June 2012
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Critics who treat ‘adult’ as a term of approval, instead of as a...
– C. S. Lewis (via an AV Club commenter)
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Osiris →
I wrote a book review for a real and actual, pre-existing site that other people read. (Rather than my own silly blog.)
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oldrussia:
halfmandrill reblogged your photo: Leo Tolstoy
Another view of Tolstoy’s crazy cane with its bizarre handle. That’s what he’s got there — it is not a trombone.
Haha, I didn’t know that, thanks for the info. I found out that his cane could easily turn into a little chair, how ingenious is that?
I found out about it when I saw him using it in this footage (and also here). That handle...
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I Think That You're Puttin' Me On →
Yesterday I posted Swamp Dogg’s haunting, post-apocalyptic “The World Beyond,” today I wrote about why it might be the greatest science fiction song ever made.
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Once upon a time there was a literary Q&A featuring John Ashbery, Jamaica Kincaid, and Salman Rushdie. The students in attendance vied (seemingly without shame) to succeed in asking the most self-aggrandizing question possible. The competition, needless to say, was fierce.
And then one student, even more insufferable than his contempories, raised his hand.
“Is it possible to be a...
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Ninety gaffes in ninety years →
And, to close out the day, a list of 90 terribly insulting, bigoted, crazy, and otherwise doddering-old-mannish things that Prince Philip has said.
“So who’s on drugs here?… HE looks as if he’s on drugs.” To a 14-year-old member of a Bangladeshi youth club in 2002.