words
February 18, 2009
- Here is a video poem by Belinda Subraman, riffing on my sister Janet's art. I'm quite taken with it!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33Sg0r6OGx0
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February 10, 2009
- As the Israeli General Election creaks along today in the background, accompanied by storm-like conditions and great wind, I've been tagged by Lauri at Thoughts from Botswana and this is a good one so I am happy to be a taggee. Here is what I am commanded to do: List at least five things you do to support and spread a love of the written word, then tag five people. (If you list something that ...
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February 8, 2009
- Do I forget Writing the wordsfrom myselfdo I forgetmy own languagespeaking writing or spealingfrom my mouthdo I forgetthinging seeing or hearingmy best wishesdo I forgetloving rhymes if I please…tell me.
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February 2, 2009
- In the interest of full disclosure, I got this idea from a priest. He was discussing belief and how God wants to help you fulfill your spiritual yearning. So he says, “You know, you hear how a drug dealer will give out little packs, little tastes of a drug. To entice, to hook, to get you to come back for more. And isn’t that what God does? Gives you a taste of his Word. Hoping ...
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February 2, 2009
- Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained. (See more at http://wordvessel.blogspot.com!)
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January 30, 2009
- The Health section of Monday's Los Angeles Times had a small article about ab workouts. The headline was "Flatten that paunch." The first sentence began: "To challenge your core muscles and flatten a lower-ab pooch ..."I've heard people use "pooch" to refer to a protruding lower tummy before. I never hear any of the words that come after. I get stuck. Hmmm. Pooch. ...
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January 24, 2009
- I have just this day begun to delve into Niall Ferguson's The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World. It is highly likely that I will have more to say about this interesting and possibly very important book before I'm done, but for now I have this interesting little bit to share.I get a kick out of the word "ghetto" when used as a modern modifier, the way it's evolved from ...
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January 12, 2009
- I'm a self-confessed word nerd.Many of my friends are word nerds as well.In fact, I dare say that the population of word nerds is much bigger than most people realize.I stumbled across this, and being the word nerd that I am, thoroughly enjoyed it. Thought I would pass on the mirth!!!(Read the rest at http://wordvessel.blogspot.com.)
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January 8, 2009
- All who doubt the word-conspiracy theory I wrote of yesterday, behold: Not 24 hours after I blogged that the word "Columbia" was out to get me by trying to pass itself off as "Colombia," I found this in a story I was editing:"(The restaurant) Botero, features ... original paintings by the Columbian artist along the walls."Diabolical. So I thought I'd do a Google ...
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January 5, 2009
- I came upon this site, "Wordle", and fed my poem to it, and after a few "Randomizations" it turned out this beautifully scrambled result. (Click on the image for larger resolution.)Try it out. You can basically feed any text piece to this program, to gain another insight in it - or simply play and have fun. Just be careful with saving, you probably don't wanna save the names ...
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