Poem

Okay, first you need to read this. I'm not--well, okay, it's Gertrude Stein, so there's probably some mocking involved, but actually, playing around with stream of consciousness and repetition was sort of fun for its own sake, and I may do again sometime. If I get famous, you can say you knew me when.

Midsummer

Dog in the grass, alas--
yellow grass
green grass
blue grass
fiddlefiddlefiddlefiddlefiddlefiddlefiddlefiddle
pluck, pluck, pluck
twaaaaaaaaang
dog lying in tall grass
shorter grass
goldenrod and clover
munch munch munch
honey comes from clover via bees
bees in the grass
sting the dog, alas.


For the sheer hell of it, here's a photo to illustrate.

You are free to call me either pretentious or completely off my rocker. ;)

Puppies, eee!

OMG, Puppy Bowl is the cutest thing ever. I think it might be physically possible to die of cute if you watch too much of it.

Kitty Half Time Show!

More music videos

In the historically-themed category, we have: "Everywhere," by Fleetwood Mac, the video of which depicts events in Noyes's "The Highwayman." It is fabulous.

They have another historical video, this one about the 1930s, with "Gypsy." The song is great, but all I remember after seeing it once is Stevie Nicks twirling around in a long dress under a soft focus lens, so you may just want to go listen to the song.

And apparently Annie Lennox can always be counted on to do something bizaare. To wit: "Beethoven (I Love To Listen To)". I'll just back away slowly before she kills me with a knitting needle...

Oh, 1980s, I love you for your strange, strange we-took-too-many-drugs-in-the-70s-and-this-is-what-happenedness...

Speaking of that, I took a stroll through the toy aisles at Target yesterday, and found that every single toy from my 1980s and 90s childhood has apparently come back into fashion.* And half of them have come back in horrible mishapen forms--particularly My Little Ponies and the Littlest Pet Shop creatures, who have new forms that are all rounded and bulbous and kind of creepy, quite frankly. I wonder if their designers took too many drugs.

Does this have something to do with the sudden resurgence of interest in leggings and flannel I've seen lately? I feel that it might.

* Except for the Popples. I can't find evidence of them anywhere.