Moustacheudødelighed

(fra Guardian-artikel)

"Experts who exhumed the body of Salvador Dalí to collect samples for use in a paternity claim have revealed that the enigmatic artist’s trademark moustache still graces his face almost three decades after he died.
Narcís Bardalet, the embalmer who tended Dalí’s body after his death in 1989 and helped with the exhumation on Thursday night, said he had been delighted to see the surrealist’s best-known feature once again.
“His moustache is still intact, [like clock hands at] 10 past 10, just as he liked it. It’s a miracle,” he told the Catalan radio station RAC1.
Dalí is buried in a crypt beneath the museum he designed for himself in his home town of Figueres, Catalonia.
His remains were disinterred to help settle a long-running paternity claim from a 61-year-old fortune-teller who insists she is his only child.
Bardalet described the moment he had laid eyes on Dalí. “His face was covered with a silk handkerchief – a magnificent handkerchief,” he told RAC1.
“When it was removed, I was delighted to see his moustache was intact … I was quite moved. You could also see his hair.”
He said Dali’s body resembled “a mummy; it was like wood”, adding that it was so hard that experts had to use an electric saw rather than a scalpel to collect bone samples.
Bardalet predicted Dalí’s body would last a good while longer. “The moustache is still there and will be for centuries,” he said."

Årets ord er sgu da ikke danskhed men

(og jo blandt andet derfor - at nogen synes, det er danskhed)

SURREELT

Word of the Year 2016

'Surreal' is our 2016 Word of the Year

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Surreal is Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year because it was looked up significantly more frequently by users in 2016 than it was in previous years, and because there were multiple occasions on which this word was the one clearly driving people to their dictionary.

Our largest spike in lookups for 'surreal' followed the U.S. presidential election in November.

There are essentially two kinds of high-volume lookups that we track: perennial words that are looked up day-in and day-out, and words that spike because of news events, politics, pop culture, or sports. By analyzing these spikes, we can get a sense as to what significant events sent people to the dictionary, and sometimes, what people think about those events.
Surreal had three major spikes in interest that were higher in volume and were sustained for longer periods of time than in past years. In March, the word was used in coverage of the Brussels terror attacks. Then, in July, we saw the word spike again: it was used in descriptions of the coup attempt in Turkey and in coverage of the terrorist attack in Nice. Finally, we saw the largest spike in lookups for surreal following the U.S. election in November.
We define surreal as "marked by the intense irrational reality of a dream.” We also give as its synonyms unbelievable and fantastic. It’s a relatively new word in English, and derives from surrealism, the artistic movement of the early 1900s that attempted to depict the unconscious mind in dreamlike ways as “above” or “beyond” reality. Surreal itself dates to the 1930s, and was first defined in a Merriam-Webster dictionary in 1967.
Surreal is often looked up spontaneously in moments of both tragedy and surprise, whether or not it is used in speech or writing. This is not surprising: we often search for just the right word to help us bring order to abstract thoughts, emotions, or reactions. Surreal seems to be, for 2016, such a word.

Gyldent agende giraf er/var Guldager

Jeg har skrevet min anmeldelse af Katrine Marie Guldagers digtsamling, men jeg nægter foreløbig at have nogen idé om, hvad jeg har skrevet - og jeg lader også være med citere fra bogen, for så ville I, bloglæserne, jo kunne blande jer i den anmeldelse, som hverken I eller jeg, i min fra anmeldelsen adskilte boble, kender: jeg vil derfor nøjes med at afskrive Guldagers perfekt stammende leksikonsartikel om Giraf fra Brøndums Encyklopædi, 1994 (hendes debutår), med henvisning til både løvefortærede Marius og Yahya Hassan, der til svenske journalister konsekvent omtalte sig som giraffen:

Jeg så giraffen! Mellem os sagt, og helt ærligt, jeg så simpelthen giraffen, og WAUW! - det var ikke bare en giraf, det var den giraf, giraffen, som den stod og svajede midt i mængden og klædt i prikker, sådan som den stod og svajede, svajede og svingede på sine knoglede ben, mens den nippede til de gamle damers hår, nippede til det, og den så vældig fornøjet ud, den så vældig fornøjet ud  mens den stod svingede og svajede på sine skæve ben, ben den stavrede gennem mængden med, uden der egentlig var ret mange der opdagede den, giraffen, opdagede de prikkede ben, i hovedhøjde, og før den var gået, sådan er det tit med giraffer, når de stavrer rundt, flere meter over ens hovede, man opdager dem ikke før de er gået, og det kan både være på strøget, eller i Emdrup, man ser det simpelthen ikke, at halsen bare strækker sig opad og opad, op til de udtværede mascaraøjne, mascaraøjne, der ser helt blødt på en, helt blødt, hvis man pludselig standser op med panden viklet ind, helt viklet ind i et prikket ben, giraffens, genkendelsen er ikke til at komme udenom.

KMG

Blegmoustache

Jeg lever mig med lethed ind i Matt Damons moustache i Coen-brødrenes True Grit på skærmen lige nu:


- mens fx Salvador Dalis overskæg er mig ret totalt fremmed, men sikke jeg glæder mig ved det: