Today’s WORK (it took me a shameful number of seconds to grok the 2nd limerick) via the always wonderful Futility Closet, which the whole Clamor should be reading.
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WORK
There once was a ,cal fellow,
Who grew .ically mellow;
With a — he was gone
To the town of :
To write for a sheet that was yellow.She was wooed by a handsome young Dr.,
Who one day in his arms tightly lr.;
But straightway he swore
He would do so no more,
Which the same, it was plain, greatly shr.A boy at Sault Ste. Marie
Said, “To spell I will not agree
Till they learn to spell ‘Soo’
Without any u
Or an a or an l or a t.”There was an old maid from Duquesne
Who the rigor of mortis did fuesne;
She came to with a shout,
Saying: “Please let me out;
This coffin will drive me insuesne.”
—from Limerick Lyrics (Stanton Vaughn, ed.)
—via Futility Closet
WORD(S)
cellfish (cell-fish) /SEL-fish/. adjective. Using a cell phone in a way that disregards others, such as loud-talking in a restaurant, in line while the cashier waits, &c. A portmanteau combining cell (phone) + selfish.
“Don’t be Cell-Fish” (Long Island Mass Transit Authority)
“When he started taking calls from telemarketers during intimate moments, I realized that he wasn’t that into me and was really quite cellfish.” (Verbotomy)
“With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are cellfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.” (Buddha)
WEB
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Snoop Dogg, the Jackson 5, the Ramones, Bryan Adams and many others meet Shakespeare. Just for the LOLs. → Pop Sonnets
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“Took the light rail from Tianjin City to Binhai for a walk-around on the last day of 2007. It was a pleasant day, though an odd one too, as we wandered through a landscape that seems to have no idea what is happening to it.” → Photographer Jim Gourley’s photos from Tianjin, in what is now the evacuation zone.
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I don’t go out of my way to watch—or avoid—most Spielberg films. But Bryan Cranston as Dalton Trumbo is intriguing. → ► Dalton Trumbo (trailer)
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The Scofield is an impressive new literary magazine, modeled on The Dial. The first issue centers around David Markson and the idea of “solitude.”
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Today in 1590, colonist Charles White returns from a (three year!) supply run to England and discovers the Roanoke Colony (which was actually the 2nd settlement there, the first had disappeared before White re-settled at the same location in 1587)—including his granddaughter Virginia Dare, the first English child born in the Americas—has vanished. The only clue: the word “CROATOAN” carved into a tree, likely meaning “Croatoan” (now Hatteras) Island. Though the settlement had been dismantled, indicating an intentional relocation, the Roanoke colonists were never found and their fate remains unknown.
WATCH/WITNESS
Under Cover: ABC of Banned Books — “Books have been burned, challenged, banned, removed from schools and libraries and used as a rationale for death and destruction throughout history and across cultures. This flag book showcases examples of words and methods used in censoring works, as well as highlighting the continuation of these practices today.”
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