Friday, October 9, 2009
320. Name the game?
Identify the game.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
319. Unwanted advice?
Now mostly encountered to specify a hanger-on/spectator in a game of bridge or chess, offering (often unwanted) advice or commentary.
Which term?
Monday, October 5, 2009
318. Bringing back to life?
This effect is also present in many professional and home software applications (the iPhoto, iMovie etc from Apple) and is named after the guy who popularized it in some epoch making documentaries.
What is this effect called?
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
316. Rules for Spontaneity?
1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for your own joy
2. Submissive to everything, open, listening
3. Try never get drunk outside your own house
4. Be in love with your life
5. Something that you feel will find its own form
6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
7. Blow as deep as you want to blow
8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
9. The unspeakable visions of the individual
10. No time for poetry but exactly what is
11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time
15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
19. Accept loss forever
20. Believe in the holy contour of life
21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
22. Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better
23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
29. You're a Genius all the time
30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven
Who?
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
315. Hercules's victim?
Hercules not knowing exactly where she was, built a great tomb for her which became this entity. Which one?
Monday, September 21, 2009
314. Fresh Fruits
Created in 1966 by Ron Karenga, X is a week-long holiday celebrated in the United States honoring African heritage and culture. The name of the festival is derived from the Swahili phrase "matunda ya X", meaning "first fruits". Each of the seven days is dedicated to Nguzo Saba or 'The Seven Principles' described as Umoja (Unity), Kujichagulia (Self-Determination), Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility), Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics), Nia (Purpose), Kuumba (Creativity) and Imani (Faith).
The week day celebration is marked by lighting a kinara (candle holder) and pouring of libations, and culminating in a feast and gift giving. The greeting for each day of is "Habari Gani", Swahili for "What's the News?"
The US stamp (pic), created by artist Daniel Minter, shows seven figures in colorful robes symbolizing the seven principles.
Which celebration am I talking about?




