An unexpected second installment to repurpose archaic terms for as Indy Pop bands names or Micro brew beers. This time architecture terms.
Blind Arch
Broken Pediment
Stopped Flutes
Compulsively Aimless is devoted to amateur attempts at short poems and random excursions through my bookshelf. The book lists in no way represent complete, well-thought out collection on any particular subject but are what I happen to have on my shelf. Expect lists devoted to travel, adventure, America, history and the unusual.
Blind Arch
Broken Pediment
Humanity App (Quatrain with a bad rhyme)
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I've become fixated with names. Names of people, products, places, and companies. Anything that gets a name. This post is a collection of riffs mostly about names of people I like from the books I've read so far this year.
From the second book in Sir Osbert Sitwell's memoir, Great Morning
Another icthyophoagous bon-mot when offered Haddock responded, 'Cry Haddock and let slip my dogs of war!'
On her death bed, she referred to her lawyer coming to her bedside to teach her death duties.
More names from another book, Kearny's March
From Memoir: A History, Ben Yagoda
The extremely minor writer Augustus Hare produced a staggering six volumes of memoir between 1896 and 1900, consisting in the words of critic A.O.J. Cockshutt, 'immense prolixity and innumerable boring anecdotes
Were the Trails Run Out by Blashford Snell. Snell founded the Scientific Exploration Society. and Amongst his expeditions were the first descent of the Blue Nile, during which he invented white-water rafting 'by accident' (in 1968); crossing of the DariĆ©n Gap (1971 to 1972) and overseeing the first north–south vehicular journey from Alaska to Cape Horn; and a complete navigation of the Congo River (in 1974 to 1975).
Bonus Riffs
Part 14 in My Never-ending Series of Fictional Band Names
Company Names
At the end of April, I was in Columbus Ohio for a book festival. Walking thorugh downtown noticing company names on the buildings such as Hexia and Encoving. I have not a clue what they do. It could be some very important work. Thinking back to early 1900s when a company name told you what it did, National Cash Register, Ford Motor Company, American Crayon Company.
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Is there opportunity in this world to repurpose Old Golf club names as Indy Pop bands (plural) or Micro brew beers (singular).
The Spade Mashies
Pitching Niblicks
Wooden Cleeks
The Baffie Spoons
The Brassies
The Jiggers