Happy Exelauno Day!
by V.E. on March 4th, 2011
More about Exelauno Day below.
(In ancient Greek, I’m told, exelauno means “to march forth”… Oh, puns; you amuse me.)
First Things
The Roxbury Latin School
TV Barn, which includes:
…Exelauno Day, a holiday drummed up by some clever classics prof who realized that the verb exelauno means “to march forth.” It’s most prominently featured in the military text Anabasis, a popular first-year text thanks to its sentence structure, which is more repetitive than a George Bush press conference.
Body Image PSA
by V.E. on February 18th, 2011
Body Image PSA from Vianca Lugo on Vimeo.
So true.
by V.E. on February 3rd, 2011
filed under entertainment, fyi
When asked if he ever wanted to be Harry while reading the books, Daniel Radcliffe said,
Not really. His life sounded like a nightmare!
Also, on the topic, sorta: someone’s (tragic) Drarry OTP gif.
Holiday Card Call 2010
by V.E. on December 6th, 2010
filed under fyi, personal, writing
This is my second (!!) annual Winterthing Card Call.
That is, if you want a holiday/winter card from me, please email me your real name and address and I’ll send you a card in time for… well, I’m a little late on the uptake this year, so it might be a New Years Card, you know? But if you send me your name and address, you will get a card from me, complete with yearly update and all.
My email is iwasborninjuneATgmailDOTcom… but with the actual symbols, of course. Please put “Winterthing Card” in the subject heading so that I don’t delete your message as spam.
Out of country addresses are fine. (I live in the USA.)
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Short update
by V.E. on December 5th, 2010
I’m not dead. I realize I haven’t updated this journal (or my Twitter or Facebook) in practically a month. Life’s gotten in the way.
I have a lot of shit to do (regarding this journal), including four reviews with actual deadlines, so you’ll see those up here sometime before the end of the month. In the mean time, I’ll be posting shortly my holiday wish list and a call for addresses if you’d like my annual winter card.
Gettysburg Address
by V.E. on November 19th, 2010
Watch this rendition of the Gettysburg Address today, on the 147th birthday of its first presentation by Abraham Lincoln on 19 November 1863.
Transcript:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
In Memory of John Lennon
by V.E. on October 9th, 2010
Today is John Lennon‘s 70th birthday. I’m not a Beatles fan, and I know nearly nothing about the man behind the myth, but I love this performance by the Northern Lights (set to “Imagine“) in 2006. I still get chills during the middle dance section every time I watch it.
