February 2012
68 posts
A Common Phrase in Uncommon Context
Doctor Ow was a scientist who liked doing experiments. One day, he had an idea about how to cure a certain disease - lucitis. That sort of sounds disease-y. So Doctor Ow had an idea of how to cure lucitis, but first he needed someone who had the disease. He needed someone he could run tests on. His first idea - and by far his best idea, for the simplest ideas are often the best - was to buy a...
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A propos the previous post: Nope, nevermind.
I found a more recent picture than Google Street View (January 2011 as opposed to 2009). It appears the camera shop has also gone out of business.
So Newcastle City Gaol was demolished in 1925, and a Telephone House was built. I’m still not exactly sure what a Telephone House is, but as far as I’ve been able to figure out, it’s a place where switchboards and operators were. I just looked up the approximate location (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Carliol Square) on Google Maps; that building (or at least the building that most...
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I just realised (and feel stupid for only just now realising) that all of the seasons are present in the Zombies’ “Changes.”
I knew her when summer was her crown
And autumns sighed how brown her eyes
I knew her when winter was her cloak
In spring her voice she spoke to me
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So a few years ago, this thing happened in my brain where out-of-the-blue I think really obvious banalities. Like, “I have a nose.” Or I would see my shoes and think, “I wear shoes.”
In the shower, I had one of the best ones:
“I’m glad I have skin.”
The History of the Doorbell →
So here’s a thing I learned; there’s a whole website devoted to the history of doorbells.
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WatchFuture Februarian Frivolities?
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I just listened to a live concert of Simon & Garfunkel. Well, a recording of a live concert. It was live in like 1982 or something. Anyway, in “The Sounds of Silence” as they sang, “In the naked light I saw ten thousand people, maybe more,” the people cheered, which just annoyed me. But I love how the stupidity of that action is highlighted by the following line -...
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Gryfon versus Dragon
Like I’ve mentioned before, I’ve never read Harry Potter. However, I follow so many people on the internet that are extremely interested in it, so I know about it despite having never read it.
In my class on Spenser and Milton to-day, we were talking about The Faerie Queene, particularly Book I, Canto V. There’s a fight between two knights - Redcrosse Knight and Sans joy, who...
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WatchTwo Knights Start Fishing
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#MusicWasBestWhen
… is trending on Twitter right now. Well, it’s promoted, so “trending” probably isn’t the right word.
Regardless, I think it’s a stupid premise. If you think that the best part of music already happened, why even try? Don’t be a fatalist fish!
Superlatives don’t have to be singularities. You can appreciate the aesthetic of older music while...
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Since all of Chicago’s albums are titled “Chicago [number]” and I’m listening to all of my albums alphabetically, I get to listen to three Chicago albums in a row.
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If you haven’t been paying attention (or even if you have, the facts remain the same), I’m writing songs about criminals from the 1870s for FAWM. I was looking through the pictures to find an-other interesting crime to write about, since I finished the one I was working on to-day.
I saw a comment on one saying that if these people had Facebook they wouldn’t have time to go...
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I wrote a solo for one of my FAWM songs, and then...
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