# Surprise Song of the Day!
“All of the sudden… all the memories and wouldas, shouldas, and couldas start flooding back to you.”
“All of the sudden… all the memories and wouldas, shouldas, and couldas start flooding back to you.”
Anything that makes you sad, gloomy, or mournful can be called…. lugubrious Funerals are lugubrious. So are rainy days and Mondays. Lugubrious comes from the Latin verb lūgēre, “to mourn.” You can also listen to the sound of the word: lugubrious sounds slow, heavy, and sad. Sometimes, just the “feel” of a word is enough to clue you…
From writer/director Armando Iannucci, IN THE LOOP is a crackerjack political satire centered on the Machiavellian art of spin in the 24-hour news cycle — where one’s choice of words can, in a heartbeat, affect international diplomacy and where language isn’t so much a virus, as a veritable weapon of mass destruction. Starring Tom Hollander,…