While looking at the Wikipedia entry for one of my favourite Latin phrases, sic transit gloria mundi, I found a link to a New York Daily News story mentioning what has to be the all-time greatest headline pun that actually ever saw print. (Some of the ones in Fletch were pretty good, too, but they don’t count.) Apparently there was… Read more →
Category: One-and-done
I could wake up to that
While I maintain that the ne plus ultraYes, I think I am prepared to make a case that these audiobooks are “better” in some sense than the printed form. It’s a very rare argument. form of Wodehouse‘s Jeeves & Wooster stories are the Jonathan Cecil unabridged readings from Audio Partners, the voice I hear in my mind when I think… Read more →
Thought For The Day
For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can’t readily accept the God formula, the big answers don’t remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to… Read more →
And now from the “huh I didn’t know that” file…
So, you’ve heard about this “Last King Of Scotland” movie? I was doing a little reading on it today, which lead me to discover that Idi Amin named four of his sons McKenzie, Campbell, Mackintosh, and McLaren–but he had something like 45 kids, so maybe he was just short of names. Apparently he often wore a kilt. Something new everyday,… Read more →
QOTD
“Nothing like songs about obscure philosophical figures beating children to death sung in a falsetto.” — Dorian Wright, talking about this. Read more →