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Craggs’s origins
Sorry to post a second low-brow blooper in a row, but I came across another Time Capsule Joke that was just too much. When John Carswell wrote about the South Sea Bubble in the 1950s I don’t think he...
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The letter, perhaps, but not the spirit of doomspirals, captured
What. Some “bloke” has taken the trouble to read five new books on Samuel Beckett’s relationship with Ireland, and so TLS gave him space to write a boring book report. One book under review is a...
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Wikipedia Entry of the Day: Usher of the Black Rod
Small differences between Canadian and U.S. government: The Usher of the Black Rod of the Senate of Canada (often shortened to Black Rod) is the most senior protocol position in the Parliament of...
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This post may not be for you if you’re not down with Becky St. Germain
The back page of the TLS features a diary-like column called NB. The weekly column—essentially a blog du papier—is filled out with the informal, sometimes droll, often disapproving observations of an...
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She’s not my type
A psychedelic fascist is a person who is overly bossy in minor aesthetic matters. This useful term comes from an shameful episode wherein the present author rebuked a colleague for his font choice,...
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Opening (The Wiccan Gates) Ceremony
What was most wonderful about Danny “Slamdog” Boyle’s artistic direction of the Olympic Opening Ceremony was that he took this unprecedented opportunity—a television audience of 1 billion, unlimited...
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Sweetmeat Addendum
Yesterday, when cruising the web curious for other instances of “sweetmeat motto” I stumbled upon a wondrous newspaper column from Australia. “FASHIONS. From Our London Lady Correspondent”, Western...
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I dont know watt
There is a certain charm conveyed in the variant spellings of words in texts written before dictionaries standardized the language. Somehow this charm is doubled when the author is freestyling words...
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