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Here’s a little video to take you around the universe as we say farewell to the old year and hello to the new. You get bonus points if you know what radio play turned bestselling novel turned lousy film used this song as its theme music. And if you don’t know, don’t panic.
It was a sad day when the Weekly World News ceased its print publication in July 2007. Although they continued their online version, it did make standing in the supermarket checkout line a little less interesting. I also remember in one of my college writing classes we were each given a headline from the Weekly [...]
Unless I’ve miscounted I’ve gone through the alphabet twice and 2009 has graced us with an additional Saturday. As a parting shot to the year that was, here are a few completely random thoughts about language:
I don’t remember when exactly I first realized that days got shorter in winter. At some point, possibly even before an adult pointed it out to me, I must have noticed that in winter it was already getting dark when I’d come home from school. I don’t even remember anyone explaining this phenomenon to me, [...]
My mother used to recite this poem when I was young:
Every once in a while in the store I’ll still see a pair of button-fly jeans. It’s a fad I never did understand. I’ll always prefer the zipper, Gideon Sundback’s great invention which was unleashed–er, I mean, which helped zip up the world in 1925. The Oxford English Dictionary is fuzzy on the etymology of [...]
Most of the leaves have fallen off the trees now and in several places I’ve seen bunches of mistletoe. That, and the time of year, got me thinking about the tradition of two people who meet under mistletoe kissing. I wondered what the origin of it was. After doing some research I can say with [...]
There’s an exhibit going on right now of Jane Austen’s letters, manuscripts, and some engravings at the Morgan Library and Museum in Manhattan. Today’s Jane Austen’s birthday. She was born on this day, December 16th, in 1775. If I could I’d go to the exhibit, but instead I’ll pull out my worn copy of Emma, [...]
The year is almost over. We’re getting close to the point where I’ll turn off my work computer and say to my co-workers, “See you next year!” And we’ll laugh even though it’ll be true. Sometimes I think it would be funny to say that then disappear until late December of the next year. I’d [...]
Some presents just shouldn’t be unwrapped. As funny as David Sedaris’s Holidays On Ice is, I can’t help feeling that way reading parts of it. The star section of the book is, of course, The Santaland Diaries, about Sedaris’s time working as an elf during Christmas at Macy’s. It’s not so much what goes on [...] |
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