January 2010
1 post
carson city, nevada
st. louis, missouri
baltimore, maryland
more information can be found on this unusual occurance here.
October 2009
2 posts
you think that i would actually register this...
who do you think i am, topherchris?
September 2009
3 posts
for an additional recipe that calls for a great razin of the sun: here
for another tasty method of brewing ale: here
my beef with the duodecimal and sexigesimal divisions of time shall be reserved for another day.
August 2009
3 posts
1 tag
arguably, the terminal e in words like, rake and bore is a diacritical mark. but let us save this argument for another time when i am drunk on parisettes and you are wetnursing a baby kangaroo.
beats me.
just kidding, the garamonds are in the order presented.
July 2009
2 posts
1 tag
June 2009
5 posts
more important than his accomplishments of having written for the late show with david letterman and american dad is the fact that steve is a card-carrying member of the ultra-prestigious susan hinshberger business card club.
uncle tom’s cabin by harriet beecher stowe
fanny hill by john cleland
candide by voltaire
lolita by humbert humbert (lolita, or the confessions of a white widowed male is the book within the book lolita)
slaughterhouse five by kurt vonnegut, jr. (you have to love titles of the type: TITLE-1, or (TITLE-2: SUB-TITLE))
blood meridian by cormac mccarthy
tartuffe by molière
frankenstein...
it's the avant-garde!
these lines are from the poem, housecat falconry by jay hopler as published in the winter 2005 edition of the iowa review. the full poem:
Blame our lack of fatted apples on these lachrymose battledores. On these flame-retardant peach carts, blame our mania for sleep. O motherless, O sunlit jumper cables! O cancerous chandeliers! Blame our spermicidal honeymoon on these inebriated bicycles. On...
May 2009
9 posts
further notes:
not to miss is oomb’s tiptop breakdown of yesterday’s names.
supposing one wanted to rap about stone fruit, here is a proposed set of rhyming words: nectacots and connect-the-dots.
it is worth noting that many of these names are registered trademarks.
just as yesterday’s cutlery singularity, splayd was ill-sounding, today’s singularity, nectacotum sounds...
shellabarger mills is of no relation to that other guy.
best gift from my second cousin ever. thank you nelson!
not to brag or anything
but the ragbag is one of the top 50,000 blogs on tumblr. the meta-ragbag however, is not.
gemma
noun • a portmanteau of my own coinage combining the terms gem and lemma.
in the proud tradition of unplanned themed days at the ragabag, cinco de mayo is surname day. other days:
12/4/2008: sex and literature day
1/26/2009: james bond day
3/18/2009: weapon day
4/22/2009: belgium day
6/9/2009: each post in honour of the one before it day
non-themed days are here.
incidentally, as far as i can tell, the ganan in raynor ganan is from the old high german word, gangan (to walk), whose english great-great-grandsons are gang plank and doppelganger.
additionally, there is this jonathan coulton song which would make my mom’s cheeks blush if she ever heard it.
April 2009
17 posts
actually, erasmus wasn’t a vampire so much as a vampire sympathizer. he was a werewolf however and that group wouldn’t gain equal rights in the netherlands until well into the 1800’s when the ghost of a hapsburg prince accidentally got his werewolf chambermaid pregnant with his ghost sperm.
interesting story: the resulting baby grew up to be the first person to observe the...
with sincere apologies to the baronessa.
also to note: i enjoy analysing the old english vs. greek names for each of these devices.
it is not a true ragbag post unless i can tag it with both my sex tag AND word tag.
the oma in question is not mine nor my father’s but my father’s father’s. (my besayle).
FULL DISCLAIMER: i am a marketing ploy initiated by a firm contracted by a subsidiary of bidness-cards.com. the sole reason for me blogging is to gain your trust and eventually your address so bidness-cards.com can add you to their prospective clients list.
CREDIT: raynor ganan™ is actually the following people:
posts about books: wan li zhang
posts with crude jokes/dirty words: weng su
the...
March 2009
3 posts
