All Purls. No Swine.
Glory be. There are few things as side-splittingly humorous, or as occasionally disturbing or ridiculous, as the outbursts of daft loons who can't think for themselves and who therefore espouse this moronic philosophy, which basically exists for no other reason than to give others the right to think for them. Case in point: I recently… Continue reading Quote of the Day: “I Know It Must Be True Because I Read It On The Internet!!”
No, not the Rolling Stones kinda blues. March 28, it turns out, is the anniversary of the death of two giants of American music. W.C. Handy was born November 16, 1873, in Florence, Alabama, to Charles and Elizabeth Handy. His strict Methodist minister father forbade musical instruments in the house, believing them to be tools… Continue reading Tuneful Tuesday–I Got the Blues!
Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are part of your history, but not part of your destiny--Steve Maraboli No bloody clue who Steve Maraboli is. But--wait! Am I not part (even of the very advance guard) of the Wikipedia generation? Please allow me to look it up! Hm. Apparently Steve… Continue reading Quote of the Day: On Letting Go
You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal--Elizabeth Taylor Oh, boy howdy. She should know. And yet. To be clear, there are scandals, and then there are "scandals." Those of the first part are limited to celebrity and worldwide interest. Such as that surrounding ET (I see what I… Continue reading Quote of the Day: On Scandal
When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don’t stand still and look around On all the hills I haven’t hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the… Continue reading A Time To Talk–World Poetry Day, March 21, 2023
I have long deplored the current unfortunate tendency to politicize the days, weeks, and months of the calendar to the point where it’s almost impossible to escape the continual onslaught of SJW causes thrust in our collective faces through cards, jingles, ads, sports events, and media coverage of one sort or another. While many of… Continue reading Happy Happiness Day!
...US President George W. Bush ordered air strikes on Baghdad, launching the war for "regime change," and for the ousting of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. The war was premised on the the belief that Hussein was manufacturing and staging weapons of mass destruction to be used against his enemies. Such a belief is now deemed… Continue reading Twenty Years Ago Today, on March 19, 2003…
I'm putting the disclaimer right up front on this one. And here it is. Proceed at your own risk: Over the past thirteen years, I've found friendship, society, community, and even love, in my fairly limited and always rather discreet online activities. Almost one-hundred percent of them have been totally worth it, and have sustained… Continue reading Some More Pointers for 21st-Century Internet Etiquette: In Vino Veritas
I do love the plant genus Helleborus. Known as the Lenten Rose, it’s certainly living up to its name in 2023, after a few years of not doing very much. (To be fair, when it comes to my garden, I wasn’t doing very much during those few years either, so not entirely the plants’ fault.)… Continue reading What the Hellebore?
Well, it's NCAA basketball time again. I know this only because I turned on the TV the other night, and there it was. I watch very few current programs, so I am always somewhat peeved when the event I've planned my evening around disappears, especially when it is replaced by something so absurd as a… Continue reading “Historia Calamitatum”