MAY 23, 2012 10:38AM

Weird Shit Wednesday


 
 
It IS Wednesday, isn't it?  Okay then.
 
I have some fairly long-standing tabs to get rid of.  Plus a brand new one from this morning:
 
Alzheimer's may be caused by interdimensional mind parasites.  Ah, so having found a possible cause, that means a possible… Read full post »
MAY 22, 2012 7:57PM

My magic table


 
 
I have a small kitchen, and in addition to the usual appliances and cupboards, etc., I have a desk for my computer and a tv smaller than my computer.  
 
A lot of the space is taken up with a couple of largish rolling chairs.  I did… Read full post »

 
I found it on the blue-porch floor when I went around this morning to admire the previous day's cleaning and re-arranging.  I guess it had flown in the previous day, attracted by the things in the red porch, and couldn't find its way out. And now was exhausted.

 
 
Emperor
 
The oil on canvas painting, entitled Emperor Haute Couture by artist Margaret Sutherland 
 
Couple of cute comments in the article:-
 
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MAY 16, 2012 9:22PM

Beheading time


 
 
The time has come.
 
The daffodils have already been beheaded.  Now it's time for the tulips.
 
Seems such a shame.  They've budded and bloomed, put their sexiness out there...and some of them have mated, albeit by way of wind or bee.  Now seeds are developing.… Read full post »
MAY 10, 2012 10:36AM

CANADA THREATENS CIVILIZATION!


 
 
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Whodah thunk.  Polite, grey Canada (it's particularly grey today, in my part of the country) would hold the future of humankind in its, uh, hands.
 
Well, actually, I think the gigantic populations of India and China, with their unreasonable aspirations… Read full post »
MAY 8, 2012 8:26AM

Foodie Tuesday - Beltane feast


 
 
 
The salmon of wisdom...stuffed with rice flavored with parsley, raisins, etc. Accompanied by spring vegetables - mushrooms, asparagus and fiddleheads.
 
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Everything cooked in foil over the cauldron.
 
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No, not cooked by me. &nb… Read full post »

 
 
Lying in bed at night when sleep won't come I started writing a novel in my head.
 
I have written books before.  In fact I have a whole file drawer full of them, which I will scan one of these days before consigning them to the fire.… Read full post »

 
 
I hardly ever cook.  Tho I'm cooking tonight, in honour of Foodie Tuesday...but it's just some chopped vegetables stir-fried, tarted up with salad dressing, and served with a piece of frozen sole.  Uh, sole will no longer be frozen when served.
 
But my daughter who live… Read full post »
APRIL 26, 2012 12:14PM

What a difference a day makes


 
 
 
(Starting lower in an effort to avoid that low-hanging mess at the top of posts...)
 
So...one day it's sunny and warm and all the spring things spring out of the ground.  Pictured here, yellow tulips and yellow daffodils (in the yellow section of the garden, natch.)… Read full post »
APRIL 22, 2012 10:10AM

Game of Tarot under Moon in Aquarius


When a Friday the 13th happens, my friend A. hosts a dinner and game of Tarot of his own devising.
 
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The wizard in charge
 
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tarot 3
 
tarot 4
 
We go around the table, putting out a card each.  "The ghost" hand
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APRIL 12, 2012 10:14AM

The annoying outta touch Ann Romney


Nice lady I'm sure, and too bad about the M.S., but neither of those conditions mean you got an opinion worth spouting to the masses.
 
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Mitt has been saying stupid shit about how Ann lets him know what women are thinking, cuz, like, they're some kind… Read full post »
APRIL 9, 2012 8:57PM

FOR ALYSA


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Are we a first in radioactive, uh, glow-in-the-dark coinage?  No joke.
 
 Um, not regular quarters.  Special *collectable* quarters that will cost $29.95 each.
 
The Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai, the first new species of dinosaur to be discovered in the Peace Country, will be featured on a brand-new, glow-in-the-dark 25 cent coin, the Royal Canadian Mint has just announced.
 

The Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai, the first new species of dinosaur to be discovered in the Peace

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APRIL 4, 2012 7:55PM

Song of Lifelong Love...Lost


 
I had carpal tunnel surgery yesterday and can't type much for a few days.  Here's something better than I could type anyway - one of A's songs from our *recording session*.  You don't have to understand the words to understand the feeling...
 
 
APRIL 2, 2012 11:42AM

WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH YOU PEOPLE?!


Read this. A soulless monster worries that the government is out to gitcher-soul, starting with (ABOMINATION!) affordable health care (oh the horror).

This from some guy whom YOU PAY FOR HIS TOP O' THE LINE HEALTH CARE.

Here's an exerpt.  The speaker is Steve King, whom some morons

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MARCH 31, 2012 9:34PM

THE GREEK

 

I am not all that into old art. (Or modern art, for that matter – just some representational art of the near past, like Group of Seven.) All I knew about El Greco was that he painted attenuated ectomorphs. (Due, some people said, to wonky eyeballs.) And,… Read full post »

MARCH 24, 2012 2:32PM

A candle (and a hood) for Trayvon

MARCH 19, 2012 11:38PM

In the recording studio...


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...which was a friend's bedroom, actually.
 
He lives with his sound equipment (and many instruments, and his girlfriend) upstairs in this old coach house, while the cars (belonging to the owners of the Big House) live downstairs.
 
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The booth in which t… Read full post »
 
It's maple-sugar season! 
 
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Last weekend a group of us went to an old-fashioned Quebecois "sugar shack", and partook of old-fashioned Quebecois country cookin'.  Maple-sugar-season style. 
 
The meal started with *traditional* pea soup.
 

People have been posting with pictures of flowers and buds and birds... Here in Eastern Ontario the snow is melting and a little green is showing through. Not nearly as picturesque, but it's the best we can do at this point.
 
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Garden looks pretty bleak
 
MARCH 8, 2012 9:28AM

Not so-good-news Thursday

MARCH 6, 2012 9:10AM

HOT CHOKE-O-LATE IN SPAIN


Hey, Coyote, this one's for you.  You said you daughter recommended hot chocolate in Spain.
 
Well, one morning, when we had one of those stops ("There's a castle up on the hill there you can walk up and see, but the bus leaves in half an hour"),
 

Inspired by BJ's post of this morning.
 
 

The thing about a society is that we're all inextricably intertwined. It makes the subject of *freedom* very vexing.

Sure, you are *free* to smoke and gorge. But, alas, I am not *free* to get out of picking up the… Read full post »

MARCH 4, 2012 8:12PM

HOLY TOLEDO!


Toledo is just up the road from Madrid, and we went there as a morning trip on the second day of our tour.
 
Landscape on the way - agriculture; also an Airbus factory and lots of furniture factories & showrooms.
 
Landscape 
 
Whatzit on the outskirts of… Read full post »