tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11724707550796304832024-03-09T19:47:25.262-07:00The Ys Have ItA blog of striking words (mostly printed ones, and in English) ending in the letter Y. Why? Why not?Elizabeth Manushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983079578391533276noreply@blogger.comBlogger490125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1172470755079630483.post-11867119353776543292024-02-20T20:06:00.002-07:002024-02-20T20:06:21.468-07:00A note about the blog<div><span style="font-family: inherit;">After moving some old blogs to their new legacy parking space (and being reminded of the four blogs I lost in 2012, because I did not move them to a legacy parking space), I remembered that the very notion of paying attention to words ending in the letter began taking shape in 2005.</span> </div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: black;">During 2006, my Notes From New York blog highlighted other words ending in the letter <i>y</i></span><span style="color: black;">: </span><i>self-helpy</i><span style="color: black;">, </span><i>fusiony</i><span style="color: black;">, </span><i>basementy.</i><span style="color: black;"> </span></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrid_pExt6C9rfpVyITZGxxuKBjqIlFYM6YcLKIYdSl-Uea9npn3x63yo9ubHvG1GuAdkypa63dUEEkq9Z9rRvJuzcTGwKxCXZUureYP59rjL3KzeiBaVz-vdcS0A0e2UfGwDb73lCl7yt9s9OFxpfm92LlhDsnxzLDo6_FWYN4_CxOybW5u0hY84t_pm-/s3892/pencil.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2919" data-original-width="3892" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrid_pExt6C9rfpVyITZGxxuKBjqIlFYM6YcLKIYdSl-Uea9npn3x63yo9ubHvG1GuAdkypa63dUEEkq9Z9rRvJuzcTGwKxCXZUureYP59rjL3KzeiBaVz-vdcS0A0e2UfGwDb73lCl7yt9s9OFxpfm92LlhDsnxzLDo6_FWYN4_CxOybW5u0hY84t_pm-/w400-h300/pencil.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">© 1984 Copyright Hector Sanchez</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #999999; font-size: 10.14px; letter-spacing: 0.2em; text-transform: uppercase;">FRIDAY, DECEMBER 02, 2005</span></div><div><div class="post" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.5em; padding-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><a name="113354783888066484"></a></span></span><h3 class="post-title" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #cc6600; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.200001px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0.25em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 4px;">To Add to My List of Favorite Words Ending in Y</h3><div class="post-body" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><div style="clear: both; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"></div>Deathy<br /><br />Aired last night on the <a href="http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_colbert_report/index.jhtml" style="color: #996699; text-decoration: none;">Colbert Report</a>. [<i>Ed.</i> Link doesn’t work any more.] Came into play when talking about the death penalty.<br /><br />More about the List . . . .<br /><br />First favorite word ending in Y: Tubby<br />Favorite word for 2005: Surfy<br />Least favorite word for 2005: Chatty</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><span face="-webkit-standard" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFyX4fUa9rwMh2MgKM2CYAU8yN6gi27As3alToJF__Z5tUd2VE53GJ8xeAA8easQ_Vlvq8kh0gHyYmCXtxaynZuk6corn58mQ-1au6bO-0BJeVs064TS12lebHC7kdL6Ny6NeEt3H7bKCDryJBC8ulFCPHrcBtHRvS5JuVRrFlbUk1buK4w_mEzK3O0oXs/s1382/Screenshot%202024-02-20%20at%207.58.15%E2%80%AFPM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1062" data-original-width="1382" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFyX4fUa9rwMh2MgKM2CYAU8yN6gi27As3alToJF__Z5tUd2VE53GJ8xeAA8easQ_Vlvq8kh0gHyYmCXtxaynZuk6corn58mQ-1au6bO-0BJeVs064TS12lebHC7kdL6Ny6NeEt3H7bKCDryJBC8ulFCPHrcBtHRvS5JuVRrFlbUk1buK4w_mEzK3O0oXs/w400-h308/Screenshot%202024-02-20%20at%207.58.15%E2%80%AFPM.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Via the <a href="https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Episode_0001" target="_blank">Muppet Wiki</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">Looking at this now, in February 2024, I’m reminded that whenever I hear the word</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"> </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">tubby,</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">Ernie’s pronunciation sounds in my mind’s ear. Yes, Ernie of </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">Ernie and Bert. </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">Tubby</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"> is a word in Ernie’s “<a href="https://www.sesamestreet.org/videos?vid=2111" target="_blank">Rubber Duckie/Ducky</a>”<sup>*</sup> song.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><div style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Remember how <i>Sesame Street</i> episodes were “brought to you” by letters and numbers (which were sponsors)? Olivetti! — there it is. The Ys Have It bubbled into existence not long after Wednesday, February 25, 1970, when </span>“<span style="font-family: inherit;">Rubber Duckie</span>”<span style="font-family: inherit;"> first aired.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span><span><span face="-webkit-standard" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"><sup>*</sup> N.B. <i>Duckie</i> appears in t</span></span></span><span><span><span face="-webkit-standard" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">he title of the video, yet </span></span></span><i>ducky</i> appears throughout the </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span><span face="-webkit-standard" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"><span>closed captions</span>. Hmm. This is just the </span></span>kind <span face="-webkit-standard" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">of suffix situation to be sorted out on</span> <i>Sesame Street</i></span><span style="font-size: small;">. </span></span></div></div></div></div>Elizabeth Manushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983079578391533276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1172470755079630483.post-30584435415861196812023-12-31T20:03:00.012-07:002024-01-01T22:30:26.198-07:00Y Word of 2023 (yes, I skipped the semis and the finals)<p>Not that I planned to skip the semi-finals and the finals. However, I did. </p><p><a href="https://thelasty.blogspot.com/2023/08/walrusy.html" target="_blank">Walrusy</a> is the winner for 2023. Congratulations.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXZpIUIToKnV52cN9rQehh-X1fkMuu45w4dQb8uCDHlJx1-qZwf6d_kfc0_KPDvVsH96RjG6DReR6zAFkotFxgzYBrxLpiNwg3i6RZaNTcAjMVwWFcmoTXTu5oeBxQQeQkslxapqRCLIkVyLAKv3pEmSM2jdi0x_dJvvV_n73TcBibFkqlzeW5zqv52Chyphenhyphen/s4010/IMG_3885.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2697" data-original-width="4010" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXZpIUIToKnV52cN9rQehh-X1fkMuu45w4dQb8uCDHlJx1-qZwf6d_kfc0_KPDvVsH96RjG6DReR6zAFkotFxgzYBrxLpiNwg3i6RZaNTcAjMVwWFcmoTXTu5oeBxQQeQkslxapqRCLIkVyLAKv3pEmSM2jdi0x_dJvvV_n73TcBibFkqlzeW5zqv52Chyphenhyphen/w320-h215/IMG_3885.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">I happen to have a walrus in my photos.<br />San Francisco, California<br />December 25, 2019</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p>I began this blog it in a spirit of benign ridicule: <i>Isn’t the so-called blogosphere ridiculous and full of self-absorption</i>. <i>So much digital navel-gazing and shoe-gazing! How can I create a blog that is hyper-idiosyncratic and Beside the Point?</i></p><p>I added Word of the Year to emphasize the dopiness of such a feature. </p><p>Yet, fifteen years later, I am reminded what an odd joy I experience while feeding this blog. I never had a Chia Pet or a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/01/us/gary-dahl-inventor-of-the-pet-rock-dies-at-78.html" target="_blank">Pet Rock</a>. </p><p><i><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1979/08/26/archives/paperback-talk-paperback-talk.html" target="_blank">The Next to Nothing Book</a> </i>was the novelty item that spoke to me. I began writing in it September 4th, 1979.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU5yhgUzoEI3RbYzuflAgIxQuxZ2Anzl_OBI1KRPfn72znJfobc1P3nY6O59cZrI6pCPmk2BTjN6uR14WLhQNLMBxodZMGK2BPNGseEQYqNa-j31u2OBTgaBvSyZcc2_kNh70J2yxXu1tIQqjzS9h86CHJ6-K-3lIbPK1ZJ9MnFvGlyWV3A_kMadBJ3kI6/s3819/Next%20to%20Nothing.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3819" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU5yhgUzoEI3RbYzuflAgIxQuxZ2Anzl_OBI1KRPfn72znJfobc1P3nY6O59cZrI6pCPmk2BTjN6uR14WLhQNLMBxodZMGK2BPNGseEQYqNa-j31u2OBTgaBvSyZcc2_kNh70J2yxXu1tIQqjzS9h86CHJ6-K-3lIbPK1ZJ9MnFvGlyWV3A_kMadBJ3kI6/w316-h400/Next%20to%20Nothing.jpg" width="316" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Purchased September 4, 1979.<br />My friend Meg and I might play television tennis in the<br />Bloomingdale’s electronics department before going back to <br />Meg’s house to apply face masks and swing on her hammock.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />Those were the days, my friend.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Feeding the blog has been a bit like tickling my own foot with a peacock’s feather. I’m well aware a handful of people know of the blog’s existence; to them I say: Thank you for stopping by. In truth, I would far rather have a handful of interested people than a million not-so-interested people. Since the blog’s inception, it has received 134,890 views, with <a href="https://thelasty.blogspot.com/2012/11/syllabary.html" target="_blank">Syllabary</a> garnering the most views thus far (2138). Averaged across months, that comes to about 755 views per. This month is an usual one because the blog has received an outsized 2080 views. </p><p>I still reckon there are likely five or so readers of the blog. Good night, and e-see you again. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>(And good-bye to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/30/sally-snowman-last-lighthouse-keeper-boston-light-beacon" target="_blank">Sally Snowman</a>. If I could buy that lighthouse, I would.)</p>Elizabeth Manushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983079578391533276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1172470755079630483.post-73399565112687720582023-12-27T21:02:00.000-07:002023-12-27T21:02:14.155-07:00Quarter-finalists of 2023<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhThdLnlTgS_sa0n2OZ7PfQGRzgeItWE4QTHO5RvY-ZbUFToHR8svSRAK4vjC6MOfjctk7_scPh0SS0fOjC3TmAywWifnlakGcq0wL0fCO0cV68EBuxYUP2knt_3QNKXCZ61yYGoTs6tQJlM_nfRQHMvee21SgT0BmfKnlI-1eBcMRznmO1M4G5uKiYC2Ld" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="402" data-original-width="948" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhThdLnlTgS_sa0n2OZ7PfQGRzgeItWE4QTHO5RvY-ZbUFToHR8svSRAK4vjC6MOfjctk7_scPh0SS0fOjC3TmAywWifnlakGcq0wL0fCO0cV68EBuxYUP2knt_3QNKXCZ61yYGoTs6tQJlM_nfRQHMvee21SgT0BmfKnlI-1eBcMRznmO1M4G5uKiYC2Ld=w400-h170" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">A reader’s comment for “It’s My Party and I’ll Read If I Want To,<span style="text-align: start;">” <br />a </span>December 19, 2023, <i>New York Times</i> article, by Molly Young, <br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>The quarter-finalists are beamy, biscuity, bridely, and walrusy.Elizabeth Manushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983079578391533276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1172470755079630483.post-10694884141385715942023-12-26T11:36:00.003-07:002023-12-27T20:46:43.743-07:00Semi-finalists of 2023<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeCTD_B-TDayaSCsr33l8YjeSl1RhLC4Hvuy1JmtYW7b0NcBpmg-oBEDObHkBQh3T3t58dl0Vpglx_jBsiKf72Uqi6z2hT-_pR2amajwgCeyjFIj3Lwvo3Tna8RqlcGhDLBHzTp8ZaWfPQrRB4slFrmZ0vYCNbB8dqX3LmjZL55te9CY-PDbKXwbDviwfr/s4032/IMG_1614.