Approaching Lake Atitlan on the Bus Once inside the bus, we relearned the meaning of “packing them in tight”. Just getting past the conductor required bodily contortion, and then once standing happily in the aisles, we were ordered to sit on one of the people who were seated two to a ...
Curry as a Particular Dish:Do you make Curry, people will ask me, or claim to love Curry. I don’t have to spend too much time on this meaning because clearly, Indians don’t all just eat one dish, all billion of us, day in and day out, week after week. Gloopy Spicy Dish:Movin...
manicddaily, Odysseus not a wholly good guy, the blind poet was probablymuch more equanimous Comments 21 Comments NYC Late Seventies March 12, 2014 Old painting/collage by me (supposed to be Broadway in Thick Snow!) New York City– Late 70s Dear City you were just so grey ...
They ask, “Is Obama a CIA Controlled Manchurian Candidate.” I find this amusing since the guy he actually defeated in the election actually was a prisoner of war to communist forces like Raymond in the original Manchurian Candidate. A big tip o’ the hat to fellow Britt/SLU grad student...
“Do we need to?” Parker asks. “That Mark Perakh guy has already cut it down to almost nothing. And if Rugg, with all the modern computing power at his disposal, hasn’t in a decade been able to use his grilles and tables to construct a replica of his supposed simulacrum with th...
For years I’ve watched my elder sisters struggle to go to the university and come out with great results just to marry some guy and either become a housewife or settle for some small business. And it’s not that this is bad, but I’ve always thought they could do better. Anyways ...
That gold-medal tally could very likely double on the final day however as Hodgkinson was also a class above in the semi-finals of the women’s 800m, winning with complete ease in 2:00.05 – a cool 1.14 ahead of anyone else across both races. Guy Learmonth (Justin Rinaldi; Lasswade) ...
Ted is actually a guy called Ted Howell who has been probably the most important guy in Adams’ life for as long as anyone can remember. He headed up the Provo Think Tank during the early years of the peace process, ran Irish-America for the IRA and SF for years and years and has ...
There’s the adjective meaning expected (“the baby is due in September”), which showed up in the 19th century, and the one meaning proper or adequate (“driving with due care”), which appeared in the 14th century. Then there’s “due to,” often used to mean “because of.” As ...
I have had my share of poor service on those American airlines, where crew members clearly in the twilight years of their tenure literally threw food at me. And once, a steward was trying to hit on a big guy sitting next to me, in the process of which I was completely ignored while ...