December 2009
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WatchA short film by Claude Lelouch entitled C’était un rendez-vous (1976).
August 2009
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“Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending.”
– Calvero, says. Limelight (1952)
July 2009
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Sound Advice
This week’s f-words come from Charles Harrington elster’s Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations (1999). While my own strong opinions about Orthoepy vacillate between yes! and who-cares?, I have found this book to be (if nothing else) 1—a valuable bet settler and 2—a great way to show your barbarous buddies how much a pedant you can be.
feral: FEER-ul. this pronunciation is favored by all 4 major...
June 2009
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“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in...”
– Marcel Proust.
March 2009
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“Don’t say what you’re doing, say why you’re doing it.”
– Michael Lopp on the Art of the Tweet. Every now and again, when pressed to talk about Twitter and why it’s not as tarded as you’ve been told, I’ll puff up my chest and say the following as though I’ve just now thought of it: I don’t mind if you tweet that you’re eating a sandwich as long as you say...
February 2009
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
– Oscar Wilde.
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January 2009
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“I don’t know what’s worse; to not know what you are and be happy, or to become...”
– Flowers for Algernon.
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“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving...”
– Lin Yutang.