Showing posts with label Things That From a Long Way Off Look Like Flies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Things That From a Long Way Off Look Like Flies. Show all posts
Sunday, July 09, 2023

I'm Now Writing Elsewhere, Come Read Me There

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To put this all in one post for the top of this page: I've moved. If you want to read my essays and link round-ups—the sort of thing I u...
Sunday, April 25, 2021

On the Afterlife of Photographic Subjects: A Strange Sub-Sub Genre on the Border of History and Journalism

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I just read the remarkable piece of journalism about the woman who was the subject of this famous photograph: It was written by Patricia McK...
Tuesday, September 24, 2019

TWO IMPORTANT LANGUAGE NOTES

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1) The proper English term for the Jewish celebrations in early adolescence is hereby termed "b'mitzvah" (both singular and pl...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Three Exciting Pieces of Humument News

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I just found out three exciting pieces of Humument news! — News about what now? A Humument .  A Humument is a book by artist Tom P...
Thursday, January 23, 2014

Far From the Only Reason, But A Key One, This Blog Has Been Slow of Late, Revealed In Humorous Fashion as a Parodic Request

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Hey, y'all, quick favor: I need the entire world to stop for, oh, I dunno, not too long, maybe a week?, yeah, a week, that'll do it,...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

I Swear I Don't Know Why But Sometimes These Things Just Pop Into My Head

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Rudolph, the red-eyed dragon, Had a very flamey breath, And if you ever saw him, It would be a firey death. All of Santa's reindeer...
Thursday, October 03, 2013

3/10/2013

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I have blogged about palindromic dates once before , and at the time discussed two of my very favorite * palindromes: Georges Perec's G...
Tuesday, May 07, 2013

American Studies 100: Cover Image Version 2.0

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Since today is the last day of my second run-through of my class American Studies 100: A History of American Culture in 21 Examples , I thou...
Saturday, April 27, 2013

The Nature of the Primordeal Story

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All children are magical realists; realism is a later development.
Thursday, March 21, 2013

The Four Questions: A Modern Day Version

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Why is this night different from all other nights? On all other nights, the house is a total mess, but tonight, the house is clean. On a...
Thursday, January 17, 2013

January 20 is Inauguration Day

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...so why is this year's inauguration on Monday the 21st (the Martin Luther King holiday), and not the day before? It's for the sa...
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Two Weeks Ago I Had Jury Duty

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...and I live-tweeted it .  Since (rather to my surprise) a number of people mentioned that they liked the tweets I decided to wildly overre...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

What if the World Ends Tomorrow and No One Notices?

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LINDSEY: It's been here all along. Underneath. You're just too damn stupid to see it. ANGEL: See what? LINDSEY: The apocalypse, m...
Thursday, December 13, 2012

Fact to Make You Feel Old, Stolen In Its Entirety from Randall Munroe

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Quoth Munroe : The first Star Trek episode aired closer in time to the ratification of the 19th Amendment—guaranteeing women in the US th...
Wednesday, August 08, 2012

Stray Thought

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Old is the new new.
Thursday, March 01, 2012

On Speaking Ill of the Ill-Spoken Dead

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In response to the extraordinarily young and horrifically sudden death of Andrew Breitbart , some liberals have been saying nasty things ( e...
Thursday, January 26, 2012

But What Was the Name of the Cat?

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"We even adopted a cat—a sweet indoor kitty with an autoimmune virus we named Wimbledon." -- Paul M. Davis
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

This Post Intentionally Left Blank

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Man, I'm messing up everything today.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Working Title of the Memoir of the Last Human Being Alive

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No One But Myself To Blame. (It will never get out of draft, of course: oh, it's good enough -- everyone who's read it liked it -- b...
Saturday, December 03, 2011

Slandering My Good Name

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My name, of course, being "Frug". It's a name of Russian-Jewish extraction -- my paternal grandfather used to say that we wer...