appreciater

I'm an avid appreciater of good writing - which is why I get so cranky when I encounter what I perceive as sloppiness of craft.

Reality Check Ahead 2007

As both a completist and a great appreciater of this kind of serendipity, I'm happy to make it this weekend's video, and I hope you enjoy!

Archive 2008-06-01 The Year in Pictures 2008

As both a completist and a great appreciater of this kind of serendipity, I'm happy to make it this weekend's video, and I hope you enjoy!

Weekend Video - Adele The Year in Pictures 2008

You've got to realize that I am an art appreciater, not an artist.

Ask MetaFilter 2009

I have read how they came, with their heads full of quotations and their notebooks full of impressions and hints for effective rhapsody -- how they feasted on the silver trout of the Sorgue, and gathered Laura's roses to adorn their buttonholes, and stripped the consecrated laurel of its leaves to make garlands for their own dull heads, and poured forth international compliments, and glorified one another, and hugged themselves for delight at their fine comprehension of the poet, and fell on their knees before him, and immolated their individual hearts and souls at the shrine of his genius; and, lo! there was not a true appreciater of Petrarch among them all!

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various