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Music: I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger (MP3)
I am a poor wayfaring stranger, While traveling through this world of woe. Yet there’s no sickness, toil nor danger In that bright world to which I go. I’m going there to see my Father; I’m going...
View ArticleThe Gashlycrumb Tinies, by Edward Gorey
The Gashlycrumb Tiniesor, After the Outing by Edward GoreyAn Appalling Alphabet Which Introduces A Gallery Of Enchanting Tots And Produces A Gasp Of Involuntary Mirth When They Attain Their Dreadful...
View ArticleMovie: Oceans 11
From a time less objective (Jason).Later that day I went to Sara’s house to watch Ocean’s 11 for the first time. It was really stylized and witty, but I found it rather dry for deeper themes and...
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Honour, Honesty, and One of Those Silly Web Quizzes
I hate those silly online quizzes. I really do. But this one is a bit different: it provides some framework for discussing my philosophies of honour and honesty. (Except for that typo right in the...
View ArticleThe Y1K Bug, Canterbury, England, A.D. 999.
Here’s a pull from the stale joke file. This just might be old enought to be funny now. Do you remember in 1999 the whole Y2K media-hyped “crisis”? Of course, for a variety of technical reasons,...
View ArticleAn “Edumacation” Devoutly to Be Wished
Now, I can’t say I would recommend the weblog this came from as a general rule, but the irony of someone as liberal as the author making this suggestion just kills me. (I’m not going to provide a...
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Project English Language (on Leet)
Project English Languageon (LEET, L337, 1337) and its followers I may be part of an breed unwelcome online, so the following may not be a common opinion. Then again, I hope I only attract an audience...
View ArticleGreen Tea and Red China
Green Tea and Red Chinaor The Way of Tea Jun loved his tea. About my age, or a little older, or a little younger perhaps, Jun was on his way to William Penn University, a small Quaker institution...
View ArticleEight Oh Seven
Eight Oh Seven True colours do begin to show. In the absence of any organizing influence, the rebellion latent — and obvious to only a few observant — in so many rises like a green film to the...
View ArticleEratosthenes
Eratosthenes Eratosthenes had my job. Or anyway, I want his job. The life of a scholar is one not often available in our common times (for I would venture to say that times past were most uncommon)....
View ArticleHeart Basket
Heart Basket Everything eventually becomes a hobby in my life, whether that be good or bad. In place of relationships I think I keep a heart basket: a kind of vasiculum of feminine emotions gleaned...
View ArticleThe Wavering Misogynist
The Wavering Misogynist-or- “A tame, vacant, doll-faced, idle gal!”I came to the realization yeterday that there are no women worth any time whatsoever. Time is a most valuable commodity — even more so...
View ArticleArt Deco and a Piano Man
Art Deco and a Piano ManThis was written on November 20th.I have never exactly considered art deco to be a light, open, “castle-in-the-air” style. Apparently no one told that to whoever designed the...
View ArticleHow to Raise a Perfect Little Angel
How to Raise a Perfect Little Angelor, Training and TrustingOf course you’ve heard teenagers and even younger children claim, “My parents don’t trust me.” Every child psychologist will tell parents...
View ArticleFirst Sign of Winter
First Sign of WinterWritten Friday, December 10th, 2004, in Pensacola, Florida.The hibiscus are blooming. In the whipping breezes, long hibiscus branches rising from the ground swing and whirl their...
View ArticleComfort Ye My People
Comfort Ye My PeopleNote: Yes, this piece is somewhat religious in nature. However, please do not allow that to scare you away. I think I can promise nearly every reader, of whatever creed, a line or...
View ArticleAll Things Feminine
All Things FeminineThere is that which running along after like a lost puppy is no shame.I have an untoward gravitation, I think, towards all things feminine. No, not in the way that I am some...
View ArticleLoneliness
LonelinessThere is in loneliness an exquisiteness which longs to be imbibed unadulterated, like absinthe without sugar. Some delicate flavour among the varied bitterness demands to be tasted of...
View ArticleScraps is Being Replaced
Yes, folks, at last the time has come to disembark from this port which so long held my mind and thoughts. Scraps is, as of now, an archival weblog. My new weblog, Passage to Serendipity, has sent out...
View ArticleIn Memoriam America
In memory of those whose dreams and schemes gave us this land, of those who died for the freedom that was America, of those whose blood watered the Tree of Liberty.We have not kept your dream. We have...
View ArticleSehrgut Anachronism: New Site
I’ve just launched a new subsection of Sehr Gut Web: Sehrgut Anachronism (housing the Codex Anachronisticus: Sehr Gut). Here I&rsqou;ll be depositing all my anachronistic researches and...
View ArticleCeltic Music
New page here! I just put together the beginnings of a Celitc site (including a bit about my favourite song of all time.I’ve always loved Celtic music, especially that of the Irish persuasion. Now, I...
View ArticleDanny Doyle, Where the Blarney Roses Grow, and C.
I've just put up a new bit of content over at the Sehr Gut Web Codex:Celtic.Spirit of the Gael (Danny Doyle)A didgeridoo. In Irish music. Did Celts even have didgeridoos? Well, no matter, because in...
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'Twas Brillig: a Jabberwocky Site
“The Jabberwocky” is perhaps the most well-known, well-loved, studied, and revered piece of nonsense literature in the English language (well, ostensibly English, anyway), and perhaps in any language....
View ArticleMedical College of Georgia Class Notes
Okay, another new page (well, sub-site, really). Since I am a Ph.D. student at the Medical College of Georgia, I figured I could kill two birds with one stone and publish my notes from class lectures...
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