February 2012
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“We twa hae paidl’d in the burn,
Frae morning sun till dine;
But seas...”
– From Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns
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Nancy Myers
Anaïs Nin described her as a puma and wrote: “I think often of Nancy talking with her eyes, her fingers, her hair, her cheeks, a wonderful gift.” (Via the Guardian.)
Nancy Myers - Artist, graphic designer, wife of author Lawrence Durrell.
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“I’m now labeled ‘celebrity wife’; does that mean I’m a celebrity and a wife or...”
– Kalki Koechlin, actress. Via Twitter.
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“The only joke I ever heard about Syrian President Assad was told by a Lebanese....”
– Thomas Friedman (via Michael Totten.)
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“A girl who is asleep, weeping or absent is not to be considered for marriage.”
– The Kamasutra, by Vatsayana.
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Dr Green's Coffee House Tour
View Dr Green’s 18th-Century Coffeehouse Tour in a larger map
Read more about the tour here.
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Nth Day of Christmas
By the nth day of Christmas, my true love had sent to me n(n+1)(n+2)/6 gifts.
Explanation and proof here.
From John D. Cook’s Endeavour blog.
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“Mr. McCabe thinks that I am not serious but only funny, because Mr. McCabe...”
– G. K. Chesterton, Heretics.
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Black and White
Calvin: How come old photographs are always black and white? Didn’t they have color film back then?
Dad: Sure they did. In fact, those old photographs are in color. It’s just that the world was black and white then. The world didn’t turn color until sometime in the 1930s, and it was pretty grainy color for a while, too.
Calvin: But then why are old paintings in color?! If the world was black and...
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Chaps
Met a chap the other day. He spoke to me about trading models. He said that it wasn’t difficult to develop a strategy that would make small incremental gains consistently over a period of time. Then, he said, it would collapse spectacularly, and you’d get, erm, slaughtered. Look at carry, he said. It did very well for years, and then the markets spooked, he said, and everyone got, erm,...
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“The voyage from San Francisco to Hawaii had been the most terrifying experience...”
– Richard Brautigan, Hawkline Monster.
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Slithergadee
The Slithergadee has crawled out of the sea.
He may catch all the others, but he won’t catch me.
No you won’t catch me, old Slithergadee,
You may catch all the others, but you wo–
Shel Silverstein
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Punk
(From Peter Watts: Blank Generation: original punk posters in South London)
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“Panicker saar: You are telling Pakistan is not having skin and India will bat...”
– Perumselva Pandiyan, comment in Readers speak out! on Rediff.com, Apr 17, 2005.
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“… But when I come home, hoping for a further degree of peace and quiet, I...”
– The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 20 Nov 1668.
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LOTR Project: Complete Lord of the Rings family... →
lotrproject:
Two days ago I submitted a post here on tumblr concerning my project of doing a complete Lord of the Rings family tree. You shared and liked it over 140 times! Since then, the site has been featured on metafilter, theonering.net, io9 and HuffingtonPost and received 25 000 visits. Thank you!
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Hindi Pulp Fiction
From the Rajan-Iqbal series by S. C. Bedi.
January 2012
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Amazing Stories
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Israeli Pulp Fiction
Gases against Israel, by “Mor Adam Barak”. Tel Aviv: Sifre Panther [1968]
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Norway
Norway! Land of difficult spelling.
Hiding your beauty behind strange vowels.
Land of long nights, short days, and dots over 'O's.
Ruminating majestic reindeers
Tread wearily on ice floes
Ever aware of what happened to the
Titanic
One day I will sojourn to your shores
I live in the midle of England
But!
Norway! My soul resides in your watery fiords fyords fiiords
Inlets.
Sue Townsend, The Growing...
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Prambanan
This photograph depicts the ruins of the temple of Prambanan in central Java, the largest Hindu temple ever built in Indonesia and one of the largest in Southeast Asia. Dedicated to the triumvirate of Shiva, Brahma, and Vishnu, the temple was built around 850 A.D. by the Mataram dynasty but abandoned soon after its construction. The Mataram dynasty practiced aspects of both Hinduism and...
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Hospitality Chicago Style
The historian Thorkild Jacobsen went to Chicago in 1927 on a fellowship. He was put up at the Hotel Morrison downtown, of which he wrote:
As you may have realized this was in the Capone years, so it will not surprise you that when we checked in at the desk in Hotel Morrison in the Loop we were told not to go out after dark, as the North Side and the South Side gangs were fighting it out in the...
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Compañía Verónica
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Иосифу Резнику
Пишу по-английски. Перо с непривычки
Пробует буквы на ощупь и вкус.
И по ошибке ставит кавычки
Снизу по-русски. Рифмы, чей груз
Отягощает схожество линий,
Как в сочетаниях "Грусть- наизусть".
К речи знакомой, к речи родимой
Уже не ревную. Я не вернусь.
"Иосифу Резнику" by Lera Auerbach. Pianist. Poet.
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“The story of [Bertolli], a market leader here and in the United States, provides...”
– Alex Renton, “Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil by Tom Mueller – review”, Guardian, 13 Jan 2012.
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Ballet Beauty 3
Marietta Frangopulo (1901 - 1979) painted by Zinaida Serebriakova in 1922, wearing the costume of the ballet ‘Carnival’. Ballerina, famed teacher of the history of dance at the Leningrad School of Ballet.
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Sherlock and Chatterjee
In the latest episode of Sherlock, The Hounds of Baskerville, we learn that Mrs Hudson’s been canoodling with the proprietor of the off-licence next door. Horrors! He is two-timing her. He’s got a wife in Doncaster. And not to mention the one in Islamabad, says Sherlock, when he and Watson espy the housekeeper battering the man.
Er, how many Chatterjees are in Islamabad?
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Lovelilts
Thine eyes, dear one, dot dot, are like, dash, what?
They, pure as sacred oils, bless and anoint
My sin-swamped soul which at thy feet sobs out,
O exclamation point, O point, O point!
Ah, had I words, blank blank, which, dot, I've not,
I'd swoon in songs which should'st illume the dark
With light of thee. Ah, God (it's strong to swear)
Why, why, interrogation mark, why, mark?
Dot dot dot...