A must-read article from Andrew J. Bacevich—a writer and vocal critic of the war—who lost his son in Iraq. The article is from the Washington Post, discovered via digg.com.
From the article:
Memorial Day orators will say that a G.I.’s life is priceless. Don’t believe it. I know what value the U.S. government assigns to a soldier’s […]
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Andrew J. Bacevich: I Lost My Son to a War I Oppose
Plague Park: Handsome Furs
Cool review of Plague Park’s Handsome Furs in Tuesday’s Globe and Mail. Reviewer Brad Wheeler describes their new album thusly:
I would describe the album as a meeting of the quirky indie-rock roots music of Rock Plaza Central and the blurry textures of Brooklyn’s TV on the Radio, with some Arcade Fire intensity thrown in.
Rock Plaza […]
Feist, Lennon, Pang and the Brandy Alexander
“Completely and totally, permanently and without hope, forever and ever I love Brandy Alexander…”
—from Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Alright, a confluenece of serendipitous events have caused me to name the Brandy Alexander as the Sendecki cocktail of the month.
The Brandy Alexander was a favourite of John Lennon—especially during a very tumultuous time in his […]
Typography and the ellipsis
I’m putting this up on my blog, as its needed for a piece I’m working on for Ahadada Books called ‘the Kojiki’—as well as a piece at work on patent law. Just a few notes on the ellipsis.
What I’m concerned with today is not so much usage, but typographical considerations. Found this passage on Wikipedia […]
Auger vs Augur
At work today, I discovered an interesting malapropism in a report I was helping out with—‘augers well’ for ‘augurs well.’ Interestingly, ‘augers well’ has entered the lexicon.
Augur (the verb—ie to foretell) is from Middle English, derived from Latin and has Indo-European roots.
Auger (the noun—ie a drill) is also from Middle English, but is an alteration […]
