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Long time no blog…

5 December 2003

3890 CommentsLong+time+no+blog...2003-12-05+16%3A25%3A00Michael

…but at least it hasn’t been 2,500 years. English roadway workers have just unearthed a skeleton in a chariot buried 500 BC. After a marginally interesting post such as that one, the question each of you must ask yourselves is, “Why am I not reading Ed Page’s Danger Blog instead?” He just sent me an [...]

Jack Handey Shouts and Murmurs, Caesar, and DFW

28 April 2003

2421 Comment2003-04-28+15%3A46%3A00Michael

It’s right here. Were I editing it, I’d try a draft where the second half was about 25% shorter, and I wouldn’t introduce an element of Authority at the end. It gets too grounded in reality, I think–JH’s best when he’s in a sort of addled twilight. Hey, did anybody else see that Discovery Channel [...]

The Hokey Pokey, by William Shakespeare

19 April 2003

2400 Comments2003-04-19+16%3A14%3A00Michael

From a recent contest held by the Washington Post’s Style section, here’s one Jeff Brechlin’s version of the “Hokey Pokey” as written by William Shakespeare: Ye Olde Hockey Pokey O proud left foot, that ventures quick within Then soon upon a backward journey lithe. Anon, once more the gesture, then begin: Command sinistral pedestal to [...]