Comments for Nathan Beaver

Comment on 11 Thoughts Headed into the Weekend by Matthew Beaver

Matthew Beaver — Fri, 18 May 2012 04:10:28 +0000

If Madeline reads your blog to see your apology, I hope she doesn’t see #3…

Comment on 11 Thoughts Headed into the Weekend by brian

brian — Sat, 05 May 2012 02:21:27 +0000

I bet you don’t even make toast like uncle buck either…

Comment on 11 Thoughts Headed into the Weekend by Captain Backfire

Captain Backfire — Fri, 04 May 2012 16:46:02 +0000

ASSHOLE.

Comment on 11 Thoughts Headed into the Weekend by tada

tada — Fri, 04 May 2012 16:35:14 +0000

i love cynical.

i miss nate.

have a wonderful weekend, friend!

Comment on 11 Thoughts Headed into the Weekend by Marmaduke

Marmaduke — Fri, 04 May 2012 16:04:55 +0000

You may have won the spelling bee with “squirrel” but you just lost at life with “they’re.”

Comment on 11 Thoughts Headed into the Weekend by Sara

Sara — Fri, 04 May 2012 15:19:10 +0000

Definitely not, not surly.

Comment on 11 Thoughts Headed into the Weekend by Jess

Jess — Fri, 04 May 2012 15:09:22 +0000

HA! If you didn’t have a girlfriend I would try to convince you to hang out with me, if not once then sometimes. You are seriously funny. Thanks for the light entertainment. Keep writing!! And no I don’t think you should smile more, ever.

Comment on 23 Things I’ve Never Done But Think I Could Be Good At With Enough Resources and a Little Practice by 11 Thoughts Headed into the Weekend | Nathan Beaver

11 Thoughts Headed into the Weekend | Nathan Beaver — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:42:29 +0000

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Comment on 13 Thoughts Headed Into the Weekend by cami

cami — Wed, 02 May 2012 15:52:03 +0000

At a recent Death Cab concert, I too wondered where the name came from.. this is what I found: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Cab_for_Cutie_(song)]

“Death Cab for Cutie” is a song composed by Vivian Stanshall and Neil Innes and performed by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. It was included on their 1967 album Gorilla.

While Innes recalls encountering the phrase as the title of an old American pulp fiction crime magazine he had encountered – the phrase Death Cab for Cutie may have been coined by Richard Hoggart in his The Uses of Literacy, a 1957 book discussing British popular culture and a pioneering work in the cultural studies field. The term appears in Chapter 8, “The Newer Mass Art: Sex in Shiny Packets,” under part C: “Sex and Violence Novels”. Hoggart provides a list of “imitations” of the “terse, periodic titles” of these novels, including “Sweetie, Take It Hot”; “The Lady Takes a Dive”; “Aim Low, Angel”; “Sweetheart, Curves Can Kill”; and “Death-Cab for Cutie” (note use of the hyphen in “Death-Cab”)

It is very likely that the term was derived as a parody of the 1949 Hank Janson novel “Slay-Ride for Cutie”.

Ben Gibbard used the title of the song as the name of the rock band he founded in 1997.

Comment on 11 Thoughts Headed Into the Weekend by brian

brian — Tue, 01 May 2012 00:20:18 +0000

I definitely hold my breathe when walking past people too…
Beavering= successfully protecting someone from an irate customer/human being by building a protective dam made out of charm/ pity laughs/ lies/ and a free taco card!