Published on February 16th, 2008 by Malachi
I have done several handmade collections of Cat Folk Tales at The Stone Street Press, and also the very popular miniature of the ninth century Irish cat-and-monkish scribe poem Pangur Ban.
Later on, I did a version entitled “Cat Folk Tales” for Random House –in 1990 or thereabouts, that I illustrated with cat silhouettes.
Years later when [...]
Published on February 16th, 2008 by Malachi
There was –I learned yesterday– something of marketing hitch when Coca Cola was originally introduced to China. A Chinese phonetic rendering of the name –”Ko Kah Ko Lah” sounded fine to western ears. The only trouble was that to the Chinese the phrase Ko-Kah-Ko-Lah means…”Bite the Wax Tadpole”.
Things go better when you hire a good [...]
Published on August 13th, 2007 by Malachi
I began noticing the incidence of the word “frustration” in Mr. Bush’s war lexicon some time ago. I’m not sure, but I think he actually began using it in about the same timeframe that the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group issued their report, and that he threw Mr. Rumsfeld overboard.
In our War-Without-A-Plan (–No, No: that is [...]
