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 Which word is funnier: child or kid?
Clue: This is according to the book Drawing on the Funny Side of the Brain
Answer: Kid, as it is “zippier sounding” (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
Citation: Christopher Hart, Drawing on the Funny Side of the Brain (1998), p. 107
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"When a new mode of imagining erupts into literature, it dislocates the rhetoric of its time, and is of subtler stuff than that rhetoric—'the infinite arrives barefoot on this earth,' says Hans Arp." —Christopher Middleton's introduction to Jakob Von Guten by Robert Walser--- William Keckler writes: I love the Hans Arp quote. Or was it Jean Arp? It must be hard to live in Alsace-Lorraine where one never knows one's true name or nationality.
Binary human beings should make a comeback.
I'm fairly certain one of my favorite poetry presses in America, Burning Deck, published Mr. Middleton's own poetry, as well as some of his translations. Unfortunately, I don't own those books, though I probably own a hundred other titles from that awesome press run by legends Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop.
I think it's cool to see you zero degrees of separation away from them with this post, Craig!
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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:
In honor of the Scottish band Simple Minds and lead singer Jim Kerr's resort hotel in Taormina, Sicily. --- William Keckler writes: Loves it. I've loved Simple Minds since a wee lad, and used to drive to distant towns to get imports. Imagine how different life was in the 1980s. Just unfathomable to think now. No ABE.com to find that rara avis book in fifteen minutes; we would have had to roam to the ends of the earth to find it, and poked our head in every tiny bookshop (and good look with the hours!) No illegal downloads of every song ever recorded. Go find a record ship that stocks imports or can order it for you. Wait a few weeks then drive a hundred miles. I think I can now officially be Grumpy Old Man who (Dana Carvey's character) talking about walking miles through the snow to get to school and having to eat my own arm to sustain myself on the journey.
Sparkle in the Rain was my favorite. Just gorgeous mastering, that record. But I love the earlier, avanty stuff too. Empires and Dance is an awesome album. Singles like "Changeling" have incredible quantum shifts in them!
I think they gave more than the name to my favorite band of all time, the Cocteau Twins. How can Robin Guthrie's shimmering and chiming guitar not be somewhat influenced by how Simple Minds turned the guitar into a decadent instrument.
They achieved such a "large" sound on Sparkle in the Rain, grand without slipping into the grandiose ever.
There, I've "blown your comment box all up" as the kiddies say.
Comments are supposed to be one or two sentences.
The decaying corpse of Miss Manners will surely be after me tonight like a bad Raimi flick.
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The poet W. B. Keckler, of Sanskrit of the Body fame, called us a "logolater" (an idolizer of words), noting that logolaters "are the unicorns of the linguistic kingdom." Keckler is qualified to make such a statement, as "poetry invented the unicorn, the centaur, and the phoenix. / Hence it is true that poetry is an everlasting Ark" (Delmore Schwartz, "The Kingdom of Poetry"). --- Double You Bee writes: My Dear Oddfellow, I collect Tamagotchi. Nobody wants them anymore and they thrive in thrift stores like your century flower. Especially the stuffed ones. Many of them are uncircumcized and can be worked in and out of a pouch they zipper down into. Their necks are Tamagotchi prepuces. They are known for their dearth of facial features which may be, alas, the future.
Now I will believe there are unicorns.
They lay their heads upon the laps of virgins.
Why are there no unicorns near me?
"They flee from me that sometime did me seek..."
Poets invented the unicorn, the centaur and the phoenix because they are the unicorn, the centaur and the phoenix.
Alas.
Also, they exist to say alas.
Alas.
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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:
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Which word is funnier: motel or hotel?
Clue: This is according to the book Drawing on the Funny Side of the Brain
Answer: Motel, as it is “low rent.” (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
Citation: Christopher Hart, Drawing on the Funny Side of the Brain (1998), p. 107
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