Internet English has gone too far. I just viewed a professionally produced banner ad from HouseValues real estate headlined "Thinking of selling you home?"

Did you know the U.S. and Great Britain have been in a vicious economic war since 1945? Nobody tells me these things.

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My Feline-American Princess, Squeaky, has learned to eat cheese puffs. I used to give her or her brother Mouse a big Chee-to (the soft kind) to play with- they would lick it and then bat it around the floor, and it would turn up under the couch or somewhere months later. Apparently roaches, or even the little opportunistic ants who show up out of ( Read more... )

Does anybody see anything wrong with this title?
Devastating, Survival, and the Most Violent Tornado Outbreak of the Twentieth Century
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Gmail's Quote of the Day: Martin Heidegger - "The possible ranks higher than the actual." Heidegger actually believed this until the night he backed a full house of possibles and kings that lost to actuals and aces. Heidegger also swore up and down that a Tiger could beat a Blaze, though either would lose to a Skeet flush.

A very browseable intellectual site I found in a search for "Laurel Kent" (a minor superhero with an interesting costume) - Google included an image by Rockwell Kent, which led here ( Read more... )

Gmail's Quote of the Day is "You only live once." This is attributed to (the Godfather of Soul) James Brown. How frickin' inspiring ( Read more... )

Little Miss Muffet
Knelt on a tuffet
Nibbling some grass and hay.
A long, rangy spider
Sat on her to ride her.
Hi-yo, Miss Muffet, away!

Puns, I just discovered, may lurk unsuspected in families for generations. I don't think of Ira as an Irish name, but that's my paternal grandfather's name as written on my Dad's birth certificate. Was it a common name in the Brian family? We don't talk about Grandpa Ira, who dropped Dad and his sister at an East Texas orphanage when their mother ( Read more... )

It has been brought to my attention that there is a dessert salad, with fruit, whipped cream and a marshmallow crust, called the Pavlova; named after the dancer. It's large and takes a luxuriously long time to consume. There ought to be a mini-Pavlova for people on the go, called the Isadora. You could scarf it in the car.