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books,
around the web
Here. Includes multiple translation fragments, background, and comprehensive Internet bibliographies for each.
(This is good.)
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Published by :ormondsacker 2007-08-12 01:34:17.0
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http://ormondsacker.livejournal.com/40302.html
food,
around the web
Another August week gone, and I'm as limp and drained and subjectless as I've been for the last month and a half. I sat down in front of the internet just now, checked the last post date and the calendar, and, sighing, opened a bottle of pear cider (also known as pear scrumpy, or, I swear to god look it up, "perry".) I like the stuff - it's summery. Usually go with Ace brand 'perry', but on this occasion I'm tryin
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Published by :ormondsacker 2007-08-05 04:29:35.0
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This one's for historians and language lovers, mostly - in Goodwin's Team of Rivals, I came across this rare glimpse of Abraham Lincoln, copy-editor.
You know William Seward, right? Lincoln's Secretary of State, famous public speaker, former political rival? Was initially under the impression he would be secretly running things while log-cabin-boy sat around telling funny stories? (This did not t
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Published by :ormondsacker 2007-07-28 19:02:10.0
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http://ormondsacker.livejournal.com/39689.html
food,
around the web
Bobafind.
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Published by :ormondsacker 2007-07-21 05:05:25.0
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http://ormondsacker.livejournal.com/39450.html
life in okc
Selected exhibits from the new Oklahoma Historical Society Museum:
- The "Winnie Mae": Wiley Post's famous plane, the same plane that he and Will Rogers were riding 70 years ago when it crashed and exploded into a million pieces covering miles of tundra. It was never recovered.
- The (unexpectedly tiny) Gemini space capsule flown by Gus Grissom (on loan from Smithsonian)
- Detailed i
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Published by :ormondsacker 2007-07-15 00:00:48.0
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http://ormondsacker.livejournal.com/39235.html
If you happen across this entry sequentially, consider skipping it, mulling over the nifty quiz posed last week, and coming back at your leisure.
Annotated list of musicians is below the cut:
Each of the fifty artists did at least one song that fits a very specific category:
1. Billie Holiday: "Stars Fell on Alabama"
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Published by :ormondsacker 2007-07-05 05:29:45.0
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http://ormondsacker.livejournal.com/39086.html
music,
randomnitude
Need to post something this week.... Contest! First one to identify the significance of the following list of musicians gets a cameo in an upcoming episode, or something. Answers go up on Wednesday the 4th.
(List is not exclusive.)
1. Billie Holiday
2. John Denver
3. Public Enemy
4. MC Solaar
5. Fatboy Slim
6. Bowling For Soup
7. Judy G
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Published by :ormondsacker 2007-06-30 18:18:49.0
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http://ormondsacker.livejournal.com/38751.html
books
"No. Of course not. It's just..." Her gaze went away again, not simply out the windshield, but to someplace Hank couldn't see. "I need to believe in something like animal people right now."
Hank didn't ask her why. He just gave her the same advice he'd been given by an older kid in juvie hall.
"Believe in yourself," he said.
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Published by :ormondsacker 2007-06-24 01:01:55.0
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http://ormondsacker.livejournal.com/38571.html
music,
books
"There is a noticable Austro-Hungarian flavor to the beautiful city, a careless grace and grandeur like a supermodel nipping out to Lidl in her trackie bottoms & vest after a heavy night. I try to thank the waiter for the delicious, home-made beetroot-stuffed ravioli made from poppy-seed flour. 'Hvala!' It comes out more like 'Hoovallurgh'. Everyone laughs. My accent is bad. I try again. No. It does not come
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Published by :ormondsacker 2007-06-23 03:40:30.0
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http://ormondsacker.livejournal.com/38269.html
me
"For the rain it raineth every day*, huh?"
*[Twelfth Night, V.i.397]
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Published by :ormondsacker 2007-06-15 18:41:51.0
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