- I’m not too crazy about the song, but this video, by Michel Gondry, who also did videos for Bjork and Cibo Matto, knocked my pantaloons off.
- Today’s Forgotten English� word of the day:
cumsloosh
A humbug, a flatterer. To get a cumsloosh, to become a bit poor, or relatively so.
�– Michael Traynor’s The English Dialect of Donegal, 1953.It might pay for Liz Phair to enrich her wordpower.
- Today I learned that there’s a species of penguin called the Macaroni Penguin. Which means I’ve launched a campaign to start calling my favorite comfort food “Penguin and Cheese.”
- Happy birthday, Charles Lamb!