January 2009
29 posts
Cold Cold Hearts - Maybe Scabies
Scabies.
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Rochester, "The Imperfect Enjoyment" →
And eighteenth-century poetry is often characterized by another trope that we can all relate to: sexual humiliation!
Alexander Pope, "Epistle to a Lady" →
“Nothing so true as what you once let fall, / ‘Most Women have no Characters at all.’”
I think I mostly like 18th-century poetry because it is so often full of rhymed zingers that it probably set the precedent for those Bed-Stuy rap battles of the early 1990s that get so much screen time in the recent masterpiece biopic, Notorious.
— A.
PHEW! →
All this time I’ve been inadvertently doing future-Annie a huge favour!
— A.
New Order - “Regret”
Not to make this...
David Byrne and Brian Eno - Strange Overtones
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THE REAL SHAQ →
A lot of people think that Shaquille O’Neal’s Twitter is hilarious.
I agree with all of those people.
In related news, aren’t you sick to death of hearing about Twitter? Don’t you want to vom when you hear words like “Twitterati,” even if they’re being used in a gently sarcastic way? I’m ready for Twitter to go away forever now. Now that I have...
A really good reason to visit Toronto →
Apparently I hail from a city rife with punnily-named businesses, which might explain a lot.
— A.
A Pickle Pause
Here is my favourite brand of cornichons:
These ones are second-best, mostly because they are too expensive for day-to-day consumption. But as an added bonus, they come with an interesting pickle-lifting implement, which makes it easy to put the cornichons in a serving dish without including all the brine!:
Like many excellent and delightful things, cornichons come from France. I would like...
I’ve had this song in my head for a week!
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“ANIMALS
Have you forgotten what we were like then
when we were...”
– Frank O’Hara, 1950
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A Nocturnal Reverie →
Don’t you just love sleepy, sublime, vaguely phantasmagoric 18th-century poetry? I sure do, sometimes! The above is one of my favourites. It’s by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea!
— Annie
Yesssssssssssssssssssss →
