Yesterday I posted several of Dorothy Parker’s more memorable quotes. I would often read her work along with the books and poems of Richard Armour. Although Armour wrote many humorous books, including “Twisted Tales of Shakespeare,” I will always remember him for two very wonderful poems – Shake and shake the catsup bottle first none’ll come and
I don’t think I really appreciated Dorothy Parker when I was studying or teaching poetry. She had a few poems that I liked. However, I either found them not pithy enough or not funny enough. Mashable just posted a blog on her, given that it’s the poet’s 120th birthday. OK she died in 1967, but
There is something fascinating about receiving letters. I know that most communication these days is e-mail, texting or twitter, how sad! No more, will we have bundles of love letters, tied up with faded ribbon, to be read years later. These electronic communications will also never be scented, never have touched the hand of the corresponder and
I’ve said before, I love lists. Well, Robyn Gallimore of Red Bird Knits posted to my FB wall the site Listchallenges.com. It’s a place where you can compare what you have done, read etc. with their lists. The main headings are Movies, Books, Food and Other – this just about covers it! For example they
I was in blog nadir again this morning. The only “thing” that came close to an idea for a post was whether or not postmen (people) get attached to their routes. You know, they deliver mail to houses and maybe start to wonder what sort of people live there. They try to puzzle out personalities
I was doing a cryptic crossword puzzle the other day and I had one clue left unsolved. The clue was “German sub.” Finally, I caved and looked it up, with the help of Google. The answer was Ersatz. It is defined as something inferior, a substitute for the real thing, such as artificial rubber or coffee
Seedy Saturdays have nothing to do with weekend decay 🙂 They are actually days when people get together to exchange seeds from their respective gardens. With all this genetic engineering going on, it’s a way of preserving heirloom varieties and keeping Monsanto’s laboratories out of the flower beds of the nation. I have never considered
Today I did more keying into Google of random words to see what would come up. In fact, I actually keyed in the word “random.” Well, this amazing collection of photographs came up from a NY gallery named “rANDOM.” Click on the link for an fabulous slide show of modern photography. Then I found a
Some of my posts lately have been about “stand alone absolutes,” such as the concept of “nothing” or “something” or just simply “being.” As a result I couldn’t resist a post about the “Ablative Absolute.” Let me explain. The “Ablative Absolute,” which, by the way, this has nothing to do with voiding your bladder 🙂
I wrote a post the other day on idioms using the word “tongue.” It got me thinking of the strangeness of idioms and how I really didn’t have another language to compare our idioms with. Well, a quick google search brought me this article in The Guardian and this amazing list of idioms in other
