Killoggs : Yo' momma so poor she went to 7-11 and put gum on layaway.

"Tarzan was a great concept, but you can¡¯t really sell his clothing, because he was naked" - Magnus Scheving, on branding potentials

ADVERTISMENTS:

call us:
206-350-1082

support killoggs!

brandon

Syntactical, Sematical

Diagramming Sarah Palin

I like how she places the random interjections far away from the rest of the sentence.

Digging back into me litcrit past, Palin's speech is frequently expressed as anacoluthon, kind of like switching grammar horses mid-stream. It's like Axe Body Spray*: a little is good, too much and it's nauseating.

Anyway, I personally think that it's unfair to include those filler words and phrases in her quotations. We clean up most quotations elsewhere. Even Bill Clinton "umms." She's a terrible speaker to be sure. But, the only other public figure I know of who routinely has his pauses and lost-my-train-of-thought expressions printed with the content is Bush. And for all of her faults, she hasn't done anything to deserve the kind of universal scorn heaped on Bush - yet.

I guess patriarchical sexism trumps white privilege.

*I would never wear Axe, but I know a lot of women who like the way it smells.

[ 39 responses ] < Appreciation > < link >

[ posted by brandon at 10/03/2008 01:46:28 PM ]
[ trackback ]

Threaded Responses [ bottom ]

brandon [email] said at 1:49 PM 10-03-2008:
There, is this better?

Topics or threads that this can start:

1) Experiences with sentence diagramming
2) Brandon, you used anacoluthon wrong, again.
3) Other rhetorical terms that you're fond of.
4) Is Palin truly a bad speaker.
5) You're wrong/right about white privilege
6) Let's diagram everything!
7) "As a woman, I am quite fond of the smell of Axe Body Spray"
etc.

[Reply To this] [#264890]

brianbibbly [email] said at 2:22 PM 10-03-2008:
8) Wild Card: I like Cheetos.
9) You Tube Clip.

[Reply To this] [#264891]

brandon [email] said at 2:58 PM 10-03-2008:
I was about to create a ASCII youtube clip frame. But, that's too much work.

[Reply To this] [#264894]

julie [email] said at 2:29 PM 10-03-2008:
I'm not sure what Axe body spray smells like, but I have 3 teenage brothers and their bathroom has about 25 cans/bottles of that shit strewn around the counter & the medicine cabinet. Clearly the ads are succeeding with the target demographic.

[Reply To this] [#264892]

brianbibbly [email] said at 2:55 PM 10-03-2008:
That shit is horrible and makes me sad for the youth and young manhood.

[Reply To this] [#264893]

julie [email] said at 3:03 PM 10-03-2008:
The Aqua-Velva of our times

[Reply To this] [#264895]

rick [email] said at 8:32 PM 10-03-2008:
You're more of a Tag body spray kinda guy?

[Reply To this] [#264898]

brandon [email] said at 8:38 PM 10-03-2008:
If it's not Old Spice, it doesn't smell like man.

[Reply To this] [#264899]

brandon [email] said at 9:41 AM 10-04-2008:
I've informed the bees about the passing of front page youtube posts and responses. Now I gird me in black crepe for the fortnight. I realize now that we have forgotten the words that would save our lives. I recently found that English has a middle voice, but do we have a fourth person? I think not; others are not so convinced.

[Reply To this] [#264900]

cousin daniel said at 11:41 AM 10-04-2008:
who in world is this sarah palin everyone is talking about? are you all insane?

[Reply To this] [#264901] [ip: logged]

brandon [email] said at 3:01 PM 10-04-2008:
I wonder what Hope Sandoval is doing right now?

[Reply To this] [#264902]

rick [email] said at 4:02 PM 10-04-2008:
Doesn't she have her own band now?

I listened to "Sometimes Always" yesterday.

[Reply To this] [#264910]

brandon [email] said at 5:01 PM 10-04-2008:
I just listened to all of "So Tonight That I Might See" to get through some rote task. I've been revisiting paisley-core.

[Reply To this] [#264913]

brandon [email] said at 3:03 PM 10-04-2008:
Do you ever get the feeling that a lot of "green" tech is just so much perpetual motion machine, ponzi scheme hokum?

[Reply To this] [#264903]

brandon [email] said at 3:04 PM 10-04-2008:
I've started a blog of daily affirmations. I think I can leverage it to break into the affirmations market. That's a nice blouse that you're wearing and I think that you are definitely up to the challenge.

[Reply To this] [#264904]

brandon [email] said at 3:05 PM 10-04-2008:
I wish I had fangs but not vampire fangs: I want rat fangs.

