April 2010
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It T-shirt Tuesday, Yo.
The Minerals Science Geology tee from Etsy shop “Math Science Animals” boasts gemstones and geodes taken from a vintage 19th century German textbook.
Ich bin ein Schwachkorb, und ich mochte dieses “T-shirt”.
Things that must surely be metaphors for... →
When you learn a foreign language well, but you don’t live in a country where the language is spoken and don’t habitually associate in the flesh with native speakers, you get embarrassing and unexpected holes in your vocabulary. You’ll have complex and arcane vocabulary down yet miss the seemingly obvious things, things that aren’t obvious to you because you never have to deal with them in the...
“A theme of Thompson’s life has been a relentless search for privacy. She...”
– From “Kay and Eloise,” a 1996 Vanity Fair article about Eloise author Kay Thompson
Hey, it’s been awhile.
“Heaven Can...