Monthly Archives for October 2011

“You’d get a phone call at 3 a.m., and he used to call me “Colonel Depp,” because he made me a Kentucky colonel, and he’d say, “Colonel, what do you know of black-hairy-tongue disease?” And I was like, “What? I don’t know!” He’d say, “Well, I’m going to send you all the information about this, man. We must be aware of this thing.” He was deeply concerned that the disease would infiltrate our ranks.”

 

Depp and Thompson, BFFs

 

 

“The movement’s designated librarians say there are between 2,500 and 4,000 volumes in the park, with more in storage and dozens of books donated by visitors and supporters every day. “As the occupation and movement has grown,” says Zachary Loeb, a librarian in the New York City area who volunteers at the site, “so too has its library.””

4,000?!

“Another mark, now obscure, is the point d’ironie, sometimes known as a “snark.” A back-to-front question mark, it was deployed by the 16th-century printer Henry Denham to signal rhetorical questions, and in 1899 the French poet Alcanter de Brahm suggested reviving it. More recently, the difficulty of detecting irony and sarcasm in electronic communication has prompted fresh calls for a revival of the point d’ironie. But the chances are slim that it will make a comeback.”

 

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