–You know, people dog on Wikipedia, but where else can you find an explanation for the Ding Dong/Ring Ding/King Don situation?
–Also, would it be too nerdy to start referring to things that happened in April and before as antediluvian?
–I should ask JR for a ruling on the antediluvian question…
–…when JR is done making me out to be some kind of blogging Jekyll and Hyde. Or Heckle and Jeckle. Which ever.
–Rumor is that the Wamp campaign is doing some advance opposition research on bloggers. I can’t help but hope that they will stop by the house, hang out in the hammocks, pet the dog, and maybe have a beer or two. I mean, let’s just be frank. There’s already something ludicrous and hilarious about gubernatorial candidates worried about liberal bloggers. I mean, everyone already knows Wamp and John Rich are two peas in a pod. How can it get any worse?! What more than that are they afraid liberal bloggers will find out about? But they should come by anyway. Shoot, they can help with the weeding, if they want. Come on over, Wamp politicos. I’ll hang out with you in my back yard.
–Unless I don’t warrant opposition research being done on me, in which case, don’t even bother to try to drink my beer, assholes.
–Ron Ramsey’s boots. Okay, let’s be honest. Once you’ve got special boots you wear in case of emergency, aren’t you literally just some colored long-johns and a cape away from trying to pass yourself off as a superhero? We should all chip in and buy Ramsey a cape.
–Heh, I’m in a kind of overly tired, giddy mood. I had this weird nightmare dream that we were at my great-grandma’s house, which for some reason, we had all just inherited (though it wasn’t actually her house). And it had these scary, ricketty stairs up to the attic and the second floor had a door that opened up onto a balcony created by the roof of the Florida room, but it was somehow also into a slight hill. So, on the roof, there were all these graves. And the graves closer to the hill were normal, old graves with big old stone grave markers. But the graves closer to the front of the house were mounded up with a dirt ring on top of the mound and in the ring were huge, old mirrors.
And there was a historical marker, but I couldn’t read it.
Those big old mirrors, face up to the sky, just freaked me the fuck out.
Filed under: Random Things
I am OK with using antediluvian for things pre-May 1. On the Monday, I wrote a story and used postdiluvian (http://tinyurl.com/29r983m). However, of all the stories I’ve ever written, that’s the one that made me feel like the biggest jackass.
“Hello, Ms. Real Estate Agent, I know you are helping your friends and clients recover from a flood, but could you tell me about the impact of this situation on our residential market?”
“You are a jackass” [her response paraphrased, kinda]
Rumor is that the Wamp campaign is doing some advance opposition research on bloggers.
That’s kind of giving more credit than is deserved. As I understand it, a phone call was placed urging someone to “tell [the caller] who the bloggers are.” Which, you know, it’s not a state secret who any of us are. If that’s what Republicans consider opposition research, I feel great about November.
But the person on the receiving end of that phone call was supremely surprised to hear me called out by name.
And the Heckle and Jekyll and Hyde thing is because we (by that I mean me following Adam’s precedent) refer to you as Aunt B when linking from here and Betsy when linking from Pith – when I want or need to quote you from two separate places, I like pointing out the ridiculousness this little unwritten policy causes.
Furthermore, when do I get a nickname from you? Like “Tiny Pasture.”
How about “The Welsh Nightingale”? You know, like Jenny Lind, only Welsh.
[...] Is Wamp’s campaign doing oppo on liberal bloggers?: Rumor is that the Wamp campaign is doing some advance opposition research on bloggers. I can’t help but hope that they will stop by the house, hang out in the hammocks, pet the dog, and maybe have a beer or two. I mean, let’s just be frank. There’s already something ludicrous and hilarious about gubernatorial candidates worried about liberal bloggers. I mean, everyone already knows Wamp and John Rich are two peas in a pod. How can it get any worse?! What more than that are they afraid liberal bloggers will find out about? But they should come by anyway. Shoot, they can help with the weeding, if they want. Come on over, Wamp politicos. I’ll hang out with you in my back yard. [...]
It has to come organically. In his case, he espoused views that made me think that the shame of coming from an ethnic group notorious for refusing to assimilate or learn English (an ethnic heritage I share) was probably very great for him, so I called him by the English translation of his name, so as to not continue to pour salt in his wounds by referring to his “immigrant name.”
Sniff. Poor Tiny Pasture.
Anyway, I’m sure your nickname will come. Just give it time.
When we reflect about the flood and the deaths, we reflect who we are.
Once you’ve got special boots you wear in case of emergency, aren’t you literally just some colored long-johns and a cape away from trying to pass yourself off as a superhero?
I. love. you.
@bridgett The Welsh word for “nightingale” is “eos” (that, I admit, I had to look up).
However, the Lind half of my blood is Ulster Scots – and the story is the Jenny Lind Linds were also originally Lowland Scots, but when the Reformation happened, one branch of the family liked Calvin and Knox and another group liked Luther. The Lutherans up and shipped to Sweden where they’d be more welcome and from them came Jenny Lind and her kin.
My Welsh half is my mother’s half – the Dillehays. Dillehay being a cymrization of “De La Hay,” because they were, actually, French Huguenots who fled to Wales, primarily, so the story goes, they could be Protestant in peace and continue hating the English.
–Also, would it be too nerdy to start referring to things that happened in April and before as antediluvian?
A fine lot of Old Testament scholars we have around these parts.
JR dropped the A-bomb in the CP this AM:
http://nashvillecitypaper.com/content/2010-flood/omohundro-shrine-water-god
But I had dibs already last Monday:
http://www.nashvillepost.com/news/2010/5/10/headline_homes_nashvilles_top_sales_april_2010
-ETW