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Posts Tagged ‘whimsey’
What is tattoo Tuesday about?
August 20, 2013
40 Maps that will help you make sense of the world.
I don’t know if this is really a tattoo or not, but it is interesting. Maps and charts have always fascinated me. I was our family’s navigator when we went on trips. I was the only one who was interested in reading a map. I remember a trip to Pittsburgh when my father refused to ask directions, but just blithely crossed every bridge he came to. (Have you ever been to Pittsburgh?) We never got home.
Here is a map of internet usage. If you click on the image, it animates. Do you see us – we’re that little twinkle right over there?
I thank HMS Defiant for the reference.
What am I sappy cat blogging?
August 16, 2013
For Sappy Car blogging this week, I offer this story run on NPR in April about cats and the poets who love them.
Reference: Word Tapestry, with thanks.
Sappy cat bonus, Commander Samuel Vimes in repose.
When I sit in the chair of the person he obviously loves best, Sam boxes me about the ears with both front paws and tries to eat my hair. Just last night, in fact.
What am I sappy cat blogging?
August 9, 2013I thought this was cute – and below, my handsome Murphy.
What was I saying?
July 21, 2013Someone cut you off in traffic? Someone sit in front of you in the theater when there are only three million other empty seats they could have chosen? Are you still using the same stale and recycled insults to handle these situations? Never fear . . .
Thanks to Cappy Writes for this handy guide. Follow the instructions and you can insult the gleeking rump-fed pignut and sound erudite at the same time:
What am I pondering?
July 8, 2013It’s Monday.
Does anyone besides me eat cold pizza (for breakfast?) Cold Chinese left-overs? Cold sushi? . . . Oh, never mind.
Am I the only adult who wants to have twinkle toe sneakers or flats? Why don’t they make them in my size? Which happens to be 7.5 B in case you have a pair to sell.
Why is coconut crime pie so hard to find where I live? Any kind of pie, really, which does not make sense to me because I live near Cleveland. We are sort of mid-west (really we are on the Great Lakes and that is different), but still we should be all about all American pie. Go to any nice restaurant in town and you will find creme brulee and chocolate lava cake on the menu (so last year if you ask me), but no PIE.
I don’t understand the concept of or inspiration for fish tacos.
I don’t understand why any restaurant would put roast turkey with dressing on the menu and then say that they have no cranberry sauce.
I don’t understand why the server asks me if I would like sour cream or apple sauce with my potato pancakes, when the answer is obvious – both.
Why can’t auto makers devise a defroster for the windshield that works like the defroster on the rear window. Would those wires really impede visibility? Can’t they make the defrosting wires smaller, or transparent? Is there really no way to create auto glass that won’t let the inside of the car heat up to the temperature of the surface of the sun?
What am I celebrating?
June 5, 2013
Happy National Doughnut Day!
In case anyone missed it on the news, Duncan Donuts came up with a wonderful idea that happens to coincide with this holiday. Read here from the Boston Herald:
The . . . coffee and doughnut chain is introducing a new breakfast item that sandwiches cherrywood-smoked bacon slices and pepper fried egg between a sliced glazed doughnut.
I heard on NPR that this delicacy actually has fewer calories than the chain’s sausage, egg and cheese breakfast sandwich. I’ll take two!
Gunsmoke and Knitting 