Late Friday "Why is the World in Love Again? Random 10+

Didn't get a chance to do this in the ante; I was busy finishing up the ConQuesT Program Book and delivering the cd to the printer. I really, really hate it when Memorial Day is so early in the month. Next year it will be the 31st; doesn't get any later than that. I shall have several posts over the course of the evening concerning things that I didn't get to earlier because of the book.

Right now it's raining, I dunno, capybara and jaguars out, having passed the canine and feline level a while back. Which reminds me, They Might Be Giants will be playing at the Beaumont Club next Friday, which would usually be a source of joy for moi. That happens to be the first night of ConQuesT, so there's no way I can go. And the show will be a special one, wherein they will perform the entireity of their album "Flood." Things like this are why I don't believe in god(s), because if I did I'd then have to be paranoid enough to believe they did things like this because they hated me. On to the music:


1) Let Me Run into Your Lonely Heart, Eddie Kendricks

2) Save For You, The Clumsy Lovers

3) Aftershower Funk, Joe Bataan

4) Bastards And Bridesmaids, Two Cow Garage

5) Powderfinger, Neil Young & Crazy Horse (10/22/86 Fox Theater, St. Louis)*

6) Castles, Doveman

7) Shankill Butchers, The Decemberists

8) Here, There and Everywhere (Claudine Longet), The Beatles [mashup]

9) Hound Dog, The Jimi Hendrix Experience

10) Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits, The Magnetic Fields


And the flaming brandy (not a band, yet) on top:


11) I Care About Detroit, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles

12) 1934, Xera

13) Kozatsky 'til You Dropsky, Shirim


It's 9p, and the deluge has moved on, so the Royals-Orioles game is going to start, only two hours late. It's Greinke time!

Oops, more thunder outside. Pitch fast!

* My 30th birthday. No, I wasn't there, damnit

Late Friday "Why is the World in Love Again? Random 10+

Didn't get a chance to do this in the ante; I was busy finishing up the ConQuesT Program Book and delivering the cd to the printer. I really, really hate it when Memorial Day is so early in the month. Next year it will be the 31st; doesn't get any later than that. I shall have several posts over the course of the evening concerning things that I didn't get to earlier because of the book.

Right now it's raining, I dunno, capybara and jaguars out, having passed the canine and feline level a while back. Which reminds me, They Might Be Giants will be playing at the Beaumont Club next Friday, which would usually be a source of joy for moi. That happens to be the first night of ConQuesT, so there's no way I can go. And the show will be a special one, wherein they will perform the entireity of their album "Flood." Things like this are why I don't believe in god(s), because if I did I'd then have to be paranoid enough to believe they did things like this because they hated me. On to the music:


1) Let Me Run into Your Lonely Heart, Eddie Kendricks

2) Save For You, The Clumsy Lovers

3) Aftershower Funk, Joe Bataan

4) Bastards And Bridesmaids, Two Cow Garage

5) Powderfinger, Neil Young & Crazy Horse (10/22/86 Fox Theater, St. Louis)*

6) Castles, Doveman

7) Shankill Butchers, The Decemberists

8) Here, There and Everywhere (Claudine Longet), The Beatles [mashup]

9) Hound Dog, The Jimi Hendrix Experience

10) Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits, The Magnetic Fields


And the flaming brandy (not a band, yet) on top:


11) I Care About Detroit, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles

12) 1934, Xera

13) Kozatsky 'til You Dropsky, Shirim


It's 9p, and the deluge has moved on, so the Royals-Orioles game is going to start, only two hours late. It's Greinke time!

Oops, more thunder outside. Pitch fast!

* My 30th birthday. No, I wasn't there, damnit

Look That Up!

I got my first dictionary as a birthday or Christmas present in 1968.* It was a two-volume Funk & Wagnalls, a gift from my mother, and obviously inspired by Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. I have acquired a number of other general dictionaries over the years, along with a few with specific applications (including the German-English one I stole from West Junior High). I have delved into all of them for pleasure over the years, because, well, words.

But last weekend we finally got one of the best ones ever: Websters New International Dictionary, Second Edition. Despite being 9x12x6.5", it had been overlooked during multiple searches of the boxes in Dragonet's mom's house. We were told it had been found a couple of weeks ago, and we filed the info away and laid our plans. We conspired with Dragonet's sister Sally to have a surprise Mother's Day dinner with their mom at Sally's house. Normally, we all go to mom's for holiday activities, so this was a nice change of pace. After a lovely meal and entertaining conversation (some of which revolved around my tendency to nod off due to lack of sleep), we swung by mom's to pick up the big book.

And what a wonderful dictionary it is. The title page has "1937" on it, but the copyright is 1934. It begins with a series of color plate of flags of all types (including two for Germany, the standard tricolor and the Hitlerian swastika), followed by i-xcvi pages of introductory material. The dictionary itself runs 2987 pages, and then the appendices go from pages 2989-3210. Then comes the "Reference History of the World," all 360 psges of it, divided into "Part One: World History" and "Part Two: National Histories," compiled by Professor Albert Bushnell Hart, LL.D., and a host of others. Once ConQuesT is over, I am so looking forward to playing with this magnificent tome.


*I could have sworn I got this during our exile in Topeka, but Laugh-In debuted in January, 1968, and by the time my birthday rolled around that year, we were in Lawrence. I didn't even get to see much of the first year of the show, as it came on while I was at weekly Boy Scout meetings. The first time an adult used the phrase "Here comes the judge!" in front of me, I was extremely confused, especially as we were watching The Wizard of Oz at the time. The things that stick in one's memory.

Look That Up!

I got my first dictionary as a birthday or Christmas present in 1968.* It was a two-volume Funk & Wagnalls, a gift from my mother, and obviously inspired by Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. I have acquired a number of other general dictionaries over the years, along with a few with specific applications (including the German-English one I stole from West Junior High). I have delved into all of them for pleasure over the years, because, well, words.

But last weekend we finally got one of the best ones ever: Websters New International Dictionary, Second Edition. Despite being 9x12x6.5", it had been overlooked during multiple searches of the boxes in Dragonet's mom's house. We were told it had been found a couple of weeks ago, and we filed the info away and laid our plans. We conspired with Dragonet's sister Sally to have a surprise Mother's Day dinner with their mom at Sally's house. Normally, we all go to mom's for holiday activities, so this was a nice change of pace. After a lovely meal and entertaining conversation (some of which revolved around my tendency to nod off due to lack of sleep), we swung by mom's to pick up the big book.

And what a wonderful dictionary it is. The title page has "1937" on it, but the copyright is 1934. It begins with a series of color plate of flags of all types (including two for Germany, the standard tricolor and the Hitlerian swastika), followed by i-xcvi pages of introductory material. The dictionary itself runs 2987 pages, and then the appendices go from pages 2989-3210. Then comes the "Reference History of the World," all 360 psges of it, divided into "Part One: World History" and "Part Two: National Histories," compiled by Professor Albert Bushnell Hart, LL.D., and a host of others. Once ConQuesT is over, I am so looking forward to playing with this magnificent tome.


*I could have sworn I got this during our exile in Topeka, but Laugh-In debuted in January, 1968, and by the time my birthday rolled around that year, we were in Lawrence. I didn't even get to see much of the first year of the show, as it came on while I was at weekly Boy Scout meetings. The first time an adult used the phrase "Here comes the judge!" in front of me, I was extremely confused, especially as we were watching The Wizard of Oz at the time. The things that stick in one's memory.