Word: dork
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...delusional optimism on my part? Because I am, and always will be, a giant dork. When I was eight, I was massacring the summer reading contest at my local library. I would walk around, book open, eyes glued to the page. And if that wasn’t enough, I had a penchant for writing short stories, a large number of which involved sarcastic mice narrators. Certainly a chance to write a poem or create a tale or write an editorial would be a fun way to spend a summer...
What we know: Neville is Gryffindor's most hapless dork, but he consistently shows unexpected depths and is never far from the action. He fits the same prophecy as Harry...
...they star in it. And once in a full moon the dream can come true. Ron Maxwell, 22, is a Citibank computer operator by day and one of the Eighth Street's performing "Brads" on weekends. Listen to this testimony of salvation: "At school I was a nerd, a dork, a social outcast. So of course I identified with Brad. Now I'm still a dork, but it's O.K. Rocky Horror says, 'You're weird, but you belong somewhere. Let's all be weird together.'" He excuses himself to go onstage opposite a comely "Janet"; they...
...DORK and other left-leaning blogs spent last week shaming a few G.O.P. holdouts into joining the majority of Senators in co-sponsoring a resolution that apologized for not passing antilynching legislation decades ago. As the laggards added their names to the resolution, AMERICABLOG removed them from a T shirt it is selling that says, "My Senator went to Washington ... and all I got was a lousy lynching." Among the dozen who declined was Tennessee's Lamar Alexander, who condemned lynching on the floor but refused to co-sponsor the measure, saying, "I prefer to look ahead...
...Adelaide” that draws new meaning to the phrase “musical masturbation” as it alternates between depressing piano solos and composed moments of Folds panting. Even the most devout fans of Folds should pass up this disc and wait for the dork-chic piano man to offer up something more substantive. Those who purchase the EP will forget its melodies and instead find themselves singing along with Whatever’s “Song for the Dumped”: “Give me my money back, you bitch...