As it happens, Your Humble Blogger was recently reminded of the DeSilva, Brown and Henderson song “Button Up Your Overcoat”, with its famous chorus Button up your overcoat/when the wind is free/take good care of yourself/you belong to me. And,…
Well, and I have read the speech Our Only President gave last night, and I tried, I really did, to come up with a way to analyze the rhetoric of it. It’s clearly a bad speech, a defensive speech, and…
I had a dream last night all in blank verse. Well, no, I tell a lie, the dream was prose. There was, in truth, a contest in my dream, dream-sponsored by the grocery store in town, to tell the history…
Not really blogging yet, but I can’t resist the story about theHonorable Keith Ellison not only making a (private) affirmation of his oath of office on a Quran, but on Thomas Jefferson’s Quran. Registered users can read the Washington Post…
Well, and Your Humble Blogger has returned, as promised. Since my last post, I have eaten chicken, pork, ham, shrimp, goose, venison, lamb, goat and some unidentifiable form of fish. Also some sausages that by rights ought to have been…
So, there’s an end-of-year lj sort of meme that takes the first sentence (usually) from each month of the year. Doing so for this Tohu Bohu yields As often happens when I am in the library listlessly looking for something…
From someone named Tania on a Making Light open thread: Sword swallowing and its side effects, from the British Medical Journal, 23 December 2006 (BMJ 2006;333:1285-1287): Results: … Major complications are more likely when the swallower is distracted or swallows…
In packing for traveling of any kind, the question always comes up of what reading matter to bring. This is particularly important if you will be any length of time in a place without a guarantee of reading material. Yes,…
Your Humble Blogger really wanted to do a coherent and reasonable analysis of Our Only President’s press conference, but it just didn’t happen. Mostly because, in the event, all I could do was channel Mad Stephen Fry voice. You all…
So. My RSS aggregator is dead. Actually, there’s been a lot of computer crap around these parts. Remember, a year ago, when amongst the questions for Gentle Readers YHB asked about my tortoise-like computer? Well, I finally decided to go…