Author: mooncustafer

Just saw the ask you answered about picking a name, and it just occurred to me–are you a Samuel? Because my mind is blown.

copperbadge:

Just Sam, actually 🙂 Samuel was TOO FANCY I guess. 😀

[…] from my earliest years I have had a feeling of Dislike & Disgust connected with my own Christian Names: such a vile short plumpness, such a dull abortive smartness, in [the] first Syllable, & this so harshly contrasted by the obscurity & indefiniteness of the syllabic Vowel, & the feebleness of the uncovered liquid, with which it ends – the wabble it makes, & staggering between a diss- & a tri-syllable – & the whole name sounding as it you were abeeceeing. S.M.U.L. – altogether it is perhaps the worst combination, of which vowels & consonsants are susceptible. (Letters, II:1126)

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge did not like his first name

“In the margins of the works of the admirable Reverend (not Doctor) Samuel Johnson, Coleridge remarks that, even despite the ‘palliative Consolation’ of such inspiring precursors as Johnson and Dr Samuel Barrow, ‘Nothing can reconcile me to my wobbling name, Samuel’, and he even casts doubt on whether it is a properly Christian name at all (Marginalia, III:165).”

copperbadge:

ameliahcrowley
replied to your post “Cheer Up Post #5538 – Weird Musical Instruments Edition”

I love the glass harmonium: a friend of my father had and played one, the sound is wonderfully ethereal and irritating at the same time.
It’s the musical equivalent of having angels follow you everywhere you go, asking “Are we there yet?”

It’s a pretty sublime instrument. That’s actually how I remembered that it was the product of Ben Franklin’s fevered imagination – the first time I heard one I was in the Ben Franklin museum in Philadelphia and it was a lovely but DEEPLY out of place sound to hear in that space. 

cactus-spirit:

March 22, 2018

I finished my skeleton sweater!

I started it back in October, but got caught up knitting commissioned projects for the holidays so I didn’t have time to work on any of my own stuff.

It’s about to be too warm for sweater weather but hopefully I’ll get to wear it a couple of times this spring.