I had one of those odd days where two completely different patrons asked me the same obscure copyright question about a hour apart. While I was looking up the answer online at www.copyright.gov I found out something even more odd:
Apparently, so many freaks people have bothered the U. S. Copyright Office about how to copyright their sightings of [...]
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Posted in Random, tagged Jim Henson, silly, spoof on June 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Well, this is just too fun to pass up! A very young Jim Henson (who looks a lot like my Uncle Jim…) explaining how to make a commercial (with hilarious results).
Enjoy:
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Ah, spring…..and once again many a young man’s thoughts have turned to: “what kind of freaky, weird crap can I ingest to make me high?!”
Which brings us to today’s advice: DON’T LICK TOADS! Really. Don’t.
Or anything that is produced from toad by-products. No crunchy frog chocolates for you.
And just how desperate do you have to be [...]
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Yep. I did it. I laundered money.
It turns out there was a dollar bill stuck in my jeans and it went through the washer and dryer. I’d like to say that the whites were whiter but really it just looked a bit faded and crumpled. However, it got me thinking…”just what ARE these bills made [...]
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No, no…not a post about colds, I assure you. Instead, I found this great book called Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts: The Subversive Folklore of Childhood by J. Sherman and T. Weisskopf.
How can you resisit a title like that?! They complied lists of all the chants and songs we used when we were kids. The memories [...]
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From a drawing by Fred Bernard. Reproduced in “The Dickens Country” by kind permission of Messrs. Chapman and Hall. www.fromoldbooks.org
Watched a disturbing PBS Frontline show tonight about kids on heavy duty depression drugs called The Medicated Child. There are children four years old being diagnosed with bipolar disorder and being given huge amounts of medication [...]
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Photo by Phantom Midge
Yes, I haven’t been posting lately. My luck has run out and I have managed to catch the creeping crud that has been running rampant throughout the population. Must have zigged when I should have zagged!
But, I did play around with the splendiferous camera that my husband gave me this past Christmas…see [...]
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(picture from Liam’s Pictures)
I keep learning new and utterly useless facts at my new job. For instance, today I found out that an average person puts out enough urine, over a lifetime, to fill 250 bathtubs full. Please feel free to mention this at your next social gathering…
Also, I fear that my blog is becoming [...]
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So, I was opening a can yesterday and noticed that there were actually instructions on HOW to open a pull tab can lid. Do we really need that?!
If you have advanced to the level where you can read the written word, wouldn’t it be safe to guess that you have probably encountered a pull tab [...]
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Posted in Random, tagged comics, illustration, snowed in on December 15, 2007 | No Comments »
(Gustaf Tenggren illustration from ASIFA-Hollywood) I havc this book and used this very picture as the basis for making a model clay Pegasus, which won me an “A” in Latin class…yes, Latin).
Another ice/snow storm (the third in a week!) has led me to do more inside exploring rather than outside once again.
In my last post, I [...]
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