Downeast Schoolhouse

“Wash Teeth if Any”

admin — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:31:48 +0000

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

Woody’s “NEW YEARS RULIN’S”

via BoingBoing

Hitch Dead, Yes

admin — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:48:57 +0000

Christopher is dead, maddening man. Capable of slashing rhetoric, full of lust for the fight, rampant on the ramparts, he cut a figure. Oh yes, often wrong, and sometimes mean and low expeditious in an argument. Personally, we’re told, a generous bear of a man.

Lots of coverage everywhere; I cribbed this from Arts and [...]

My Momma She Tol’ Me

admin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:03:37 +0000

Slugs: not as delicious as they seem! | MetaFilter A linky link that also links on this: ” ingesting alcohol along with your snails lowers the number of viable parasites.” Good thing to know!

Devastating!

admin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:56:33 +0000

Click!

Wreck of the Old 97 721

admin — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:03:00 +0000

A classic photo:

Train wreck at Gare Montparnasse, Paris, 1895

Exercise: Use as a metaphor for the present situation vis-a-vis __________________.

(h/t Althouse)

But it’s a mighty rough road from Lynchburg to Danville With a line on a three mile grade It was on that grade that he lost his air brakes [...]

Union Logic!

admin — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:00:06 +0000

You might think about going tomorrow…

admin — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 23:00:51 +0000

or you might just think about shoveling snow, going to the dump, keeping your head down and your opinions to yourself.

And you might just sing a little song!

Well, it’s sundown on the union And what’s made in the U.S.A. Sure was a good idea ’Til greed got in the way

[...]

Maine Next?

admin — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:00:14 +0000

Maybe, says the Daily Beast here: 16 States Going to War on Unions.

(I hope it’s clear, but just in case: when I link to a site it doesn’t always mean that I adhere to their bazz-fazz!)

Madison: The Shape of Things to Come

admin — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 03:00:47 +0000

There’s a battle going on in Madison. It’s bloody and ugly, as battles are.

If you want to keep up with it, I can’t think of a better source than Ann Althouse.

Some of her posts from today:

After all those efforts to paint Tea Partiers as using violent images…

How [...]

Love, Requited

admin — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:00:50 +0000

And on V-Day too!

The Shape Shifter!

admin — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:47:11 +0000

The highest and best use of the Internet, we all know, is for funny cat videos — witness the Maru collection.

Then there are the videos of other animals. Some of these rise almost to the level of educational!

Thus, this owl.

He do not like the other owls!

He’s a shape-shifter!

Don’t mess with [...]

Maggie’s Grammy

admin — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:08:16 +0000

Yesterday’s televised Grammy Award ceremony would be particularly disheartening if one thought it represented anything real about the culture that spawned it. There’s some connection, surely, but we have to hope that the connection’s thin, and that maybe ultimately the peeps are scornful of this Hollywood crap. Otherwise, Lord have mercy! It’s as though moose [...]

We’re the Tops!

admin — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 10:00:14 +0000

Almost, at least.

Source.

You’re the top! You’re the Coliseum, You’re the top! You’re the Louvre Museum. You’re a melody from a symphony by Strauss You’re a Bendel bonneti, A Shakespeare’s sonnet, You’re Mickey Mouse. You’re the Nile, You’re the Tower of Pisa, You’re the smile on the Mona Lisa [...]

What are you looking at?

admin — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 10:00:15 +0000

Admirable structure!

Sourdough

Marvelous, simple marvelous.

Christmas in the Drunk Tank

admin — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 20:22:42 +0000

Gotta stop doing that!

We’ve a few more days, it seems, to wish each other Happy Christmas – at least until Epiphany. But now that the big day is past, and the New Year too, we’ve a quiet time, when the world seems just a little bit slower.

To aid in your reflecting (on, perhaps, [...]