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Owl's Cabinet of Wonders: May 2013

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Sunday, May 19, 2013. Glass, Art, and Science. Guess posting once a year or so is better than not posting at all, but probably not much. It's not that I don't ever think about Cabinet-appropriate things; in fact, stuff falls into my radar range fairly frequently, but I use the "I'm too busy" card, probably way too often. It's about a new exhibit featuring glass models of marine creatures created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, and the curator's effort to locate living examples. And its Gallery includes 3...

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Owl's Cabinet of Wonders: News, Newsreels, and Uncle News

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Sunday, August 7, 2011. News, Newsreels, and Uncle News. Or no particular reason, other than the fact that I'd been going through old photographs yesterday, it occurred to me to do a bit of research on an old family friend, Newsreel Wong. Wong made a name for himself in the late '30s for a photograph he took (and possibly staged to some extent) of a baby on a Shanghai train platform. A less dramatic version of the coverage can also be found on YouTube. One of the best blogs about media history I've ever ...

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Owl's Cabinet of Wonders: February 2010

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Wednesday, February 3, 2010. Culinary Meditations, One: Slow Oatmeal. I have always been interested in good, basic peasant food, so as I work harder to prevent further health-related crises, I've been thinking long and hard about more deliberate eating. To look up oatmeal and found that Rombauer had left oatmeal out of her instructions for cereal grains. But I used her quantities for course grains as a starting point, and began with four cups of water and a cup and a half of oats. I kept stirring for abo...

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Owl's Cabinet of Wonders: November 2009

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Monday, November 30, 2009. Grandma Clarice's Recipes: Dinner Rolls. I made these, as I usually do, for Thanksgiving, which was otherwise catered by daughter at her loft in downtown Dallas. She did herself proud, with traditional fare like stuffing, sweet potatoes, mashed red spuds, and Dead Baby Chickens (well, traditional for us). Beloved Spouse and I joined three of her friends, and her moose/dog Homer, for a lovely meal and great company. The verbatim recipe (transcribed from the little notebook in wh...

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Owl's Cabinet of Wonders: July 2011

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Friday, July 1, 2011. Very now and then, out of vanity, curiosity, or fear (I'm not sure which), I Google myself to find out if anyone is using my name in vain. I pinched the above image from an internal visual journal, Vita Viridis (Green Life), published by some clearly like-minded folk who work at one or more of the Harvard University Herbaria. There are only a few available online- volume 1 number 5. From whence I obtained the page that includes a letter I wrote to the editors of Orion magazine.

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Owl's Cabinet of Wonders: March 2011

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Friday, March 4, 2011. T seemed prudent to abandon the Farm. This week, because I've got too much to stew about and not enough time to think it out on "paper." So this week's Skywatch contribution comes from Owl's Cabinet, still (on occasion) my repository for the fleeting, ephemeral, odd, or idiosyncratic moments and objects that show up in my life. All of the photos were taken with my cell phone. I hope everyone has a lovely weekend. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Focus on things topog...

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Owl's Cabinet of Wonders: August 2011

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Sunday, August 7, 2011. News, Newsreels, and Uncle News. Or no particular reason, other than the fact that I'd been going through old photographs yesterday, it occurred to me to do a bit of research on an old family friend, Newsreel Wong. Wong made a name for himself in the late '30s for a photograph he took (and possibly staged to some extent) of a baby on a Shanghai train platform. A less dramatic version of the coverage can also be found on YouTube. One of the best blogs about media history I've ever ...

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Owl's Cabinet of Wonders: Happy Bicentennial, Mr. Dickens

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Tuesday, February 7, 2012. Happy Bicentennial, Mr. Dickens. His is quite the year for anniversaries, so I thought I'd start acknowledging them both on the Farm (when appropriate) and on the Cabinet- beginning with Charles Dickens's 200th birthday. Dickens worked and wrote tirelessly about the appalling social conditions in nineteenth-century England, and many of the causes he championed were the same ones William Morris embraced. In London, and should probably begin again to remedy lapses in my library.

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Morphosis: June 2015

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8216;ποίησις’ ( poiēsis. Means ‘a making, a creation, a production’ and is used of poetry in Aristotle and Plato. ‘μóρφωσις’ ( morphōsis. There is much more on Coleridge at my other, Coleridgean blog. Sunday, 28 June 2015. If I were this guy I'd TOTALLY stand in front of that horse so it looked like its head was wearing my glasses and hat. Oh, the Hitlerity. Wednesday, 24 June 2015. Arborial aborigine from Holdberg’s "Nils Klim" (1741). The hero of Holberg's Nicolai Klimii Iter Subterraneum. The Old Phys...