Our new home is being built! Katie and I enjoy driving over to it at least once a week, thinking about what the future rooms will look like, how we’ll we arrange our furniture, what we’ll need to buy and when. Looks like we’ll close in early September.
I’m really looking forward to it, but the […]
Here’s some pictures of my parents’ new dog, Dexter. We love this little dog—after falling in love with its father, Hershey. His father had a beautiful clean-cut head with a broad-backed skull; powerful jaws; and a “kind,” face with friendly eyes, expressing an amazing amount of character and intelligence. And he had a great temperament.
Writes […]
Even after a year of reading him in my spare time, I still like to spend my evenings with Oppen. Here’s likely my favourite passage from him:
’Whether, as the intensity of seeing increases, one’s distance
from Them, the people, does not also increase’
I know, of course I know, I can enter on other place
Yet I am […]
We use it every day, but we never learn all there is to know about it, nor do we ever finish mining all the pleasure that can be had with it. Here’s what lanugage yields today—contronyms, found via my favourite social news site, digg.
“The word contronym (also the synonym antagonym) is used to refer to […]
Last December 2006, São Paulo city council banned outdoor billboard advertising, citing advertisers’ unwillingness to comply with rules on billboard placement and size. Now the rule is in effect, and Flickr user Tony de Marco has documented São Paulo’s facelift.
Writes Larry Rohter of the International Herald Tribune:
Imagine a modern metropolis with no outdoor advertising: no […]
Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow
The Fan-Maker\’s Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade (Ballantine Reader\’s Circle) by Rikki Ducornet
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