Blue Daisies
Water drops on stalks of grass refracting images of a blue daisy.
Whit Bronaugh
se⋅ri⋅a⋅tim
[seer-ee-ey-tim, ser-] adverb, adjective:
in a series; one after another.
Used to great effect in this language maven’s NYT column on 6/15:
“Each time I see a split infinitive,” [Sotomayor] is on record as saying, “an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.” Let’s take her written judgments seriatim:
From bad:
“In an attempt to gain favor with China, the United States pressured Tibetan representatives to postpone a meeting between the Dalai Lama and President Obama until after Obama’s summit with his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao…”
To worse:
“Before a visit to China in February… Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said advocacy for human rights could not ‘interfere with the global economic crisis, the global climate-change crisis and the security crisis’”
Jemaine Clement is, for reasons too numerous to list, probably the most delicious man who has ever drawn breath. That is all.Q. Were you surprised to be nominated for an acting Emmy Award?
A. Judging by the way that question was worded, you and I were both surprised.
Jemaine Clement being interviewed about his Emmy nomination.
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Agreed.
carom \KAIR-uhm, noun:
1. A rebound following a collision; a glancing off.
2. A shot in billiards in which the cue ball successively strikes two other balls on the table.
3. To strike and rebound; to glance.
Three blocks away, in the Rue des Jardiniers, four Moroccan children were kicking a filthy soccer ball up and down the street. It caromed off the parked cars, rolled into the gutter, was kicked again, leaving dirty blotches where it had smacked against the vehicles’ fenders.
— Philip Shelby, Gatekeeper
Carom derives from obsolete carambole, from Spanish carambola, “a stroke at billiards.”
So you thought Batman was cool for living in a cave?
Check out these non-superheroes doing the same thing.
complete picture series here
Even cooler, it used to be a 1950s roller rink :D
It’s a clock. It’s 2 o clock. (who needs minutes when you have hours….)
Weird and cool at the same time.
Finally, a purpose for unicycles.
“Some cultures fear and distrust [the] urge [to break free of all restraint], but American culture applauds it—even though our political tradition teaches that true freedom is not the total lack of restraint but the capacity to substitute self-restraint for the chains of arbitrary power.”
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