quel bizarre!

quand j'ecris maintenant dans ce programme, les mots sont en francais!

suddenly blogger's in french today—all the directions and buttons talk to me in french. it's warped. which goes along with something that happened on the wkend. i went to buy a spatula on account i ruined all my non-stick pans with metal utensils and my brother told me metal utensils are bad for non-stick and now i'm eating all sorts of toxic crap. which is not much different, likely, than what i breath, but anyhoo, so i went to buy NEW! BETTER! pans and a spatula made of wood or maybe plastic for longevity's sake. and i come to find spatulas no longer exist.

HOLD ON A GOSH-DARN MINUTE!!

what i mean is, they exist but they are now called: 'folder' or 'food folder' on the packaging of more than one manufacturer. and is this because 'spatula' sounds like dracula and maybe folks gets scared by the very allusion? or is it because spatula sounds eye-talian and we don't need no stinkin' tony sopranos to tell us how to flip a frickin' omelette!!! or it is because packagers and kitchen utensil makers have decided 'spatula' is far too complicated and big a word—after all, it's got 3 syllables. and, like, 'folder' only has two!

when i worked in public radio a very long time ago my boss, who now works in p.r., told me to never ever use multi-syllable words if there are words with fewer than multi that mean the same thing. he told me to write at a fourth-grade level. now, listen here: my 8-year-old niece, in advance of her 8th birthday, advised me that should i choose to buy her a book as a gift to keep in mind she reads up to and not really yet beyond a 5th grade level. and, as far as i know, she's not a particular fan of public radio, which leaves me very confused and in a kind of warp of my own, which is an anagram for wrap; which is now often defined as a sandwich.