Tild: the Blogspot Years

There’s a light over at the Wegenstein place

A few nights ago at the entrance to the vast, deserted, crumbling blog that was once Norwegianity…

SECURITY GUARD: No ma’am. I don’t see “itinerant band of Norwegian lutefisk wranglers” anywhere on my Approved Visitors list.

SECURITY GUARD: Oh yes, ma’am. Very sure. I don’t see anything about a “lady bloggers night” either. Are you sure Mr. G [...]

favorite YouTube video of the week

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Marx defended Berlin anti-war statement

Naah. Not what you might be thinking.

Groucho Marx.

Irving Berlin.

In 1972 Groucho Marx was 82 years old, and bored.
He had not yet begun to decline into illness and senility, which marked the last 5 years of his life until his death in 1977. He was still mentally sharp, and retained a wealth of memories spanning [...]

Don’t mention the comet

Alarming developments, post-Bell announcement:

Don’t mention the comet. I did once but I think I got away with it.

UPDATE: Behold version 2. (It’s gotta be an improvement. I did version 1 on my lunch hour in about 3 minutes, using nothing but MS Paint. [...]

Weekend Recap

This was a fun weekend. Will wonders never cease?

I took Friday off and spent the entire day wandering from one delight to another, and just really enjoying the absence of deadlines and quotas and goals and imperatives. Ahh. Peace –it’s wonderful.

First was a gabby long breakfast catching up with a dear old friend ; [...]