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Having had pagan friends for most of my life, I’ve been familiar with the holiday Samhain, but it wasn’t until I looked it up that I realized it was not, at least to modern pagans, October 31st, but the day after, November 1st. I’m not sure why this is, although maybe the answer lies in [...]
About once a month my wife buys eighty pounds of raw chicken necks which I then run through a meat grinder, pack into containers, and freeze. Now I know what you’re thinking: Hey, call me the next time because I’d like to get in on that! Seriously, you’re probably wondering why anyone in their right [...]
For some reason Cadbury bars, which are, I think, as synonymous with chocolate in Britain as Hershey bars are here, are kind of hard to find around here. About the only time I see anything made by Cadbury is either in the “imports” section of the grocery or around Easter when they start selling crème [...]
There’s something weird about October 27th. Both Dylan Thomas and Sylvia Plath were born on this day, in 1914 and 1932 respectively. Maybe this is just a coincidence, though. You could probably take any day and find that it’s the birthday of several famous people. For instance, John Cleese was also born on October 27th, [...]
When I was in grade school there was a woman who worked in the lunchroom. She wasn’t a lunch lady in the sense that she didn’t fill the tray compartments with stewed prunes and reconstituted potatoes and processed meatloaf by-product. She sat out in the lunchroom itself and it was her job to break up fights, [...]
Someone suggested ruddy to me as a Word of the Week, and it really got me thinking. I know ruddy means reddish, or maybe orange-red, like rust, and ruddy, red, and rust all start with r. Do they have a common ancestor, or is it just a strange coincidence? According to the Oxford English Dictionary, [...]
Every college campus should have a game room, and every game room should have at least two pool tables. The reason is simple: playing any game of pool teaches important lessons in physics, geometry, sportsmanship, and how to pick up strangers. It’s good stress relief. The Vanderbilt campus used to have a game room, but, [...]
In my senior year of high school I took college-level English, and the teacher decided we needed to read some contemporary British authors. People got assigned Tom Stoppard or John Fowles, and I got Doris Lessing. At the time I’d never heard of her, but after reading several of her short stories and her incredibly [...]
Have you ever wondered who writes the film plot blurbs for newspapers, magazines, or, for that matter, the backs of the cases the films are packaged in? I’ve often read them and thought whoever does that has one of the greatest jobs in the world. Watch all those films would be a definite plus. Yes, [...]
In the September 2009 issue of Travel+Leisure, Peter Jon Lindberg considers The World’s Rudest Restaurants. He does mention a few restaurants that are actually known for their rudeness, places where rudeness is part of the décor, such as London’s Wong Kei. It’s a Chinese restaurant where, so he claims, you can expect to be greeted [...] |
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