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeCTD_B-TDayaSCsr33l8YjeSl1RhLC4Hvuy1JmtYW7b0NcBpmg-oBEDObHkBQh3T3t58dl0Vpglx_jBsiKf72Uqi6z2hT-_pR2amajwgCeyjFIj3Lwvo3Tna8RqlcGhDLBHzTp8ZaWfPQrRB4slFrmZ0vYCNbB8dqX3LmjZL55te9CY-PDbKXwbDviwfr/w400-h300/IMG_1614.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">A case within the John M. Mossman Lock Collection at <br />The <a href="https://generalsociety.org" target="_blank">General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen of the City of New York</a><br />June 2023</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>It’s down to beamy, biscuity, bridely, smoothy, and walrusy.<p></p><p>I am contemplating the role that context plays for each. </p><p>Stay tuned. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis3iKeqPZEgAhrZIL_DREaBSapDbreQjluqC4kkQ8P0bsJLlcONJI7J3H5Vnd4hXlpECO06Pc8I3jXPfmUEVgHNsZ2Kw_xsX4Cgy12FXxuJFC-yJbowcaz8jlqp6k3pwVfnZQR4Ty0qXpDqkPSOjEIHJaxYLIoV8c-EKSSlYXCzm2W8wgoBuETB_T0Pjrd/s4032/IMG_1618.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis3iKeqPZEgAhrZIL_DREaBSapDbreQjluqC4kkQ8P0bsJLlcONJI7J3H5Vnd4hXlpECO06Pc8I3jXPfmUEVgHNsZ2Kw_xsX4Cgy12FXxuJFC-yJbowcaz8jlqp6k3pwVfnZQR4Ty0qXpDqkPSOjEIHJaxYLIoV8c-EKSSlYXCzm2W8wgoBuETB_T0Pjrd/w480-h640/IMG_1618.jpeg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Another case within the <a href="https://generalsociety.org/?page_id=140" target="_blank">John M. Mossman Lock Collection</a></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Elizabeth Manushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983079578391533276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1172470755079630483.post-80803629246618881882023-12-24T20:07:00.002-07:002023-12-24T20:07:40.502-07:00Tartanry<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisK-iUQeHkXWsIHA7wOiJI64duZ6Do_aR6IVf4bQdFJPkLLBUnU6R1D2Bn0sRMJCSzeq5MC4YKOV8oO0FPxwME2ZlT9ND2RQdBkX4e43EbofTLy_x7dFwqKF1V66JmMDsTBA-_tMeDEvRnK5dqWXScA7vBjixXDt-ylBELmZ6xwWT3BDM-wWuknswegOi-/s4032/IMG_2007.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisK-iUQeHkXWsIHA7wOiJI64duZ6Do_aR6IVf4bQdFJPkLLBUnU6R1D2Bn0sRMJCSzeq5MC4YKOV8oO0FPxwME2ZlT9ND2RQdBkX4e43EbofTLy_x7dFwqKF1V66JmMDsTBA-_tMeDEvRnK5dqWXScA7vBjixXDt-ylBELmZ6xwWT3BDM-wWuknswegOi-/s320/IMG_2007.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">A Guillemot chick fledging from a sea cliff in Scotland. <br />Before these chicks are fully grown, they shimmy to the edge <br />of their home cliff and jump to the open sea, where their father<br /> will teach them how to swim and how to grow to adulthood</span>.<br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Photo credit: Copyright 2023 <a href="https://www.bto.org/about-bto/our-staff/samuel-langlois" target="_blank">Sam Langlois</a>.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p>To the people of Scotland, this word is dense with meaning. </p><p>From the Diary written by Fraser MacDonald in the November 16, 2023, issue of the <i>London Review of Books</i>:</p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">Balmoral has always been a byword for biscuit-tin tartanry</span><span style="text-align: left;">.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: left;">Perhaps the lexicographers at Merriam-Webster will add this word to the dictionary sooner than later, though landing upon a definition must be a somewhat delicate business. </p></div>Elizabeth Manushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983079578391533276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1172470755079630483.post-61517871333862441372023-12-11T23:11:00.007-07:002023-12-19T13:59:46.819-07:00Hymnary<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7_W4Z8HpSMOkU-SMOPFSXRi_DEgkiQxB-0Ss9pYlP_EyhH0_EAFcNGdY5Mn0u5v9NCv9L0cJTkON_KjIgjTX0KJURW2xtutRfxQAbOfxq5XgU6Eq7wqrla1oKmDffskQjjqARXDK1hf6WAph_Y_N3ZurDnKSIkiujAM07owMHvhkkF_weAjK7IQUMwv7v/s4032/IMG_2489.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7_W4Z8HpSMOkU-SMOPFSXRi_DEgkiQxB-0Ss9pYlP_EyhH0_EAFcNGdY5Mn0u5v9NCv9L0cJTkON_KjIgjTX0KJURW2xtutRfxQAbOfxq5XgU6Eq7wqrla1oKmDffskQjjqARXDK1hf6WAph_Y_N3ZurDnKSIkiujAM07owMHvhkkF_weAjK7IQUMwv7v/w300-h400/IMG_2489.jpeg" width="300" /></a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Who knew? A collection of church hymns is a <i>hymnary</i>. I’ve always called it a hymnal. Hmmm. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">The music and lyrics of <i>Godspell</i> are</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> much, much better than 99.9 per cent of hymns. Yes, hymns have their place. I like a lot of them. But I sing</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Godspell</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">(in the shower, for example) more often than I sing, say, “<a href="https://hymnary.org/text/ave_maria_gratia_plena" target="_blank">Ave Maria</a>.”* (These days I also sing songs from</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><i style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://youtu.be/X9FvC5qEMBA?si=MGUapxrAnGIHd-Mm" target="_blank">The Band’s Visit</a></i><span style="font-family: inherit;">.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Godspell</i> was written by two college kids: John-Michael Tebelak and Stephen Schwartz. Schwartz, who wrote music and lyrics for <a href="https://www.denvercenter.org/news-center/the-pippin-profiles-how-stephen-schwartz-ran-off-with-the-circus/" target="_blank">Pippin</a> (another favorite of mine, along with <i><a href="https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/the-magic-show-3468" target="_blank">The Magic Show</a></i>) and <a href="https://youtu.be/7OD-mD5aNPU?si=Pe0VlF3ktNzXSWEB" target="_blank">reset existing Episcopal hymns</a> for <i>Godspell</i>. The show opened in May of 1971 at the </span>La MaMa E.T.C. (Experimental Theatre Club), though Schwartz (in the interview linked in the previous sentence) refers to it by its original name, which apparently was <a href="https://www.villagepreservation.org/2020/11/17/la-mamas-archive-of-experimental-theater/" target="_blank">Café La MaMa</a> (<i>Ed.</i> The fact-checking department is on holiday)<span style="font-family: inherit;">. </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1PmKruA-EM0zKgL-KdKtWnct4h86u95qqp3DYVKBf04gt6vvJ6B1ApaQgVcOwxFihpL_a9AGVWG2JkrhJtAcM9SiOvmYmp4aIVgNkRM2F50V3tC9SkG1tjtXxNmLRf8feAk9BR3ymGu4KUSTa8l8BjQ_r95VZlDzAz0tppLhlH8VqksrgQRcOab5GbOUp/w640-h480/IMG_2490.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.28px; text-align: start;">The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts</span> also has clippings files, including old programs.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I saw <i>Godspell</i> at the Cherry Lane Theatre, when I was five years old. It was a formative life experience. At intermission, as the cast was singing “Let’s have some wine!” the audience began crowding onto the stage to drink grape juice from the kind of paper cups used at dentists’s offices.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;">Until last week, I did not know that <i>Godspell</i> played in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/may/10/performed-front-of-pope-how-we-made-godspell-jeremy-irons" target="_blank">London</a>, among other places. Until tonight, I did not know it <a href="https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/from-martin-short-jayne-eastwood-and-paul-shaffer-to-victor-garber-the-stars-of-1972/article_b7cb4964-5534-5f66-9e78-617c081cdddd.html" target="_blank">played in Toronto</a> and starred performers whose names would become household words. </p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What was so wonderful — what spoke to me — was the clowny, hey-kids-let’s-put-on-a-show! feel of it. The performers wore mismatched clothing that could have been pulled from the dress-up box in my kindergarten classroom — pompoms and bloomers and striped socks. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was not children’s theatre, but the players were themselves child-like. They hugged one another in a genuine way. They could carry a tune but also didn’t hit every note. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Five readers, if you like theatre and you visit New York City, one of the New Yorkiest things you can do is head to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts* and check out something from the TOFT, which is the <a href="https://www.nypl.org/locations/lpa/theatre-film-and-tape-archive" target="_blank">Theater on Film and Tape Archive</a>. I recommend you watch the earliest, very grainy, black-and-white digitized videotape of <i>Godspell</i>. You will see how campy it was, how <a href="https://thelasty.blogspot.com/2022/08/belty.html?q=belty" target="_blank">Borscht Belty</a>. You will see how warm and pure and simple and fun it was. How unlike contemporary Broadway it was. And you will see that “O Bless the Lord My Soul” was an Aretha Franklin–esque, gospel sing-along kind of delight. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiia4sWr8OI4cXSAWKxgdO2gLyLYechqU6zFo77bXZ6azcqoU4bOSXKwVs1bV2lUdMWoS2Jk2UBmdBbyfavYavdJ20w8Q8OqNstk9jwsFPsl5M0FQEza0GUuIOrF2XU8IKuwfWF4wbkn11j-pH8QqD4jeMnyybS1NarQhvVg0B5K6FWTRzAtMhxfHk-kBWC/w640-h480/IMG_2492.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The one semi-catch to viewing </span>TOFT-filmed <span style="font-family: inherit;">plays is that you are permitted to view a play once and once only. You sign a form that informs you of this rule. How did this rule come to be? <span style="font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: -0.37px;">You might ask the </span></span>theatrical unions and guilds that collectively have jurisdiction over the one-viewing-only policy (as COBUG, the Coalition of Broadway Unions and Guilds), namely:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, AFL-CIO, CLC</li><li>Ushers, Ticket Takers & Stagedoor Persons, IATSE, Local 306</li><li>Treasurers and Ticket Sellers Union, IATSE, Local 751</li><li>Theatrical Wardrobe Union, Local 764, IATSE</li><li>Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists, IATSE, Local 798</li><li>Association of Theatrical Press Agents & Managers, IATSE, Local 18032</li><li>Actors’ Equity Association</li><li>American Federation of Musicians, AFM</li><li>American Guild of Musical Artists</li><li>Local 802 American Federation of Musicians, AFL-CIO</li><li>Dramatists Guild of America</li><li>Mail Telephone Order Clerks, IATSE, Local B-751</li><li>Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, SDC</li></ul><p></p><p style="text-align: left;">Of course, most people see a play or musical only once.** So, it <i>is</i> fitting that a video of the play may be viewed only once. And it is fun to view it in the Library because a Library viewing is, as a friend would say, “legit.” In this era of too many and too much — digital photographs, marketing emails, surveys about your purchasing/medical/banking experience, vitamin supplements, digital and analogue free-floating bile — something rare, something once, well: It’s a pretty nice idea. </p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">* Debatably “Ave Maria” is a prayer and not a hymn. </p><p style="text-align: left;">** I admit: I saw <i>Venus in Fur</i> two days in a row, because I knew I was watching a historic performance by <a href="https://www.playbill.com/article/venus-in-fur-about-power-sex-and-acting-opens-on-broadway-with-nina-arianda-and-hugh-dancy-com-184287" target="_blank">Nina Arianda</a>, and I saw <a href="https://blackgrooves.org/passing-strange/" target="_blank"><i>Passing Strange</i></a> six times, five of them at the Public Theater (because I had an in and loved the show so much). The only theatre swag I’ve ever bought is a <i><a href="https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/reviews/passing-strange" target="_blank">Passing</a></i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><a href="https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/reviews/passing-strange" target="_blank"> Strange</a> </i></span>T-shirt<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>.