aleclair's definitions

Memento mori

1. Crazy latin literary/art term for a reminder of death. Memento Mori is often seen in 17th century Dutch paintings.

2. The names of two of the best megawads ever created for DooM II.

1. If you look at that painting sideways, you'll see a memento mori.

2. After spending a week beating the expertly-crafted levels of Memento Mori II, I was blown away. Every other DooM WAD that followed was bland.

by aleclair April 11, 2006

qat

A sort of shrub in the Middle East... also the essential word for Scrabble players.

I have a Q but no U, so I'm going to put down the word "qat". Challenge me all you want; it's a real word!!

by aleclair July 1, 2005

wolf parade

A Canadian indie rock band with Arcade Fire connections whose first record was produced by none other than Issac Brock of Modest Mouse fame. As if all of those connections to famous people were not enough, their debut album, "Apologies to the Queen Mary", became overhyped by the online Media Machine as the Next Big Thing(r).

Leaving the indie snobbery behind, they are a damn good band who wrote some extremely good songs that are currently stuck in my head

Wolf Parade is another part of the great '80s revival going on in contemporary indie rock.

by aleclair May 25, 2006

Starbucks

Where you're going to end up if you get a master's degree in the following:

1) Art History
2) Fine Arts
3) Philosophy
4) Literature

"I know the barista at this Starbucks: she was in my 'Critical Analysis of James Joyce' class in college!"

by aleclair July 1, 2005

Conjugate

The hard part about learning a new language. Conjugating the verb is changing the end of the verb so it fits the tense (past or present?), number (singular or plural?), person (1st, 2nd, 3rd?), and many other fancy grammatical aspects (perfect, imperfect?) of the rest of the sentence.

In German class, Brandon had to conjugate the verb machen:

Ich mache der kase.
Du machst der kase.
Er macht der kase.
Wir machen der kase.
Ihr macht der kase.
Sie machen der kase.

He was exhausted by the end of class.

by aleclair December 28, 2005

lacrosse

Lacrosse is a trendy sport that seems to have been idolized by many in the past 5 years. It appears to be a rather preppy sport, although I am not the best judge for that.

1)Honestly, I first heard of Lacrosse two years ago, when someone in my social studies class made a Lacrosse stick as part of a Native American research project.

2)The preppily-dressed senior had to go to her Honda to retrieve the lacrosse stick she forgot.

by aleclair April 15, 2006

Jethro Tull

Jethro Tull invented the seed drill; he was part of the group that created scientific farming as we know it. Also an overrated prog rock band with an electric flute player.

When the history teacher told us Jethro Tull invented the seed drill, we laughed like crazy.

by aleclair August 22, 2005