"It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed."

Its fun to watch friends discover, unprompted, memes and books and such that I've known about forever. There's a kind of nostalgic glory in watching them discover thing and places I have already discovered.

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Missing Dumas Novel Sees Print After 136 Years

The Illuminated Middle Ages

London Review of Books: James Davidson reviews Alan Bray's The Friend, a study of same sex marriage in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Celebrities Playing Table Tennis
This seems to be everywhere today, so I guess I'll link it here, too

30 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do on the Internet
Frankly, I did know you could do most of these things, I just didn't care.....

Wikipedia: A List of Fictional Curse Words

One for jducoeur: Marvel Value Stamps

Ghost Sign: corner of Center & Congress, Portland

Ghost Sign: corner of Center & Congress, Portland

A Ghost Sign is "a faded, painted sign, at least 50 years old, on an exterior building wall heralding an obsolete product, an outdated trademark or a clue to the history of the building's occupancy."

This ghost sign is at the corner of Center and Congress Streets in Portland (here's the general area), and seems to be for Owen (?) Hooper's Sons, who sold "...cases and Filing Cabinets".

Here are some of my favorite Ghost Sign sites on the web:

Fading Ad

Lileks

Toronto Ghost Signs

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