Posted in Blather on October 22nd, 2005 No Comments »
In this year of compounding natural disasters (and a few man-made), the one that worries me most is the Pakistan-India earthquake … for a number of reasons, including things like this: Babies dying of cold, says doctor in quake zone.
With calamities closer to home, my sense is that this one gets lost even though this [...]
Posted in Blather on October 20th, 2005 No Comments »
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! …
I confess, I love Boney M’s “Rasputin.” I could dance to it all night. Why do I like it? Because it is so marvellously stupid:
Ra ra RasputinLover of the Russian queenThere was a cat that really was gone.
Does it get sillier than that? Yes …
Most [...]
Posted in Blather on October 19th, 2005 3 Comments »
I went to the corner store. My purchase came to $9.35. All I had was a $20 bill and a pocketful of change. I am now convinced sales clerks should be colour coded – perhaps using hats.
Blue hat: math enabled
Red hat: challenged
So it’s $9.35 … all I have is the twenty and I don’t want [...]
Posted in Blather on October 17th, 2005 3 Comments »
I was going to go on a rant about the darkening days and so on but Meme beat me to it over at Girlspoke. So I whined on their blog instead.
Still … yesterday the moon was 99.5% full (so one site says). And yesterday … yesterday was such a [...]
Posted in Blather on October 16th, 2005 No Comments »
I found this on my computer - written a very long time ago. But for some reason, I always liked it.
The Flying Tree
If you and me could only be alone one day in the flying tree, we’d whisk our branches through the air and whisking sweep away somewhere. We’d fly above the land and sea [...]
Posted in Blather on October 16th, 2005 5 Comments »
This is my contribution to Flash Fiction Friday #12 over at Purgatorian. It started going one way then made a left turn and ended up somewhere else. Oh well. Here it is:
Children’s Games
The children are gone. Roger’s pants are gone. So is his wallet and with it our money.
I can’t help but think there is [...]
Posted in Blather on October 15th, 2005 No Comments »
As a general rule, I don’t like political posts. I don’t like political blogs – just too many cranky people ranting and raving about what usually boils down to the fact that they don’t run the world and no one listens to them or gives a rat’s behind about what they have to say.
I just [...]
Posted in Blather on October 14th, 2005 3 Comments »
One of the nice things about programs like Photoshop is that when you take a picture and screw it up, you can play with it a bit and make it look as if you meant to do what you had no intention of doing.
Like this picture. All the shots [...]
Posted in Blather on October 13th, 2005 1 Comment »
I’m half in the bag here. I didn’t intend to be.
But I just watched Star Trek: Nemesis. I know, I know … it’s Star Trek. But I had to watch it because I always wanted to do Doctor Crusher. Damn those Star Trek writers! Why could they never come up with a decent Dr. [...]
Posted in Blather on October 12th, 2005 4 Comments »
I always thought the Dancing Man would be the guy to grow up to be. Who was the Dancing Man? I haven’t a clue.
Years ago when I lived in Ottawa, down by the National Arts Centre, over by the Rideau Canal across from the War Memorial, I’d see this guy dancing. He looked to be [...]
