Nov 27 2009
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Space Shuttle Atlantis due to land this morning at 9.44 EST.
S to the Q to the U to the DUBBLE E.
I’ll be watching sneakily.
Nov 26 2009
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Happy Thank You Day, Americans!
Enjoy your huge poultry and bizarre sweet pies containing pumpkins wot surely are vegetables not fruit and stuff.
Yours in global harmony,
Prof. S. ‘Curlysaurus’ Jenkins.
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Can I be an honorary American for today please?
See? I didn’t add a ‘u’ in there because I’m trying real hard!
Oh, wow. Also I said “real” hard instead of “really” hard, so there’s that too.
Also, if I get to be American for the day, do I also get a special Dinobrainiac name?
Something involving the word Curlysaurus maybe..?
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Our collective Canadian boyfriend Jason 'Sweeney' Sween just reminded me, we are thankful also for 'u's..! We put them in everything.
Honour!
Colour!
Justiune!
Jasoun!
Nov 25 2009
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GPOYW I Cut My Hair Off Because I Was Bored Wiv It And No There Were No Hairdressers Or Hairstylists Or Whatever You Young People Today Call Them Involved DO YOU LIKE IT THOUGH And I’m Sorry About The Photo Quality But This Video Camera Wot Takes Stills Really Shouldn’t Be Taking Stills Because Just Look At It Oh And Do I Look Like A Boy Now? edition
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Lines for Winter, by Mark Strand
for Ros Krauss
Tell yourself
as it gets cold and gray falls from the air
that you will go on
walking, hearing
the same tune no matter where
you find yourself -
inside the dome of dark
or under the cracking white
of the moon’s gaze in a valley of snow.
Tonight as it gets cold
tell yourself
what you know which is nothing
but the tune your bones play
as you keep going. And you will be able
for once to lie down under the small fire
of winter stars.
And if it happens that you cannot
go on or turn back
and you find yourself
where you will be at the end,
tell yourself
in that final flowing of cold through your limbs
that you love what you are.
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i12bent:Nov. 24, 1639 – English astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks observes the transit of Venus, an event he alone had predicted.
This planetary event, which plays a central role in Thomas Pynchon’s novel Mason & Dixon, and which involves the planet Venus crossing the disk of the Sun as seen from Earth, occurs with long intervals within a 243-year cycle - but once one passage occurs, another always comes 8 years later. We had one in 2004 and are due to have the next one in 2012, and that’ll be the last time any of us are likely to see one (unless anyone plans to be around in 2117)…
Photo of the 1882 transit, taken at Vassar College
I nabbed Mason & Dixon from the library’s 50-cent rack, haven’t dug into it yet. This must be a sign…
WOW.
