http://www.moonspeaker.ca/ What's New and Points of Interest at the Moonspeaker. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:45:00 MDT http://www.moonspeaker.ca/ 2012-02-14: A new on-line translation of Herodotus, including up to date photographs, photographic tours, and maps. The creating group is "Lost Trails", made up of photographers and several translators collaborating on archaeology-themed projects. http://www.losttrails.com/pages/Tales/Inquiries/Herodotus.html http://www.moonspeaker.ca/ 2012-02-14: On a recent grocery shop, I stumbled on a product I had no idea was still made and consumed nowadays (which for those in the know tells you that this author is not from Newfoundland or anywhere else in the Canadian maritimes). As you can see in the photo, the product I mean is salted beef, also known as naval or navel beef. The buckets shown here are not much smaller than a four litre ice cream pail. FoundSubjects/thoughtpieces.html http://www.moonspeaker.ca/ 2012-02-05: Given the previous Thought Piece, and the fact that I'm a writer, it is probably overdetermined that I would have an irrational fondness for books and bookstores. I am certainly far from alone in this, but must confess that it has never occurred to me to do something remotely as cool as what Adam Adman and Sean Ohlenkamp did to make this movie that they posted to YouTube. It's a stop motion tour de force, with practically the entire contents of a Toronto bookstore having a grand party while the staff and owners are away for the night. FoundSubjects/thoughtpieces.html http://www.moonspeaker.ca/ 2012-02-02: I have an abiding interest in languages of all sorts, including constructed languages (conlangs). The best known examples of conlangs are probably esperanto and the Elvish languages created by J.R.R. Tolkien. Láadan is a less well known conlang created by author and linguist Suzette Haden Elgin. Láadan deserves to be better known than it is, for its thought-provoking features if nothing else. Amazons/Essays/laadanandlinguistic.html http://www.moonspeaker.ca/ 2012-02-02: Here is a new Moonspeaker feature, usually a 500 to 700 word mini-essay plus a photograph or perhaps two. Usually there will be a relationship between text and picture, but I refuse to guarantee that! FoundSubjects/thoughtpieces.html http://www.moonspeaker.ca/ 2012-02-01: Today's major update is the posting of my multimedia essay, a Métis Palimpsest. "Métis" is the usual term nowadays for Indigenous Nations in canada that are of "mixed blood", Native and "white", according to a mainstream perspective. This essay is an exploration of both Métis history in a broader sense, and Métis identity in a personal sense. MetisProject/index.html http://www.moonspeaker.ca/ 2011-01-17: I have recently acquired a Norton Critical Edition of the texts of Alice In Wonderland, Alice's Adventures Through The Looking Glass, and The Hunting Of The Snark. It has proved quite a gold mine and so I have updated my annotation on several points, including an acknowledgement that I have finally found an annotated edition that explains what cucumber frames are, an old bugbear. FoundSubjects/AliceBooks/aaw4.html http://www.moonspeaker.ca/ 2010-11-11: For those of you who have been waiting for such things (hopefully you're still out there!) here is a story that is firmly and overtly set in what I would call the Amazon Nation universe. Much of this chapter was written several years ago and temporarily shoehorned where it didn't belong. Fiction/Original/placebetween1.html http://www.moonspeaker.ca/ 2010-11-10: Alexiares' Annotated Alice In Wonderlandis finished for good and all. I have hauled out most of the typos and rewritten a few annotations that only made sense in my world. It was a lot of fun to do, although Through The Looking Glass will have to wait for awhile as I am now in graduate school and have my hands extra full. FoundSubjects/AliceBooks/aaw1.html