Here's a bad website: Grey Global Group. What does this company do? I have no idea. Its first page is a Flash splash page that displays the company name, and nothing else. The second page serves up another salvo of Flash that displays a marketing message that communicates nothing. Two pages in, and I still have no clear idea what this company is or why I should care. (And as if things weren't bad enough, the site is framed.) There are links (with JavaScript; are they trying to make the site unusable?) on the second page to sections of the site, but I refuse to go farther. You've lost me, whoever you are.

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Here's a good website: Skattie's 'blog. Skattie a k a Scott, whose site I found after he found mine, writes in a very personal way about, among other things, trying to figure out his place in the world, a theme that should seem familiar to regular 'Bred Crumbs readers. Besides: we Chuck-wearers gotta stick together.

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09:56 AM For a change, news of a business deal that feels good instead of evil: Blogger finds a sugar daddy.

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11:47 PM This list has been in the works for weeks, and I'm sure I'll want to add something to it the instant it's published, but nonetheless it is time to unveil:


The list includes English words and words from other languages that have no true English equivalents. It encompasses words that perfectly convey their concepts (18, 17, 16, 10, 7, 6, 2); words I enjoy for their pretentiousness (20, 5); words I just like the sound of (19, 14, 12, 11, 9, 8); and words whose powerful spell over me I cannot adequately explain (15, 13, 4, 3, 1).

20  chasm
19  duodenum (but only when pronounced doo-ODD-dun-um)
18  ennui
17  fuck
16  shards
15  actually (not a pretty word, but I must like it since I use it all the time)
14  superfluous
13  porn
12  sphygmomanometer
11  inpenetrable
10  spokesmodel
  9  chupacabra
  8  exacerbate
  7  oeuvre
  6  schadenfreude (Leave it to German to provide a word for "enjoyment obtained from the troubles of others")
  5  penultimate
  4  spawn
  3  whore
  2  waves
  1  monkey

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