Gah! The Eye of Sauron is watching us! (Via this Tolkien thread at The Valve, which I have just gotten around to blogrolling.)
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Amanda
Oh, crap. We knew about the likelihood of Rehnquist’s stepping down soon, but O’Connor too? Two empty spots on the Supreme Court open for nominees who’ll want to overturn Roe v. Wade? Goddamn it. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: if abortion becomes illegal again, women are going to die. Poorer women […]
"If, as you live your life, you find yourself mentally composing blog entries about it, post this exact same sentence in your weblog." (Via Riba Rambles.)
… there’s a new Sappho poem! (And now languagehat has posted the Greek. Where’s my middle Liddell again?)
So ALA was good, aside from the frazzling logistics of traveling between convention center and conference hotels 3 miles north, and a scorching Chicago heat wave. Oh, and the power failure Friday night that zapped both the convention center and the hotels in the area, including mine. Fortunately the electricity came back on after a few hours, but checking […]
An accumulation of links from my library-related Bloglines folder… Via The Shifted Librarian, a fabulous use of podcasting: Who Said? A Literature Game, in which you listen to a snippet of a novel read out loud and then guess the novel, the author, and the character. (I’ve been listening to previous snippets, and was chuffed […]
Because I’m trying to get back into writing regularly again… Terry Teachout has started a parlor game proposed by a friend: What great artists (or famous people) could, and couldn’t, say the sentence “I am ridiculous”? Washington no, Lincoln yes. Milton no, Shakespeare yes. I’ll bite. This is the all (pre-20th century) poets, all the […]
At the funeral, everyone kept telling me that I look like my dad. The odd thing is that neither he nor I could ever spot the likeness. I remember how we once talked about family resemblances and he said that he didn’t think I looked much like either him or my mother, and that probably […]
There will be posting here again, I promise. There for a while, it felt like I’d lost the ability to put words together; every time I tried to write a sentence, all that came out were little staccato phrases, short, stark, void of everything that sounded like me. Thankfully, that hasn’t lasted. While I’ve been […]
This is very hard to write, much less post. But you’re probably wondering why there haven’t been any posts here lately, so I thought I should explain why. You may remember that I mentioned an illness in the family several months ago. The family member in question was my father, and there for a while, […]