Counting.

The counting went like this: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, extra – it went – one, two, three, four, extra – and finished with – one, two, three, four, five, six, extra, seven, eight, extra, benediction.
This was for everything in full. The pattern could be varied according to circumstance.
For example, if [...]

A shadow I know to be taller.

This past Saturday, S and I went to see Elbow at Webster Hall.
I have never been to see Elbow before, even though I have adored them since I first heard them, back six years ago when I lived in Cambridge. I heard them and I asked for their first album for Christmas, and I [...]

Helzapoppin’.

Did you know? Helzapoppin’ is a word, after all. Not only that, but they began to use it in Wisconsin in 1945:

Dictionaries always were enormous time-sinks for me as a child. I’d flip through the pages and read definition after definition, without really paying attention to much of anything, but reveling in [...]

Photoshoppery.

I’m an RA for my chief advisor, a job I would not part with for the world. I’ve learned a lot, gotten to work on some very neat projects, and had fun doing so. Even better, weekly meetings with her have been great for keeping me on my toes, dissertation-wise. That’s the [...]

The BEST and NEAREST Way to Physick and Chyrurgery.

Doing a little electronic archive digging a while back and came across this. I know I’ve heard of Riolan, probably from during the summer I spent two months at the British and Wellcome Libraries, but I cannot think in what context the reference might have been.
What’s interesting about this volume is that [...]