Archive for April, 2007
Taglines
Since taglines are oh-so-important and so utterly pithy and positively oozing with meaning, I thought it appropriate to spend a bit of time thinking about mine. Because, you know, with a name like ‘mixed nuts’ a blog can so easily be confused with, say, a laundry list and it’s so very important that you explain […]
Listen to this
The fantastic Kyla Pasha has put up a few recordings of her reading three of her poems. I can’t decide which is my favorite although I can tell you right now that I wish I’d written all three. Go have a listen and tell her what you think.
Urdu poetry
The Urdu Poetry Archive is probably the most comprehensive Urdu poetry site I’ve come across so far. It contains over 1,800 poems by about 343 poets and has an alphabetical listing of both, which makes it easy to locate whatever you’re looking for. It hasn’t been updated for a few years though and I hope it hasn’t been abandoned […]
Of trochees and iambs, or how we pick up language
If you’ve ever wondered why our voices go up a few octaves and become distinctly sing-song-y when we talk to children (and yes, even a misanthrope like me does on occasion talk to children), Professor Steve Jones may have an answer.
And thereby hangs a tale; for rhythm is essential to language. Children pick up […]It’s A Blog!
We’ve been kicking around the idea of adding a blog to the site because it’s just more convenient than uploading entire pages each time I write a new paragraph. Admittedly, it’s not that many pages but hey, if I can do something in two clicks instead of three, I’m happy. So we finally did it […]