Links for September 2024
The Batrachomyomachia (“Battle of the Frogs and Mice”) is a comic epic parody of the Iliad and a good source of names for your pet mice. Like Artepibulus, “he who lies in wait for bread”. Greek...
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Third Potato Riffs Report
For many people, eating a diet of nothing but potatoes (or almost nothing but potatoes) causes quick, effortless weight loss. It’s not a matter of white-knuckling through a boring diet — people eat as...
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The Dukakis Theory of Donnie Darko
Do you remember the opening line of 2001 cult classic Donnie Darko? That’s right, it’s “I’m voting for Dukakis.” Donnie Darko is set on the eve of the presidential election of 1988, where Texas...
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Links for October 2024
“You pant after the garlic and melons of Egypt and have already long suffered from perverted tastes.” “Bembo is a serif typeface created by the British branch of the Monotype Corporation in 1928–1929...
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