By honoring one another’s creation we honor something that deeply connects us all, and goes beyond us. – Joyce Carol Oates -@parisreview, on Twitter On the same day I read the above quote, I also read this excellent comic by Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal about how – one way or another – robots will kill us all, […]
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College Humor has a great post titled “New Punctuation Marks for Grammar Nerds”. It includes things like the Double-Reverse-Sarcasticmark, used to denote either sincerity or sarcasm, depending on the sensitivity of the reader; and Isolation Marks, used to quarantine bad spelling, so it’s clear who owns the shame of the mistake. My favourite, however, is the Demicolon
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I like fancy dinner parties, and I like my wines to be well dressed too, so when I saw wine capes at the store I had to buy them. Though likely intended as a Hallowe’en decoration, I use them year round. Vampires are always fashionable. ((Notice the lack of sparkle. Bling – yes, sparkle – no.)) A
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The Guardian‘s Benedicte Page reports that “Writers ‘at greater risk of depression’, survey finds“: Irregular pay and isolation contribute to the propensity for writers to succumb to depression, says the site, with nearly 7% of male artists and writers likely to suffer a major episode of the illness. Though Gwyneth Lewis disagrees that suffering for one’s art
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Crowley calls this recipe a “Poem of Spring,” and I decided to have a go at it for our Winter Solstice Feast. This picture was taken with cold leftovers afterwards, which, while delicious, didn’t photograph particularly well. Sorry. The recipe was posted on Coilhouse, where guest blogger S. Elizabeth dug up found and shared it, I’ve included
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