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“Yesterday this picture was worth millions…Today, it is worth nothing, and nobody would cross the street to see it for free. But the picture has not changed. What has?”
Although I went to a couple of summer camps, and even worked as a camp counselor one year–well, it was really more like outdoor daycare–I feel like I never really went to real summer camp. It wasn’t like the summer camps I read about in books like The Winnemah Spirit by Carolyn Lane or E.B. […]
It’s amazing how adaptable people are. As recently as 1991, when Sue Thomas’s novel Correspondence was published, online commerce was still an idea of the future. While there were a few people using the Internet, it wasn’t as commonplace as it is now. That’s what makes the novel so prescient, at the same time that […]
There are numerous Yiddish words that have been appropriated into English, from putz to schmooze to maven (see, for example, my very entertaining colleague The Movie Maven who lives up to the meaning of the term “maven” which comes from a Yiddish word meaning “expert”). Native Yiddish speakers could be forgiven for thinking this appropriation […]
The headline, “How bad was J.M. Barrie?” screams sensationalism, and, although she does try to be balanced, Justine Picardie doesn’t seem too comfortable with Barrie the person. She opens with a “curse” Barrie “scrawled across the pages of one of his last notebooks”, “May God blast anyone who writes a biography of me”, and she […]
This is an incredible deal: buy a first edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and get Douglas Adams’s typewriter along with it. According to the seller, it is “as certain as can be that Adams wrote his most famous work ‘The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy’ on this Hermes Standard 8″. And […]
At least part of the fascination of cave paintings is the fact that, even though they may be anywhere from 30,000 to 40,000 years old, they were painted by people who were just like us. They were the same species, homo sapiens, so it’s entirely possible that, if we could travel back in time, or […]
Every once in a while I’ll hear someone refer to a collection of things as a “bevy”. Earlier this week a co-worker mentioned that she had a “bevy of flowers” in her yard. Bevy is one of those words I’ve heard and used, I thought, with a pretty clear idea of what it meant, but […]
Over at boingboing blogger Mark Frauenfelder has a brief post about a vending machine selling “ideas for things to do”. It just seems like a brilliant idea. As you can see from the picture, it’s just 50 cents per idea, and you might get a toy “and a map “if fun idea requires travel […]
This morning on the radio I heard that a Colorado (the specific location wasn’t given) teenager named Robert Hibbs was, in fact, a troll, standing at a bridge and demanding a dollar payment from anyone who wanted to cross. There was no word on whether he was bearded or wearing a loincloth, although […] |
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