Left my hat at the restaurant last night; going back at lunch to retrieve ( Read more... )

( gratuitous poetry behind the cut )

Britain is the parents' house that American culture moved out of. It has so much more storage space than our place, and we can always rummage through the bookshelves and the attic when we visit.
- Tom Scocca, "The Curious Appeal of Miscellanea," The Boston Globe, August 30, 2009

There's been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about.
- Tom Rush

"Que pensez-vous donc que ce soit que la couleur des arbres depuis huit jours? répondez-Vous allez dire: "Du vert." Point du tout, c'est du rouge. Ce sont de petits boutons, touts prêts à partir, qui font un vrai rouge; et puis, ils poussent tous une petite feuille, et comme c'est inégalement, cela fait un mélange trop joli de vert et de rouge ( Read more... )

Another warm day of meltdown means the outdoor extension cords are exposed enough that I can take in all them Christmas lights that have been up for, well, for nearly three months now. And just in time, with the snow forecast for tomorrow (but only God is all-knowing ( Read more... )

It has sometimes been said that our most accurate re-creations are things we don't do on purpose. Here is another example, from ( Kudrun )

Spotted on shalmestere's journal, and funny enough it needs passing along:

( Ye Hollye and ye Ivye )

Eras in history have soft edges. They are retrospective constructs. People living through the Middle Ages did not know they were doing so, and they could have no sense of when Late Antiquity faded out and the Renaissance began to dawn. Nonetheless, looking back, we can tell that one time was in large ways different from another, and we try to ( Read more... )

When you see this, post in your own journal with your favorite quote from The Princess Bride. Preferably not "As You Wish" or the Inigo Montoya speech.

"His eyes bulged wide, full of horror and pain. It was glorious. If you like that kind of thing.
"Inigo loved it."