I'll weave Rats around your Fingers!

[rain_gryphon]

or: The Cows destroyed my Sheep!



It's Lizard Time!

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I have long speculated that there may be some accursed artifact in the Massachusetts state house that drives their legislature to madness. Could it perhaps be the Sacred Cod?

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It's beginning to snuh here. We should end up with 8 - 10 inches, with an ice crust, by tomorrow night.

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The Chinese air force still has a few operational MiG-15s in use as trainers. That's such an elegant airplane, really very little more than a big engine with wings and a tail.

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Since Oliver mentioned it, I very much want to see "The Cunning Little Vixen" again. It played in Zurich this weekend. It's one of those operas that very seldom makes it to America.

It can be seen as a sort of thematic companion to 'Bambi' and 'Fifteen Rabbits'. It's easy to imagine them all taking place in the same forest. Some muse was floating around the old Habsburg Empire between the wars to produce those. When I look back at that time and place, knowing what was to become of it, everything there has this haunted, doomed aspect that lends extra poignancy to tales of procreation and death.

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Old Hi-O!

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I think the Lizards may escape onto my journal too

What an interesting plane. Full throttle!

[rev-marcus.livejournal.com]

The Sacred Cod is a symbol that they sold their souls to the fish god Dagon, just like the town of Innsmouth in H.P.Lovecraft's stories. When the legislators start to develop gills & webbed feet, run for the hills.

Here in southern Ohio, we're just getting rain, occasionally freezing. It's 35F degrees down here, so stuff's actually melting. I'ld rather have a foot of snow down here like Columbus, so everything will shut down, especially my dentist appointment this afternoon. :(