OK, so they're not all metaphors. Take a rest from whingeing about people who use "action" as a verb and enjoy some good new writing. More here, here, here and here.
mystic barmpottery @zzzooey on Steiner/Waldorf schools
“the curse of the Booker prize” hangs over DBC Pierre like a raincloud, said Arifa Akbar in The Independent. (paraphrase)
Birdshit architects Those who are “planning from high above and dropping their things down.” Jan Gehl
brochure banter (Neil Oliver)
nonchalant irreality Capturing the Atom Bomb on Film [NYT]: image 21, especially, captures the nonchalant irreality of the nuclear age. @ballardian
Dalek shoulders (Will Wiles)
deeply sharing (the latest SATC movie)
Kumbaya atmosphere It was not,” Katy Perry told Rolling Stone, “a Kumbaya atmosphere. I knew about Hell from the moment I understood a sentence. I had fuzzy-felt boards with Satan and people gnashing their teeth.”
Bill Viola backdrops to Tristan are “like a New Age greetings card”
meaning creep
oversharing Guardian blog on food writers who bang on about their own lives
Recently botoxed person “looks like someone peering through the eyes of a painting in a haunted house.” Julia Raeside, Guardian 26 Oct 10
Something else about this recent species of London business hotel: the furniture appears to all have been designed in Second Life. William Gibson via Twitter
The garden is rapidly turning into Sherwood Forest. Martin Roberts on Homes under the Hammer
wearee Recipient of the hand-crocheted granny square top
We employ the Socratic method, known in modern circles as a FAQ. Uncle Cecil, the Straight Dope
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