Johnny Blue Skies deserves a little bit of a shoutout, I think
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Enjoyed The Heavy Heavy’s new album this year, and also liked a lot of Dehd’s stuff.
It’s also been cool hearing on KUTX here in Austin, the DJ’s sharing their favorite songs of 2024.
We’re blessed to have good music in the Capital City for sure.
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I’ve never understood the fuss about someone using they as a personal pronoun. Its use in English as a singular pronoun goes back to at least the 14th century.
And I remember a former English professor who said they was the more commonly used pronoun up until the mid-19th century when the insistence on gender specific pronouns came to the fore.
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They went woke. That’s why the all got the Plague back then.
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this probably explains they is in Shreveport.
Did you ask Beau Jocque?
I like the phrase “any teacher who uses their/them as singular pronouns should lose their license”
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They/them has always been a gender-neutral third person pronoun. Gender-neutral. The use of they/them as a non-specific gender, I think is relatively modern usage. I have no problem with any of it, although it took some getting used to.
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Lots of our “rules” are like that. Don’t split infinitives, don’t end a sentence in a preposition, I invite whoever invented those rules to kindly fuck off.
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“Whomever”. And they can kindly…off…fuck?
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And, kindly, off they can fuck.
You’re fucking welcome.
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“Someone is here to see you.”
“Tell them I’m busy.”
People use they/them to refer to a single person multiple times a day. I fucking hate the culture war.
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We do, though in those instances it’s usually because the identity of the person in question is unknown. There’s definitely a grammatical hump to get over and I find myself stumbling over it more often than not. Not from any sense of outrage, just from habit.
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Both Strunk and White?
You need to turn your habits into outrage. This is America, dammit!
So I’m about 90% through The NY Times 100 songs for 2024, and finally got to the Drake/Kendrick Lamar culture war. I would have forgotten that completely if not for this list.
You know what? I just can’t like St. Vincent, hard as I try.
I also skipped through a bunch of the rap.
Maybe baby found somebody new?
I dig St Vincent. She credits Adrian Belew as a major influence. You can certainly tell in her playing.
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I’m reminded of my old man repeating the axiom the of his English professor at UH, Dr. Haas:
What defines usage? Usage.
The best example I can think of is hopefully. We have come to accommodate it as substitution for I hope - e.g. Hopefully, we go to the movies tonight.
The stricter usage would be as an adverb - e.g. She looked at the sky hopefully in search of rain.
All that goddamn, woke driven bubonic plague must’ve done something to our brains.
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