Weekend Comedy 11/14

Weekend Comedy 9/25

I try to make FIWK a Penny Arcade comic news feed (I love every one)... but I couldn't help myself this week

Music Tuesdays - Broken In All the Right Places by i am jen

Bouncy but chill song... if we were in San Diego this could play at night on FM 94/9's "Big Sonic Chill". Found this via Penny Arcade.

Mr Period and Friends

The topic of our favorite accoutrements came up recently over at C-Mac's blog, leading to a reflection of my all-time favorite shirt. I would like to share the subject of that shirt with you. He is Mr. Period from Penny Arcade. He appears occasionally to help gamers with their grammar and to clarify social misunderstandings, when not counseling confused numerologists. He is also the subject of this badass garment.

How awesome? So awesome

One of my favorite regular sites to visit is Penny Arcade. It's a web comic mostly about video games and game culture. In addition to the comics, which are enjoyable on their own merits, the writing is really sharp and consistently comical from a language standpoint.

I also love the basic themes that always reappear: the intricacies of nerd culture and a general apprehension of all things popular culture.

One of the phrases turned by Jerry Holkins (the language half of the creative team - Mike Krahulik does the art) several years ago appears in the below comic: the phrase "How awesome? So awesome". I use it on a regular basis now and I've seen it creep into regular use in many places since then. As a general fan of language, I find it interesting to watch the evolution and adoption of a turn of phrase into the general cultural lexicon. Any examples of this phenomen that you've witnessed?