Strange commutes this week - deserted highways in the mornings, crazy and confused drivers in the evenings - but you know, people are still blogging even if they may not be traveling or working as usual. Here are some posts that have caught my eye since Christmas:
• Laura and hubby-Eric head off to the British store then the Japanese store to stock up after the windstorm. Sounds like stuff we do like every week or so. :)
• Tom Peyer has what I feel is the definitive caption to an old photo of the late Gerald Ford and a couple of his administration cronies. Had we known then what we know now, we would have vetted these guys a lot more carefully than the likes of Haldeman and Erlichman...
• Condolences to Grace on the loss of her Auntie Lily, who sounded like quite the woman, and congratulations to Lauren and Chef on their engagement and impending nuptials.
• What Russ said about Christmas. Especially the bit about it being a federal holiday, which is tautological proof positive of its secular nature!
• Asked and sort-of answered: Lance Mannion on how the Star Wars mythos is actually a retelling of King Arthur's Round Table, more or less. Which led me to answer Zuzu's question about why Chewie wasn't given a medal at the end of the first movie (aka fourth chapter) with the opinion that he was only a squire, not a full knight. (I also suspect the Fisher-Mayhew height differential may have had something to do with it, but they could have done an in-story bit of business with it had they really wanted that as a plot point.)
• Amanda knocks one out of the park with a discussion about the acolytes of Hef, and asks a bunch of silly nonsequitor questions.
• Siva respectfully declines Time's Person of the Year acknowledgement. See, pronoun trouble again! They didn't acknowledge Him, or Me, they acknowledged YOU! So only YOU can decline it! Only once you try to do so it becomes Me, and the acknowledgement no longer applies! My head hurts.
And with that, I've caught up on my blog-reading again, and am off to see about dinner...
• Laura and hubby-Eric head off to the British store then the Japanese store to stock up after the windstorm. Sounds like stuff we do like every week or so. :)
• Tom Peyer has what I feel is the definitive caption to an old photo of the late Gerald Ford and a couple of his administration cronies. Had we known then what we know now, we would have vetted these guys a lot more carefully than the likes of Haldeman and Erlichman...
• Condolences to Grace on the loss of her Auntie Lily, who sounded like quite the woman, and congratulations to Lauren and Chef on their engagement and impending nuptials.
• What Russ said about Christmas. Especially the bit about it being a federal holiday, which is tautological proof positive of its secular nature!
• Asked and sort-of answered: Lance Mannion on how the Star Wars mythos is actually a retelling of King Arthur's Round Table, more or less. Which led me to answer Zuzu's question about why Chewie wasn't given a medal at the end of the first movie (aka fourth chapter) with the opinion that he was only a squire, not a full knight. (I also suspect the Fisher-Mayhew height differential may have had something to do with it, but they could have done an in-story bit of business with it had they really wanted that as a plot point.)
• Amanda knocks one out of the park with a discussion about the acolytes of Hef, and asks a bunch of silly nonsequitor questions.
• Siva respectfully declines Time's Person of the Year acknowledgement. See, pronoun trouble again! They didn't acknowledge Him, or Me, they acknowledged YOU! So only YOU can decline it! Only once you try to do so it becomes Me, and the acknowledgement no longer applies! My head hurts.
And with that, I've caught up on my blog-reading again, and am off to see about dinner...
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