Mambo Taxi

(the destination site is slammed so I can't review it myself, but it's sheer genius, so this is shamelessly copied right from thespian:

http://rescuemarriage.org/ a voter's initiative seeking to ban divorce in California in the 2010 election.

"Sometimes other people need to sacrifice in order to protect my ideas about traditional marriage. It's just a fact of life. It's not about their soul-sucking sham of a marriage, it's about what we value as a society. We live in a divorce-promiscuous society. It's on the television, it's in movies, the newspapers. It's even in our kids textbooks."

"I wish that I could force people that hate each other with the intensity of a thousand white suns back into a loveless marriage, but my attorneys tell me that getting that law passed would be unlikely in the current political climate."

(it's so dry you almost can't recognize it for the vicious satire it is. it's pretty brilliant.)

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Thanks thespian!

Somehow, I expect the overlap set on my friends list is... kinda large.


So pretty:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/sep/22/10

University of Manchester Library to share 14th-century royal cookbook online. Look at that pic. I can't wait for it to go live.

So scary:
http://lovelylisting.blogspot.com/2008/09/listing-listing.html

lovely_listing (It's Lovely, I'll Take It) is "a collection of poorly chosen photos from real-estate listings". This one had me chortling out loud. Even now, after I've snuck looks at it all through the afternoon, it still makes me chuckle.

So I was a bit amused with flickr stats just now; it tells me these photos are unaccountably highly ranked in google image search: first-row results for: dandelion puller (hey, I know those guys!) and phonographic photos.

There's the odd Canada Yellow Pages search result where my candid photo is the top link (for a restaurant!).

And then there's mormons on yahoo search- that's a bit further down, link 65 or so. (But aw! They're all so cute!)

But the best best thing I just found was stumbling driftingfocus's stumblr account:

http://community.livejournal.com/bloom_county/81272.html

(Complete with my comment there about roverthedog...)

(giggle).

...yesterday a LGA food-stand sold me a Bloom-County branded bottle of tea, made by Honest Tea. I wish I could say it was tasty, but... it was weirdly peach flavoured. But the label's cute. "This Fair Trade oolong tea is halfway between a black and green tea; like Opus is halfway between a chicken and a doorman." Yeah.

I'm very glad to be home.

Today, d. and I took advantage of the 14-degree weather (!) to take R for a long walk in the Guelph arboretum, where our little bundle of fur got herself turned into a bundle of swamp-mud and twigs. Conveniently, they had a clean-water pond on-site which we could send her through before heading back to the car.

Tomorrow's the first day at my new job! Yay. Paperwork and more paperwork, most likely. I'll be sure to get photos of my new office some time this week.

Oh, and this about "Welsh Dragon Sausages" running afoul of the UK label laws, for their sausage name having "Dragon" instead of "Pork"... is really funny.