dangerous meredith

Vital lessons from the day words fell short

leomonkey — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:37:00 GMT

Vital lessons from the day words fell short

DON WATSON

The Age, September 19, 2009

''THEY leapt from mountain peak to mountain peak or far out into the lower country, lighting forests six or seven miles in advance of the m

TV Programmes: Tarzan / Lone Ranger / Zorro / Black Adder etc.

leomonkey — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:36:00 GMT

TV programmes I have recently watched: My TV antenna is broken so I don’t get the TV. Instead I can borrow out old TV programmes on DVD from my local library. Thanks to the library the programmes I have recently been watching (in lieu of the dreadf

Satff in carbon footprint trial face fines for high emissions

leomonkey — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:16:00 GMT

Thanks to my cousin Cam for spotting this and emailing it around:

From The Times
September 14, 2009

Staff in carbon footprint trial face £100 fines for high emissions

Ben Webster, Environment Editor

People

words: sternutation / pink

leomonkey — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:40:00 GMT

2 random words from Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day email bulletin:

sternutation

\ster-nyuh-TAY-shun\
noun

Meaning
: the act, fact, or noise of sneezing

Example Sentence
Julie knew that she

In Flanders Field

leomonkey — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:34:00 GMT

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived,

Excerpts from Death Sentence and other quotes

leomonkey — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:37:00 GMT

To give you some context for this blog I am first of all reproducing some text I wrote about a book I wrote about in an earlier blog:
Death Sentence – the decay of public language by Don Watson. This is a really good book. I had been eyeing it off n...

martial arts films: Clans of Intrigue, The Shadow Boxing, Martial Arts of Shaolin, Battle in Red Temple

leomonkey — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:47:00 GMT

Martial Arts Films I have recently watched:
(Please note: films that I have watched that are part of the Melbourne International Film Festival have been prefaced with MIFF)

Clans of Intrigue (Shaw Brothers, 1977) starring Ti Lung, Pei Ti,

Article: Artists are no longer mavericks at the fringes of society

leomonkey — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:14:00 GMT

by NEIL PIGOT

The Age, September 14, 2009

Shakespeare wrote in Measure for Measure that “Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.” Shakespeare was a man who knew a thing or two. So what is the truth of Australian theatre? It's in de...

Slough

leomonkey — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:25:00 GMT

Pronounced ‘sluff’

verb

Meaning
1 : to cast off or become cast off
2 : to crumble slowly and fall away
*3 : to get rid of or discard as irksome, objectionable, or disadvantageous — usually used with off

E...

Drummer Hodge by Thomas Hardy

leomonkey — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:08:00 GMT

They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest
Uncoffined -- just as found:
His landmark is a kopje-crest
That breaks the veldt around:
And foreign constellations west
Each night above his mound.

Young Hodge the drummer never kne