This comes from the notes of Charles Darwin, and lists his personal pros and cons to marrying. I’ve never seen a funnier list–and that from a compulsive list maker. ‘Companionship…better than a dog, anyhow’. If someday my kids need convincing to marry, that’s the reason I’m trotting out.
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Exploring the Underworld
Published by April 14th, 2008 in Home in the Rookery and The Human Condition. 0 CommentsI’ve wondered what my attraction is to caving. It seems an odd pasttime for one who is not entirely comfortable underground, but I’ve now visited five or six caves, sometimes in multiple visits, and have more on my list.
Perhaps it’s the thrill of exploration, the awareness of potential danger, or the acute peak of the senses while underground. Our last […]
Much Needed Writing Direction
Published by April 7th, 2008 in Writing and The Human Condition. 2 CommentsThis should really come with a warning label: All writers, before watching this video, please attend to any restroom needs, find a quiet place, and lay down on the floor in preperation for rolling, howling, or generally reverting to ape-like behavior.
Sweet as Butternut Pie
Published by February 11th, 2008 in The Human Condition and Just for Laughs. 2 CommentsHere’s a love poem, for you. If you’re the kind of guy who usually sweeps your girl with a fancy dress event, a dimly lit but classy dinner, and maybe something exotic to the taste or delicately blooming, you can take a few suggestions from this fellow and really open her eyes.
The Stuff of Living (Fantasy) Legends
Published by November 19th, 2007 in Writing and The Human Condition. 0 CommentsI’m working on my Raven assassin story again this week, and have spent some time fleshing out the world. This is no chore, since I’d rather build worlds than, say, bake cookies or play at the beach.
But there’s more to world building than stacking up little rows of bucket-shaped sand. It’s not enough to have […]
Tomatoes to the Rescue
Published by October 13th, 2007 in Home in the Rookery and The Human Condition. 0 CommentsI wish I had a picture to post with this, but we didn’t quite catch the moment…
Anyway, today at the Renaissance Festival there was a place of ‘vegetable justice’, in which a guy hung his head and hands out of holes in a board wall, as if he was in the stocks. Then for a […]
Witchiest Get Rich Scheme
Published by September 14th, 2007 in The Human Condition and Folklore and Myth. 0 CommentsSo what’s the oldest-latest scheme for making money? The art of Necropants, as detailed in the Icelandic Museum of Sorcery and Witchcraft. I’ll let you read it from the source, but be warned that it involves wearing a dead man’s skin as pants.
Besides being the funniest scheme I’ve ever come across, it also reminding me that we […]
A Comedy of Errors and a Memorial Revisited
Published by September 11th, 2007 in Home in the Rookery, The Human Condition and Newsy Bits About Writing and Writers. 1 CommentI’ve been enjoying the fluff and stuff hitting the fan over the SFWA vs. Cory Doctorow showdown. I’m aware that my finding the whole thing amusing is probably unkind, just as my quietly laughing when I whiz by people stuck in traffic, while I take the commuter lane, is undoubtably small-minded of me.
I’ll try to […]
Guess how much this Louis Vuitton purse is selling for.
Guess higher.
And the really crazy thing? At just over $52,000, it’s by no means the most expensive purse out there, and has an embarrassing lack of diamonds.
This is proof positive that insanity roams freely, and is smiling out from under those sunglasses.
Secret Messages and Coral Castle
Published by August 9th, 2007 in Speculative Science and The Human Condition. 2 CommentsI put out an antenae for weirdness tonight and came up with a couple of oddities.
This article on the secret eye of your cell phone I picked up at LiveScience.com. The fashion application of this puts me in mind of the Disco Light shirts I mentioned on a previous blog.
I part of my brain keeps […]
