Oppression in your front yard?

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

Michael Pollan

Dirty little secret?

There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.

Erma Bombeck

After the Travers

The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.

Elbert Hubbard

Garden pests?

The first zucchini I ever saw I killed it with a hoe.

John Gould

A bee in her bonnet?

A precursor to the beehive of the sixties?

Strange Convergence = Kinetic Sculpture + Hands

Not getting enough attention?
Get yourself an Applause Machine.

Analyzing humor...

is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

EB White

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of....

but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Robert A. Heinlein

Away with you

Go and never darken my towels again.

Groucho Marx

Ask not what you can do for your country.....

Ask what’s for lunch.

Orson Welles

What's the matter?

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

Albert Einstein.

Like, really?

Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Aim high?

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

G. K. Chesterton

Art in motion?

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

John Dryden

After a good dinner....

... one can forgive anybody, even one's own relatives.

Oscar Wilde

Strange Convergence: Sock Monkey + Philosophy

Existential Sock Monkey Blog:
One monkey's quest to find meaning...

Rule of [Green] Thumb?

If a plant has an effect on the body it's because it's got chemicals in it. And if it doesn't, then it's not medicine, it's salad.

Matt Kirshen

The cold hard truth

Never trust a
skinny ice cream man.

Ben Cohen

Strange Convergence: Kettle + Flute

Some music with your tea?

To go where no man has gone before

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Jonathan Swift

Beyond one man's endurance

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

George Bernard Shaw

Teach your children well

Head injuries in nursery rhymes: Evidence of a dangerous subtext in children's literature. More at Canadian Medication Association Journal.

Make a reservation

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

Robert Frost

New York Cultural Treasures, cont.

Enrico Caruso Museum of America, Brooklyn. Among its many artifacts is Caruso's death mask. [Only two others are known to exist.] The Museum is open every Sunday from 2:00 to 5:00 PM, by appointment only.

In case you were wondering

Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink.

Barbara Pym

Strange Convergence: Coffee Filters + Design = Prom Dress

Aimee Kick, who designed her own prom dress out of unbleached paper coffee filters. More at Ethical Style.

A toad a day....

A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.

Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort.

New York Cultural Treasures, cont.

Jamestown, New York. Home of the Lucy-Desi Arnaz Museum, the Desilu Playhouse. the Lucy-Desi Center Gift Shop and more..

Loafed

It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.

James Thurber

Today's affirmation

Normal is just a cycle on the washing machine.

Whoopie Goldberg

Last words #10

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

Karl Marx