Archive for August, 2007
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Surprise Surprise
Which it’s another bookish meme, that I found here.
List some of your favourite words:
Cull. Aeroplane (I love the anachronism). Pockets.
What’s your favourite maxim or proverb?
Is this required to be a literary maxim or proverb? I’ve never been much for quoting proverbs.
What’s your favourite quotation?
“Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that come down […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Books, Memes by The Silver Fox
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Down Where It’s Down
The kindermord culling of the books is complete. Two rather large, and very full boxes were removed. I am plagued only by a lingering, and no doubt groundless, fear that the remaining titles will not fit into the new place.
4 Comments » - Posted in Books by The Silver Fox
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
One Good Reason
I am delighted to find that there is a wiki devoted to all things muppet.
I am saddened to learn that the number skits series (”Ten Chocolate Layer Cakes!”) are no longer aired on Sesame Street. My delight in the baker’s pratfalls presaged my joy in the slapstick of the Three Stooges.
I also sympathized greatly […]
No Comments » - Posted in The Life and Times of the Broadcast Kid, Slithytoves by The Silver Fox
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
Fugitive Kind
Today is the birthday of Dorothy Parker, much famed for her acerbic wit.
Observation
If I don’t drive around the park,
I’m pretty sure to make my mark.
If I’m in bed each night by ten,
I may get back my looks again,
If I abstain from fun and such,
I’ll probably amount to much,
But I shall stay the way I am,
Because […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Books by The Silver Fox
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
Every Everything
This meme comes to you by way of The Sheila Variations. Consider yourself tagged if such things interest you.
What are you reading right now?
Blindness - Jose Saramago
Paris After The Liberation - Antony Beevor & Artemis Cooper
The Terror - Dan Simmons
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susana Clarke
That’s a lot of books […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Books, Memes by The Silver Fox
Friday, August 17th, 2007
The World Has Changed
Heather notes that today is the 25th anniversary of the compact disc, the technology that obsoleted my once impressive cassette collection.
I did not purchase my first CD until 1990. It was my sophomore year in college, and though I didn’t own a CD player, one of my roommates did.
The CD in question? Living Legends, a […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Music by The Silver Fox
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
For A Few Beers More
The mini-vacation was quite lovely, starting with a surprise visit, courtesy of The Girl, to the Mt. Washington Hotel. Some pictures will follow when I have the time to upload them.
In between a stay at the Mt. Washington and a wedding in Burlington, The Girl and I continued our quest to visit every brewery […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Eatin' n' Drinkin' by The Silver Fox
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
The Weeding, She Is Hard
As of the end of the month The Girl and I will be living together, and in an attempt to make the move easier, I’ve been trying to pare down my possessions - with varying degrees of ease and success.
Get rid of stuff from the kitchen? No problem. My bachelor style mis-matched set of […]
5 Comments » - Posted in Books by The Silver Fox
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
Cold Feelings
In the early days of August many pundits, print and electronic, turn their attention to the anniversaries of the atom-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. None of them will write with clarity and force displayed by Paul Fussell in his essay Thank God For The Atom Bomb, which I highly, highly recommend.
Mr. Fussell, who […]
No Comments » - Posted in History by The Silver Fox
Friday, August 3rd, 2007
The World’ll Be OK
August is National Sandwich Month. I suggest you observe this holiday properly, by sampling the pinnacle of the Art of the Sandwich: the bacon and tomato sandwich.
4 Comments » - Posted in Eatin' n' Drinkin' by The Silver Fox
Friday, August 3rd, 2007
It’s Like That
I will note only that the working title for this series is Auntie Bar and Uncle Pint Present.
Well, that and the fact that the illustrator is balking at certain of my suggestions. Such insolence! I may have him horse whipped.
No Comments » - Posted in Slithytoves by The Silver Fox
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007
The Parting Glass
When I was growing up, my parents were not what you would call avid fans of popular music. Their collection of LPs probably assumed its final form somewhere around 1968 and remained largely static after that. To the best of my recollection it contained not a note recorded after the initial coming of […]
