Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Thursday, March 19, 2009
LINDISEASE @ Gallery Homeland, 3/28
Saturday
March 28
8 PM
@galleryHOMELAND
The Ford Building
SE 11th & Division
Bethany Ides
w/ The Lost Linden Choristers
present the next installment of the ac/cumulative concatenation of
APPROX L
< moving pictures < > moving bodies < > moving mouths < > making motions >
sliding scale: $5 - $10
In this one-night-only performance, natural & transitional [Lindsay]s together comprise a single, obsessive gesture of spelling into being matter that evades specificity by means of continually modifying itself; of becoming becoming.
featuring:
* Chase "Lynzay" Evans
* Patsy "Lindenna" Gelb
* Brianna "Lynn Zi" Farina
* Jason "Lindseit" Powell
* Morgan "Llinsy" Alexandra Ritter (choreography)
* David "Lindsay" Weinberg
March 28
8 PM
@galleryHOMELAND
The Ford Building
SE 11th & Division
Bethany Ides
w/ The Lost Linden Choristers
present the next installment of the ac/cumulative concatenation of
APPROX L
< moving pictures < > moving bodies < > moving mouths < > making motions >
sliding scale: $5 - $10
In this one-night-only performance, natural & transitional [Lindsay]s together comprise a single, obsessive gesture of spelling into being matter that evades specificity by means of continually modifying itself; of becoming becoming.
featuring:
* Chase "Lynzay" Evans
* Patsy "Lindenna" Gelb
* Brianna "Lynn Zi" Farina
* Jason "Lindseit" Powell
* Morgan "Llinsy" Alexandra Ritter (choreography)
* David "Lindsay" Weinberg
Sunday, March 1, 2009
looking through a pool, darkly (in a few instances)
The old Roman city of Lindun is generally supposed to have given the district of Lindsey its name, but the Romans probably latinized the more ancient British name of Lindeseie.
The earliest reference to the place-name is from a dedicatory inscription to Fortuna found at Mainz in Germany and dated to the end of Domitian's reign. This inscription records the name as LINDO, which is the dative form of Lindum. It is very likely that the name Lindum is a Romanised version of the original Celtic, the exact meaning of which is uncertain.
The fore-part of the name lin undoubtedly refers to the pool in the river Witham below the modern castle, which word is recognizable in both modern Welsh (llyn; 'lake'), and Gaelic (linne; 'pool'). The Romanised ending -dum, leaves us with some difficulties, however, as the Romans were in the habit of making the local place-names more easily pronounceable to their civilized tongues by giving them this 'catch-all' ending. The Celtic name for the area could have been Lindo, Lindon, Lindun or even Lindunon, all of which would have different meanings in the Celtic tongue.
When we look at the possible endings of the name among the Celtic languages, we see that there are two general possibilities;
1. Referring to a settlement or fortification on the hill overlooking the pool;
* Gaelic; dun 'fort', 'castle'.
* Welsh; din 'hillfort'; dinas 'citadel'; dyn 'enclosure'.
* Celtic; dunum 'fortified settlement'.
2. In reference to the colour or opacity of the pool itself;
* Gaelic; dubh 'black'; donn 'brown'.
* Welsh; du, ddu 'black', 'dark'.
Try these...
linden linden' lindenan lindenbaum lindenberg lindeneau lindenfeld lindenna lindenstein lindenstrs lindenthal linder linderback linderbeck linderbm linderbusch linderdel lindered lindereling' linderer linderg lindergreen linderinggs linderman lindermann lindern linderot linderott linders lindersay lindersbusch linderson lindes' lindesai lindesay lindese lindesei lindeseia lindeseie lindesey
Often has the writer been asked the question, if the Linzees knew
when they changed from the Scottish form Lindsay or the English
spelling Lindsey, to our system of ending the name with an " ie " or
" ee ", and the use of " z " instead of " s "? Our answer has been
that we could show the precise spelling Linzee for over three hundred
years, while the form Linsee was even older and derived from the
spelling of the name in the more ancient documents and seals. A
few instances will now prove this statement.
The earliest reference to the place-name is from a dedicatory inscription to Fortuna found at Mainz in Germany and dated to the end of Domitian's reign. This inscription records the name as LINDO, which is the dative form of Lindum. It is very likely that the name Lindum is a Romanised version of the original Celtic, the exact meaning of which is uncertain.
The fore-part of the name lin undoubtedly refers to the pool in the river Witham below the modern castle, which word is recognizable in both modern Welsh (llyn; 'lake'), and Gaelic (linne; 'pool'). The Romanised ending -dum, leaves us with some difficulties, however, as the Romans were in the habit of making the local place-names more easily pronounceable to their civilized tongues by giving them this 'catch-all' ending. The Celtic name for the area could have been Lindo, Lindon, Lindun or even Lindunon, all of which would have different meanings in the Celtic tongue.
When we look at the possible endings of the name among the Celtic languages, we see that there are two general possibilities;
1. Referring to a settlement or fortification on the hill overlooking the pool;
* Gaelic; dun 'fort', 'castle'.
* Welsh; din 'hillfort'; dinas 'citadel'; dyn 'enclosure'.
* Celtic; dunum 'fortified settlement'.
2. In reference to the colour or opacity of the pool itself;
* Gaelic; dubh 'black'; donn 'brown'.
* Welsh; du, ddu 'black', 'dark'.
Try these...
linden linden' lindenan lindenbaum lindenberg lindeneau lindenfeld lindenna lindenstein lindenstrs lindenthal linder linderback linderbeck linderbm linderbusch linderdel lindered lindereling' linderer linderg lindergreen linderinggs linderman lindermann lindern linderot linderott linders lindersay lindersbusch linderson lindes' lindesai lindesay lindese lindesei lindeseia lindeseie lindesey
Often has the writer been asked the question, if the Linzees knew
when they changed from the Scottish form Lindsay or the English
spelling Lindsey, to our system of ending the name with an " ie " or
" ee ", and the use of " z " instead of " s "? Our answer has been
that we could show the precise spelling Linzee for over three hundred
years, while the form Linsee was even older and derived from the
spelling of the name in the more ancient documents and seals. A
few instances will now prove this statement.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Monday, February 9, 2009
You Can't Take Me
the image of your face...
and the love of the linden trees...
you can't... you can't... you can't take me...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
The Lindesay/Lyndesays broke from my people 500 years ago, or: I may also be a L______
DSL - DOST Lindesay, Lyndesay. [The family name of the Earls of Crawford.] The title of a herald attached to the household of the Earl of Crawford. — Et per solucionem factam Lyndesay herraldo, ex gracia domini regis … x li.; 1464 Exch. R. VII. 295. Et Endure signifero, nunc Lindesay heraldo nuncupato; Ib. 305. Patricio Leslie, Lindesay Herrold; 1493 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III. 464.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
NOW AVAILABLE
My chapbook, Approximate L, is now available from Cosa Nostra Editions via their website
$10
17 pp
hand-stitched binding
beautiful fine arts printed cover by poet & book artist Mary Hickman
limited edition (75 copies)
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