A new addition to the Deceiver.com International Strike Force will be joining us next week. A French-native fan of the blog (and a part-time journalist to boot) wrote us a few weeks ago from his home in the Canadian province of Quebec. To our great shock (and awe), he inquired about our plea some months ago for bilingual bloggers. Thankfully, his English was better than my high-school French, so we were able to connect. He’s going to be blogging under the nom de plume of “Just Jacque.”
If you’re a Francophone, or if you just enjoy looking at vowels with accents (and that funky curlicue letter “C” thingy), look for a French flag icon next to the Italian one next week. Our Italian friend “Pop Arazzo” seems to have fallen off the blog-wagon lately, but he promises to start writing again soon too.
Last month, when we put out the word that we were looking for bilingual co-bloggers, we didn’t quite know what to expect. But so far, more than a dozen of you have gotten in touch to say that (a) you dig our schtick, and (b) you’d consider joining our mission in a language other than English.
Next week we’ll be introducing our first non-English partner in crime. You’ll know him as Pap Arazzo. We know him as a fabulous American transplant living in Florence who has a nifty sense of humor. (At least we think he’s funny; we only understand every third or fourth word.)
If you like the idea of joining our growing band of lunatics, and you speak French, Spanish, German, or one of those African click-sound dialects, drop me a line.
Dear readers,
Holly, Simon, and I have lives. We have Christmas Cheer. We have shopping left to do. So blogging until the day after Christmas will be … shall we say … “light.”
We beg your indulgence as we temporarily turn our focus away from the Two-Faced and Famous so we can focus on the petty deceivers in our own families.
Examples:
“I swear I’m not re-gifting.”
“They do not sell these at Seven-Eleven!”
“All the cookies were gone when I got here.”
“Sure, those are real diamonds …”
“That shirt totally does not make you look like a gay pirate.”
You get the picture. We’ll be back in full swing as soon as the eggnog hangovers wear off. Happy Holidays!
This might be a stretch, perhaps a bit meta, but Merriam-Webster has announced the winner of its 2007 Word of the Year contest. (Last year’s winner was “truthiness.”) My favorite Google News search term, “hypocrite,” made this year’s finalists, but it lost out to…
Are you sitting down?
The winner is: “w00t”! That’s right, the Word of the Year has numbers in it. Congratulations to all you l33t gamers out there, because your victorious exclamation of choice is now an actual word. Go celebrate by killing some orcs or dragons or whatever. (Tip: I’ve found that a folded-up Hefty bag tucked into the collar of my shirt makes the Doritos crumbs slide right off. HTH!)
Better luck next year, “hypocrite.” We’ll do our part to keep you on people’s minds.
Tis the season, and in the run-up to Christmas, Deceiver’s own Holly Won’t will be exposing the stingy Grinches in Hollywood’s midst.
Which pop superstar made pledges for music education that he never kept?
Who was the sports legend who slammed league officials for not supporting their own, then broke his own promise to help?
Can you name the runway diva who totally shafted her staff members while showering her audience with expensive gifts?
Keep an eye on Deceiver.com over the next two weeks — we’ll show you who the real-life Scrooges are.
We’ve had so much good feedback about this blog in its first month of operation that we’ve decided to try something a little out of the ordinary.
Global domination.
We haven’t seen anyone in the celebrity gossip blogosphere trying to capture the attention of the non-English-speaking world, but hey! — Italians, French, and Germans like dishing dirt too, don’t they?
So… If you speak a foreign language (fluently) and you’re interested in co-blogging with the Deceiver team, drop me a line at Oversneer-[at]-gmail-[dot]-com. We’re mostly interested in European languages, but if you’re dying to brush off your Swahili, we’ll listen. Possibly.
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