trepidation

05.13.08

HATTED HIPSTERS! trepidation | (2)
Why is it that I am the only person I know1 who is truly charmed by the obnoxious hipsterish cook Spike on the current season of Top Chef (example: he does not hesistate to declare himself as from "Williamsburg" instead of the apparently staid and boring "New York")--it disgusts me that I might find myself attracted to such an unremittant nincompoop; I never thought that I would be so weak as to find myself enamored with so cliche an affectation as perfectly-cocked hats or perfectly-pursed lips or a perfectly-clipped beard...I guess there's no accounting for poor taste in mildly-hirsute scenster ...
02.18.08

Relevance alert. consternation, trepidation | (0)
Whoa...I never thought as semicolons as rare in usage or erudite in nature, and most certainly not as a "pretentious anachronism," as they are referred to in this New York Times article today, which has since sorted out my linguistic misperceptions; I'd like to think that my punctuation is up-to-date, hip, and relevant to today's youth--I mean, anachronistic? Really?--but evidently I am a stodgy prescriptivist living in the grammatical past, mired in syntactic history, and increasingly alone in pretentious punctuating.