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If you or anyone you know is thinking about becoming a stand-up comedian, read I Killed: True Stories Of The Road From America’s Top Comics. Being a comedian seems like it would be a fun job: you get to go out on stage, make people laugh, and you don’t have to worry about knowing [...]
This week’s word of the week is mundane. As an adjective it usually means belonging to the earthly world, but it’s also commonly used to mean plain, ordinary, dull, prosaic, humdrum, or common. In an even more obscure usage, it’s a noun among science fiction and fantasy fans, who call a non-fan a “mundane”, and, [...]
If you’re a poet, and especially a sonnet-writer, A Prairie Home Companion’s Spring Lyric contest is calling for sonnets. Aside from calling for “absolute originality” they’re being pretty flexible about what they consider a sonnet, too. The rules specify, “We’ll accept rhymed or unrhymed fourteen-line sonnets. We think they should be love poems, but [...]
It’s often easy to forget that every man-made object around us was invented by someone. There are a few names that stand out, like Edison, or Daguerre, but there are a lot more that, for one reason or another, disappear into obscurity. Maybe that’s because some things seem so, well, natural, like the aquarium for [...]
This week’s word of the week is: loch. Coming to us from Scots Gaelic, a loch is a lake, although it can also mean an arm of the sea; usually the latter definition is applied when the body of water is narrow or partially landlocked. There’s also an extremely obscure Derbyshire variant that means [...]
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, born December 16, 1917, died March 19, 2008. Reading through news articles about Clarke, I found this brilliant quote: “I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarian and we’re skeptical.”
A recent article in The New York times details how the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the multi-volume reference work that used to be standard on bookshelves in homes and libraries everywhere, is in serious decline, and, like many other reference works (including encyclopedias in Germany, France, and Denmark) may be going exclusively online. Sales peaked in 1990, [...]
Few poets are as synonymous with national identity as William Butler Yeats of Ireland. Here’s one of his most famous and most loved poems:
The career of poet Eavan Boland has spanned more than forty years, and, although she’s produced more recent books, including the excellent Domestic Violence, her volume An Origin Like Water: Collected Poems 1967-1987 stands out not only as her first volume of collected poems but also for tracking her progress as a poet, from her [...]
This week’s word of the week is kerfuffle. Derived from a Scots Gaelic word (originally spelled “curfuffle”), it’s exactly what it sounds like: hubub, flurry, disorder. Personally I think most of our lives could use a little more kerfuffle every once in a while, especially if it gets Eddie Izzard’s attention. One of his favorite [...] |
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