“What are you going to do? You gonna stand there and watch it go by?”
More from the old Rescue 911, one of my favorite TV shows of all time:
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Dover Beach
I’ve been thinking about this poem lately. It’s really a bleak work (and very modern, despite the year it was written, which was probably around 1851). The subject is the loss of faith. Not a personal loss of faith, but … Continue reading →
Just for fun: streetwalking
[NOTE: We need a little relaxation today, don’t we? Here’s a repost of something I wrote in January of 2010. Enjoy.] See the way he walks down the street Watch the way he shuffles his feet— “He’s a Rebel” was … Continue reading →
Wordsmiths for Obama: redux
[NOTE: Some of the comments on today’s earlier post about Noonan, Obama, and narcissism made me remember the following piece. I wrote it back in June of 2008 to explain the phenomenon of why so many wordsmiths were so taken … Continue reading →
Romnesia, Rhamnusia
I don’t remember exactly where I saw it, but I hadn’t known before that there’s another name for Nemesis: In Greek mythology, Nemesis (Greek, ÎÎμεσις), also called Rhamnousia/Rhamnusia (“the goddess of Rhamnous”) at her sanctuary at Rhamnous, north of Marathon, … Continue reading →
And then there’s the myth of Obama the racial healer
This is in some sense a companion piece to the post below it, continuing the theme of “how could they have ever thought this?” Ann Althouse writes about a Camille Paglia interview in which Paglia says she’s not voting for … Continue reading →
Dance teachers I have known: Finis Jhung
I came across a video that was touted as amazing, featuring a 75-year-old man who still teaches ballet. My first thought was, “That’s not the least bit amazing.” Quite a few of the ballet teachers of my youth reached that … Continue reading →
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Joe Klein—yes, that Joe Klein—had this to say in Time’s Swampland about last night’s debate: Well, I’m with all the other talking heads: Mitt Romney won this debate. Barack Obama lost it. I mean, he got his butt kicked. It … Continue reading →
Ghosting and demon lovers
There’s a new way to break up with a significant other. It’s called “ghosting,” and essentially it involves disappearing from the person’s life suddenly and without explanation.
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If you are a denizen of the blogosphere, you’ve probably already encountered the Obamaphone lady: I already knew about the program she’s referring to—which actually wasn’t started under Obama, by the way—so she didn’t seem quite as crazy as she … Continue reading →
Not-so-close encounters
An interesting bit of trivia: While at Eton, Eric Blair (future pen name, George Orwell) “was briefly taught French by Aldous Huxley.” England’s a small place, isn’t it? That wasn’t Orwell and Huxley’s only exchange. Huxley wrote to Orwell on … Continue reading →
HDR photography and seeing
Commenter “Harold” alerted me to a type of photography I’d never even heard of before, although I’d probably seen it and not known what I was looking at—HDR photography: High dynamic range imaging (HDRI or HDR) is a set of … Continue reading →