The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Harriet:

Another voice raised in praise of Kathryn from Sunnyvale and all her helpers. The party was out of this world (as is only proper). It had everything - dinosaurs, sodomy, lightsticks, knitting, miracle fruit, language, folly, plums, and xopher's chocolates. And (assigned to that room on the non-party floor) maybe even a bit of fraud.

And the pinata MacDonald was customizing when I got there, so that a thought bubble with the words "You People!" emerged from its mouth.

And, of course, you people.

Christopher Davis @ 193 - Thank you for putting my thoughts into words -

Teresa is being sprung! Hurrah!

In your honor I am watering my collection of 2 year old grapefruit seedlings :-)

Harriet
(who did, indeed, get large nasty
bruises at her heparin injection sites
after surgery this past Janiary)

@144

or perhaps not? I always get confused by "jahrhunderts".

David @141 and Paula @132 -
1900 might still fall within the 18. jahrhunderts, perhaps, but surely the 19th Century?

All my best wishes for a full and speedy recovery, Teresa, and as mentioned "elsewhere" you and PNH and all your assorted caregivers are in my prayers.

Patrick, thanks for posting this for all of us who'd heard only the bare minimum elsewhere and had been waiting, hopefully, for an "official bulletin". I for one was greatly relieved to learn (among other reliefs) that TNH's previous ML post was timestamped well after the stressful occurrences of the previous day. . .

Harriet
who'd been staring bemusedly at
the juxtaposition of the words
"Bring It On!" and "Teresa"

Life, the Universe, and Everything --

I just saw an entry in the "newyorkers" LJ community, titled "Cosmos on the Upper West Side".

And it took me far too long to realize that the poster was inquiring about...the cocktail.

Terry, John (#298, 299)

I've just caught up with 1998's Elizabeth for the first time, if only via the DVD played on my laptop. And that Cate Blanchett, in the scenes of Princess Elizabeth dancing on the greensward with her ladies, did have a delicate, lithe grace that was quite Elvish to my eye.

Whoops! Avedon's website at The Sideshow seems to have gone p/o/o/f/walkabout -- anyone know if this is just a temporary glitch, or what?

Oh dear.

I was just reading apartment listings on Craigslist (I'm looking for an affordable cat-friendly apt. in Brooklyn) and one of them included this ever-so-appealing description of the amenities:

"The hardwood floors are scraped and re-glazed to ensure a lack luster shine"...

[Presented for the amusement of the assembled throngs]

Happy Birthday, Teresa!

On this bright shiny morning I send you three bags full of the finest VirtuWool and the hope that Light may indeed be growing more abundant in our land after a long season of darkness. To the accompaniment of glorious sounds by that erstwhie sharer of your natal day, J.S. Bach.

I was sorry to read of Porco Bruno's demise - belated condolences on your loss. Through your stories of him, he won so many hearts.

As for the new Hiro Frumentious, welcome!

I want a skein of the same self-striping yarn that the Great Knitter used in his creation -- what amazing patterns!

Harriet
(who first thought the Sidelight was titled
New Hampshire Hamsters Old and New, before
the, er, light broke)

I got a really nice example of phishing/spam this afternoon:

Dear Bank Of America Military Bank member,

We are sorry to inform you that your online payments and transfers services are expired, and must be renewed immediately,

Unofficial result before they finished the official totals from the Friday Night portion of the auction was that they raised over $3000. More items are to be part of a silent auction running Sat to Sunday.

And it was an evening of bittersweet fun, with hilarious performances of selected dramatic works, poems, and stories by Mr. Ford, but I'm sure folks who were part of it will post more, um, accurate and comprehensive reviews.

Ooo...Master Geoffrey hath a poem makiþ mencioun of Seynt Valentines day! Woot!

Joann #848

Thank you!

Abi #840)

Amazon helpfully tells us that readers who bought your "essential vocabulary reference" (see link at #840) also bought Conversational Latin for Oral Proficiency". . .

(did I say that?)

Marilee #741

Does the nephrologist make you drink the Pure Stuff, 100% unsweetened cranberry, from the healthfood store, or something more palatable to the masses and hence stocked in supermarkets?

Eksofer and Abigwhat (74, 75, 76)

I'm yet another East Coaster who's always read "Er" as, well, "er"..."Ur"..."rrrrrrrr". Born and bred within 20 miles of Grand Central Terminal, but I've often and often been told that I don't sound like a New Yorker at all. Since my mother was from eastern Washington state via Chicago, and my father from the western side of the Adirondacks via Philadelphia, and I became addicted to Britlit at an early age, it's true that I don't speak Noo Yawk well at all.

And I'm another lifelong bookworm who learned words by reading them and guessing at the pronunciation, often amusingly far from the mark.

I blush to confess that I rarely read (both "reed" and "red") comics, so I'm pretty sure that I picked up my "er" from suspect British literary conversational models l/i/k/e/such as DLS's Lord Peter Wimsey.

And when googling for enlightenment just now, I found a link to a Neil Gaiman journal entry where he complains that after a long trip, his family has given up trying to hold conversations with him

due to the way that I seem very pleased to have successfully said "Umm...." and sometimes "Er... is there any tea?" and such and then trail off into bemused and jet-lagged and tour-lagged silence.

http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2006/10/um-er-um-tea.html

And somehow it doesn't seem likely that Gaiman would title an entry "Um-er-um-tea" if he was actually pronouncing it "Um-uh-um-tea".

So I do wonder if there may be another legitimate version of "er", coming from another dialect, separate from but related to the "uh/er" usage in the comics. But I don't know how to search it out. And, of course, I could be completely mizzled.

TexAnne (# 204) -- "Fluorospheroids" would go nicely with our hosts in their roles as "Toroids", which always reminds me of their CafePress merch with the giant orange blob menacing the Flatiron Building, as in:

http://www.cafepress.com/nielsenhayden.11002814

Also, I know that several of us are fairly spheroid, though the Fluorosphere contains all shapes and conditions of, er, Humanoids.

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