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Monthly Archives: July 2013
Lagniappe
“When I heard that oxygen and magnesium hooked up I was like OMg.” Get it? OMG is short for “oh my God,” but also O is the symbol for oxygen and Mg is the symbol for magnesium. This is one … Continue reading
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Went With The Wind
In 1936 Margaret Mitchell’s still-popular book Gone with the Wind (GWTW) was published. The movie version of the book with a fabulous cast that included Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Thomas Mitchell, Butterfly McQueen and Hattie McDaniel … Continue reading
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The History of Typography
I can remember the days of the manual typewriter when the only font available was a typeface called Courier. It was a monospaced font – meaning that the space allotted for every character was the same. A lower case “i” … Continue reading
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Quotes of Note
“Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.” – H. L. Mencken “If you can’t say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.” – Alice Roosevelt Longworth (She was the daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, and was, for … Continue reading
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Quiz of the Month – July 2013
Each entry below contains three words that are associated with a work of fiction, nonfiction, a play or a poem. Name the work and its author using only the three-word clues – if you can. You can find the answers … Continue reading
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This I Believe
In the early 1950s the great Edward R. Murrow encouraged people, both famous and ordinary, to write short essays on their core values, and then to read them on a five minute long CBS radio program called This I Believe. … Continue reading
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Max Perkins, Editor Extraordinaire
When we think of authors and their books, we generally think of them writing alone, handing a manuscript to a publisher who either accepts or rejects it. In fact, the book publishing business is seldom that simple. Harper Lee, for … Continue reading
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