</i> The front of it reads </span><span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Welcome to Amsterdam</span></span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-caps: small-caps;">. </span>(Yes, in an earlier post I have <a href="https://thelasty.blogspot.com/2022/08/theatricality.html?q=theatricality" target="_blank">crowed</a> about this.) </p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Bonus: Check out this <a href="https://youtu.be/Rf_T1J-wHyk?si=jOQcOMYthOCoi2aD" target="_blank">archival footage</a> of Schwartz singing an early rendition of “Magic To Do” from Pippin (with book writer Roger O. Hirson standing by). </span></p>Elizabeth Manushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983079578391533276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1172470755079630483.post-38329871482059975372023-11-09T00:18:00.003-07:002023-11-09T11:30:23.691-07:00Biscuity<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLQfIhqa8TG8l8kqwBl2BwbAw__DBjaHYXYJ1oh_E6CZMLDcBTMSn2UHuGSTRjh3VpOvVVoW8ToSSJglxk6PWbOcrFftk2Zc_Iyhqefi1zj-bUb_PLEcEicJSofQwdbxkDoTbaKOeyuwtT7gHrmUZDa6YOce1CA_LhiMEyP-dr9Gio3EX-h7487HMDUf8e" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLQfIhqa8TG8l8kqwBl2BwbAw__DBjaHYXYJ1oh_E6CZMLDcBTMSn2UHuGSTRjh3VpOvVVoW8ToSSJglxk6PWbOcrFftk2Zc_Iyhqefi1zj-bUb_PLEcEicJSofQwdbxkDoTbaKOeyuwtT7gHrmUZDa6YOce1CA_LhiMEyP-dr9Gio3EX-h7487HMDUf8e=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">At the British Museum in the spring of this year.<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />A visit to see a local producution of The Addams Family sent me to my books about Edward Gorey. Humming the tune [Death is] “Just Around the Corner,” I dipped into Alexander Theroux’s <i>The Strange Case of Edward Gorey</i> (Fantagraphics Books, 2002), in which tonight’s word appears. <div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></div><blockquote><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">With their hand-lettering, queer layouts, their framed and ornate borders, the small books seem frightfully old-fashioned and biscuity, as if they had been secretly pressed out and printed in suspiciously limited editions in the cellar of some creepy railway warehouse in nineteenth-century England by some old pinch-fisted joy-killer in a black clawhammer coat with red-hot eyes, a black scowl, and a grudge against the world — and then managing to survive the must of long years by their sheer grostesquerie and horror. </span></div></blockquote><div><i>Biscuity</i>: Like a wormhole to somewhere serene and delightful — a window chair on an autumn afternoon etc. etc. </div><div><br /></div><div>I just love it. It’s elegant to take in at the eye and it also feels wonderful in the mouth. </div><div><br /></div><div>And, happily, this instance of <i>biscuity</i> has been homed in a distinctive paragraph. </div><div><br /></div><div><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_XorH6h6OBNSWgzbryVdujStBiihQO6o_ey3r5V2ICfdCj3w-5OteP9ruVYOsehdY5FDqlQHvTyp1w9qKWmzuwc1An4_iRjc8QNEHLBA3jamKBXcX2MSxxFH5IZAdItJqUwOGwVQC-M-R4eYDNd4JrLVuRGB7g4U2mIehyphenhyphenjrTibMNLSE5BZdw-I3iPPjm/s1670/Screenshot%202023-11-08%20at%2011.23.29%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1436" data-original-width="1670" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_XorH6h6OBNSWgzbryVdujStBiihQO6o_ey3r5V2ICfdCj3w-5OteP9ruVYOsehdY5FDqlQHvTyp1w9qKWmzuwc1An4_iRjc8QNEHLBA3jamKBXcX2MSxxFH5IZAdItJqUwOGwVQC-M-R4eYDNd4JrLVuRGB7g4U2mIehyphenhyphenjrTibMNLSE5BZdw-I3iPPjm/s320/Screenshot%202023-11-08%20at%2011.23.29%20PM.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">A signed first edition <a href="https://www.betweenthecovers.com/pages/books/515917/florence-parry-heide-edward-gorey/the-shrinking-of-treehorn" target="_blank">on sale</a> at <br />Between the Covers Rare Books, in Gloucester City, New Jersey. <br />One of the shop’s owners, a past president of both <br />the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (<a href="https://www.abaa.org" target="_blank">ABAA</a>)<br />and the </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-align: start;">International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (<a href="https://ilab.org" target="_blank">ILAB</a>),</span><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">lectured at the <a href="https://www.bookseminars.com/seminar-history.php" target="_blank">Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar</a> <span style="color: #070707;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(7, 7, 7);">when it ran</span></span><span style="text-align: start;"> at Colorado College.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gorey illustrated <i><a href="https://www.biblio.com/book/shrinking-treehorn-heide-florence-parry-gorey/d/1450381724?placement=search_results_list#gallery-1" target="_blank">The Shrinking of Treehorn</a></i>, my favorite book when I was six years old. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">How the late artist would react to the quote unquote <a href="https://animallogicentertainment.com/our-films/shrinking-the-treehorns/" target="_blank">reimaginings</a> of his illustrations in the Netflix movie to be released this Friday (the 10th), I shudder to think. Hurling* (or, as my late mother would have put it, womiting)? </span></div><div><br /></div><div>I have somewhat liked at least one Ron Howard film in the past, but the description of this project brings to mind the “If They Had Had Prozac in the Nineteenth Century” cartoon so many people put on their fridge as soon as it was published in the <i>New Yorker </i>in November of 1993 (hey—30 years ago!). Do you know it? It<span style="font-family: inherit;"> features a transformed Marx, Nietzche, and Poe. Poe is particularly funny greeting a raven in the foreground with “Hello, birdie!” The artist is <a href="https://westbeth.org/profiles-in-art/huguette-martel-painter-writer/" target="_blank">Huguette Martel</a>. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Does Ron Howard do justice to Treehorn? Somebody will find out. Likely not I.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">* <span style="font-size: x-small;">According to Theroux, a word Gorey used. </span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p></div>Elizabeth Manushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983079578391533276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1172470755079630483.post-35315138015653696912023-10-18T18:28:00.004-06:002023-10-19T16:49:37.884-06:00Smoothy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwSZBViLUbjZouHW1boAHKPFW6cce7nrNsSPXbIFAcvh4mN2Ptf4b89OGEYFQ-PfISlx22fqSPDYrpTc-EoJg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Today’s word appeared in the comments column for the <i>New York Times </i>article by Pam Belluck headlined on the web “Scientists Offer a New Explanation for Long Covid” and in the October 17th print edition “Solution to Long Covid Mystery May Be in the Gut, a Study Says.”</div><div><br /></div><div>The commenter, whose handle and locale are Up for Debate and Mountain West, respectively, extols the virtues of three kinds of seeds: flax, chia, and hemp (non-THC). </div><div><br /></div><div>Up for Debate writes, on October 16:</div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></div><blockquote><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">For what it’s worth after experiencing COVID I had symptoms that track with low serotonin. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">These symptoms improved remarkably after a hippy neigbor* gave me some seeds to put in my smoothy. . . .</span></div></blockquote><div>The spelling in the comment brought to mind my mother’s texts.*</div><div><br /></div><div>I read <i>smoothy</i> and suddenly understood some of my aversion to the word <i>foodie</i>. The <i>-ie</i> grates on me. </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Smoothy</i> is so much more visually palatable than <i>smoothie</i>. </div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Smoothy</i> is a mogul that even intermediate skiiers can handle. It’s water coursing over rocks in a creek during snowmelt season. It’s bubbly and curved — soft as glass, as TVZ might say. It’s a bit like the way challah dough resembles a baby’s <a href="https://thelasty.blogspot.com/2010/10/tushy_17.html" target="_blank">tushy</a>. Somehow it doesn’t seem to describe anything except itself, even though it is a bona fide variant spelling. </div><div><br /></div><div>I think of it as a word like <i>cooky</i>, seemingly fit for very young readers who pat the bunny and know how to say good night to mittens and hairbrushes until the moment when it’s their turn to write <i>cookie</i>. </div><div><br /></div><div>Thank you, Up for Debate in the Mountain West. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp9KWnKBdmvsRcyNWO9jnHc0UltDJCgNnhS-2bwshW3Qjr7twYb_WRzZo-BcFN3nbiYNT8-lGJ2sLKRCHNn5Vfgc-Ek31nnro_Z5kUJ3iKLG_ZNNyTJEDb_NaCCQK6xsNRnZ-NOqV1CjQmo6QdIthvXDVaRNfUglPc-eaAQDNslYpO30OypvdF6JwxlHGz/s1056/Screenshot%202023-10-19%20at%204.48.10%20PM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="854" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp9KWnKBdmvsRcyNWO9jnHc0UltDJCgNnhS-2bwshW3Qjr7twYb_WRzZo-BcFN3nbiYNT8-lGJ2sLKRCHNn5Vfgc-Ek31nnro_Z5kUJ3iKLG_ZNNyTJEDb_NaCCQK6xsNRnZ-NOqV1CjQmo6QdIthvXDVaRNfUglPc-eaAQDNslYpO30OypvdF6JwxlHGz/s320/Screenshot%202023-10-19%20at%204.48.10%20PM.jpeg" width="259" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">* A very entertaining texter, my mother was. Ten years ago this November 22nd, after some pomegranate and probably some tea, she died while sleeping. It was sad for me. She had phoned me at work that afternoon to say she had something important to tell me. I sometimes wonder how it was she happened to die that particular night.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Neigbor</i> is her kind of typo.</span></div>Elizabeth Manushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983079578391533276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1172470755079630483.post-27032036100349272722023-09-05T21:27:00.005-06:002023-09-05T21:27:56.502-06:00Frowny<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVzxz94eDAgOzdY7rT8gDluflt7C4HfBi53C9lOc8ac4be3mS-G9HPni7m50qq19cwtNzo1BQpI7pOuc2ILsf5xHaULv_x0kkS2rrGW34wC8FV9S1x8Z7hWmciF0bm89cQHuXsKFLd4fikXze9_7D0v2M5fx4DyqQWoAGoCqZKZt6OdepGKAdkCckgm5G5/s786/Screenshot%202023-05-19%20at%2010.19.04%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="712" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVzxz94eDAgOzdY7rT8gDluflt7C4HfBi53C9lOc8ac4be3mS-G9HPni7m50qq19cwtNzo1BQpI7pOuc2ILsf5xHaULv_x0kkS2rrGW34wC8FV9S1x8Z7hWmciF0bm89cQHuXsKFLd4fikXze9_7D0v2M5fx4DyqQWoAGoCqZKZt6OdepGKAdkCckgm5G5/s320/Screenshot%202023-05-19%20at%2010.19.04%20PM.png" width="290" /></a></div><br />From a late chapter of Bonnie Garmus’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/25/bonnie-garmus-so-few-of-us-havent-been-pushed-aside-lessons-in-chemistry" target="_blank">sharp</a> and <a href="https://youtu.be/lz6ke4mmrIg?feature=shared" target="_blank">delightful</a> novel <i>Lessons in Chemistry</i>:<p></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Then he swiveled his head toward a frowny-looking older woman holding a clipboard. </span></p></blockquote><p>Bonnie Garmus has said <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/lessons-in-chemistry-a-light-narrative-that-tackles-sexism-and-misogyny-with-balance-and-humor-101688134688415.html" target="_blank">her book is about balance</a>* in the way that chemistry itself is the science of balance. <i>Frowny</i> is a word that assists in achieving tonal balance.