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Category Archives: Dumb Stuff
Plutarch on Timon of Athens.
22-Nov-11From the Life of Antony. Antony, at the end of his life, his hopes shattered, said that he just wanted to end his days living the life of Timon of Athens. Plutarch thus digresses: This Timon was a citizen of Athens, and lived much about the Peloponnesian War, as may be seen by the comedies […]
Chesterton, a giant among men.
26-Oct-11“People are only hungry because they are healthy.” Said G.K. Chesterton, whose weight “hovered between three hundred and four hundred pounds.”
The Brilliant Internet.
20-Sep-11My browser tells me, whenever I pull up a page from my own website, that the page is in Russian, and would I like it translated? How odd.
Garden and Gun.
15-Sep-11Amazingly, there is actually a magazine called “Garden and Gun: The Soul of the New South.” And more amazingly, it’s not that bad. There’s an article this month about Wendell Berry, along with an article on “the new generation of women who are redefining the Southern Belle.”
Man-crush in Latin.
19-Jul-11This past weekend I saw a friend I had not seen in months, and my excitement prompted my Latin-speaking friends to wonder how to say “man-crush” in Latin. We came up with the term “adviratio,” from the new verb adviro, advirare, “to have a man-crush” or “to have a bromance.” Floreat illa locutio.
Chiffarobe.
19-Mar-11I can say that I actually heard the word “chiffarobe” used in Greenville, Mississippi, in natural conversation.
The Embrace of Opposites.
24-Feb-11I was speaking with a friend about Rudyard Kipling, who is to most of the people I know (as to me) more of a familiar name than a familiar author. When I explained that his most famous work was probably The Jungle Book, and explained that it contained animal tales often told to children, my […]
Goldwynism.
28-Jan-11“Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist needs to have his head examined.” – Sam Goldwyn. Stuff like this gives me no end of delight.
The Bayside Prophet.
31-Dec-11Naushahra Virkān Stumbled across the writings of Veronica Leuken, the authoress of a series of mad, mildly sadistic and occasionally humorous prophecies revealed to her by the Blessed Virgin and Jesus in – where else? – Bayside, Queens. As with all prophecies – one of the very worst habits of the Biblical tradition – they are a […]