Word: spellings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chatting online, now that's a warped world. Ever notice how netizens can't spell? Typical internet guy types: "You prolly think your too kewl for me. Hehe." Our typical response: "Damn, that's the first intelligent thing that you've said all night." And then there are those girls with cutesy names, like "tedibear" and "kupkake," with three mental food groups: Beanie Babies, Leo D, and diaphragms. Excuse us while we puke ever so gently in our little corner of cyberspace. But better that than studying for midterms...
...woolly worms are scarce this year, maybe because of the two-month dry spell, the one that induced the maples, oaks and sycamores marching high up the mountains on the Cumberland Plateau to skip turning red and gold and go straight to dead, brittle brown. The worms that have been found, however, are solid black, while the hornets are building their nests close to the ground, and the spiders are sticking together, weaving their webs nearly on top of one another. Taken together, these and other signs mean the coming winter "is going to be a humdinger," says Helen Lane...
...This Desire? grows a bit tired in its third quarter, which the structure of Harvey's 2,000-mile framework probably demands, but which nonetheless threatens the totality of the record's spell. "The River" in particular suffers from an inertia rare for Harvey. Its loping murmur is appropriate to the title image, and it's fun to hear her tinkering with brass, but a rather rote delivery ("And they came from the river/and they came to the road") and subjective vagueness (who is "they," and why does it become "we"?) make the song tiresome and opaque...
...quirky wit. "D.H. Lawrence compared puberty to being crucified on a cross of sex," he said at one point. "Well, it's not that bad, but then Lawrence always took things rather hard." Later, when questioned by an audience member about poetry's ability to help students learn to spell, Koch snapped back, "You don't teach ballet to improve someone's posture...
Another catchy tune--but much harder to convey in writing--is one in which the players simply spell out Harvard or Crimson in a specific rhythm as follows: "C, r, i-m-s, o-n, C-r-i-m. s, o, n-C-r, i-m-s-o-n." It's better if you just hear...