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>* The gorgeous novel <i>A Fine Balance</i>, by (the <a href="https://youtu.be/G1FNTaYt8zI?feature=shared" target="_blank">musical theatre–appreciating</a>) Rohinton Mistry, is also about balance. </p>Elizabeth Manushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983079578391533276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1172470755079630483.post-51363925904361239182023-08-18T11:03:00.003-06:002023-08-18T20:13:04.097-06:00Walrusy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXi891kWh-UKBliBRm8vd_9_z7sdueqdDVgvhjktXkTQTbItddFPdK316MolYAQ-tAN3qkXFrdA9qo_gW7kYsn-Oi-pndWfU3miwerXA5H8OGoiNcX97KeojfDJHhrha-aA2mSZJQsgOxM8BMI67yP5RUHYp7GjtqfwnfL8LUXMyRr3yqTr8yDgmK1pXVT/s4032/IMG_1969.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXi891kWh-UKBliBRm8vd_9_z7sdueqdDVgvhjktXkTQTbItddFPdK316MolYAQ-tAN3qkXFrdA9qo_gW7kYsn-Oi-pndWfU3miwerXA5H8OGoiNcX97KeojfDJHhrha-aA2mSZJQsgOxM8BMI67yP5RUHYp7GjtqfwnfL8LUXMyRr3yqTr8yDgmK1pXVT/w300-h400/IMG_1969.jpeg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">“<a href="https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2021/12/21/after-100-years-heavy-use-hellems-gets-ok-major-renovation">After 100 years of heavy use, Hellems gets OK for major renovation</a>,”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span>reads a magazine article. </span>Does this mean farewell to its wooden</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">and glass doors, its non-plastic floors?</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p>A friend recommended a recent book by the writer Rebecca Makkai, but I wanted to work up to it. So, I read <i>The Borrower,*</i> the author’s first novel, and this week I finished Novel No. 2, <i>The Hundred-Year House</i>. </p><p><i>House</i> is a story told in reverse chronological order. For those who like getting the ending out of the way before beginning a book in earnest — the narrator of <i>The Borrower</i> does this — it’s an especially satisfying reading experience. There’s no How will it end? anxiety; it’s already ended in the first pages. (I suppose this is how murder mysteries proceed, but I don’t read murder mysteries.)</p><p>It’s fun to guess what in the beginning of the book will become more important as time recedes. One senses, for example, that a painting carries a hidden significance, and then three-quarters of the way the significance is revealed. All kinds of pieces begin to fall into place. Novel as jigsaw puzzle.</p><p>Particularly keen is the book’s treatment of history, including people’s refusal to engage with it, their lack of particular strains of curiosity, their obliviousness to what it might offer. But of course several characters achieve something magnificent with it, and those transformations are very satisfying.</p><p>The book makes me think about the new Indiana Jones movie, which is essentially about desires to begin anew in various yesterdays.</p><p><i>The Hundred-Year House</i>* is probably best read directly after <i>The Borrower</i>. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk_gefnqo2mg4B0Z8AbSMqJh3SMTGemhWSS6TFta3EwJEUEyPdRyDNtdc5YEREm3O98GjhKDFmm-Y6VHX5tTalR6UGrUnNxE_75RWc0N6mekXHGzcd6REITSVAjBqHSqzK_5oQOFqoYAoofi61XRcQzExj67hSgT2pgu-N7k9ciGuOqXzZi3JUV48WkZD2/s4032/IMG_1970.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk_gefnqo2mg4B0Z8AbSMqJh3SMTGemhWSS6TFta3EwJEUEyPdRyDNtdc5YEREm3O98GjhKDFmm-Y6VHX5tTalR6UGrUnNxE_75RWc0N6mekXHGzcd6REITSVAjBqHSqzK_5oQOFqoYAoofi61XRcQzExj67hSgT2pgu-N7k9ciGuOqXzZi3JUV48WkZD2/w300-h400/IMG_1970.jpeg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Perhaps some campus buildings feature in these <br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-align: start;">Arts and Science Faculty Oral History Project</span><span style="text-align: start;"></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><a href="https://archives.colorado.edu/repositories/2/resources/134" style="font-family: helvetica;" target="_blank">interviews</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p>From Part II of Makkai’s second novel: </p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“Do you know the irony?” she said. “I’m the only one of my family who ever loved this place. I came here several times as a child. I remember the dog. Miss Mays, the director, had a wonderful sort of walrusy dog.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p><i>Walrusy</i> is the kind of word Winnie the Pooh might coin. It has gravitas, but also a tummy. It greets the eye with open arms, ready to be hugged. Ear-wise, it’s closer to <i>parsley </i>or<i> pleurisy</i>. </p><p>Another 2023 finalist, I wager.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>* I loved <i>The Borrower</i> but must say that the most appropriate time to tackle <i>Catcher in the Rye</i> is sophomore year of college, not eighth, ninth, or tenth grade. </p>Elizabeth Manushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983079578391533276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1172470755079630483.post-49457751634471586572023-07-23T00:31:00.004-06:002023-08-16T23:36:51.676-06:00Beamy<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLaw2IZ8nF3r8GFJY7oRgNhw2gJTFS57V2lHyXDJam1KjwV0IIBMXGkOb7YJyAUbTPhD86JF2bjk-10HZzgum9JxXC5OQOn79g29uki0XIDXhKrd7ZsjXLl8hjwW3G0PHfAXQZfGLz5c5W6BNPIynIE_ttfwyHyIphJz---7vJjClmXWeiA6ZPWKHzJdl9/s632/Screenshot%202023-07-22%20at%2011.39.51%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="632" data-original-width="618" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLaw2IZ8nF3r8GFJY7oRgNhw2gJTFS57V2lHyXDJam1KjwV0IIBMXGkOb7YJyAUbTPhD86JF2bjk-10HZzgum9JxXC5OQOn79g29uki0XIDXhKrd7ZsjXLl8hjwW3G0PHfAXQZfGLz5c5W6BNPIynIE_ttfwyHyIphJz---7vJjClmXWeiA6ZPWKHzJdl9/w195-h200/Screenshot%202023-07-22%20at%2011.39.51%20PM.png" width="195" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">From the <a href="https://wsava.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Cat-Body-Condition-Scoring-2017.pdf" target="_blank">Body Condition Score Chart for Cats</a><br />issued by the Global Nutrition Committee of<br />the World Small Animals Veterinary Association (WSAVA)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p>From the mouth of a friend of mine, mimicking a relative of hers describing a cat both of them had known:</p><blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“She’s getting a bit beamy.”</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Beamy</i>! It sounds as good as it looks. How delightful is this word I had not known before yesterday, Saturday, July 22nd, 2023. This word is already a 2023 quarter-finalist. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Starry?” I asked my friend, knowing this did not make sense in context.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">No, she replied, it’s a nautical term, relating to the beam of a ship at its widest point. <i>Beamy</i> is a slangier way to say “broad in the beam,” an expression I have heard before. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">For those who are interested, the International Institute of Marine Surveying (IIMS) provides a link to an undated <a href="https://www.iims.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Glossary-of-ship-and-boat-building-terms.pdf" target="_blank">glossary of shipbuilding terms</a> that defines <i>beam</i> (“The maximum breadth of the vessel . . . ”) in detail. The 1918 edition of the glossary, according to its author, attempts </span>“<span style="font-family: inherit;">to explain the more common words and phrases used in building a steel ship at the present time,” e.g.</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs6-mwNVfWmNg9ugxwhhQcJt4s7Irt08Fqea4Hl0Q4c_owxCZ2g8GW4yu-UGmbuzD9Ua6kdqRBRjD5NDvHHfxoRsjufsvHJMxBGupTzCHjMKAU2fdDBnsmeWDArjSPwir5_vCAC9ntAutWUT7N4Niu_2o1Pm0Y3Ts3_tZuE1D1LoB2EgstrthiT8RsUYlM/s514/Screenshot%202023-07-23%20at%2012.15.51%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="514" data-original-width="474" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs6-mwNVfWmNg9ugxwhhQcJt4s7Irt08Fqea4Hl0Q4c_owxCZ2g8GW4yu-UGmbuzD9Ua6kdqRBRjD5NDvHHfxoRsjufsvHJMxBGupTzCHjMKAU2fdDBnsmeWDArjSPwir5_vCAC9ntAutWUT7N4Niu_2o1Pm0Y3Ts3_tZuE1D1LoB2EgstrthiT8RsUYlM/w295-h320/Screenshot%202023-07-23%20at%2012.15.51%20AM.png" width="295" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">From the 1918 edition of <i>Modern Shipbuilding Terms<br />Defined and Illustrated</i>, by F. Forrest Pease,<br />Staff Instructor, Education and Training Section, <br />United States Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet Corporation<br />(Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott Company)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">If the cat was getting </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">beamy</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">, it was putting on weight around her (the cat’s) midsection.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">A member of the World Small Animal Veterinary Association (formerly the <span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; caret-color: rgb(98, 98, 98);">International Association of Small Animal Specialists (IASAS))* </span>would likely have deemed the cat overweight (see the chart at the top of this post).</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc;">A man who is </span><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; caret-color: rgb(98, 98, 98);">co-chair of the WSAVA Therapeutic Guidelines Group, a member of the WSAVA Global Pain Council, and an advisor to the WSAVA Global Dental Committee reportedly developed the <a href="https://www.felinegrimacescale.com" target="_blank">Feline Grimace Scale website</a>.</span></span></p>Elizabeth Manushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983079578391533276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1172470755079630483.post-33147046359445456652023-06-25T12:49:00.006-06:002023-06-30T08:28:57.546-06:00Bridely<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></table><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9je-TdxLhJJkLGsHWF3aHkcXcSFWnhqHY5lLJCTcMge-Mq-KJpNycObgSrXxuENWBIj_n0rTkDtDqObf28cEfEx-K2SYeMoZe68zAY31uKqBKYWNWFysbivQs9VECjSoYNJRC3bWSEwikGVGWk9ceHPWXjcyQcuOR9BIPUtP7RksJ6a11QhOUO1U_7gLg/s1663/IMG_0203.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1663" data-original-width="1525" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9je-TdxLhJJkLGsHWF3aHkcXcSFWnhqHY5lLJCTcMge-Mq-KJpNycObgSrXxuENWBIj_n0rTkDtDqObf28cEfEx-K2SYeMoZe68zAY31uKqBKYWNWFysbivQs9VECjSoYNJRC3bWSEwikGVGWk9ceHPWXjcyQcuOR9BIPUtP7RksJ6a11QhOUO1U_7gLg/w365-h400/IMG_0203.jpeg" width="365" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Copyright © 1980 <a href="https://michaelmaslin.com/the-jack-ziegler-interview/" target="_blank">Jack Ziegler</a> (<a href="https://jackziegler.com/bio/" target="_blank">1942–2017</a>)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p>I’m reading a funny book: <i><a href="https://slate.com/culture/2016/01/the-portable-veblen-by-elizabeth-mckenzie-reviewed.html" target="_blank">The Portable Veblen</a></i>, by Elizabeth McKenzie (Penguin Press, 2016). The story involves two people who are engaged to be married. From Chapter 2, Sauerkraut and Mace (italics mine): </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Part of her wanted to do all the normal <i>bridely</i> things and the other part wanted to embrace her disdain for everything of the sort. </span></blockquote><p></p><p>The word’s homophonic quality is what landed it as today’s post. </p><p>To the mental eye, <i>bridely</i> says “bride-like” or “bride-worthy”; but to the ear, with a little pronunciation fun, it says “bridle-like.” Thus it is a perfect choice for the paragraph, as well as a testament to the power of word selection. </p><p>[The following graphic has nothing to do with the book, although — fictionally speaking — one of the book’s characters might be sympathetic to the subject matter.]