Things to expect from Londonlestrygog:
- Joyce-related pretentiousness.
- Baseball metaphors.
- Academic rantings.
- Witty commentary from a gourmand.
Things to expect from Londonlestrygog:
My initial reaction to the text is that this is very similar to Virginia Woolf's The Years (a family history set during the first World War). Also, D.H. Lawrence enjoys utilizing sexual imagery in his prose, but this is not surprising. Based on the literary reputation and the handful of short stories I've read by D.H. Lawrence, he is a man that is concerned with exploring the inter-personal relationships and sexual encounters of his characters.
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I don't consider myself overly clumsy but I will occasionally do something stupid (as I think many other people I know) such as stub my toe on a door or spill a drink. I was getting into my car yesterday after work and I was attempting to move the sun visor to the side when I pulled too hard and it hit me in the face. While I would like to attribute this to my being tired after working a 12+hour shift, I also admit that these things just happen. I immediately reflected on this act though and laughed at myself. These are moments, these private moments of stupidity are always amusing to me because we're at our most vulnerable. I immediately looked around to see if anyone had noticed. Maybe I'm making too much of this but I find that when these moments occur, accident or not, they're HONEST. These are moments where we are who we are, we're not pretending to be someone else or impress individuals who happen to be near by. We're just being human, we're being ourselves and this occasionally includes a moment act of stupidity.]]>
I've never read To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Do you know what you're watching at 10pm tonight? How about drinking? I know I do.]]>As it stands, we're tentatively making plans to hit up Boston on Saturday and the rest is up in the air. If you've ever been to Boston or New Hampshire and you have some recommendations, please share. While I have no doubt that Miss Karen will have some wonderful ideas for what we should do in the area...it's always nice to see what other people have to say about a place.
Miss Karen, I found the following image for New Hampshire. I think you'll appreciate it.
"Book Love" is love that you have for a particular book that overwhelms. This is a book you own multiple copies of, it's a book that you repurchase because maybe there is a new introduction by the author, or because the cover art in this particular edition is so much cooler than the one you had prior. It's a book you have multiple copies of because you've worn out the others, and also because you want to pass it on and share it with others. You love this book so much that when you pass it on to another friend, you don't want it back, you want them to love it as much as you, you want them to keep it and cherish it the same way you cherish your copies. That's what "Book Love" is. I have a few of these and I am sure you do too.]]>Last question. I have to know, because I love this story and want it to be true. There have been stories about you sneaking up behind people in New York City, covering their eyes with your hands, and saying: Guess who. And when they turn around, they see Bill Murray and hear the words "No one will ever believe you."
[long pause] I know. I know, I know, I know. I've heard about that from a lot of people. A lot of people. I don't know what to say. There's probably a really appropriate thing to say. Something exactly and just perfectly right. [long beat, and then he breaks into a huge grin] But by God, it sounds crazy, doesn't it? Just so crazy and unlikely and unusual?
-From GQ Interview w/Bill Murray
Curious Expeditions: Travelling and Exhuming the Extraordinary Past
A an interesting look at various museums, exhibits, and old world miscellany. From buckets of teeth to etymologist art exhibits.
It's pretty obvious what this is: Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Foods. I dare not think of the cost of this, but then again I am sure these machines are routinely tested and serviced, so might as well scan something interesting. (WARNING: make sure you don't have too many things running on your computer, the site eats up resources and may take a bit to load on slower computers.)
I was clicking away on the net last night and I stumbled upon this little gem. Do you wish you had a vast library filled with thousands of works of literature? Do you wish you had entire rooms filled with shelves upon shelves of books? Do you construct forts? or use books to construct physical art? Well, until your books threaten to consume you the way they've obviously consumed these people...enjoy these beautiful pictures of bookshelves and libraries from across the globe.
The Periodic Table of Irrational Nonsense
From the element of P - Psycics 1 all the way to Cu - Cupping 103. It is exactly what it claims to be.
"By 'grawlixes', I mean icons representing unprintable words, occurring within speech balloons belonging to characters who are agitated." – Gwillim Law.
Obsenicons: the earliest use of mixed typographical symbols (as opposed to uniform asterisks or underlining) to represent (part or all of) taboo words?" The use of such symbols appears to have originated as a comic-strip convention.
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