Here is T.S. Eliot talking about a friend:
“For him there was no frontier between the material and the spiritual world. Had I ever to spend a night in a haunted house, I should have felt secure with Williams in my company; he was somehow protected from evil, and was himself a protection… To [...]

Everyone else is doing it (started I fear by Boynton). Here’s a post run through The English-to-12-Year-Old-AOLer Translator.
“FIND A FUL GROWN SPERM WHAEL ON DA BACH!111!1 WTF LAAEV IT THEYRE FOR A WHIEL 2 FERM3NT IN TEH HOT SUN!!111!11 OMG WTF LOAD IT ON A RILLY BIG TRUK AND CART IT THROUGH URBAN TAWEAN
TAEK!11!1!1 OMG [...]

“Temperament – This is of major importance and should be a deciding factor as to whether you buy a particular animal or not. After picking a potential pet up, examine it closely.‚Ć Does it unroll after a few seconds? Does he click, jump or hiss? Hissing is okay. It is simply frightened because it doesn√≠t [...]

Find a full grown sperm whale on the beach. Leave it there for a while to ferment in the hot sun. Load it on a really big truck, and cart it through urban Taiwan.
Take a photograph after it explodes. There is a point beyond disgusting which is weirdly awesome..
You know that strangely pellucid plastic eggshelly [...]

Many of them were hanged, with broken necks and the bones of their hands clenched. Some had been dissected, probably illegally by medical students, who sawed off the tops of the skulls. In all there are fifty nine complete bodies from a pit outside Oxford.
Buried over centuries, the earliest point to what the Guardian calls [...]

“”I would drop into Police Headquarters at around 7:00 p.m. If nothing’s stirring and my elbow [...]

Harvie Krumpet has been nominated for an Oscar. Producer Melanie Coombs and director Adam Elliott are grinning joyfully on the television. It’s a triumph.
You can wear Harvie on your shirt courtesy of ACMI merchandising, read about him and his creators at Sleepybrain and share his triumph at the Annecy Festival – the accolade which [...]

Every now and again, inveterate bloggaholics like me find a new site which is major major major terrific and authoritative…
Loom does daily biological science journalism, as part of the larger groupmind of Corante and its orbiting weblogs. The eagle eyed Keneth Miles, no mean scribe himself, recommended Loom, while explaining parts of human evolution. I [...]

This item is dedicated to Shiralee Saul, who created the spiffy new Barista look, even though she could have been working on the luscious unposted front to her own site. At the time, everyone else was disgracing themselves in public.
In the very early years of the twentieth century, electricity in England was a swanky [...]

The creators of Beagle 2 have pretty well surrendered.
“”We haven’t found Beagle 2, despite three days of intensive searching,” said Professor Colin Pillinger, lead scientist for Beagle 2. “Under those circumstances, we have to begin to accept that, if Beagle 2 is on the Martian surface, it is not active.