A Rossamünd Costume

Given today is October 31st, I thought a bit of costume action would be appropriate.Ben, 10, the son of a friend of a friend of mine (the faithful and rather clever Sue-Ellen who gets me out of fixes with Latin and Greek) wanted to dress as Rossamünd for his school’s book parade this week. ... And so he did.I think his costume looks rather splendid;...

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from: Haribo S.to: tiangotlost@gmail.comdate: Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:50 AMsubject: SubmissionHi there.One of my friends posted this on Facebook and claims it says "william beloved son", is this accurate?http://imgur.com/iU0i7.jpgThanks :) love the blogThis is another case of Chinese-Japanese mismatch.威廉 is Chinese phonetic transliteration of "William",...

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Q&A

I'm Allliiivvveee..!Over at Bookface[TM] (where I am I think spending far too much time... maybe) Jane Hart Mason was good enough to ask me:Howdy... I hope you don't mind if I ask you a quick question, and I promise not be hurt if you don't have time to answer, or if it is your rule not to or whatnot. I am working on a little story of my own (not really to publish, just for my kid), and although I...

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from: Anonymousto: tiangotlost@gmail.comdate: Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 10:02 PMsubject: Another "Asian font" tattooHi there,Some guy in Facebook is showing off his tattoo.As an avid reader of your site, I know that this tattoo is his name ‘K-H-A-L-E-D’ in the ridiculous ‘Asian font’.I thought you might like to see ...

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