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This is a copy of a letter I wrote, printed, stamped, & sent to a textbook publishing company.
I have actually written, printed, stamped, & sent a letter that contained the phrase According to my calculations.
It should also be noted that the issue at hand is a minor detail & has no bearing whatsoever on the [...]

I found this 25-volume set of Mark Twain’s Works at the Cellar Stories Sidewalk Sale over the weekend… for $25. Who’s awesome? I’m awesome. This set is the “Royal Edition”, featuring illustrations in each volume. It was published by the American Publishing Company in Hartford, Connecticut, between 1899 and 1907. According to the first page, [...]

wamfle (v.) To go about with flapping garments. Of garments, etc., to flap, flutter (in the wind). Her sails were wamflin’ i’ the wind. —Fife.
widdendream, widdrim (n.) obs. A state of mental disturbance or confusion; a wild fit. Chiefly in phr. in a widdendream or widdrim, usu. = in a ‘furious’ hurry, all of a [...]

Elbo.ws = my new source for finding random remixes of songs I like, like “The Reeling” remixed by Calvin Harris (gleaned from Gotta Dance Dirty). If you walked in on me right now, you’d find me with headphones clamped on & cranked up, doing the Johnny Bravo dance* with all my might.
* No satisfactory animated [...]

The screen is black. Or blank. Both. It isn’t plugged in, it squats in the corner blank & silent.
She dances in front of it, hair curled in double helixes, ankles at obtuse angles, smile constant and wide. She shuffles and hums, hums and drums her feet upon the floor. The room is silent and she [...]

slicing the sky into chords, braiding themselves in shadow, my favorite city side effect

Interesting websites I have recently come across:

The Longest Poem in the World: featuring Twitter.
Weltschmerz: a German word I found via John Steinbeck. German’s got a great vocabulary.
The astronomical drawings of Étienne Trouvelot: via but does it float.
A collage map of the world’s tallest buildings (1896): on UT’s historical map collection (which is neat in itself).
http://www.yooouuutuuube.com. [...]

Hey, it’s that guy from The History Boys. This looks pretty great. I’ll have to read the book first though. Anybody want to lend it to me?