March 2009
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Women - Black Rice
Women’s self-titled...
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The Gray Field Recordings - Rune of the Moon and...
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WatchDisney plagiarizing itself
Holy jesus, I never noticed this. This is completely insane.
Spontaneous Human Combustion, the worst Wikipedia... →
Reading Bleak House, I became interested in spontaneous human combustion, as it occurs to a character in the book - during an excellent chapter, I might add. I remember hearing about it as a kid and it occurred to me that I’d never checked up on its authenticity. Although it seems far-fetched, I could see how it may be possible that some cellular process goes amok and sets off a chain...
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Actual album review headline
“The first great lo-fi orchestral psychedelic artcore jazz album of 2009.” »
And people call me a music snob!
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Old timey vocabulary: Bleak House edition
From the first half of Bleak House:
ait - a small island, esp. in a river. In green aits and fields… nosegay - a bouquet of flowers. I knew this one. patten - a sort of clog worn to give height or keep one out of the mud. I would have guessed some sort of special mitten. pattening - can’t find anything for this one. Possibly a misprint of “patterning?” It has to do with...
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Bernard Shaw vs. the English language
I’ve been looking for this poem for a while and just ran into it on Reddit. Our language really is atrocious, isn’t it?
“Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter,...
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