28 thoughts on “January 21, 2022: Rest In Peace”

1. Important update:

   my mind is fucking blown because I was going over proofs of one of my forthcoming pieces, & noted that “e.e. cummings” should be lowercase. IT TURNS OUT: “per family correspondence with Cummings, our copy editor says he preferred his name to be capitalized” (!!!!!!!)

   — Esmé Weijun Wang • 汪蔚君 (@esmewang) January 20, 2022

   1. I don't remember a ton from my highschool poetry class, but one of the things that always stuck with me was "never capitalize a single letter in e.e. cummings name, for to do so is an affront to God and men." So this is causing some conflicting feelings. The deprogramming is going to be difficult (though, his is not really a name that comes up frequently in my day to day life).

      1. A capital offense!

   2. I really liked her book

      I also really liked his book too (Edit: as well).

   3. I adore his work, and this will be tough to get used to. On the other hand, I did get used to single spaces between sentences.

2. Why did it take me so long to realize that the guy singing backup on the Hold Steady's "Magazine" is the lead singer from Lucero?

3. TIL that Meatloaf was a COVIDiot and it likely was the cause of death.

   1. He would do anything for love but he won't get vaxxed

      1. Where's Weird Al when we need him?!

         1. Being played by Harry Potter.

   2. Louie Anderson has also passed away. This appears to be from cancer though.

      1. aw man. MN represent

   3. I didn’t realize, but everything else I ever read about him makes this unsurprising news.

4. Mrs Runner and I are looking at a trip to Prague in Aug/Sep timeframe (and maybe include Munich?) -- so far, not finding the nice airfares :/

   1. Lemme know if you go, I got recs

   2. New Prague or the old one?

   3. If you go, be careful while you’re Czeching the view out of any windows.

      1. Heh. The other day Aquinas was trying to pronouce the word "defenstration" ("Never make fun of people for mispronouncing a word. It means they learned it by reading.") and Philosofette was convinced he was saying something that wasn't a word at all. I was able to come to his defense, and now the whole family knows about the 30 Years' War.

         1. English "window" = German "Fenster"

            1. Ich weiß.

               1. Ich weiß.
                  Aber naturlich.

               2. I bet you everyone in high school German class could still sing a line or two from this song. Ich weiß…

                  1. Bitte meinen bleistaff spitzen?

            2. I think in this case both English and German are borrowing from the Latin fenestra.

               1. Scio.

            3. I have a line of the family tree that are the Fenstemachers

         2. My favorite part of the whole situation is that there were enough denfenstrations of Prague that one needs to specify which

5. The Wild discovered one weird trick

   If I was a team I would just score goals and not allow any goals

   — EvolvingWild (@EvolvingWild) January 22, 2022

   So glad to beat the crap out of the Balckhawks. Hope they do it again tomorrow.

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