un regard oblique

26.1.03

Basque (Northern Spain and South West France)-anchovy (dried fish), bizarre (beard), jingo (god - used in jingoism)
Choctaw (North America)-
Alabama (US state - I clear the land), Oklahoma (US state - red people)

Caterina-&-Open Brackets-&-Language Hat
each of whom then points to this as being more etymologically accurate.

I love yiddish because it is a language centered on the human condition. It has an incredible of collection of curses, praises, and characterizations. It is an onomatopoetic language--if I call you a schmuck, you would know I was being offensive even if you had never heard of yiddish. It laughs at wealth. It skewers arrogance. It deflates pomposity.

Most of all, it's a survivor's language. It has survived disdain and neglect, pogroms and concentration camps, with laughter and tears, and mostly, defiance.

late night thoughts

should put wood's lot in this links list too.
Meiji albumen prints, old Japan photographs

24.1.03

string figures, cat's cradles, magic threads

23.1.03

"He looked into my eyes in the same way he must have looked at Elvis and Howlin' Wolf and I reached a whole new level of music," says producer/musician and Phillips disciple Jim Dickinson, recalling his early '60s sessions with the Jesters at Sam Phillips Studio (the one Sam opened a few blocks away after he closed Sun). "I never had an experience like staring into Sam's eyes. This is what he does, going into the artist's head and getting more than what they're capable of."