Things I learned while looking up other things, 2020.9.11
Friends, already bound by a sincere bond of affection, Erin, follower of the profession of lexicographer, wishes to be bound further to you by a mutual chain...
Things I learned while looking up other things, 2020.8.11
Dear Friend, from my life I write to you in your life. I hope you all are doing "2020's version of okay". (Because everything is weird and terrible, this is...
Things I learned while looking up other things, 2020.7.11
Dear friends, Ever since I learned that Hialeah used to be part of what was called the 'Humbuggus-Pokeymoonshine' section of the Everglades northwest of...
Things I learned while looking up other things, 2020.6.11
Dear friends, This edition of this newsletter should be called "things I learned that I should have known already" or "things I learned while I followed the...
Things I learned while looking up other things, 2020.5.11
Dear friends, A chance mention of Hermippus Redivivus in Boswell's Life of Johnson (we're getting to the Johnsoniana early in this edition) led me to this...
Things I learned while looking up other things, 2020.4.11
Dear friends, If you need some encouragement right now, the work of poster designer Abram Games might help. There is a Wikimedia Commons category for "Graves...
Things I learned while looking up other things, 2020.3.11
Hi friends! This edition has exactly zero coronavirus content. (But you should wash your hands after reading anyway.) While reading about a new literary...
Things I learned while looking up other things, 2020.2.11
Hello friends! Obviously the biggest February-related thing of 2020 is that it's a Leap Year! People born on a Leap Day may be called leaplings or leapers....
Things I learned while looking up other things, 2020.1.11
Hello. I'm glad you're here! When I was a teenager in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, I was a devoted reader of the syndicated newspaper column of Sydney J....