Noah Webster and his ‘hood
In Which Your Humble Blogger refrains from complaining about the heating/cooling system, which we’re kinda figuring will be fixed at some point, right?
Category: Puff Piece
An idea for Gentle Readers and their money
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In Which Your Humble Blogger is, to some limited extent, affected by Seasonal Whatsit Thingie.
journal-ism
In Which Your Humble Blogger remarks that things were different when he was young.
and I mees you most of all, mah darleeng, when …
In Which Your Humble Blogger learns a thing or two, possibly incorrectly
No more golfing, no more cats
In Which Your Humble Blogger mourns the passing of a funny man.
In league with the … er, women.
In Which we we pull down on the lever/cast our ballots and we endeavor/to improve our country, state, county, town, and school.
Ready, set, translate!
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In honor of National Dictionary Day, the Oxford University Press has decided to make the Oxford Language Dictionaries Online free for the week. That’s right, it’s National Dictionary Day, in honor of Noah “06119” Webster, one hundred and forty-nine years…
As if I didn’t already have 54 subscriptions on my aggregator
Gentle Readers who have enjoyed reading comments here on this Tohu Bohu by that Gentlest of Readers who signs himself Michael may be overjoyed to discover that he has, according to statute, custom and law, started his own damn blog….
Puff Piece: Joseph Smolinski
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My discovery today at Wadsworth Atheneum was an artist named Joseph Smolinski. He had three pieces showing. One was a version of the Charter Oak that would probably only be funny to Connecticutters. Such as Your Humble Blogger, who found…
Puff Piece: Ooh, shiny!
Your Humble Blogger spent much of yesterday at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Actually, Your Humble Blogger spent much of yesterday mocking the MFA,B, which richly deserves it, what with their pitiful collection of contemporary art, their baffling insistence…