archives for September 2006
ann richards
Thursday 14 September 2006 | I like a cookie
The late former Texas governor spoke at my undergrad graduation (undergraduation?) and was half pungently funny, half hair-raising, as she was today, posthumously, on Democracy Now, which I never listen to and only encountered accidentally whilst resetting my car radio. But there she was, cracking up a bunch of Texas Observer writers by telling the […]
an email discussion of prosody
Thursday 14 September 2006 | I like a cookie
The Brujo: Rime royale sounds like a tequila/umbrella drink, a villanelle is probably a small evil woman, and a ghazal grazes the plains of Africa.
Unnarrator: Everybody knows that rime royale is a high-stakes casino game played in small European monarchies, villanelles are pastry filled with crème anglais and drizzled with chocolate, and a ghazal is […]
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blog? what blog?
Wednesday 13 September 2006 | 2 cookies in the jar
We are bitterly enslaved to copy whoredom, and deservedly so, scraping by, living in a near-constant state of nervous anxiety, paying bills in a fashion usually referred to as “hand to mouth,” and spending our free time either crying hysterically or freaking out. The nice German astrologers at Astrodienst try to offer some kind of […]
words of the year (for 2005)
Tuesday 12 September 2006 | I like a cookie
Per Señor Brujo, Merriam-Webster Online’s “Words of the Year” List for 2005; we leave you to draw your own conclusions.
1. integrity
2. refugee
3. contempt
4. filibuster
5. insipid
6. tsunami
7. pandemic
8. conclave
9. levee
10. inept
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from “the discovery of witches” by matthew hopkins, 1647
Monday 11 September 2006 | I like a cookie
The reasons in breefe are three, which for the present he judgeth to differ from naturall marks which are:
1. He judgeth by the unusualnes of the place where he findeth the teats in or on their bodies being farre distant from any usuall place, from whence such naturall markes proceed, as if a witch plead […]
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spangrish from mandarin’s language school
Monday 11 September 2006 | someone left a cookie
If you still do not have where to remain, Salamanca counts with a large accomdation offer, from luxurious hotel to more economic hostels. If you com as a tourist or to live for more time, it is advisable to stay in this type of accomodation.
Now you have everything, where to sleep, where to study, have […]
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why are we so obsessed by sitemeter?
Sunday 10 September 2006 | I like a cookie
Oh the sheer overwhelming volume of hits these poor benighted sods must have waded through, only to wash, subsided and spent, onto our damp and inhospitable shores.
“nature of the unreliable narrator”
“origin of the unreliable narrator”
“how to create an unreliable narrator” [for heaven’s sake don’t do that]
“unreliable narrator and librarian”
“olena kalytiak davis texas september 2006″
“browncoat ball”
“heath […]
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if we stay swimming here forever we will never be free
Saturday 9 September 2006 | I like a cookie
Via Sitemeter, some entertaining Google searches that have brought stray Internet wanderers to our perfidious doors:
• “alison bechdel”
• “DBT THERAPIST FAYETTEVILLE” (the all-caps underscore a familiar desperation, but sadly the only thing about Fayetteville mentioned here is that they have an MFA program)
• “finland sauna lesbian” (possibly my favorite)
• “quit job and go backpacking” (?!)
• […]
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for mandarin, à salamanca
Friday 8 September 2006 | I like a cookie
CIEN SONETAS DE AMOR — Pablo Neruda, tr. Stephen Tapscott
XVII
No te amo como si fueras rosa de sal, topacio
o flecha de claveles que propogan el fuego:
te amo como se aman ciertas cosas oscuras,
secretamente, entre la sobra y el alma.
Te amo como la planta que no florece y lleva
dentro de sí, escondida, la luz de […]
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this just in:
Friday 8 September 2006 | I like a cookie
Whiteboard cleaner cleans whiteboards!
(Courtesy of Life after Coffee.)
(Although, to be fair, we came across this because we were looking for instructions on how to clean a whiteboard, and found this fine tutorial by an Internet author who assumes nothing, which, given the inaptitude of your unnarrator when it comes to a great many common household […]
