Spoken word poetry? Performance art? I do not know (and probably couldn’t tell you if I did).
from “The Married Kama Sutra”
from The Married Kama Sutra:
Disney + Dalí = Destino
A collaborative film by Walt Disney and the Spanish surrealist painter, Salvador Dalí, that “tells the story of Chronos, the personification of time and the inability to realize his desire to love for a mortal.”
Rolling Stones Rice Krispies Promo
A 1960’s commercial for Rice Krispies with jingle by the (then newly formed) Rolling Stones.
from The Lottery (Henry Fielding)
Mr. Stocks:
A lottery is a taxation
Upon all the fools in creation;
And heaven be praised,
It is easily raised,
Credulity’s always in fashion:
For folly’s a fund
Will never lose ground,
While fools are so rife in the nation.
—Henry Fielding
—from The Lottery (1732)
parnel
parnel /PAR-nəl/. noun. A prostitute. More specifically: a priest’s mistress (though who’s to say none of those were love matches?). Often seen in the phrase “tender parnel.” Also rendered as pannell, pernel and others. From Pernel, a shortened form of the name Petronilla which was, at one time, a popular feminine form of the name Peter. Beyond that, the etymology is unclear.
Links: July 31, 2016
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The STRONG LANGUAGE blog is a “Sweary blog about swearing” (NSFW, naturally). Highlights include Mapping the United Swears of America & the followup Sweary maps 2: Swear harder, Donald Trump swears a lot and “More man? Plague, plague!”: How to curse like a misanthrope.
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Technology killed bookstore chains. Can technology save indie bookstores?
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The Terrible Beauty of Californian Wildfires, as Seen by David McNew
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Stick that in your cup and drink it… → InStem study finds cockroach milk is next superfood
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“Fantasies about the future have a troubling effect on achieving actual goals. If positive thinking doesn’t work, what does?” → Don’t Think Too Positive.
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“We are reduced to quarter rations and no coffee,” he continued. “And nobody can soldier without coffee.” → If War Is Hell, Then Coffee Has Offered U.S. Soldiers Some Salvation
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The archives of Randall Munroe’s archives of his What If (Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions) series are a great browse [Thanks, Reader A.!]. I recommended the book a few years ago…and still do!
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Once all but left for dead, is cursive handwriting making a comeback?
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The always awesome Atlas Obscura now has a podcast! And don’t forget their forthcoming book.
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Today in 1703, Daniel Defoe is pilloried (literally, as in the stocks’ harsher sibling), for publishing his pamphlet The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters; Or, Proposals for the Establishment of the Church in which he satirized Queen Anne’s actions against the non-conformists (“…people in the World, who, now they are unperched, and reduced to an equality with other people, and under strong and very just apprehensions of being further treated as they deserve…”), arguing they should simply be exterminated (“Crucify the Thieves!”).
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