A sequel to Pegah and Lyonel’s mutually assured destruction. Edward Conway, bless him, commented: https://galleryofawesomery.quora… This brings a whole new meaning to the phrase “A Song of Ice and Fire”. I look forward to watching the battles play out between Lyonel Perabo’s frozen tourist zombies (powered by the northern lights and the awesomeness that is […]
Lyonel Perabo and Pegah Esmaili had an odd exchange in their respective answers Pegah Esmaili’s answer to What would you do if you were the only female in the world? and Lyonel Perabo’s answer to What would you do if you were the only male in the world? This mainly played out in the comment […]
https://www.quora.com/Have-you-e… (Nick Nicholas): Jay Liu. Gone, never forgotten. (Lyonel Perabo): We should have a memorial stone for him, somewhere… Posted 2016-07-03 [Originally posted on https://galleryofawesomery.quora.com/In-Memoriam-Jimmy-Liu]
They’re defunct nicknames, and I’m answering this for my fans. 🙂 When I was in Year 8 in high school: Acka Nicka. Because I hit puberty a little early, and acne (Australian slang: ackers) followed soon after. When I went to a less Lord Of The Flies high school in Year 9: Nick Squared. Because […]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montenegrin_independence_referendum,_2006 A referendum that is of epochal consequence for a polity needs to be decisive, in order to settle the issue, instead of converting the referendum to a neverendum. Which is why referendums to change constitutions (for those countries that have them) don’t have a 50% threshold; and why federal polities require enhanced majorities of […]
Gustav Mahler: Der Tambourg’sell. It’s an wrenching, heart-on-sleeve story of a soldier about to be executed. And the stanza that resounds with me most is not the final (“Farewell, marble rocks; farewell, mountains and hills”); it’s not even the second (“Oh, gallows, you tall house, you look so frightening”). It’s the third: Wenn Soldaten vorbeimarschier’n,bei […]
This is for Dimitra Triantafyllidou and for Kelvin Zifla. It’s in Greek, so it’s not for most of you. One of the first records of Albanian is in the travelogue of Arnold von Harff, as he went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem via the Balkans in 1496. Everywhere he went, he recorded a few words […]
Context: Dimitra Triantafyllidou’s answer to How does one cook lokma? I was bantering with Dimitra on the Melbourne nouveau Lokma place, St Gerry’s. Named after the patron saint of Cephallonia, Gerasimus of the Jordan. Which reminded me of the funniest joke I’ve heard in Greek, told by the late Gerasimos Arsenis, another Cephallonian. As recounted […]
OP, and I’ll go first. Havergal Brian’s Symphony No. 1 “The Gothic”. I first heard of Brian from the Guinness Book of Records, back before it became a picture book. My curiosity was reawakened this past year through some random link taking me to the Havergal Brian Society’s pages. His life story is cool; his […]
It all began with Karen Chung’s answer to What did someone do that made you think they were really smart? Karen most awesomely illustrated the scenario she described, with XKCD-style stick figure art. Well, I exclaimed in comments. If she can do something so awesome, I can certainly do something half-arsed and attention-grabbing. Some of […]