skip to main | skip to sidebar

Light reading

"Too much traffic"

Sunday, July 05, 2009

Record-seeking

"Right now, I’m going for 'most apples split in a minute in midair with a samurai sword.' So I’ll practice that in the yard.
Posted by Jenny Davidson at 7:54 PM
Labels: competition, feats, fruit, Guinness

1 comments:

otolythe said...

so that means he's "available," right? ;)

7/09/2009 9:46 AM

Post a Comment

Newer Post Older Post Home
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

About Me

Jenny Davidson
My last novel was THE EXPLOSIONIST (HarperTeen), the story of a 15-year-old girl growing up in an alternate version of 1930s Edinburgh, one where the legacy of Napoleon's victory a century earlier at Waterloo is a standoff between a totalitarian Federation of European States and a group of independent northern countries called the New Hanseatic League. The sequel, INVISIBLE THINGS, will be published in Fall 2010. I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
View my complete profile

Books

  • Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century (read the introduction here)
  • The Explosionist
  • Heredity
  • Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen

My other blogs

  • Triaspirational
  • The Explosionist

Blog Archive

  • ▼  2009 (540)
    • ►  December (16)
      • Wasn't Plannin' on Leavin'
      • No bearing on reality
      • The rightness is all
      • Error correction
      • Penguin love
      • "Aesthetic promptings and hesitations"
      • "Motiveless civility"
      • The Aphrodite affair
      • PLACE NAMES
      • The Viennese literary coffeehouse
      • The Order of the Elephant
      • Vile jelly
      • Unhinged
      • Stony places
      • Waterloo
      • The discovery of Uqbar
    • ►  November (42)
      • Significant objects redux
      • Seizure-detecting snakes
      • "Up to three idiosyncratic majuscules"
      • Still or sparkling?
      • "What's the forecast?"
      • Fustian!
      • Like minds
      • And
      • Upcoming
      • Postscript
      • 4 more Mondays
      • The sequel
      • Effet bienfaisant d'une phrase ~ Beneficent effect...
      • Recap: "I like, I don't like"
      • "Cockamamies"
      • The final assignment
      • Typographic errors
      • 5mph
      • Slim memorials
      • "Drives superb"
      • Brother/Sister
      • "I used to have a map"
      • Brain food
      • "Put to bed in felts"
      • On curiosity
      • "The same goes for the bed"
      • Two by Perec
      • "He that writes of himself, not easily tir'd"
      • "Dance capsules"
      • "The habits and the aura of a student"
      • "Nothing of the costly showiness of Proust and Vir...
      • "They're speaking in a moron language"
      • Birds of Brazil
      • Conjunctions redux
    • ►  October (46)
    • ►  September (46)
    • ►  August (63)
    • ▼  July (42)
      • "Gosh, I could do with a bathe"
      • "I, Pencil"
      • Rogue woolly monkeys
      • "Les Deplorables, Hugh Millais's Greatest Hits"
      • "The Fat Cat pub"
      • "I'll eat you up"
      • The Method
      • UncLE ARly
      • Significant objects
      • Hauntings
      • "On to Z!"
      • Vertical seams
      • The alternate Dewey Decimal System
      • "D. Barber, H.M. Swan Marker"
      • Peanuts
      • Whitewashed
      • Atlases of Dermatology
      • Encylopedic
      • "Squalid extravagance"
      • On a brighter note
      • On literary disappointment
      • Surf and turf
      • Nine camels
      • "Born in ice cave of centaur stock"
      • Bottom's dream
      • Temples of lust
      • The silver darlings
      • "A glorious welter of black fins and flukes"
      • Invisible libraries
      • Collisions
      • Aquatic dialogues
      • Sublimity
      • Hot dog!
      • Transmission
      • Pale Galileans
      • Pennies in the slot
      • Talismans, totems
      • Record-seeking
      • Travel miscellany
      • "My button period"
      • Scattered revelations
      • Vegetable love
    • ►  June (49)
    • ►  May (33)
    • ►  April (52)
    • ►  March (44)
    • ►  February (42)
    • ►  January (65)
  • ►  2008 (621)
    • ►  December (48)
    • ►  November (45)
    • ►  October (50)
    • ►  September (45)
    • ►  August (47)
    • ►  July (63)
    • ►  June (52)
    • ►  May (48)
    • ►  April (51)
    • ►  March (60)
    • ►  February (48)
    • ►  January (64)
  • ►  2007 (775)
    • ►  December (62)
    • ►  November (76)
    • ►  October (79)
    • ►  September (80)
    • ►  August (99)
    • ►  July (75)
    • ►  June (69)
    • ►  May (51)
    • ►  April (37)
    • ►  March (50)
    • ►  February (33)
    • ►  January (64)
  • ►  2006 (676)
    • ►  December (42)
    • ►  November (40)
    • ►  October (57)
    • ►  September (66)
    • ►  August (56)
    • ►  July (77)
    • ►  June (58)
    • ►  May (49)
    • ►  April (70)
    • ►  March (62)
    • ►  February (48)
    • ►  January (51)
  • ►  2005 (397)
    • ►  December (44)
    • ►  November (43)
    • ►  October (31)
    • ►  September (25)
    • ►  August (31)
    • ►  July (35)
    • ►  June (28)
    • ►  May (31)
    • ►  April (27)
    • ►  March (30)
    • ►  February (39)
    • ►  January (33)
  • ►  2004 (157)
    • ►  December (18)
    • ►  November (23)
    • ►  October (29)
    • ►  September (25)
    • ►  August (37)
    • ►  July (6)
    • ►  June (12)
    • ►  May (7)