Language
Words. Color. Birds. Clay.
Club Et Cetera
You know and like
A field guide to the misheard, overlooked, oddly specific, and unexpectedly connected.
Join the club01 / The proposition
The interesting part is usually just off to the side.
We notice the phrase everyone repeats, the color that keeps returning, the bird in the parking lot, the handle on a handmade mug. Then we look again.
First dispatch / Language
Et cetera.
Not "exedera."
The club begins with its own name: two little Latin words, one extremely common detour, and a surprisingly good story about how language moves.
The first dispatch arrives Monday.
SAY
ET
NOT
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02 / Start anywhere
Four doors into the club.
Color
Does a triangle feel yellow?
Kandinsky surveyed his students to test whether shape and color have an intuitive match. Try the Getty exercise ↗Pottery
When a glaze crawls
Material, process, and why the evidence of a hand changes an object.Birding
A grackle is not a crow
Common birds, uncommon behavior, and reasons to look up more often.04 / And the rest
A note from the club, occasionally.
New observations, odd corrections, beautiful details, and whatever deserves more than a footnote.