[Reply To this] [#264905]

rick [email] said at 4:02 PM 10-04-2008:
Ever thought about tusks? Like the kind a warthog has, not the kind a walrus has. Then again. maybe you are the Walrus.

[Reply To this] [#264911]

amanda [email] said at 4:09 PM 10-04-2008:
I'm fond of the keratin teeth of this little guy:

[Reply To this] [#264912]

brandon [email] said at 5:08 PM 10-04-2008:
Is that a lamprey or a hagfish? My vote is for lamprey. Fun fact about hagfish: only animal with a skull that doesn't have a spinal column.

[Reply To this] [#264914]

brandon [email] said at 5:09 PM 10-04-2008:
Q: Where did the Walrus with receding gums take up his residence?

A: Tuscaloosa.

[Reply To this] [#264915]

brandon [email] said at 3:14 PM 10-04-2008:
Why can't people use more possessive adjectives? What is stopping them? I suspect propriety.

[Reply To this] [#264907]

brandon [email] said at 3:15 PM 10-04-2008:
Whenever Batman's airplane, the Batwing, is mentioned, all I can think about is veiny balls.

[Reply To this] [#264908]

brandon [email] said at 3:26 PM 10-04-2008:
Conversely, whenever veiny balls are mentioned, all I can think about is a nerf ball over which some kind of vine has been planted.

[Reply To this] [#264909]

julie [email] said at 5:17 PM 10-04-2008:
This is fun! It's like reading all Brandon's tweets without having to subscribe to twitter.

My smoke alarm is tweeting, speaking of that. I need to put that new battery in.

[Reply To this] [#264916]

brandon [email] said at 5:36 PM 10-04-2008:
I'm one of Cecil's twits. I participate in the twittery. Look me up if you'd like. Mostly I yell about dumb decisions from the gpo or make tragic spelling errors, like lime for "lyme" disease.

[Reply To this] [#264917]

brandon [email] said at 5:37 PM 10-04-2008:
Currently listening to: Dinosaur Jr. Beyond.

[Reply To this] [#264918]

brandon [email] said at 5:38 PM 10-04-2008:
Current Mood: the meds are working.

[Reply To this] [#264919]

brandon [email] said at 5:45 PM 10-04-2008:
"You know, he's the they call, Dr. Feelgood. He's the one that makes you feel alright." ohrworm of the moment.

[Reply To this] [#264920]

brandon [email] said at 5:52 PM 10-04-2008:
oh that's why, track #7 from Beyond uses the same riff.

[Reply To this] [#264922]

brandon [email] said at 5:49 PM 10-04-2008:
xkcd covers battery hacking

[Reply To this] [#264921]

julie [email] said at 7:21 PM 10-04-2008:
Cool! I never knew about this. I think I've been afraid of opening batteries since Eddie Spaghetti shouted "this is battery acid, you slime!" in IT all those years ago. I thought to my young self, "acid? Dear lord, I will never try to tamper with batteries again!"

[Reply To this] [#264923]

brandon [email] said at 11:29 PM 10-04-2008:
This probably means that we should make out.

[Reply To this] [#264924]

cousin daniel said at 12:46 PM 10-05-2008:
what ever happened to the vindictive, sardonic, evil killoggs i came to know and appreciate?

[Reply To this] [#264927] [ip: logged]

brandon [email] said at 12:50 PM 10-05-2008:
Most of us are past thirty now, and have the diabetes.

[Reply To this] [#264928]

kiche [email] said at 1:38 PM 10-05-2008:
i take it you don't like sarah palin's cut-up style stream of consciousness beatnik poetry.

[Reply To this] [#264930]

brandon [email] said at 2:06 PM 10-05-2008:
Time is much with us when we heat the maven maverick toast. When falls the moose.
Terrorism.
Is it mother's milk that pucks the cauliflower?
Or does the clockwork mechanism
Devolve, Potato. Abortion?
Not for the daughters of iniquity.
I can see Russia, but I cannot slapshot to Russia.
The Buddha weeps, you betcha.

[Reply To this] [#264932]

amanda [email] said at 3:09 PM 10-05-2008:
a haiku:

go drill baby drill
hockey moms need that lipstick
must not blink darn it

[Reply To this] [#264933]

kiche [email] said at 3:16 PM 10-05-2008:
no, no. you guys are doing it wrong.

you don't need to change her words. you just need to change the meter.

[Reply To this] [#264934]

brandon [email] said at 4:21 PM 10-05-2008:
haha

[Reply To this] [#264935]