April 6, 2014

FREEGLOT and LIPPENHEIMER

I know everyone is busy, and time is out of our hands.
Still some things are worth spending what little time we have left on. (Can't fix that sentence)
Here's a flash pitch for my two favorite blogs:  

FREEGLOT AND LIPPENHEIMER


FREEGLOT
To be read and savored, quoted and shared. 
I know Freeglot personally, but I don't know Lippenheimer at all.
I don't even know if that's his name at all, and if not how he chose it.   

Freeglot is a brilliant linguist, a  lover of language in all its strange permutations, and writes on everything, including language of course, travel, books, gender issues, the Netherlands where he lives, twentieth-century history and politics, pre-twentieth-century history and politics, and you name it. 
His latest observational gem is Asparagomania
http://freeglot.wordpress.com/ 


LIPPENHEIMER
I stumbled onto his blog while preparing my Goldfinch piece. He'd already hit the ground running with "Bronzefinch, Maybe". 
He's read just about everything and ranges from just plain intelligent and witty to wet-your-pants funny. 
Try Sexy Chewing Gum Talent Scout
http://lippenheimer.wordpress.com/

Both writers are so well-read you wonder if they have time to do things ordinary mortals do, such as cutting their toenails or dawdling in the bathroom.