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Archive for June, 2006

30 Jun 2006

I’ve been meaning to tell you, gentle reader, that your manner of dress could be described by this word.
bedizen • \bih-DYE-zen\ • verb
: to dress or adorn gaudily
Example sentence:
“Adorned by minarets and spires and bedizened by more than a million lights, Coney Island embodied what has been called the ‘architecture of exhilaration.’” [...]

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Sailing to Byzantium

In: Musings

29 Jun 2006

THAT is no country for old men. The young
In one another’s arms, birds in the trees
Those dying generations – at their song,
The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long
Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.
Caught in that sensual music all neglect
Monuments of unageing intellect.
An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A [...]

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Music Review – Farewell to Ferengistan

In: Music

28 Jun 2006

This latest CD has cemented my love for Toby Marks. I’ve never met the man but musically he creates stuff that is more potent to me than any sonnet or poem done by old Will.
I’m still processing all that I hear and till I can collect my thoughts I’ve borrowed the official press release from [...]

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Vertical Wall Spawns New Hope

In: Arch/Anthro

27 Jun 2006

From zeenews.com:
Discovery of vertical wall boosts hopes of existence of Bosnian pyramid
Belgrade, June 27: Archaeologists working on an excavation site in Bosnia say there is increasing evidence of the existence of a man-made pyramid at the site.
“The people living in this area discovered the walls a few days ago. The team in charge of pyramids [...]

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Egads! Who Will It Be?!

In: Books

26 Jun 2006

Got this off the wire…thanks goes to Reuters:

Rowling to kill two in final Potter book
Mon Jun 26, 3:52 PM ET
LONDON (Reuters) – Children’s author J.K. Rowling has revealed that at least two characters will die in the seventh and final installment of her bestselling Harry Potter series, but was careful not to say who.
Children [...]