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Freak You
I have relatively weighty matters I blog about, but I also have a new
refrigerator to get into the house, and refrigerators are, as I'm sure
you know, very weighty. So instead I watched a little television, this
new series we like in my house called In Plain Sight, and the second time I sat through the promo for a show I've never seen called Burn Notice
that used the line (I may have it slightly wrong) "The critics say,
`Totally freakin' cool," I freakin' freaked out. This was as stupid as
the Levitra ad where two very attractive people with very slightly
wrinkled skin pantomime romantic bliss. What critic(s), I wanted to
know. What's the point if you give them a freakin' blurb and they don't
even name you? Admittedly, I know the answer to that one--the blurb
game has two goals, only one of which is getting your name in the
papers, the other being feeding the publicists whose favors you cravor.
But I still wanted to know what "critic" had devised this wildly inane
yet self-evidently quotable phrase, so I could put the guy or gal on my
hit list. "Totally cool," mere cliche; "freakin' cool," bravely
aliterate; "totally freakin' cool," asshole in bloom. But alas, I
Googled to no avail. In case you're interested (this is one of my
favorite Google games), "totally freakin' cool" gets 627 hits, 26 if
you add "critic," while "totally freaking cool" gets 604, only 10 if
you add "critic."
I agree with the critical consensus: "freakin'" is better than "freaking." If you're an asshole in bloom, why stint on fertilizer?
I agree with the critical consensus: "freakin'" is better than "freaking." If you're an asshole in bloom, why stint on fertilizer?
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Apparently it's "just freaking cool."