followup: So yesterday I asked the question …
Peace Out
1. A slang term telling someone good-bye, used with a hand gesture in which you pound your chest with your fist twice, then give the peace sign.
girlfriends, Davidson, wasabis: Thank you, Cary, for sharing what we all feel. Cardus – My Peripatetic Posse: Safety in Numbers.
words:
The tech slang “app” was voted the 2010 “Word of the Year” Friday by the American Dialect Society, beating out Cookie Monster’s “nom, nom, nom, nom.”
The shortened slang term for a computer or smart phone application was picked by the linguists group as the word that best sums up the country’s preoccupation last year.
South Africa, heart-strings: Why do people/places tug at your hearts so much more after you have been there, met the people? South Africa – Dozens Die in Flooding – NYTimes.com.
random, mysteries: Just thought this interesting.
I’d almost given up when I stumbled upon a Literary Gossip column in The Manchester Times for May 14, 1864. The sole identification of Charles Felix had lain there for 146 years, hidden in this single sentence: “It is understood that ‘Velvet Lawn,’ by Charles Felix, the new novel announced by Messrs. Saunders, Otley & Co., is by Mr. Charles Warren Adams, now the sole representative of that firm.”
The author was hiding in plain sight: There was no publisher correspondence with Charles Felix because he didn’t need to write to himself.
A traveler and journalist once best known for a fractious elopement with a relative of Samuel Coleridge, the publisher Charles Warren Adams (1833–1903) bears other hints of his authorship. There’s his law school training, which underlies the novel’s evidentiary process, and a previous book on parlor games — The London Review’s puzzle comparison struck closer than its reviewer realized.
tabloid news, John Edwards: There is no point where I will feel sorry for Edwards
Either way, it’s almost getting to the point where one could almost, sort of, feel sorry for Edwards. Or at least see some point in the future when they might.
new blog: Liked this one. Dictionary of Irish Biography.
random: interesting – Magazines Give Prisoners a Link to World Outside – NYTimes.com.
bookshelf, education: “THINK of it as an antidote to the electronic era” …
THINK of it as an antidote to the electronic era. For 12 continuous hours last spring, 60 students and teachers at Hamilton College in upstate New York read aloud from John Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” which spans a dozen volumes.
“Most of us became interested in reading because of being read to,” says Margaret Thickstun, a professor of English at Hamilton, who will orchestrate another “Milton Marathon” in February. She hopes to condense this one to 10 uninterrupted hours. “These readings revive the notion that poetry is not a private, silent thing you do in a room with a piece of paper,” she says, “but something you actually speak.”
The marathon, or long, read is giving new life to a centuries-old oral tradition. St. Olaf College and the University of Arizona have similarly hosted readings of epic works, start to finish.
In November, the Russian department at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, read aloud all 1,358 pages of “War and Peace” on the 100th year of Tolstoy’s death. It took 24 hours. Kathleen Macfie, a professor of Russian who organized the reading, describes it as a lesson in slowing down: “It’s not part of their generational experience, to share something in real time, face-to-face, in a group.”
She wants to make it an annual tradition. Next time, she will urge students to pack sleeping bags. Some had to nap.
via Marathon Reads – ‘War and Peace’ in 24 Hours – NYTimes.com.
advertising, Architecture, street art, Chicago: I am not sure about this one …
Before and After photos display how purchased advertising would appear on Chicago River Bridges.
Before and After photos display how purchased advertising would appear on Chicago River Bridges.
Want to slap your corporate logo on one of Chicago’s historic bridge houses while decorating it for the holidays? It’ll cost your company as much as $140,000 a month.
random, coffee, Paris: Not a coffee connoisseur, never been to Paris … just thought this interesting … and why is the award in English?
Le Bal is just the most exceptional of a new crop of Paris cafes. Recently,the stalwart Le Cafeotheque was joined by Merce and the Muse (1 bis rue Dupuis; 011-33-9-53-14-53-04), which opened in the fashionable northern end of the Marais. Soon Coutume Café (47 rue de Babylone) will be roasting beans in a storefront a short, brisk walk from the Bon Marché. Until construction is completed, there’s a la Marzocco FB-80 set up on a cart in front of a tarp next to the sidewalk.
For the most part, coffee in Paris still sucks so bad, but it’s getting better, and the scene forming around the monthly Frog Fight is a peek into what might be the city’s future. Now, a handful of Paris cafes have good coffee. Depending on who’s behind the bar, the coffee can be great.
holidays, gingerbread: I wonder what I would make if this was my gift?
15 Cities in Gingerbread | Mighty Girl.
twitter, food, bacon, random: Just chuckled because the chinese call ketchup “tomato jam” … I think I may make some bacon jam. I love everything bacon!
Puréed bacon + caramelized onions = my new favorite condiment: bacon jam!
via Twitter / @Marthame Sanders: Puréed bacon + caramelized ….
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