What we think or what we know or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence.
The only consequence is what we do.
- John Ruskin
All the really good ideas I ever had
came to me while I was milking a cow.
- Grant Wood
(There’s something about those two guys that make them a good [...]
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Dragon’s Eggs… they’re just like popcorn, only buttered with a magnesium-aluminum alloy… Tasty!
Whistlers… or as D.E.S. would call them, Screaming-Slytherin-Quiddich-Players-From-Hello-Without-the-O
Scrambling Comets… cf. Whistlers
Salute… used for those grande finales, blinding-Titanium-white explosions of earth-shaking, ear-splitting, bowel-moving power
The World’s Biggest Firework [...]
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Synonym: Syn”o*nym\ (s[i^]n”[-o]*n[i^]m), n.; pl. Synonyms (-n[i^]mz). [F. synonyme, L. synonyma, pl. of synonymum, Gr. synw`nymon. See Synonymous.] One of two or more words (commonly words of the same language) which are equivalents of each other; one of two or more words which have very nearly the same signification, and therefore may often be used [...]
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Nothing beats the love of great art out of you than going into the art/wall-decor business. It’s literally been years since I’ve been able to really appreciate museum art. Then this week I came across an article in one of my favorite magazines (The New Yorker) about one of my favorite painters (Joseph Turner), written by one of [...]
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Привычка свыше нам дана,
замена счастию она.
Heaven sends us habit
to take the place of happiness.
from Eugene Onegin, by Alexander Pushkin, Book 2, Stanza 31
Taking that quote out of its narrative context (preserved for obsessive-compulsive posterity, below) and giving it a generalized interpretation: We start out young and foolish, ambitious with pie-in-the-sky dreams. Then, over the course of, say, [...]
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This image, courtesy of Barewalls.com, will be featured in a book, “American Gospel” by Jon Meacham, due out from Random House in April.
(buy the poster here)
What an allegory! This makes you realize how far removed we are from those early days of this country’s history.
I think it’s kind of like an early American history equivalent to the [...]
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