Evening The sky puts on the darkening blue coatheld for it by a row of ancient trees;you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight,one journeying to heaven, one that falls; and leave you, not at home in either one,not quite so still and dark as the darkened houses,not calling to eternity with the […]
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Get your Martial epigrams (in English and Latin) here. How cool is that? Via Uncle Jazzbeau’s Gallimaufrey.
I just finalized my moving arrangements, and found out that it’s not going to be quite as expensive as I’d feared. It’s not cheap, but it won’t put a killer strain on my finances either. Even with all the books. Hurrah! Now, all I need to do is find someone to take over my apartment […]
With thanks to Wolfangel: Bert & Ernie’s Gay Love Affair Look, everyone knows you two are lovebirds. Why not do the brave thing and admit it to the world? The times are kinder nowadays. There may be the odd ultraconservative bigwig or overprotective mom, but so what? Piss on ’em. Come on out of the […]
There’s a great passage in the first chapter of Italo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler in which the unnamed Reader (always addressed in the second person) enters a bookstore and is confronted by the intimidating legions of Books You Haven’t Read. Calvino arrays them into categories, including: the Books You’ve Been Planning […]
Every time I try to read blogs hosted at Blogspot — particularly when I try to read archived posts — they turn into gibberish, like this: HlholastTn:"Pihrepox;mn">x>kss 19P, ems.comy has sfkLas0px8px;ma"’rA byosss trrisin:S8pxusesedilh"’3ick of the University of hpobe2%;a"ht>h"’3ning:0px;mar the way I can /un"30poading nlabrbetosn1ke-H&e1;a"htn:n e1eumueshe s skep:medlH tha hrUnivers Reloading the page solves the problem, […]
Amusement from Google. (Thanks, Rana!) amanda is an outdated version amanda is a vivacious young english diva girl amanda is the coolest and from mars amanda is 5 stories tall and is one of the oldest buildings in my city amanda is a chocolate point siamese cat with stories amanda is optimized to take advantage […]
Scribblingwoman shares my pen fetish. (I’m more of a fountain pen person, though. Someday I will earn enough money to splurge on a red marbled Aurora Optima. Or a Delta Dolce Vita Mini. Or a high-end Pelikan. Drool.) Drooling of a different sort: fabulous-sounding sorbets from green gabbro. Mmm, lavender. File under "wish I had […]
Just got back from my trip to Charlottesville. Found an apartment for the summer, in a quaint, charming, historic building (yay!). Freaking out about what to do with the furniture I’m keeping, as said apartment is pre-furnished. (Storage, most likely.) Freaking out about moving in general, but otherwise quite happy. Charlottesville is a town of […]