Things I learned while looking up other things, 2025.04.11
Dear friends,
Welcome new subscribers! Hope this lives up to the hype.
This is the kind of Wikipedia page where I’m not sure how I got there but I don’t want to leave: “Oramics is a drawn sound technique designed in 1957 by musician Daphne Oram.”
“American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena Charles Fort wrote about the unexplained disappearances of Ambrose Small and Ambrose Bierce, and asked "Was somebody collecting Ambroses?"“
What do you do when a Soviet soldier comes to you? (In this recipe you can replace “Soviet” with whatever is handy.)
Never give up on your dreams: “Artist Mikael Genberg says he has been wanting to put his typically Swedish-looking miniature house on the moon for 25 years.” (Or, in the immortal words of Mitch Hedberg: “I’m sick of following my dreams, man. I’m just going to ask them where they’re going, and hook up with them later.”)
Also in the category of “putting stuff on the Moon”: “"I'd love to do something like put a piece of moon rock on Mars and a piece of Mars on the moon, a sort of reverse archaeology," she [Cornelia Parker] said while in San Francisco recently to install her two-work show at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.”
Do you know the Bishop of Norwich?
“The loser [in a game of marbles] usually asks the winner to give him one back for his heggrs.”
There’s a delightful description in the Topsy letters of a “thirteen party” but I haven’t found any other useful descriptions elsewhere. I’ll keep looking it up until I find something, though!
Stay well!
Your friend,
Erin