• see my account on typoze.com for a collection of everything more recent
• page 470 of Infinite Jest ends several lines too high on the page
• page 2343 of The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Second Edition: middle of page - "frm" instead of "from"
• pages 76 and 77 of Caryl Churchill's Cloud 9
• page 14 of Stephen Darwall's Deontology from Kant's "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals", "possible will" instead of "possibly will"
• page 420 of Norton Anthology of American Literature header name is spelled Phyllis Wheatly instead of Wheatley (missing E)

• Salome (by Richard Strauss), Pittsburgh opera, 2001: my first opera. A lucky one, that appealed to my contrarian sensibilities and love of modern art/music. Also, at the end of the dance of the seven veils, there was a lighting error and I got to see the lead woman completely naked on stage. It made a pretty good impression overall.
• Madama Butterfly (by Giacomo Puccini), Pittsburgh opera, 2001 and 2007: I don't particularly remember the first time, but I remember that 2007 was the second time I saw it. The most striking memory I have about it, at first, is that my mom told me that it was my grandmother's favorite opera, and when I read the synopsis I really wondered why she loved it so much. I mean, it's about a Japanese woman who really gets fucked over by an American Naval officer. It's totally patriarchal and imp...

• lithographs (all from an antique shop in Croton-on-Hudson, a town near Sleepy Hollow)
  • Audobon Mink from 1844 (my favorite)
  • Audobon Sharp-Tailed Grous from 1837
  • Common Eel
  • a bunch of monkeys and a very out-of-place bat
  • Screech owl
• so many goddamn books
  • From Book Thing, my picks:
    • The Elements of Style by Strunk& White HARDCOVER FIRST PRINTING for my collection
    • Horses by Kate Reddick - for the pictures
    • The Possessed by Albert Camus, even though I already have it apparently, but this one has a cool cover

Fall 2010

• Wycherley, The Country Wife
• Pope, Rape of the Lock
• Wilmot, Lord of Rochester, 3 poems
• Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveler
• Borges, "Garden of Forking Paths," "The Library of Babel," "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote"
• Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
• Churchill, Cloud 9

Spring 2010

• Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
• Lermontov,
• Tolstoy
• ???

to be updated later. I know this seems crazy, but I realized recently that my memory really blows, especially with regard to remembering titles of things I've read, so I hope this will jog my memory suffic...

• milt - the sperm-containing fluid of a male fish
• apothegm - \ˈa-pə-ˌthem\ a short pithy statement sim. to aphorism
• epopee - \ˈe-pə-ˌpē\ an epic, especially an epic poem
• parataxis - \ˌpa-rə-ˈtak-səs\ the placing of clauses or phrases one after another without coordinating or subordinating connectives (basically, using a semicolon)
• catafalque - \ˈka-tə-ˌfȯ(l)k, -ˌfalk\ 1 : an ornamental structure sometimes used in funerals for the lying in state of the body 2 : a pall-covered coffin-shaped structure used at requiem masses celebrated after burial
• droshky - \ˈdräsh-kē\ any of various 2- or 4-wheeled carriages used especially in Russia
• tarantass - [ˌtɑːrənˈtæs] a large h...

• samosas
• barbecue pork ribs

• wen - some kind of wart/blister thing
• rictus - a fixed grimace or grin, or just the expanse of the mouth
• leptosomatic - having a particularly thin or slight body
• calliopsis - A North American annual plant (Coreopsis tinctoria) widely cultivated for its showy flower heads with yellow rays
• quincunx - an arrangement of five things in a square or rectangle with one at each corner and one in the middle
• bradykinetic -Pertaining to slowed ability to start and continue movements, and impaired ability to adjust the body's position
• varicocele - an abnormal enlargement of the vein that is in the scrotum draining the testicles
• aleatory - Depending on the throw of a die; random, arising by chance

• Davila 666 (P.Rico/In The Red), Ma Holos, Thee Thees, Raw Pony, at The Summit, 07/24/19
• NOVA ONE, First Responder, B Johnson, A Marczak at Bourbon St., 07/14/19
• Paul Cherry, Winter, Lung, and Rafting at Spacebar, 05/10/19
• Mdou Moctar with Terrestrials at Ace of Cups, 4/2/19
• The Kyle Sowashes, Zombie on Radar, [missed Wheelbarrel], at The Summit, 3/22/19
• Lucy Dacus with Mal Blum and Fenne Lily, at A&R Bar, 3/11/19
• Oginalii with Hello June and Tango Moms, at Ace, 2/27/19
• MELTED fest at the Bluestone, 2/24/19: Ty Segall & White Fence, Black Lips, Kikagaku Moyo, Deerhoof, Cherry Glazerr, Heron Oblivion, JJUUJJUU, Ma Holos, DANA [we saw some Dana, napped through up to Cherry Glazerr]

• bight - 1 : a bend in a coast forming an open bay; also : a bay formed by such a bend 2 : a slack part or loop in a rope
• hackamore - a bridle with a loop capable of being tightened about the nose in place of a bit or with a slip noose passed over the lower jaw
• swale - a low-lying or depressed and often wet stretch of land; also : a shallow depression on a golf fairway or green
• sprent - archaic : sprinkled over
• bacca - short for tobacco
• nave - the main part of the interior of a church; especially : the long narrow central hall in a cruciform church that rises higher than the aisles flanking it to form a clerestory (ALSO 2 - the hub of a wheel)
• scantling - 1 a : the dimensions of timber and stone used in building b : the dimensions of a structural element used in sh...