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I only aspire to a simulacrum of smartness, having long since eschewed real smartness as simply to difficult to achieve. I think you have confused to with too, my good fellow. It should read, and correct me if I am mistaken, "I only aspire too a simulacrum of smartness, having long since esche...

So I deliberately stay away from desultory browsing and forum scanning to allow time to get some actual paying work done, and lo and behold, my name is called while I'm out of the room. Good thing, too, in a way: while I am flattered at being included with those who may actually know their P's from ...

<...>supposited<...> Eeewwww. That's just an icky word. It's beneath you. Une petite apostrophe : It makes one wonder: having supposed , is one ... er ... supposited? Prior to a logical argument with one's proctologist, does one ... wait for it ... take the sup position? Suppostrophe: a complete an...

I participularly like the impish "it's". The errant apostrophe supposited amidst a distracting thicket of displaced clauses<...> You are too kind and charitable. Rather than the intentional flaw of the fabled rug-weaver, it is merely an errant finger producing an arrant error--I err, I er...

Before I begin, let me just say, I'm sorry for what I'm about to do, er, dangle: Whenever I am confronted by a gang of punk, streetwise educational editors in a dark street or dead end alley, I pull out a participle and dangle it in front of them to distract them. Then I toss it out into the roadway...

I'm still sputtering with the abominable possibilities afforded by such cognitive dissonance -- of such violence as to be tectonic in scale! Though indeed it's a little known fact that NSYNC was previously known as MOD12 and before that as Retrograde Inversion, a precocious young group that could, F...

If media and culture cycles can accelerate to the degree that even the vapid 80's is a well far enough back from which the creatively-impoverished international style mavens can draw, then I think now is the appropriate time to both mourn for, and revive (necromancy? necrophilia?) the halcyon days o...

I'm working on one of these for LOST IN TRANSLATION. Darn, I was hoping for "My Dinner with Andre" . That's funny: When I was posting the above, the first movie to actually pop into my head was "My Dinner with Andre" but I thought it might be a bit to obscure. See, now, that's t...

I'm working on one of these for LOST IN TRANSLATION. Darn, I was hoping for "My Dinner with Andre" -- that way, a movie that seems like it lasts 4 hours, regardless of its actual run length, would be condensed to a watchable length, and eliminate the ennervating sophmoric dialog (which is...

Clearly, the trend-makers have moved on - the forum name has stayed the same...for more than 2-3 days , clearly a sign that the aggressively hip music fusion cognoscenti have grown weary of our tired imaginings. I'm hoping for something like Britney Spears re-mixed by an Mbuti from the Ituri rainfor...

Johannes Ciconia Guillaume Dufay , check out the picture in the Wikipedia article, his associate in the painting, Binchois, has a certain...um..."attitude" which seem more RuPaul School than Burgundian School. There exists somewhere an interesting paper on the mathematical/proportional cor...

<...>the nohkan, the little flute that is used for it. It is the strangest way of making a flute you can imagine. Please elaborate - this sounds interesting! Yes, to all of you who may say "just Google it," I know the search engine exists. However, I read the board for the human interpret...

Yma Sumac: wacked-out peruvian proto-Carmen Miranda-cum-Screamin-Jay-Hawkins.

Check out the album "legend of the jivaro"

No that's some yodelin'.

very different beasties, each one of 'em, but a good start for Noh (other than the usual Google, and of course going to see some in Japan...) would be a book by Arthur Waley "The Noh Plays of Japan" It seems you can find an online free version here . Also try Googling [arthur waley noh] an...

Possibly three things going on. DPI, total rendered page width, & one CSS container set to 900px wide. Fine for me in FF 1.06 w/monitor set at 1024, DPI set at 96 (normal) and font size set at normal. CSS behaves nicely w/font size changes, so that shouldn't do it. I think it's reasonable to thi...