Aw, Gem made a new little buddy over the holiday!
(Actually, the apparent viciousness on display here was just a trick of the camera. Here’s video evidence showing that they tussled along famously.)
SUBJECTS Falling and laughing 1. Thoughts--their shape. 2. Thoughts--ones had while walking dog. 3. Thoughts--ones that made me laugh. 4. Thoughts--the kind I’ve got. 5. Spleen--its venting. 6. Japery--assorted. 7. Words. 8. Music. 9. Books. 10. Obsessions--varied. 11. Animals--facts. 12. Animals--made-up things. 13. Dogs--beloved halfling Rottweiler. 14. Birds-- the bowerbird. 15. Birds--the great bustard. 16. Illinois--Chicago--residents--lives and customs. 17. Happiness--its pursuit.
Aw, Gem made a new little buddy over the holiday!
(Actually, the apparent viciousness on display here was just a trick of the camera. Here’s video evidence showing that they tussled along famously.)
“Mr. Gold and Mr. Mud,” Townes van Zandt
The traditional holiday spiritual.
Now here’s what this story’s told:
If you feel like mud you’ll end up gold
If you feel like lost you’ll end up found
So amigo lay them razors down.
“A Little Lost,” Arthur Russell
An astonishment: PJ Harvey singing “Grow Grow Grow” on French TV in 2007. Her voice in this clip is just… I can’t even… I mean, WHAT.
O PJ Harvey, why couldn’t you have stopped in Chicago on your current little trip to the US? Why do you spurn us upstanding Middle-Westerners? We’ll build you a Clockwork Orange set just like the Gauls did, is this what you require?