The Bad Influence Speaks

6.29 Word of the Week: Encomium

Noun

Pronunciation: en KOH mee uhm

Definition: an often formal expression of praise

He paused to heap his partner with generous encomium.

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6.26 Friday Song: Kacey Jones

This is a little different from my normal Friday song but I'm in a sassy, SPQ mood.  Here is a photo video of Kacey Jones singing "Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History."

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6.24 Hump Day Quote: Neil Gaiman

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

~ Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnus Nutter, Witch

6.22 Word of the Week: Tutelary

Pronunciation:  TOO tuh lair ee

Definition:  Having the guardianship of charge of protecting a person or a thing

                Guardian

Though unexpected, Shauna used caution in regard to her tutelary powers of her sister, Elsa.

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Late Friday Song: I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)

Ye gods, this brings back memories. You can tell I'm a Gen Xer by this one. The Proclaimers singing "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)."

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6.17 Hump Day Quote: Earnest Hemingway

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.

~Earnest Hemingway

6.15 Word of the Week: Immure

Verb

Pronounced:  ih-MYUR

Definition: To enclose within walls, to imprison; to shut up;

               To build into a wall

               To entomb in a wall

Immured within her own defenses, Marsha could ignore the slights thrown at her by her angry ex-husband.

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