[…with today’s commentary in brackets.] Don’t tell me the stars Are just balls of fire Which may have died out Long ago. [They’re not just balls of fire. They’re great balls of fire!] Don’t tell me the moon Isn’t made of green cheese Although what you say May be so. [It looks more white than green, wouldn’t you say?] Don’t tell me the sounds That I hear at night Are not made by small Faerie folks. [Actually, that would be…
I’ve just come to the awful realization that my color inkjet printer is nearly nine years old. It’s a Hewlett Packard DeskJet 855C, and when my mother bought it, it was the best in its class and cost about as much as its model number. It prints at 300 dpi, and you can clearly see dots in each print, as though paper white was one of its inks—not what I use in the prints I sell online, let me assure…
If you have Adobe Illustrator, and you liked How to Make Celtic Knots, the Quick and Easy Way, you might like this mini-tutorial. You will be amazed at how ridiculously easy it was to make the knots I previously posted here and there, and I will totally regret having given away this secret technique of mine. Step One: Using the Pen tool, draw the paths that will make up the various threads in your Celtic knots and give them a…
[After listening to news about a 13-year-old getting molested…] H.E.: Tsk. They already deal with black lung and cave-ins. Now they’re being exploited sexually. She: Huh? What are you talking about? H.E.: I’m talking about the sexual exploitation of miners. * * * [At bedtime, annoyed, and with toothbrush in hand…] She: Can you please not put the tube of cortisone so close to the tube of toothpaste? Share this post:
I hadn’t planned on writing about this topic, but it was the perfect opportunity for trying out the TrackBack feature so new to me. Jimbo wrote about his experience in a Texas country bar and described himself as metrosexual. According to the Word Spy notes: A metrosexual is a clotheshorse wrapped around a dandy fused with a narcissist. Really, the last time I encountered the word dandy outside of Yankee Doodle was in a historical romance novel I read in…