</p><p><br /></p></div></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZwEKj3Ft_uRiNrV8WAfRiygf7MLeXEuMLK52ibZCMH3MX6I4I3WKP0SI2zVMYv2GK9Yv1JcYfw4tr7_iH_xwK3WlT3V4AqID46_C_ngBa9u0Yala6xW6lBkaowfx5y3nKmfuBHVB4tIirjvY7Ij5lx_nlaEDCD3166kYHfGIWBZkVlcVn4sNXSXzbigji" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3716" data-original-width="2540" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZwEKj3Ft_uRiNrV8WAfRiygf7MLeXEuMLK52ibZCMH3MX6I4I3WKP0SI2zVMYv2GK9Yv1JcYfw4tr7_iH_xwK3WlT3V4AqID46_C_ngBa9u0Yala6xW6lBkaowfx5y3nKmfuBHVB4tIirjvY7Ij5lx_nlaEDCD3166kYHfGIWBZkVlcVn4sNXSXzbigji=w432-h640" width="432" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">The bill of fare for the Immigrant Dining Room at Ellis Island on June 5, 1923.<br />Exhibited in “<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/grolierclub/sets/72177720307676747/" target="_blank">A Century of Dining Out: The American Story in Menus, 1841–1941</a>”<br />from the collection of Henry Voigt, at the <a href="https://www.grolierclub.org" target="_blank">Grolier Club</a>, New York, on view through July 29th.<br /><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.37px; text-align: start;">Photo courtesy of the Grolier Club.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p>Elizabeth Manushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983079578391533276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1172470755079630483.post-72468997740167277952023-05-31T22:03:00.001-06:002023-05-31T22:03:05.989-06:00Long-Islandy<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiEfhEV_V4wXHCjMfPeFNpotzPJgvAoJeomLDdnNC0Q8zBw1sogKYMc4t4Gw0nUVg4VIobqf_Sq77wdiA_hBPY8DWgC0Yy3DxpKXXCZ3sJifdoWT5IeudaeiuS-KD6OsCoivbVTN08D934YvUQiPx3UYKpSL4xFcDKF2cr96aixeA6no5P20PBDCWc5Q/s2835/IMG_1647.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2791" data-original-width="2835" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiEfhEV_V4wXHCjMfPeFNpotzPJgvAoJeomLDdnNC0Q8zBw1sogKYMc4t4Gw0nUVg4VIobqf_Sq77wdiA_hBPY8DWgC0Yy3DxpKXXCZ3sJifdoWT5IeudaeiuS-KD6OsCoivbVTN08D934YvUQiPx3UYKpSL4xFcDKF2cr96aixeA6no5P20PBDCWc5Q/w400-h394/IMG_1647.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">November 18th, 2018, looking down Park Avenue</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p>When uncertainty surges, it helps to read something funny. For many, <i>New Yorker</i> cartoons restore balance. For others, Wodehouse or Jonathan Coe do the trick. On Twitter lately, <i>Up the Down Staircase</i> has been touted as hilarious. </p><p>In early spring, in March, I read Henry Alford for the first time in book form. His pieces have appeared for years in various New York periodicals. Now I was going to try him in bulk, in Boulder. </p><p>For stressed-out go-go New Yorkers or transplanted ones who sometimes ache for the material city, <i>Municipal Bondage: One Man’s Anxiety-Producing Adventures in the Big City</i> (Random House, 1993) covers ample ground — including the existence of the Doral Tuscany.*</p><p>I had to read the piece “Drive, He Said” because it’s about Alford driving the then governor of Colorado around New York City during the 1992 Democratic National Convention, </p><p>I, a <a href="https://denver.streetsblog.org/author/elizabeth-manus/" target="_blank">pedestrian</a>, laughed out loud several times.</p><p>So, from “Drive, He Said” (italics mine):</p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica;">My heart started hammering. A <i>Long-Islandy</i> woman in her fifties got out of the driver’s seat of the car. I could see only a small scrape.</span></blockquote><p></p><p><i>Long-Islandy**</i> strikes me as Alfordian; on the page Alford is a gentle sort. (I’ve not met him in person.) Where others might fleeringly drop the Long Island reference, Alford turns it into something kicky, something up-tempo. When I first encountered it, my mind thought <i>Lindy</i>, though the phrase visually summoned the Jitterbug. </p><p>There are many good pieces in Municipal Bondage, which is broken up with fun Q&As like <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-caps: small-caps;">what if your mother were a form of interactive media?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p>I’ve wondered if the piece <i>In Search of . . . </i>Nubbins somehow penetrated the consciousness of super-baker Erin Jeanne McDonnell or if <i>nubbins</i> is just part of her everyday vocabulary (forward to 5:15 in this <a href="https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020871-gluten-free-chocolate-chip-cookies?action=click&module=RecipeBox&pgType=recipebox-page&region=all&rank=1" target="_blank">NYT Cooking video</a> about gluten-free chocolate chip cookies). </p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mr. Alford has a funny and somewhat sad piece in a different book, one he didn’t write: the nonfiction collection <i>Money Changes Everything: Twenty-Two Writers Break the Final Taboo — How Money Transforms Families, Tests Marriages, Destroys Friendships, and Sometimes Manages To Make People Happy</i> (Doubleday, 2007). Definitely worth reading (as well as other pieces in that book).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’d like to think that Amy Sherman-Palladino’s casting people will audition Mr. Alford for a bit part in the Palladinos’ <a href="https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a27269712/ninth-street-women-tv-adaptation/" target="_blank">upcoming Amazon series</a> based on Mary Gabriel’s 2017 book <span><i><a href="https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/ninth-street-women" target="_blank">Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art</a></i></span> (Little Brown). What role might suit Mr. Alford? Maybe . . . lanes attendant at the Frick mansion bowling alley, or typist for Clement Greenberg. Personally I’d like to watch a scene shot in the bowling alley — physics in action, for one thing.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir23oFqSEx3XSqo2cHc-c2eFg4UcFgd3t95RDP0eXqFzObtAiIe0FMht7AGk0JxG7IZscNECR0RMwkc1hf4u5OouHoYpmymSd8tNqXMbUI5Gu4Mz_9MkijQ4VUDuopRAl6E-fNvPJGZjDIn2czoCJMJUXhWFpjfufAW7Rl71wZgunug19jF-JjrBfwaQ/s1382/Facebook%20Frick%20bowling.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1022" data-original-width="1382" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir23oFqSEx3XSqo2cHc-c2eFg4UcFgd3t95RDP0eXqFzObtAiIe0FMht7AGk0JxG7IZscNECR0RMwkc1hf4u5OouHoYpmymSd8tNqXMbUI5Gu4Mz_9MkijQ4VUDuopRAl6E-fNvPJGZjDIn2czoCJMJUXhWFpjfufAW7Rl71wZgunug19jF-JjrBfwaQ/w640-h470/Facebook%20Frick%20bowling.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: right;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="text-align: right;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: right;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">* A joy of the piece is seeing the word <i>TelePrompTer</i> spelt correctly.</p><p style="text-align: left;">** Why this is hyphenated I have no idea. (Why is this hyphenated?)</p>Elizabeth Manushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983079578391533276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1172470755079630483.post-66654183019570368862023-05-19T22:51:00.003-06:002023-05-20T12:35:40.414-06:00Thinky<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicX1gh_ijgiHZe7swdag0KTsl9hA2P_iU8aWzzG8cCUUcigv4v30JR3WQzwKwfT0fTCfWXFbKokOkoop3T0XExV2rR-aERJ181dSrivl8If_CDsjk3qPEyZOC99oKAiOQyJrXC_qNoTBwuwxzoKZZuayEUzC2PYoopN9FIkBm9g0idL_vIupnC90AA6g" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="3872" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicX1gh_ijgiHZe7swdag0KTsl9hA2P_iU8aWzzG8cCUUcigv4v30JR3WQzwKwfT0fTCfWXFbKokOkoop3T0XExV2rR-aERJ181dSrivl8If_CDsjk3qPEyZOC99oKAiOQyJrXC_qNoTBwuwxzoKZZuayEUzC2PYoopN9FIkBm9g0idL_vIupnC90AA6g=w400-h268" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"> Within driving distance of Capitol Reef National Park<br />Utah, May 2016</span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br />In the Pauline Kael chapter of James Wolcott’s 2011 memoir <i><a href="https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2011/10/lucky-jim-wolcott-gets-nostalgic-even-nice-in-his-memoir-of-the-70s-001534" target="_blank">Lucking Out: My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in Seventies New York</a></i>, Wolcott describes Veronica Geng as<p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica;">a <i>New Yorker</i> humorist and editor who was scarily, sexily talented and thinky, an electrical storm waiting to happen</span></blockquote><p></p><p>I wonder what <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1980/06/16/partners-veronica-geng" target="_blank">Geng</a> would have made of the word <i>thinky</i>.* I’m not sure what I think of the word <i>thinky </i>to describe a person. </p><p>I’m not finished with the book yet. So far, the first two chapters are excellent. They are vintage New York in the hand. (N.B. Gerry Howard edited the book.)</p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgchYgi7z51SvM-XtePw1kbIdlBeTW1i5OWNUMBBssM7s2ydrIPCc-M4li1ZkJi2q3CJrOtTImBM6ZGHq3L23El8Mu6lpbt_X1VMTOfA6KrfqAFtAStlXw7tO_iaC6s6oUFjKdRJ6n0GMrc7EjNM9LO02bLVYBxuz6Bc304W-wAF46PEl7P18W9ZlxEUQ/s4032/IMG_1281.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgchYgi7z51SvM-XtePw1kbIdlBeTW1i5OWNUMBBssM7s2ydrIPCc-M4li1ZkJi2q3CJrOtTImBM6ZGHq3L23El8Mu6lpbt_X1VMTOfA6KrfqAFtAStlXw7tO_iaC6s6oUFjKdRJ6n0GMrc7EjNM9LO02bLVYBxuz6Bc304W-wAF46PEl7P18W9ZlxEUQ/w400-h300/IMG_1281.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">New Yorker <a href="https://shop.nypl.org/products/nypl-quote-pencil-set" target="_blank">Fran Lebowitz</a> signs her book for a fan.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p>* Wolcott’s novel <i>The Catsitters</i> also contains <i>quite</i> a few words ending in the letter <i>y.</i> </p>Elizabeth Manushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983079578391533276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1172470755079630483.post-28194092201725811382023-03-31T21:45:00.002-06:002023-03-31T21:46:09.582-06:00Pendency<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGxXrTVT_TtCPQGwUNOpNLtN4pJac4pInliPGghWBGpS1z_z-hKvUCc_wdzicSvhBhn3Tg2mf-yZ8CorcTX9ZgKEhTWQjb3kcf34WbiXbX0yP2Vx9g-oJSOqpzhmf2S-HBSJXcW3LzCgM84f71Jm6tx2HT-tgzUjYNPNa_PzTORuVHsUFIBEKPXsXT4g/s1024/chandelier%20with%20pendant%20fish%20bowl%20c.%201818.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="757" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGxXrTVT_TtCPQGwUNOpNLtN4pJac4pInliPGghWBGpS1z_z-hKvUCc_wdzicSvhBhn3Tg2mf-yZ8CorcTX9ZgKEhTWQjb3kcf34WbiXbX0yP2Vx9g-oJSOqpzhmf2S-HBSJXcW3LzCgM84f71Jm6tx2HT-tgzUjYNPNa_PzTORuVHsUFIBEKPXsXT4g/w295-h400/chandelier%20with%20pendant%20fish%20bowl%20c.