Now, I’ll admit that this title might have some of you thinking I’m going to regale the world with witty banter from the tenured faculty on the University LGBTQ committee, but no — I have come not to sing a Song of Themselves, instead make fun of an air freshener.
For what comes to mind when [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Holy flaming luminaries, Batman…
Posted in Festival of Bad Writing, Language failure, tactless observations on 30 August, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Go look at the garden restoration
Posted in Backstory, Gardening, tagged dig dig dig, garden restorations, Heligan Gardens, Mellon Park on 26 August, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The weather has been too wet and mosquitoful for me to spend a lot of time in the garden these last few weeks, but I did stumble on this site today, and I think it’s worth a look: Restoration of Mellon Park Gardens in Pittsburgh.
I love a good garden restoration story… [example of another good [...]
It’s Cockroach Ice Cream Truck Season!
Posted in Elsinore, Filking, tactless observations, tagged gringos, ice cream truck, jingles, la cucaracha, lost in translation, song of the cockroach ice cream truck on 24 August, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It is appalling and a source of glee every time…
Banner day
Posted in cats, tactless observations on 16 August, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When you have three cats and two of them have yakked over the course of the day, you reach 10pm and you’re waiting for the third one to produce something awful. It’s worse when that third one is prone to yakking on the bed.
But no — Malkin does not yak. Instead he leaps from the [...]
Leia does not approve
Posted in Backstory, cats, travel on 4 August, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s pretty clear that I am the property of the Himalayan cat. I am spoken to, I am climbed on, and she’s even starting to come sniff at my hand before I pet her [generally speaking, she is very head-shy, and you can only pet her from the middle of her back on, until she [...]
Why I ‘heart’ the Language Log
Posted in Language failure, My brain, tactless observations, tagged code words in telegraphy, Eclectic Oil, englued, foretold, Happy Fun Ball, language log love on 3 August, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Because where else would I learn about special code words in early telegraphy?
Now I want to have little stamps that say “Englued Foretold”, if only more people would recognize this 1891 equivalent of “Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball“…
Drive-by-botany
Posted in Backstory, Gardening, travel on 3 August, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been doing some road travel, along roads never taken before, to see old friends and new. One of the pleasant bonuses has been a chance to pay close attention [well, as close as one can safely do at 70 mph] at the local flora, to see what’s blooming and what might make a nice [...]
