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2009-10-12, 6:23 p.m.:
On the latest 'Mad Men,' Bobby Draper comes home from school toting one of my favorite lunchboxes - called Asteroids or something. Astronauts? I have a dinged up, rust-pocked old exemplar, which is nice cause it means I got it cheap and can just enjoy it sitting on a shelf or seen in children's arms. I can engage with it and keep it out to admire, and its design is really lovely, colorful and a bit free-floating-in-space wacky. Not like the ca. $1,000 1968 Star Trek Dometop Lunchbox I still own, in mint condition, and which I would like to unload eventually. The burden of caretaking it being too great. After the thrill of seeing the lunchbox, I am thinking of the year - it's August 1963 because we are hearing repeated snatches of Rev. King's "I Have a Dream" speech on the radio. I am thinking, wow, this lunchbox is sooooo old. Then it hits me that I was conceived in November 1963. I am vintage. 0 comments
2009-10-10, 5:45 p.m.:
So the word "lord" came from the Old English hlaford, which (as I just found out today) had the original form hlafweard, or bread keeper. (Both "loaf" and "ward" as well as "guard" are in there.) The king was the ring-giver, and the lord was the bread-keeper. It all makes sense. 0 comments
2009-06-30, 12:01 a.m.:
Ro to Atticus: "I COMMAND you to push me on the swing!" Atticus in reply: "I'm not your evil minion!" I know they are my children. 2 comments
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