Topic: I can has topik?
Today would have been Douglas Adam's birthday if he wouldn't have died a few years ago. Rather than place the usual towel day banner on my entry, I post this lovely LOLFord. Be sure to carry a towel with you at all times today.
Something sort of cool from yesterday: I was doing a little reading, and while i was reading i had the TV on. Much More Music's top ten, at 4:00 pm the next program was classic albums, and I turned to see who or what was on Oprah. it was the Osmonds. ICK! I went back to MMM and the classic albums was Queen's a night at the opera and suddenly the irony and the appropriateness struck me. When I was a teenager, around the time A night at the Opera first came out, my parents hated Queen. They wanted us to listen to good clean music. So every friday night they would have "family time and plop us in front of the Donny and Marie show, and we would try not to laugh too hard at how stupid it was. (mad magazine called it "dummy and Ma-reek, a name the stuck with my brother and me, to the disgust of my parents) We would dutifully watch dummy and you know...and then play A night at the Opera on our own time. Having Donny and Marie on Oprah and Queen on Classic Albums at the same time was quite the coincidence. I enjoyed the whole show, and I enjoyed their take on the songs thirty years later.
And as an additional point, several things I already knew about the back-stories to several song on the album, and that John, in his infinite arrogance said were wrong...well...this show confirmed that I was correct all along. Now once again I can do the I was right and he was wrong song and dance. He was wrong soooo many times it would be funny if it wasn't so sad. But sad or not, it's not going to stop me from doing the I was right and he was totally wrong song and dance.
In other news, I've been complaining about the amount of snow and I'm not alone. It's so bad that it's driven some people out there into fits of SNOW RAGE! One of Dave's most memorable Beaver's strips, the one that still makes him laugh, the one that got the most mail when it ran in the record, was the one with the one beaver freaking out and chasing a snow plow. The snow plow dumped a load of ice and snow in the driveway, as plows are wont to do, and the beaver who had just finished shoveling freaked and chased the plow while wielding his shovel in a threatening manner. Dave said he drew that one from personal experience. My son feels his pain.
Speaking of my sons, here's a story only they could love: Battlebots revival coming to ESPN I hope they revive Vlad the Impaler! Or Dead Blow! Not that I ever watched battlebots, that would be geeky... The one named Ziggo was named after a psych russian blue cat named Ziggy...my mother in law had a psychotic russian blue cat named Ziggy... Coincidence? ....probably. Russian blues are always somewhat psychotic.
While looking through the What's new pages in the various sewing pattern catalogues i noticed this incredibly intriguing pattern from Kwik Sew: Fold and stack and go furniture! I like these! A bit more sophisticated than bean bag chairs, and far more versatile! stack 'm up for chairs, Line 'em up for a quick couch, and un-fold 'em for an extra bed. And changing the fabric can make them casual for a rec room, or elegant for a spare bedroom. Quite nice! I wish I could come up with something that interesting and cool!
In one of those strange moments of convergence, the latest Burda pattern magazine and I have come up with two similar blouses: this wrap style here. I cut the pattern yesterday and I come down here and see this same thing in the magazine. Mine is a bit longer in the body and has three ties instead of one, but they are so similar it's spooky! yes, I know that's the german page.
And that's about all for today. We need to somehow get to the roof of the pack porch and clear off the snow. It's melting, so it's no longer soft and fluffy, it's now wet and heavy and I don't want the roof to leak. Or collapse either. Later!
