I think I’m in love.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, I made my usual visits to the gossip blogs and came across this.<\/p>\n
\u201cDouchebag.\u201d It was someone quoting John Mayer, on his dissection of that ever-useful, ever-in-vogue term after he learned by googling himself that he is considered a douchebag by many. I didn’t know anything about John Mayer, other than he dated Jessica Simpson for a while and he’s a weird-looking musician of some sort–the tragedy of our times is that all too easy a man becomes better known for whom he bangs than what he does–but after I read a hundred words of his writing my interest spiked higher than the price of milk. <\/span><\/p>\n I read the paragraph again, aloud, lolling like a pig in mud in the texture and weight and sound of his words, and shivered as I recited “the sensation of sliding on a hardwood floor in a pair of woolen socks.” And then I immediately went to read as much of his blog<\/a> as I had time for.<\/span><\/p>\n I still haven’t tried his music, but what a gorgeous writing voice the man has.<\/p>\n If you are bored, or suffer from blog-itis as I do, here are links to a bunch of blog entries I have up at various places around romancelandia.<\/p>\n Old Dudes I’d b–date, I mean<\/a>.<\/p>\n Turn of the Century means people bathed<\/a>.<\/p>\n Please don’t read this<\/a> if your name is Anne Stuart. (Ha, like Anne Stuart cares. But I’m still scared of her.)<\/p>\n I hate heart-warming<\/a> unless it has Hayden Christensen in the shower.<\/p>\n In other news–though I could be eating those words in two weeks–I think DELICIOUS will turn out to be a superior book to PRIVATE ARRANGEMENTS. Now everybody pray hard that I’m right.<\/p>\n A safe and fun New Year’s Eve to everyone. And a happy and healthy 2008 to all. Should be an interest year for me.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I think I’m in love. Yesterday, I made my usual visits to the gossip blogs and came across this. \u201cDouchebag.\u201d\u201cWhat a douchebag.\u201dIt feels good to say, \u201cdouchebag.\u201d It\u2019s got two different plosive sounds, the \u201cD\u201d and \u201cB\u201d, and nicely wedged between is a wonderful \u201csh\u201d sound (technically known as a voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant, at the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1358,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/1358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u201cWhat a douchebag.\u201d
It feels good to say, \u201cdouchebag.\u201d It\u2019s got two different plosive sounds, the \u201cD\u201d and \u201cB\u201d, and nicely wedged between is a wonderful \u201csh\u201d sound (technically known as a voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant, at the risk of coming off douchey) that, when preceded with \u201coooooh\u201d, give your lips the sensation of sliding on a hardwood floor in a pair of woolen socks.<\/span><\/p>\n