%201818.jpeg" width="295" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p class="ParaContinue" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center; text-indent: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Gérard Jean Galle (French, 1788–1846), </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 15.693334px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><a href="https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/a-fish-chandelier/" target="_blank">lustre à poisson (fish chandelier)</a></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">,* about 1818–1819<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="ParaContinue" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center; text-indent: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: xx-small;">Gilt bronze; glass; painted copper; gilt tin; iron armature<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="ParaContinue" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center; text-indent: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: xx-small;">119.5 × 99 cm (47 1/16 × 39 in.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="line-height: 15.693334px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 73.DH.76</span></div></span><span style="text-align: start;"></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>Once again from<span> the ELR <i>News & Analysis</i> transcript* of the 2003 panel presentation and discussion entitled </span>“Learning to Live With the Data Quality Act”.** The speaker this time is <a href="https://progressivereform.org/person/sidney-a-shapiro/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Sidney A. Shapiro</a>, who at the time was<span style="font-family: inherit;"> the Rounds Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Kansas and the founder of a think tank called the Center for Progressive Regulation (which is now, from what I can deduce, the <a href="https://progressivereform.org" target="_blank">Center for Progressive Reform</a>).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica;">. . . In this second process, you have a data complaint that comes in while the rulemaking is pending. Assume that the agency turns down the complaint. That is final agency action—there is a separate appeals process for that—and then there is judicial review. As a result, we have a collateral attack on the agency’s information during the pendency of rulemaking, which is subject to a distinct and separate judicial review. </span></blockquote><p></p><p>Pendency! A useful and attractive word — <i>so</i> much more elegant than “the state of being pending”. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZpNWLJmWs-8wf7_WJ8rfWedG8WpTrOzjRf2e0xT9qceAYnKd4bi-69ttNbK-SqsG3HnItE2pafTi1HD6iTYdQMs9L2I_kuWXWsAuRbv2tq3uFB-Il-liniJN-cI8FMmTJ6taA-59sfMAYbEd2Cbo1GbBd-O-k9zbFDMS6PGfh7XWG_rbc6NgLm0OyFg/s520/lis%20pendens%20M-W%20law%20dictionary.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="322" data-original-width="520" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZpNWLJmWs-8wf7_WJ8rfWedG8WpTrOzjRf2e0xT9qceAYnKd4bi-69ttNbK-SqsG3HnItE2pafTi1HD6iTYdQMs9L2I_kuWXWsAuRbv2tq3uFB-Il-liniJN-cI8FMmTJ6taA-59sfMAYbEd2Cbo1GbBd-O-k9zbFDMS6PGfh7XWG_rbc6NgLm0OyFg/s320/lis%20pendens%20M-W%20law%20dictionary.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: xx-small;">An appearance in Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law (Springfield, MA) © 1996</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">* <a href="https://artsandculture.google.com/story/KQWRDXGgG7RY3g" target="_blank">Here</a>, via a Google Arts & Culture page, view the Galle Chandelier as though fish are swimming in that little bowl, and <a href="https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/chandelier/" target="_blank">on this page</a> scroll down a bit to watch the chandelier rotate.</span></p>Elizabeth Manushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983079578391533276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1172470755079630483.post-29915912975330652332023-03-21T22:15:00.005-06:002023-03-21T22:15:48.255-06:00The “y” words <p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Gnwple_FALckdwA6nf7hdiEVsO0XdaZUKxPnXQAecQv1xuNTplpllcSRkvQ5G80Q2rDNCaRpw6mKALSCzJb0QNEj-7HGHwvVRv7nNWX_kPk_vz6_rUfQcPG0C-sdpjDMOdzYjGX6NkZfunb8j8oq3RokYOCS4tK_7swhnfKHivSmbHBQNcXRWLoB0A/s3264/IMG_2704.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Gnwple_FALckdwA6nf7hdiEVsO0XdaZUKxPnXQAecQv1xuNTplpllcSRkvQ5G80Q2rDNCaRpw6mKALSCzJb0QNEj-7HGHwvVRv7nNWX_kPk_vz6_rUfQcPG0C-sdpjDMOdzYjGX6NkZfunb8j8oq3RokYOCS4tK_7swhnfKHivSmbHBQNcXRWLoB0A/w300-h400/IMG_2704.jpeg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: xx-small;">CU Boulder, August 22nd, 2022</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">A surprising and delightful discovery. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">From an ELR <i>News & Analysis</i> transcript* of a 2003 panel presentation and discussion entitled </span>“Learning to Live With the Data Quality Act,”** <span style="font-family: inherit;">the late Frederick R. Anderson, speaker (italics mine): </span></p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica;">OMB [the Office of Management and Budget in the Executive Office of the President] promulgated rules, and then agencies promulgated guidelines under these OMB rules. The guidelines are specific and define <i>the “y” words</i>: the standards of quality, objectivity, integrity, and utility that give the program content via OMB and agency efforts to spell out their meaning. This has been a process of quasi-legal policymaking, very reminiscent of any number of federal rulemakings. </span></blockquote><p>Ah, brilliant lawyers who love the law and care about such “boring” topics as <a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781315064499/nepa-courts-frederick-anderson" target="_blank">NEPA</a> and dioxin. </p><p>The question and answer session was so good, this transcript provided some of the best reading I had all week—and I was reading <a href="https://henryalford.com/?page_id=193" target="_blank">Henry Alford</a>. </p><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC2A7mOcj83R0OWbDfaBWy7QAb81BE4gvcbR87NMgslz9Fz9cHfSXb1u2-deEh-FTyuN1sQ37lHSj5sscpC86M4yy2hUsfPRa5jVGORnHkn3diHmEa5Cn_8LeWZWtul7LDe8tKRg1rH4aDuPFmluFsljICpLTZzEUUcOBhWDJAmfBYH14qeI3g3SLfmQ/s2225/IMG_2714%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2225" data-original-width="1589" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC2A7mOcj83R0OWbDfaBWy7QAb81BE4gvcbR87NMgslz9Fz9cHfSXb1u2-deEh-FTyuN1sQ37lHSj5sscpC86M4yy2hUsfPRa5jVGORnHkn3diHmEa5Cn_8LeWZWtul7LDe8tKRg1rH4aDuPFmluFsljICpLTZzEUUcOBhWDJAmfBYH14qeI3g3SLfmQ/w453-h640/IMG_2714%202.jpeg" width="453" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Poem on the office door of English professor Tiffany Beechy<br />CU Boulder, August 6th, 2022</span><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div>I was especially glad to have learned who <a href="https://www.ciel.org/frederick-anderson-climate-change-award/" target="_blank">Mr. Anderson</a> was, though I’m sorry I was unaware of him until now. If you’d like an idea of how he sounded when speaking publicly, here is a video of him addressing a different group of people and <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?126009-1/law-schools-administrative-law" target="_blank">talking to them about administrative law</a> [from 4:36 to 29:03 and then during the Q&A]. At the time, he was dean of the <a href="https://www.wcl.american.edu" target="_blank">American University Washington College of Law</a>. </div><div><p>I imagine Mr. Anderson’s wife loved how beautifully he spoke his <i>wh</i>s. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>* <span style="font-size: x-small;">The transcript was published with the permission of the American Bar Association (ABA) and is copyright © 2003<span> Environmental Law Institute</span>®, Washington, D.C., reprinted with permission from <a href="https://www.elr.info/about-elr" target="_blank">ELR</a>®, <a href="http://www.eli.org">http://www.eli.org</a>, 1-800-433-5120</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">** Paul Noe, another speaker and the Counselor to the Administrator at the Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), told the assembled that “We at OMB call the DQA the Information Quality Act (IQA)”, this because the </span><span style="font-size: small;">definition of information in </span><span style="font-size: small;">OMB’s governmentwide guidelines is very broad, viz., “any communication or representation of knowledge, such as facts or data, in any medium.”</span></p></div>Elizabeth Manushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983079578391533276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1172470755079630483.post-78885583436087527522023-03-20T21:31:00.003-06:002023-03-20T21:31:54.462-06:00Clippy<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvbofFw_aGLPYnkjhzvCswVlWz1X9xIgwoOqlNPGeOOaaWlgPOD_2y0UfFtGqnK0hUjHwHyderVuJy3O4XRaU8HnW5XBXST-H_o35Qic1goeuSI9DWEOBpUYvdWxi3sOtdu6waSASBotaL9EN8Z2hXROhb5BfS_MZkq9Pzi5OfkPHRDWr9QM5US-X9iQ/s4032/FE8F2DB2-1887-4F3B-A3C3-246B90D4675C.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvbofFw_aGLPYnkjhzvCswVlWz1X9xIgwoOqlNPGeOOaaWlgPOD_2y0UfFtGqnK0hUjHwHyderVuJy3O4XRaU8HnW5XBXST-H_o35Qic1goeuSI9DWEOBpUYvdWxi3sOtdu6waSASBotaL9EN8Z2hXROhb5BfS_MZkq9Pzi5OfkPHRDWr9QM5US-X9iQ/s320/FE8F2DB2-1887-4F3B-A3C3-246B90D4675C.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: xx-small;">Goose crossing, February 18, 2023<br />Boulder, Colorado</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p>From a guide to a draft <a href="https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-article-with-microsoft-word" target="_blank">manuscript submission template</a> of the Association of Computing Machinery, or ACM. </p><p>Section 2.3 reads:</p><p><span style="font-family: "Linux Biolinum O"; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: bold; text-indent: -0.4in;"></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: "Linux Biolinum O"; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: bold; text-indent: -0.4in;">Quotations and Extracts</span></p><p class="Head2" style="margin-left: 0.4in; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: -0.4in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="PostHeadPara" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: "Linux Libertine O"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">There are styles for block quotations, which should be used for quotes that are separated from in-line text.<span> </span>Below is an example.</p><p class="Extract" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">“Microsoft tried to revive the idea of an assistant with Clippy, who began popping up in Microsoft Office in 1997. Its creator, Kevan Atteberry, was actually contracted by Microsoft to design Clippy, which, funnily enough, he did on a Mac … Sure, people could disable Clippy, but the fact he was on by default angered people.” [10]</p></blockquote><p>Until today I had no idea the intrusive animated Microsoft paperclip had a name. It’s doubly annoying it had one at all—and such an unfortunate name at that. </p><p>Reportedly the original name was Clippit. Reportedly Clippy is the nickname, <i>short</i> for Clippit. Why did Clippit give way to Clippy? Even the genuinely <a href="https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-life-death-microsoft-clippy-paper-clip-loved-hate" target="_blank">interested</a> do not say. </p><p>Certainly the fact that an assistive Microsoft feature was created on a Mac is funny. </p><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style>Elizabeth Manushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983079578391533276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1172470755079630483.post-91549371904627888772023-03-05T22:14:00.003-07:002023-03-06T20:07:39.188-07:00Breakfasty<p>If you click over to the New York Times’ Cooking site and type “breakfasty” in the search box, up will come Alison Roman’s* solid–five star recipe “<a href="https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018180-perfect-buttermilk-pancakes" target="_blank">Perfect Buttermilk Pancakes</a>.” Once you make these, there will be no need for you to order pancakes in a restaurant ever again.