March 2009
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what’s this? an audio post—on the ragbag?...
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the borrowed days
are the last three days of march. from the book of days:
The popular notion is, that they were borrowed by March from April, with a view to the destruction of a parcel of unoffending young sheep—a purpose, however, in which March was not successful. The whole affair is conveyed in a rhyme thus given at the firesides of the Scottish peasantry:
‘March said to Aperill, I see three...
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pennsylvania colleges that seem like they should...
california university of pennsylvania
delaware valley college
indiana university of pennsylvania
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he's got hoes in different area codes
from a friend serving in the peace corps in paraguay:
Maybe a month ago I bought myself a hoe. Actually, just the metal head part because that´s all they sell down here. You have to attach it to a special hard wood handle made out of a specific type of tree. Anyway, I carried it back to my community and went in search of a handle and someone who knew how to make hoes. One of the farmers, Mr....
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the new seafood diet
here is a trick to help you lose weight: eat sunday night’s leftover sushi on tuesday night.
i am starting to feel very ill—and not in the beastie boys sense.
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a fetching title
i don’t like to get too political on this blog because i have a firm belief that politics is wrong. that being said, here is a political factoid for all you pundits and wags: whenever a rookie president submits a budget proposal to congress, they give it a fetching title. thus:
REAGAN: america’s new beginning
BUSH ONE: building a better america
CLINTON: a vision of change for america
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a collage of cardinals
BOREAL means northern
ORTIVE means eastern
AUSTRAL means southern
HESPERIAN means western
another tetrad.
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wordplay with numbers
a chronogram is a sentence or inscription in which specific letters, interpreted as numerals, stand for a particular date when rearranged »
The practice originated in the late Roman Empire and was particularly popular during the Renaissance, when chronograms were often used on tombstones and foundation stones to mark the date of the event being commemorated. For instance:
My Day Closed Is In...
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“if you see kay
tell him he may
see you in tea
tell him from me.”
– the prison gate girls in joyce’s ulysses
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the lodestar of my existence
an excerpt from the moustache movement, a one act play:
LOUISA (looking at his moustache rapturously): And yours are such loves! (caressing them)
SOSKINS (putting his hand up nervously): D—don’t pull ‘em about.
LOUISA (passionately): I wouldn’t injure a hair of them for worlds!—For they are the lodestar of my existence!
SOSKINS (aside): Ahem ! (seriously, taking her...
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the adventures of james joyce & samuel beckett
Once or twice Joyce dictated a bit of Finnegans Wake to Samuel Beckett, though dictation did not work very well for him; in the middle of one such session there was a knock at the door that Beckett didn’t hear. Joyce said, ‘Come in,’ and Beckett wrote it down. Afterwards he read back what he had written and Joyce said, ‘What’s that “Come in”?’...
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