Tuesday, January 31, 2023
_Monday, January 30, 2023
Have you tried Ham Hock Latte?
--Joe Dator / Inked
_Joe Dator's cartoon collection is out.
He draws for the New Yorker, Mad, Esquire.
LOST SONGS: Washing Dishes With My Sweetie - 1930
"Washing dishes with my sweetie,
at the kitchen sink
Oh gosh, I get so excited, I can hardly think ... "
From high above the blog, from the Imaginary Ballroom on the tenth floor of Toronto's legendary Walker House, come the tippy-toe rhythms of the Ted Weems Orchestra ...
And the unforgettable lyric, sung by the dashing Parker Gibbs.
Practice this now for Valentine's Day.
Ted Weems Orchestra & Parker Gibbs - Washing Dishes With My Sweetie - 1930
What happened to Dewey's decimals?
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The DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER for James Thurber, Robert Benchley, S.J. Perelman, Irwin Cobb and all the humor writers who made high school bearable was ... 818/.5209
See you in the stacks.
_Sunday, January 29, 2023
In The Bath: Show me your loofah
_Does this exciting staged photo
in London newspapers
"prove" Prince Andrew could not have
licked Virginia Giuffre's teen toes
in a suspect bathtub?
Say wot, mate?
Big tub.
Big absurd story here.
Cue the music:
Who wants to get foxed up?
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Who wants to visit Japan's famous Fox Village?
You go right in a caged woods with 100 foxes. They run over your toes. Careful.
The foxes--as you will see--chew your sneakers and sing to you. They have a lot on their minds. They won't shut up.
They will demonstrate What The Fox Say.
You want this.
You don't know it yet, but you do.
Listen to the foxes. And the kyoto music.
Sign up for Fox Petting.
If you want to skip the high-speed train trip, start at the three minute mark. (10 mins)
Clip: Visiting Japan's Fox Village🦊 | Miyagi Zao Kitsunemura Fox Village | ASMR
Saturday, January 28, 2023
Stripes and polka dots
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_A rare polka-dotted zebra foal named Tira, next to its mother in the Maasai Mara reserve in Kenya.
Photo: Yasuyoshi Chiba.
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You can't see them After
Your eyelids are getting heavy.
Your eyes begin to close.
Nighty night ....
Friday, January 27, 2023
Snows, sunsets, winters, springs
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Any one of Erik Normark's weekly nature hikes is impressive, but he's edited bits of four years of videos into this new, short, spectacular sampler above.
As always, the woods, wind and water sounds of Sweden, the textures Erik captures are unique.
Wordless. Wild. Wonderful.
Ice Fishing Blues
In case you were missing a long, frozen squat over a blue hole. Be careful. A fluke-y winter.
In Ontario, we call gumboots Goreys
Like winter, the Osbick is another dubious guest.
--The Osbick Bird, Edward Gorey
Thursday, January 26, 2023
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PERFORMANCE: Man In The Mirror - Siedah Garrett
Siedah Garrett and Glen Ballard wrote Man in the Mirror.
Did you think someone else did? Michael Jackson recorded and produced it.
Above, Garrett is guest vocalist on Brazilian guitarist Lari Basilio's new album.
Song: Man in the Mirror - Siedah Garrett, Glen Ballard, Jackson assist
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
For whom the tablet tolls
--Aislin / Montreal Gazette
About 11 percent of Postmedia’s roughly 650 journalists will be cut as
one of the largest media companies in Canada prepares for turbulent
times ... --news item
Best animated shorts
_Riz Ahmed stifled a snicker the other morning, announcing My Year of Dicks as one of five Oscar-nominated Best Animated Shorts.
But its an interesting take on a teen losing her virginity. You can see it here. (25 mins)
It's part graphic novel, part cartoon, and lapses into Japanese anime.
The shorts are always the most fun of the Oscars.
The Ice Merchants, another of the five nominees, has already been seen on this blog, here.
Canada's Nation Film Board was nominated for The Flying Sailor. It seems very old fashioned, in a wispy style familiar to NFB fans. It's here.
The fourth nominee--The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse--can be seen in Great Britain on the BBC iPlayer. If you take your internet via a VPN, you can watch it as well.
It's also streaming on Apple TV, trailer here.
And An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake's trailer is here.
- The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud.
- The Flying Sailor. Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby.
- Ice Merchants. João Gonzalez and Bruno Caetano.
- My Year of Dicks. Sara Gunnarsdóttir and Pamela Ribon.
- An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It.
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