</p><p>As I compose this post, 8656 people (including me) have made the pancakes, and the recipe has racked up 995 community notes that go back at least five years. </p><p>The recipe begins:</p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; letter-spacing: 0.2px;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Pancakes are the hero of the breakfast table, and their very taste can even be described as “deeply breakfasty”: eggy, salty, just this side of sweet.</span></blockquote><p></p><p>Is <i>breakfasty</i> a likable word? I’m not sure. It’s a bit odd-looking, a tad tortured (?), and -<i>fasty</i> is not doing it for me ear-wise or eye-wise. </p><p>My guess is that <i>breakfasty</i> aspires to the cute and easy word <i>breaky</i> (which is pals with <i>wakey wakey</i>). <i>Breaky</i> (pronounced BREK-kie) is a relaxed, happy meal.</p><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpVXNEOuQlvSx03iF1JYY1DE3qaeyW9O5H1oOoKxSQMzRIfmGlGc6d53OiS-KFU7IUKqMpzWbHhCrDXC3zBH3cQQSEfgCMehxKLtrKVGtPmrseL72X5OfHlbyK9LOvn9rxjTpEaBHHIEjtevJMzvOP24S5gu4LTeqCPi4Su1HNvTFJhi_WR9qKVOBeVA/s1160/Screenshot%202023-03-05%20at%209.37.30%20PM.png"><img alt="Deep pantry drawer with dividers for sheet pans and the like" border="0" data-original-height="1160" data-original-width="854" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpVXNEOuQlvSx03iF1JYY1DE3qaeyW9O5H1oOoKxSQMzRIfmGlGc6d53OiS-KFU7IUKqMpzWbHhCrDXC3zBH3cQQSEfgCMehxKLtrKVGtPmrseL72X5OfHlbyK9LOvn9rxjTpEaBHHIEjtevJMzvOP24S5gu4LTeqCPi4Su1HNvTFJhi_WR9qKVOBeVA/w236-h320/Screenshot%202023-03-05%20at%209.37.30%20PM.png" title="link at https://town-n-country-living.com/traditional-kitchen-with-amazing-storage.html" width="236" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvlj7a144sBiEz2eJ5R-ja8KuoTkfcAtOh0iag6oJqdpdtu_OzFuXsYFJkirtAlmhQLMqFr_CgUiVcwHXarP781dp8D_Res7wio4QUikMeM4tjshRmot2jpBGLyYpt7QS18AUvPtl3d3iy0Sp2jMXHDC7_FUI_ts0V2lx9OXwClw9pocHTch6h96k2uQ/s1096/Screenshot%202023-03-05%20at%209.49.27%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img alt="Wicker pantry drawers for onions and such" border="0" data-original-height="1096" data-original-width="782" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvlj7a144sBiEz2eJ5R-ja8KuoTkfcAtOh0iag6oJqdpdtu_OzFuXsYFJkirtAlmhQLMqFr_CgUiVcwHXarP781dp8D_Res7wio4QUikMeM4tjshRmot2jpBGLyYpt7QS18AUvPtl3d3iy0Sp2jMXHDC7_FUI_ts0V2lx9OXwClw9pocHTch6h96k2uQ/w229-h320/Screenshot%202023-03-05%20at%209.49.27%20PM.png" title="link at https://www.techlinetwincities.com/residential-furniture/closets/pantry-gallery" width="229" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: xx-small;">Deep divider drawer (l.) and chest-height wicker drawers (r.): functional features of a dream kitchen.</span></span></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">* Alison Roman’s solid–five star “Spiced Chickpea Stew With Coconut and Turmeric” has at least 20,824 fans, and the community notes numbered 2110 as of this writing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Elizabeth Manushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983079578391533276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1172470755079630483.post-10502805743151222902023-02-26T17:28:00.002-07:002023-02-26T17:30:47.038-07:00Plenipotentiary<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxy-C4c4KB5dvdpktCu_lHiVyOVHheML5aNPoy6_zpD8n6y7sL1Va7og4tELUazN_HKppASiRMOCXkrAiUJkJdfamu8PtOuPMh011WHlp64b7xIEudrZaV072f4_ZUZQnlYHAntCVv3YZDdBzqci1YTgHyO5VRngRnbbIwqK8cK9pURPDkugyEJ0cu6w/s700/Schule_FBS_68-MusicScore-Original.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="533" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxy-C4c4KB5dvdpktCu_lHiVyOVHheML5aNPoy6_zpD8n6y7sL1Va7og4tELUazN_HKppASiRMOCXkrAiUJkJdfamu8PtOuPMh011WHlp64b7xIEudrZaV072f4_ZUZQnlYHAntCVv3YZDdBzqci1YTgHyO5VRngRnbbIwqK8cK9pURPDkugyEJ0cu6w/w304-h400/Schule_FBS_68-MusicScore-Original.jpeg" width="304" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 9px;">A section of Schulé's score for the </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 9px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hymne de l'UIT </span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: xx-small;">on the <a href="https://www.itu.int/en/history/Pages/ITUMusic.aspx" target="_blank">Music for ITU</a> web page</span></div><p style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-indent: 9pt;">From the </span><a href="https://www.itu.int/en/history/Pages/ITUMusic.aspx" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">Music for ITU</a><span style="font-size: x-small; text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 9pt;">web page describing music written for the International Telecommunication <span style="font-family: inherit;">Union. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Plenipotentiary<span><span style="text-indent: 9pt;"> appears in the </span></span>section about the Hymne des télécommunications (Telecommunications Anthem).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; 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However, an impressive orchestral version with full choir premiered at another opening ceremony in September: that of the 1973 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Malaga-Torremolinos, Spain.</span></blockquote><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Plenipotentiary is a jolly word marked by a sense of rotundity and bursting with rude health. To my eye, it evokes ice cream sundae scoops, bowler hats, lawn boules, and bubble umbrellas.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The 1973 anthem, however . . . </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A scroll up the page reveals </span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; text-align: justify;">Hymne de l’UIT</span><i style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-align: justify;">(</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-align: justify;">ITU Anthem) </span></i><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; text-align: justify;">a </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">fanfare piece for brass instruments that debuted in 1965 and which has a quality of true pageantry. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ten years ago a group of <a href="https://lalyrecourtion.ch/page_depart.html" target="_blank">brass players</a> “based in the Swiss canton of Fribourg” even recorded the piece using a full </span><a href="https://www.itu.int/en/history/Documents/ITU-Music/Schule-FBS-68-Arrangement-Morel-2013.pdf" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">orchestral arrangement</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, including parts for euphonium, </span>flugel, and soprano cornet<span style="font-family: inherit;">. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; 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font-size: small;">New Year’s Day 2023</span><br style="font-family: helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Boulder, Colorado</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p> <p></p>Elizabeth Manushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983079578391533276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1172470755079630483.post-26926889615455014372022-12-31T14:13:00.001-07:002022-12-31T17:58:57.220-07:00Y Word of 2022: Clayey<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPnP9IIU_lCqehQXzdfbj-kdNeanEMYAe1qm8IDrwbarV4phE4-AWgbRQ5VnSZYtH4Z8LpYDY1q0BZOojuz_coUqk7pJI7T16AG-pk_V9l4rkuj9-_rO-iQDx6PrEEMXekbWGG4UUNJb8e_-cRMxqC6Yq8fBuqP9EDPcuZQeo3aE8XY7ii5sztfESEdw/s795/Screen%20Shot%202017-12-29%20at%2011.56.42%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="795" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPnP9IIU_lCqehQXzdfbj-kdNeanEMYAe1qm8IDrwbarV4phE4-AWgbRQ5VnSZYtH4Z8LpYDY1q0BZOojuz_coUqk7pJI7T16AG-pk_V9l4rkuj9-_rO-iQDx6PrEEMXekbWGG4UUNJb8e_-cRMxqC6Yq8fBuqP9EDPcuZQeo3aE8XY7ii5sztfESEdw/w400-h256/Screen%20Shot%202017-12-29%20at%2011.56.42%20PM.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Post Card from 2023</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>In an earthward turn of events, <a href="https://thelasty.blogspot.com/2022/04/clayey.html?view=mosaic" target="_blank">Clayey</a> has edged out <a href="https://thelasty.blogspot.com/2022/06/deynty.html?view=mosaic" target="_blank">Deynty</a>. <div><br /></div><div>Congratulations to all the finalists. </div><div><br /></div><div>And to my handful of readers, thank you and your cursors for stopping by.</div><div><br /></div><div>A parting thought for this 2022 year is an <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/alan-rabinowitz-a-voice-for-the-animals-aug2018/" target="_blank">On Being broadcast</a> with Krista Tippett and the late habitat conservationist Alan Rabinowitz.</div><div><br /></div></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3As6ojw5-GTeYLcN4Wk8Wvz3_-oElDFxFD-sVhQToLLfGOh9QJAY9WFwTvL16gnZ1Yd-UVBCKCYBOaZknvq8FAjZNT6MQrqJpQLVA4nr3eFz4nCSMD92GvthSL_Mxr2g7mxcg3lRWLHa3za9Yp9BFffPK27FVT0y0FNVSWSqZsLh40nmeXdS6T1ne0A/s1100/moth%20motif%20lace%20SFO.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1100" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3As6ojw5-GTeYLcN4Wk8Wvz3_-oElDFxFD-sVhQToLLfGOh9QJAY9WFwTvL16gnZ1Yd-UVBCKCYBOaZknvq8FAjZNT6MQrqJpQLVA4nr3eFz4nCSMD92GvthSL_Mxr2g7mxcg3lRWLHa3za9Yp9BFffPK27FVT0y0FNVSWSqZsLh40nmeXdS6T1ne0A/w400-h295/moth%20motif%20lace%20SFO.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">María Clara sleeve with moth motifs, mid-19th century, Philippines<br />Calado embroidery on plain weave piña</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Collection of Lacis Museum of Lace and Textiles<br />17815 L2022.0301.016.01</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><br /></div>Elizabeth Manushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983079578391533276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1172470755079630483.post-64914362769973507162022-12-29T21:51:00.004-07:002022-12-31T09:33:10.533-07:00Finalists of 2022<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnxT5s4TyedjbzPiIoR8CnXqveA_OdO1xEnHitWSt_1IybCKDqUAbnWXhtV2a-meBYJ19yASptaS4P7u-27VAuW-aXadt8qfmai67Fm8eCHdy-1Nnu-80Epnv9oDFAzPe9kyg5n-7inPPUxeiRaiIp0GT04qyZxvaCwE7KdoB6xrTANXelNjYKrlCD3g/s4032/IMG_0104.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnxT5s4TyedjbzPiIoR8CnXqveA_OdO1xEnHitWSt_1IybCKDqUAbnWXhtV2a-meBYJ19yASptaS4P7u-27VAuW-aXadt8qfmai67Fm8eCHdy-1Nnu-80Epnv9oDFAzPe9kyg5n-7inPPUxeiRaiIp0GT04qyZxvaCwE7KdoB6xrTANXelNjYKrlCD3g/w300-h400/IMG_0104.jpeg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">The end of a rainbow in the San Luis Valley of Colorado<br />October 7th, 2022, on a weekend that marked<br />one of the <a href="https://www.slvec.org/post/lynx-wilderness-retreat" target="_blank">high points</a> of my year</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>The finalists are <a href="https://thelasty.blogspot.com/2022/06/deynty.html?view=mosaic" target="_blank">Deynty</a> and <a href="https://thelasty.blogspot.com/2022/04/clayey.html?view=mosaic" target="_blank">Clayey</a>. </p><p><i>Clayey</i> was a popular word in the 1960s. <i>Deynty</i> is from pre-Shakespearean days when people, oh, sometimes spelled fish <i>fysshe</i>. </p><p>So, there are two eras in this final.