We came home from Elf Fantasy Fair to find our smallest cat, Bubble, lying dead by the gatepost. Fortunately her death seems to have been swift..but what a welcome-home.
Forgive me if there will be no more blogging for a while.
posted by Diane: 4/25/2005 07:48:00 PM | link to this post
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Finally...
The self-referential movie trailer. (Sorry, the whole thing is in Flash and I can't extract a single URL from it. Click on the "trailers" tab at the bottom, and in the window that opens, choose the third window, the "UK Exclusive" trailer.)
posted by Diane: 4/20/2005 10:12:00 AM | link to this post
(Well, sure, lots of us have the same memories. But it's nice to see them committed to the Web as well.)
("Yip yip yip yip yip yip yip, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh...")
posted by Diane: 4/12/2005 10:30:00 AM | link to this post
Okay, here's an extremist group I can get behind
(If "extreme" is the right word, which I doubt.)
We are Unitarian Jihad, and our motto is: "Sincerity is not enough." We have heard from enough sincere people to last a lifetime already. Just because you believe it's true doesn't make it true. Just because your motives are pure doesn't mean you are not doing harm. Get a dog, or comfort someone in a nursing home, or just feed the birds in the park. Play basketball. Lighten up. The world is not out to get you, except in the sense that the world is out to get everyone.
Right on. There's a name generator, too. Peter came up behind me and it immediately dubbed him "Brother Broadsword of Warm Humanitarianism", which tells me that the generator works just fine, though if it had called him "Brother Oakeshott Type XVIIIb Longsword...", I'd have fallen over. Too much to expect, I guess. (Additionally, there's a reformed version of the generator over here. Schism already...don'tcha love it?)
And not just Holland, either (because I'm heading to Utrecht in a couple of weeks). There is more than one region included in The Netherlands, you know? Holland is just one of the regions: calling the nation "Holland" is like calling all of New England "Rhode Island."
Tourist guy #1: So what countries make up the Netherlands?
Guide: The Netherlands are one country. It's also called Holland.
Tourist guy #1: Oh, yeah. Sorry. How about The Hague? Is that one of the countries in the Netherlands?
Guide: Ahhhhh.
Tourist guy #2: You're all confused! It's all about Benelux! That's Holland, The Hague, and The Lux. They're all sort of together in the EU.
Tourist #1: The EU?
Guide: ...and right over there is Roosevelt Island.
Tourist #1: Oh, I've heard of that! Is that in New York or Brooklyn?
Ah dear. Somebody get me some frites, quick, and pass the mayo. (Or some herring would be nice. It'll be the Queen's Day at the end of the month: I wonder if any black-market "green herring" will be around yet?... She's supposed to get the first catch, but it wouldn't surprise me if somebody cheats a little...)
(The only reason I noticed it at all was that someone came looking for the Errantry Concordance wiki through that version of Google. The mind boggles. Or, indeed, googles.)
posted by Diane: 4/04/2005 12:08:00 AM | link to this post
A Wind from the South