Georgina Klitgaard: Winter Afternoon, 1934 (via Smithsonian American Art Museum)
by Mark Eckman and Jerrold H. Zar
I have a spelling checker,
It came with my PC.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.
Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it’s weigh.
My checker tolled me sew.
A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when eye rime.
Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule.
The checker pours o’er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.
Bee fore a veiling checker’s
Hour spelling mite decline,
And if we’re lacks oar have a laps,
We wood bee maid too wine.
Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
Their are know fault’s with in my cite,
Of nun eye am a wear.
Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped word’s fare as hear.
To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should bee proud,
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaw’s are knot aloud.
Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
Such soft wear four pea seas,
And why eye brake in two averse
Buy righting want too pleas.
“Reach for the stars. Start with the spring rolls.” — Tonight’s fortune cookie
“The greater part of those who have written their memoirs have only shown us their bad actions or their weaknesses when they happen to have mistaken them for deeds of prowess or fine instincts, a thing they often do.” — Tocqueville
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From an actual recipe book called Let’s Serve Something New. 53 Selected Recipes for the use of Liver, Heart, Kidney, Sweetbreads, Tongue and other Meat Specialties (via Ptak Science Books)
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Poster Display of a War Poster, “Don’t Talk” (via The U.S. National Archives)
Fondren Library, 60th Anniversary -
Neat site offering retrospective look at the Rice University library
“What I actually want to say is, yippee!” — Archbishop Desmond Tutu, on news of President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, as quoted by LeeAnna Keith
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Early photographically illustrated books -
Nearly 1,500 nineteenth-century photographs in an Online Gallery at the British Library.
Image of ‘John Henry’s Hand’ by Fred Becker.
Fred Becker (Born: Oakland, California 1913 Died: Amherst, Massachusetts 2004)
wood engraving image: 6 1/8 x 4 5/8 in. (15.4 x 11.6 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum
(via Smithsonian American Art)
Some of the jauntiest Civil War soldiers I’ve ever seen in a Matthew Brady photograph (via The U.S. National Archives)