</p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2eukwSpcUceh_ldPBnUeDIC8FGaKOUVYvv2hRdwN9hlgn8sdZr3H6yGXeFUlYgxBSlXp6cRiSogdkMvidLbMVyksOY9EK4kOsxkYNsYN1ab1kTNlMUW20xYuy5GIbTESH1ZOVAsiaFwyvxOUvFLahtDm65_i-2R3kKPUVv5oTkhFAuOkzGuDrVNZqQA/s3870/IMG_6634.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3870" data-original-width="1594" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2eukwSpcUceh_ldPBnUeDIC8FGaKOUVYvv2hRdwN9hlgn8sdZr3H6yGXeFUlYgxBSlXp6cRiSogdkMvidLbMVyksOY9EK4kOsxkYNsYN1ab1kTNlMUW20xYuy5GIbTESH1ZOVAsiaFwyvxOUvFLahtDm65_i-2R3kKPUVv5oTkhFAuOkzGuDrVNZqQA/w165-h400/IMG_6634.jpeg" width="165" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Oliver on the edge of his seat</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Elizabeth Manushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983079578391533276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1172470755079630483.post-57924239592835413962022-12-28T20:37:00.003-07:002022-12-28T20:38:03.312-07:00Semi-finalists of 2022<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9-Tmya0y0q2HIWN3Tea7b27SJpWzDYLkauKcTRQEfWruiOpmtIhJ5y3wpm7vZK4JIiK_6joB6ExoBslf1KWPKh5Wg8kEZAM0ZCwSmpGp-Nd_rZt_e6gk4wH_xw0zoJTSky73NAj6Dw-0-8xqGom4mnJrgxNYdR-GVyS3rRdzHW2EEjTmg083vdiDiow/s764/IMG_6802.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="764" data-original-width="764" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9-Tmya0y0q2HIWN3Tea7b27SJpWzDYLkauKcTRQEfWruiOpmtIhJ5y3wpm7vZK4JIiK_6joB6ExoBslf1KWPKh5Wg8kEZAM0ZCwSmpGp-Nd_rZt_e6gk4wH_xw0zoJTSky73NAj6Dw-0-8xqGom4mnJrgxNYdR-GVyS3rRdzHW2EEjTmg083vdiDiow/s320/IMG_6802.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Herbert in a state of anticipatory anxiety, awaiting the final word </span></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It’s down to <a href="https://thelasty.blogspot.com/2022/07/bastardy.html?view=magazine" target="_blank">Bastardy</a>, <a href="https://thelasty.blogspot.com/2022/01/calory.html?view=flipcard" target="_blank">Calory</a>, <a href="https://thelasty.blogspot.com/2022/04/clayey.html?view=mosaic" target="_blank">Clayey</a>, and <a href="https://thelasty.blogspot.com/2022/06/deynty.html?view=mosaic" target="_blank">Deynty</a>. </p><p>How to decide, how to decide. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyJG3eIk8HXoFGk8mgmXchp5xPtp5cdWLehGwAELPm_oGF7FwN6batXBPcMN1KksgV6upYJ8XEaDoeqs58LxDhy6rtQhJSh341mvriCMFWKNBc1nBavtD8Jj1IQ9GDdUKm7c543asbysHw9C-jlJGWhD_c4ZDXKoXDMyoaBu_gFwBD7xFro7Pndh6J7g/s1000/The%20flight%20of%20time%20clock%201922%20advertisement.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="779" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyJG3eIk8HXoFGk8mgmXchp5xPtp5cdWLehGwAELPm_oGF7FwN6batXBPcMN1KksgV6upYJ8XEaDoeqs58LxDhy6rtQhJSh341mvriCMFWKNBc1nBavtD8Jj1IQ9GDdUKm7c543asbysHw9C-jlJGWhD_c4ZDXKoXDMyoaBu_gFwBD7xFro7Pndh6J7g/w498-h640/The%20flight%20of%20time%20clock%201922%20advertisement.jpg" width="498" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><i>The Flight of Time</i>, <br />a cast clock with a Westclox 4-inch movement, featured in<br />Westclox’s <i>Tick Talk </i>magazine, Factory Edition, <br />December 20, 1922, Vol. 8. No. 12</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p>Elizabeth Manushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983079578391533276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1172470755079630483.post-20953770972234597142022-12-15T22:40:00.006-07:002022-12-20T22:50:48.149-07:00Quarter-finalists of 2022<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK8HlZQyg2tFPpDt74ATE5XRJkzLFS-8S7mh1t2LOQUpgUN6QSPd79ePdK1SrwSFlPb3p0CMkJrUtQL3ih4OX8lkJxM2lmT-rcFpke1b7p2zDaMnI95KosB5FR0aoFIebEHnedhIkIigq3wupZC7QmFHzwno1iFmnDF_ccGJRb4-FrRL1_g2zWEhlDYA/s3686/IMG_3826.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3686" data-original-width="2765" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK8HlZQyg2tFPpDt74ATE5XRJkzLFS-8S7mh1t2LOQUpgUN6QSPd79ePdK1SrwSFlPb3p0CMkJrUtQL3ih4OX8lkJxM2lmT-rcFpke1b7p2zDaMnI95KosB5FR0aoFIebEHnedhIkIigq3wupZC7QmFHzwno1iFmnDF_ccGJRb4-FrRL1_g2zWEhlDYA/w300-h400/IMG_3826.jpeg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Taken December 23rd, 2019, at Fort Mason<br />San Francisco, California</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p><p>My little non-contest is but a handful of peanuts next to the smörgåsbord that is Lev Parikian’s* Twitter <a href="https://levparikian.com/index.php/sign-up-to-wcorew/" target="_blank">World Cup of Random Words</a>, the final round of which will be played December 31st. </p><p>The results of each round are <a href="https://levparikian.com/index.php/wcorew-results/" target="_blank">here</a> and stats are <a href="https://levparikian.com/index.php/wcorew-stats/" target="_blank">here</a>. People have sponsored wonderful words. One Jayne Robinson backed <a href="https://levparikian.com/index.php/wcorew-word/?word=Manyfold" target="_blank">Manyfold</a>, for example. I’ve voted numerous times for random words. ’Tis fun, and I wish all the WCOREW finalists the best of luck. </p><p>Meanwhile, here in relatively un–social media land, the quarter-finalists for this 2022 year are: <a href="https://thelasty.blogspot.com/2022/07/bastardy.html?view=magazine" target="_blank">Bastardy</a>, <a href="https://thelasty.blogspot.com/2022/08/belty.html?view=magazine" target="_blank">Belty</a>, <a href="https://thelasty.blogspot.com/2022/01/calory.html?view=flipcard" target="_blank">Calory</a>, <a href="https://thelasty.blogspot.com/2022/04/clayey.html?view=mosaic" target="_blank">Clayey</a>, <a href="https://thelasty.blogspot.com/2022/06/deynty.html?view=mosaic" target="_blank">Deynty</a>, and <a href="https://thelasty.blogspot.com/2022/09/finny.html?view=flipcard" target="_blank">Finny</a>. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>* See more about Lev in the April 2020 <a href="https://thelasty.blogspot.com/2020/04/levelly.html?view=flipcard" target="_blank">Levelly</a> post . </p>Elizabeth Manushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983079578391533276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1172470755079630483.post-21086744563930985462022-12-14T23:31:00.004-07:002022-12-14T23:49:56.123-07:00Nighty<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='454' height='377' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxf5QZ3b8g5QrqTmt2-SJkPDzPy0YaEMVXJQXM33U2XtxMeDAFQA3FxbtwOxPJmAVzBZnUgCMygiTLu8ffFQw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Raindrop crowns, August 7th, 2022, Boulder, Colorado</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>As I read the third volume of <i>The Hunger Games</i> trilogy, I marvel at the trajectory from <a href="http://www.fullbooks.com/Far-From-The-Madding-Crowd1.html" target="_blank">Bathsheba Everdene</a> to <a href="https://www.playbill.com/production/the-heidi-chronicles-plymouth-theatre-vault-0000013735" target="_blank">Heidi Holland</a> to Katniss Everdeen. <p></p><p>Tonight’s post is from Wendy Wasserstein’s play <i>The Heidi Chronicles</i>, Act Two, Scene 1, the baby shower scene:</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><i>. . . Lisa pulls out a tiny robe, tiny gown and slippers from a gift box. </i></p><p>LISA. (Holding up a gown.) Ooooooooh that’s adorable!</p><p>DENISE.* It’s a robe and a nighty. Lisa, that’s the cutest thing I’ve ever seen. </p></blockquote><p> </p><p></p><p>How brilliant, with the word <i>nighty</i> carrying such a sexual connotation.</p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglynrGNRJKrbgid5rrjaEQl6dB6IHdl9zf85EB-5I7oAbEVkB7g9mWXEikTUbrtRA7chcz32s96k-jGuNXExrm4s2iF8jhfPjvaC5LUJvse1BIY0nbIpsLeZNpBh2ZHyjMPv8N94Nz3GHrJRuBnkRxH1X_bBs3vpjkOjIiv57DB-Y-IY5ktI_TTGWeVw/s4032/IMG_0409.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglynrGNRJKrbgid5rrjaEQl6dB6IHdl9zf85EB-5I7oAbEVkB7g9mWXEikTUbrtRA7chcz32s96k-jGuNXExrm4s2iF8jhfPjvaC5LUJvse1BIY0nbIpsLeZNpBh2ZHyjMPv8N94Nz3GHrJRuBnkRxH1X_bBs3vpjkOjIiv57DB-Y-IY5ktI_TTGWeVw/s320/IMG_0409.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">On the way back from the Boat Pond<br />Central Park, New York City<br />October 23rd, 2022</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>* <span style="font-size: x-small;">Denise is 24 years old.</span></p>Elizabeth Manushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983079578391533276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1172470755079630483.post-22247902418017717822022-12-04T10:51:00.001-07:002022-12-11T15:25:14.985-07:00Jetty<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9gtp-oVw0vuDLmbl-m9HqczkBgsAsLQlWNqqulFT92vb4n6aQsHMRwKlkW2qu4CpG8YJodtnhtVpmK-zORRVOCfO3Z5oGu-R_lCWhoOgYgp3m1Pfcm6B3wMh3-oNYETEskPupEq6FyMN6GrYtytItMQoTSF3UoADGTSPsrBw1P2jjYhmFE0ylrGRL7A/s4032/25AF6FC4-57BD-4EE7-848D-DC59E89ADED4_1_201_a.heic" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Detail of Alice in Wonderland, by José de Creeft, photo Elizabeth Manus ©2022" border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9gtp-oVw0vuDLmbl-m9HqczkBgsAsLQlWNqqulFT92vb4n6aQsHMRwKlkW2qu4CpG8YJodtnhtVpmK-zORRVOCfO3Z5oGu-R_lCWhoOgYgp3m1Pfcm6B3wMh3-oNYETEskPupEq6FyMN6GrYtytItMQoTSF3UoADGTSPsrBw1P2jjYhmFE0ylrGRL7A/w240-h320/25AF6FC4-57BD-4EE7-848D-DC59E89ADED4_1_201_a.heic" title="Detail of Alice in Wonderland, by José de Creeft" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Alice’s hand<br />Central Park, New York City<br />October 23rd, 2022<br />Sculptor: <a href="https://www.centralparknyc.org/locations/alice-in-wonderland" target="_blank">José de Creeft</a> </span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>You may have seen bumper stickers declaring </span><span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps;">trees are the answer. </span>To that I would add —<span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">and handwriting</span>.* (N.B. I am <a href="https://www.montessoriinternational.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/The-Importance-of-Handwriting-in-the-Digital-Age-HealthyChildren.org_.pdf" target="_blank">not alone</a> <a href="https://www.highhopesdubai.com/why-handwriting-is-important-in-the-digital-age/" target="_blank">in</a> <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-athletes-way/202010/why-cursive-handwriting-is-good-your-brain" target="_blank">this</a> opinion.)</span></p><p></p><p>A recent thank you note from a neighbor with beautiful penmanship reminded me how pleasing cursive can be. To the Boulder Public Library I hied. </p><p>From Chapter 8 of the book <i>The Art of Cursive Penmanship: A Personal Handwriting Program for Adults</i>, by Michael R. Sull, Master Penman (Skyhorse, 2018). Below is an excerpt from the 1841 story “A Descent into the Maelström,” by Edgar Allan Poe.</p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">“. . . You suppose me a <i>very</i> old man — but I am not. It took less than a single day to change these hairs from a jetty black to white, to weaken my limbs, and to unstring my nerves, so that I tremble at the least exertion, and am frightened at a shadow. . . .”</span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My <i>Winston Simplified Dictionary: Intermediate Edition</i> (likely from 1938 — the title page is torn out) has the second definition of <i>jetty</i> as “1. made of jet; 2. like jet in color; of a deep glossy black.” </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And what was jet? “A hard, black, fossil substance, akin to coal, used as a fuel and in making ornaments and buttons.” </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">One wonders how many people make the connection between the substance and the color. Certainly the fact enlarges meaning in Poe’s </span>story. </p><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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