Every once in a while I like to take a look at the search terms people are using to get to this site. As usual, they are full of wackitude. Please enjoy some recent search terms, with brief commentary appended. benazir bhutto in swiming pool haha, what? Some kink I don’t know about? boy rotating [...]
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The Gentle Art of the Apostrophe
Many of you will have already seen a report [yahoo news] that the city of Birmingham in the UK has officially dropped the apostrophe from public signage on the grounds that it is “old fashioned” and “confusing”. My favourite part of this whole debacle (“favourite” being, of course, a relative term) is the following quotation [...]
Off-Topic: Kate’s Paperie Rocks!
I was browsing Miss Snark‘s archives recently, as I am wont to do, and I cam across a reference to a store called Kate’s Paperie. Miss Snark often wrote of herself in the third person, and she said this: Miss Snark loves paper. Kate’s Paperie is one of her favorite places on earth. Crane and [...]
The Face of The Earth
(Yes; I’ve fallen off it.) Things have been very, very busy lately and I haven’t had time to blog — in fact, I realized this morning that I hadn’t read a book for pleasure for two or three weeks. No wonder I’ve felt so off-kilter; I am now ripping through Possession and I feel much [...]
This Day
Hodie Christus natus est: hodie Salvator apparuit: hodie in terra canunt Angeli, lætantur Archangeli: hodie exsultant justi, dicentes: Gloria in excelsis Deo, et in terra pax hominibus bonæ voluntatis: Alleluia. [translation] Merry Christmas, one and all. This blog will be on hiatus until January (as should yours be: eat, drink, be merry!).
Just Call Me Numbskull
I had an exam today, ENG331, two hours of Renaissance Drama before being officially done school for the winter break. No sweat, really; we’d been given the essay questions in advance, so it was really a question of matching some answers and then writing an essay from a mentally outlined essay prepared in advance. Except. [...]
How to Survive a Renaissance Drama
(A practical survival guide in case you should ever find yourself in a play written during the English Renaissance.) 1. Try to ascertain whether you are in a comedy or a tragedy: Comedies may feature cross-dressing, fairies, forests, crude sexual humour, and illicit romance. Tragedies may feature murder, incest, madness, gratuitously violent acts, crude sexual [...]
Dear Internet: Huh?
Recent search terms, because they amuse me: how to talk paraguay languish I suspect that this means “how to talk paraguay language” which might be more usefully rewritten as “learn to speak Spanish” … or Guaraní. If you want to know how to talk to languishing Paraguayans, I probably can’t help you. WHAT DO i [...]