Friday, October 29, 2004

Tricks, then Treats: UPDATED

OY there’s not much time left this morning for me to get a post up for y’all but luckily I don’t have much on my mind (stop snickering) so it shouldn’t take too long.

* “Et tu, Brutus?  Yet you flew under my RADAR ere the ides were well upon me, a SCUBA diver in the Tiber...” these are examples of anachronyms - words made out of initials of other words used in an incorrect time-context.  Feel free to pepper your speech with them.  (not taken from, but inspiring a visit to, this site, which is pretty amusing.)

* Where does flannel come from?  Make a note, because Kel told me recently: Flannel comes from flanimals.  UPDATE: the interest in flanimals made me wonder if we weren’t the first to think of them; it appears we weren’t quite first but we’re in good company I think.  Ricky Gervais is hereby inadvertently plugged, and he’d better remember it come the holidays, which are damn near now, so get shopping, Rickles!  (Don’t forget, now: allergic to walnuts; partial to suede.)

* Since I’m not doing squat for halloween, here’s my costume idea, which I offer for general misappropriation: a vampire prognosticator who can predict when your neck will get perforated and your lifesblood drained from your undead body.  I call him “Nosferatudamus.”

Today is a big committee meeting at which I help some very wise and clever people decide how to divide $950,000 in grant money among $1.7M in requests.  It’ll be mentally draining.  Luckily my brain will not be required at my evening engagement in the victorian opulence of the Great American Music Hall where the Masters of the B-3 show is at 8 pm.  (or at 10:30 but we get up at 5 these days so that’s a non-starter).  They’re so funky it’s SCARY. 

Oops, time to run.  Have a great weekend and don’t eat any unwrapped razor blades!

hey, get extra funky for me at the B-3 show, okay?  i’m not feeling especially funky these days, but the show sounds great. 

i like the “flanimals” comment.  very silly.

and yes, be sure that any razor blades you eat are fully wrapped!

Of course it comes from flanimals everyone knows that, what they don’t know is that flanimals are extremely skittish creatures and if you aren’t careful they’ll end in a panic and get stuck to each other in a big flanimal ball which is very tough to seperate.  You can loose a whole herd to that kind of problem.  Which explains the great flannel shortage back in ‘02.

(sorry go carried away with the whole idea there...)

I’m ghualed, kirbered, and slightly apricated. I’m acrnymonious. I’m jealosified beyond belief. But do enjoy the funk show, my friend. Oh, and don’t forget to dance!

DAN:  have a safe trip, wear a scarf and tell Ohio I send my love.  xoxoxo

i am SO envious about the B3 show. damn, that looks like a smokin’ evening.