More death business
There were some provocative comments to my recent post on the death business, and I wanted to take my time and respond to them in some detail. First, I suppose, I should look at the new arguments proposed (by people…
Parshah Pekudei
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Your Humble Blogger has been traveling on weekends lately, for one reason and another, and so has been able to slack on the weekly parshah without the embarrassment of actually showing up unprepared. As a result, I’ve now missed three…
Yes, Most Definitely
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Speaking of speaking sloppily about sloppy speaking, Your Humble Blogger found A Def Ear to the Rules of Grammar by Clyde Haberman in this morning’s New York Times, to be a marvelous example of a journalist neither knowing nor caring…
The death business
Your Humble Blogger happened to see a very interesting column over at Mousewords by the very interesting blogger Amanda Marcotte, who has also been one of the triumvirate that filled in for Jesse Taylor over at Pandagon. Anyway, Ms. Marcotte…
Book Report: A Fire Upon the Deep
One nice thing about the library’s perpetual book sale is that it does, on occasion, have a book that I have been wanting to read, or perhaps just wanting to have read, and there it is for a quarter or…
Book Report: A Civil Campaign
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Well, and I’ve no idea when I actually re-read A Civil Campaign, but it was sometime in February. After finishing Komarr, which took me a while to get around to noting, but not this long. Anyway, after two weeks, I…
Monitor, Merrimac, Memorial
As Your Humble Blogger was making his way through the Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel (I-664) this morning before dawn, the thought did not occur to me at all that March 9 is, after all, the anniversary of the Battle of Hampton…
Lolly, Lolly, Lolly
Your Humble Blogger enjoyed Geoffrey Pullum’s Language Log note called Box Spaghetti Straight, in which he notes that “Box is a noun, spaghetti is a noun, straight is an adjective. Together they form an adjective phrase.” I love noun modifiers,…
Avocado Victory!
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The sharper of my Gentle Readers will no doubt have noticed that I have returned, and am posting again. Whew. I should be back to more regular postings now, although I may still have sudden breaks. My actual life is…
Dock (definition four)
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I’m not sure why I even read this morning’s yesterday’s NYT Op-Ed contribution called The Unkindest Cut, by Nicolette Hahn Niman. Perhaps it was the title. Which just goes to show. Or perhaps it was the word ‘dock’ which had…