Archive for July, 2008
Weird Al + Palindromes =
This:
Do you know what song/video Weird Al is spoofing? This one:
which comes from D. A. Pennebaker’s film, Dont Look Back, a documentary on Bob Dylan’s tour of England in 1965.
I love word play, and Weird Al is wonderfully clever in stringing these palindromes together. There were some I’d never heard:Oozy rat in a sanitary […]Zweigart Gets On Board the Puzzle Pattern Contest
I think you’ll agree that when Jim and Kristi at The Gentle Art offered to contribute fibers to the Puzzle Pattern Contest prize, the game got a bit more interesting. Forty-four skeins of Gentle Art fiber ups the value of the prize package significantly.
Well what would you say to getting the Cashel Linen from Zweigart […]I Was Hacked!
Or something. Well, not me, exactly, but this blog.
Yesterday, friend and faithful reader, Becca, informed me that for 2 or 3 days she’d been receiving a virus warning when logging into this blog. Since she’d waited that long, the chances of it being a hiccup in the system seemed slim.
I logged out and […]American Accent Quiz
What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Midland“You have a Midland accent” is just another way of saying “you don’t have an accent.” You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one […]
What copy editing?
In two books I’ve read recently, I’ve come across what I believe is incorrect use of the semicolon. In both cases, the semicolon was used to link an independent clause with a dependent clause. Semicolons join two independent clauses (without a conjunction).
Now, I’m no grammar whiz (right, Shell?), but these caught my attention. Has this […]Orphan Works
Do you like the random, generally unrelated images I post on this blog?
Well, get this: Under proposed Orphan Works legislation, I would have to register each and every image I posted with a privately-owned database in order to protect my (and by “my” I usually mean “Mike’s”) copyright. No doubt, I would have […]
Giant Vegetables
Last week, Kat asked, “I was wondering, though, with your super-long Alaskan days, do your plants grow super big? Or does it otherwise affect them?”
My answer: yes and no and probably.
Clear as black-out curtains? I’ll try to explain.Alaska has a reputation for producing giant produce. John Evans, who lives about 50 miles from where we […]
Vampire High
What’s on my nightstand? Vampire High, by Douglas Rees.
I picked this book off the library shelf a month or two ago, just because I liked the cover and vampires are currently hot. I didn’t get a chance to read it before I returned all my books.
Then I noticed the title/author on my Recommended Reading list. […]Weekend Site Seeing
I visit this site enough to know the contents by heart.
I’m not kidding.Power Passages
My friend, Shelly, gloms onto special book passages the way I do, savoring them. She sent me one this morning, and I asked her to post it in the comments here. It’s a great description of a character’s anger.
I hope everyone will consider sharing favorite book passages here. They’re fun to read. Remember to […]
