One, perhaps even two of our half-fluff/half-feathered chicks are mangling a crow these mornings — not nearly a “lofty” sounding throat yet. Usually a good omen — especially since they’re sending away those evil spirits in our haunted guest room:
The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn,
Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat
Awake [...]
What’s your poison? from BBC Radio1.
A site where you can Rent-A-German for various needs: business, family, holiday: “Drop in by a German by chance will surprise your friends, neighbours or family. During Shopping, at a bar, nightclub or at home. They will be impressed.”David U., 82 (Denver): I hadn’t seen a German since my time in World War II. I [...]
Gotta get my stuff done: click, watch and listen (turn sound on). [thanks cathy!]
I try — unsuccessfully — to get my hands on screenplays for my favorite films. This behavioral tic emerged when I was 8 and decided to memorize the witches’ lines from Macbeth by reading them aloud again and again. God knows what I invoked by doing so. I “evolved” [...]
This neverending Burger King campaign — waking up in bed next to a burger toting, big plastic headed King — makes me cringe in a Buñuel/Dali eye-slicing way. And not just because I’m vegetarian. In Un Chien Andalou, Bunuel shocks and scandalizes the viewer by juxtaposing what is generally [...]
This morning, as I nearly jerked out of the dentist’s chair, he said: “Oh, hit your funny bone, didn’t I?” “Mohagh [Bone, in English]?!” I asked. “No, not really your bone,” he chuckled, “just your nerve. You’ll be VERY numb now. Sometimes I go for months without hitting one, and then [...]
Television News of the Civil Rights Era (1950 - 1970)This is a very cool archive: The Civil Rights Era in Virginia was a microcosm of the contentious years of social upheaval in communities across America. The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities has sponsored a new archive at the Virginia Center for Digital History [...]
Today I planted pansies atop the stone walls around the chicken coop John built and filled the hanging baskets on the back porch with moss and cranberry-colored Nemesia hybrid, which should hang down nicely in contrast with the pale yellow of the house.
Dung and dirt more admirable than was dream’d …~ Whitman [Song of [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2005