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Vindication!
www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/1857/
The word that comes next on the "least favorite" leaderboard is moist. Many people feel quite strongly about moist- there's even a Facebook group called called "I HATE the word MOIST!" with more than 300 members. One Facebooker calls moist "possibly the worst word in the English dictionary," while another ( Read more... ) -
In New England
I'm in Boston @ the Westin Copley -- rather colder here than at home!
See you all on Saturday -- looking forward to it!!
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Comics 2009: Laika (graphic novel)
Nick Abadzis. Laika.
Last year I read a very short and monumentally affecting novel called Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles by Jeanette Winterson. Its reworking of the Atlas/Heracles myth was thoroughly modern and true to the source materials, but what I found most moving was the final passage where Atlas, long forgotten by humankind and, ( Read more... ) -
Books 2009: Kalpa Imperial
Angelica Gorodischer. Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was. Translated by Ursula K. LeGuin.
I picked this up a few years ago, in the Small Beer Press printing. SBP is based in Northampton, MA and publishes the exquisitely odd, weird and lovely short story magazine "Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet," which anyone interested in ( Read more... ) -
In Boston Feb 6-8
Hi Boston-friends ( Read more... ) -
Metallica "All Nightmare Long" video source material
I don't know if anyone has seen this video, but I have been going crazy trying to remember where I have seen the source video. I know it isn't original to this video, but I'll be damned if I can remember. Can anyone help? I think the video is creepy interesting...I'm ambivalent to the song...
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Pure podcast glory
Stephen Fry, the Jeeves of Jeeves&Wooster to Hugh Laurie's Wooster, bon vivant, raconteur, author and all-around brilliant observer of all sorts of things I find interesting has a podcast now. Oh, yes. I am in my glory!! Can't wait to hear what he's got to say. He's got one of those voices I could just listen to endlessly. I would place Simon ( Read more... ) -
The smell of Bazooka bubble gum
So I was having a conversation today with some colleagues and Bazooka Joe came up. Instantly my memory was flooded with the smell of that gum and it had a transporting effect -- not to a particular moment, but to a real sense of feeling good when I was a kid. For me, smell is the most powerful trigger to these memories. Does anyone else have the ( Read more... )
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