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Google has apparently straightened out its Blogger sign-in problems. They have an improved Blogger system, but I've declined to sign up for it. They say you have to have a Google password in order to use it. I have a Google password, but they wouldn't accept it last week, so I'm not optimistic that they'll accept it now.

A few quick GKC things: The Blog of the American Chesterton Society has apparently made a New Year's resolution to be active this year. Check it out. A blogger has decided to try to her hands at Clerihews, using other bloggers as the subject. Quite unique.

What? You don't know what a clerihew is? Check out Wikipedia's entry. Excerpt:

A Clerihew (or clerihew) is a very specific kind of short humorous verse, typically with the following properties:

• It is biographical and usually whimsical, showing the subject from an unusual point of view; but it is hardly ever satirical, abusive or obscene
• It has four lines of irregular length (for comic effect)
• The first line consists solely (or almost solely) of a well-known person's name.

The form was invented by and is named after Edmund Clerihew Bentley. As a student, Bentley invented the clerihew on Humphry Davy (see below) during his studies, and it was a great hit with his friends. The first use of the word in print was in 1928.^[1]

Bentley's friend, G. K. Chesterton, was a practitioner of the clerihew and one of the sources of its popularity. However, other serious authors also produced clerihews, including W. H. Auden.