Posted on March 22, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
What can I say about Shelley II: The Middle of My Century, that I haven’t already said about Shelley: Also Known as Shirley? For starters, Shelley II takes us further and deeper into the phenomenon that was Shelley Winters. Beginning with her divorce from Vittorio Gassman and ending with JFK’s assassination, Shelley II covers the [...]
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Posted on March 21, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
Someday I want to try bookbinding again, and this list of bookbinding links from Brian Sawyer is one more good reason to get the kit back out.
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Posted on March 21, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
Okay, the Nietzsche Family Circus is quite amusing and on occasion startlingly apropos. But isn’t it, perhaps, a little too easy? Personally, I still cherish fond memories of those classic Family Circus reviews at Amazon: “Proustian introspection with Munch’s visual conundrums,” indeed. A tip o’ the hat to Left of the Dial and my friend [...]
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Posted on March 21, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
One of two gypsum plants in Shoals, and the one where my dad worked for many years. Not sure of the date on this one. Update: According to my dad, this picture must date from around 1955. Plant construction started in 1954 and production began in 1955. The road running across the photo is US [...]
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Posted on March 20, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
What’s an eggcorn? It’s a linguistic error in which a similar-sounding and sensible word or phrase is substituted for the original, e.g., “eggcorn” for “acorn.” An acorn looks a little like an egg and is sort of like a kernel of corn, ergo, “eggcorn.” Another example is “free reign” for “free rein.” I spotted a [...]
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Posted on March 20, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
I don’t remember how the idea got started — maybe it was when we were working on our goals for 2007 — but the critique group I belong to decided sometime last year that we would like to put together a retreat for ourselves. It took quite a while to find a clear weekend on [...]
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Posted on March 20, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
David Sedaris Lies! is by far the most popular post on this blog in the past 30 days, with more than twice as many hits as the second most popular post. So I’ve put another little poll in the sidebar to see what you all think. Do you think Sedaris’ work (the memoirs, not his [...]
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Posted on March 19, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
The mailbox brings good news today. From our neighborhood newsletter: The Art In Place whale tail on the hill at the 250 Bypass and Grove is slated to be finished by the beginning of April. The artist, Tom Givens, plans to host a little celebration onsite. No date or time has been set, but if [...]
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Posted on March 19, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
Barbara Ehrenreich has a bit of depressing but probably ultrarealistic advice on her blog today: Everyone has a book in them, at least everyone who writes to me seems to have a story waiting to be packaged between hard covers and peddled on Amazon: The mother trying to support an autistic child on $6.50 an [...]
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Posted on March 18, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
We live in an area of the country rich with Shakespearean resources. In addition to frequent performances of his plays in Charlottesville, there’s the world-famous American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, and the Folger Library in Washington, D.C. Mary Baldwin College and ASC boast Dr. Ralph Cohen, an expert on all aspects of Renaissance theater. A [...]
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Posted on March 17, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
Has C-Ville Weekly redesigned their website? Looks nice.
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Posted on March 17, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
Will it ever be finished? It’s only supposed to be up for 11 months. It’s been five and counting. I have to drive past this thing every day, and just once, JUST ONCE, I’d like to see it without the scaffold.
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Posted on March 17, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
Book of Joe links to a list of the 50 greatest cartoons of all time. I’ve put three of my favorites in my VodPod widget; “Hillbilly Hare” didn’t make the top 50 but I love it.
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Posted on March 16, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
I’m Stanley Kubrick, and so is my wife!
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Posted on March 16, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
UPDATE: This American Lie To what lengths was Alex Heard willing to go to uncover David Sedaris’ nefarious lies? Behold this exchange on for those about to rock – In response to a January 25 entry titled games I really like (“…streets of rage 2, contra 1 and 3, guitar hero, resident evil 1, 2 [...]
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