Buy My Parents' House Please...

This is the house I grew up in.  It is a great house,  but they're moving to Florida.  It would be a great second house for a family with young children needing room to grow.  It has a nice yard,  and is walking distance to the Jr. High School and the Sr. High School.  It is also walking distance to the bus to Ashmont Station,  and a very short bus ride or drive to the Holbrook Commuter Rail station. 

26 Howard St., Randolph, MA

Oh, my ears!

This is cute.

Doh!

Great Obama ad, with a surprise guest.

Keith Olbermann is right about Hillary Clinton.

Which is why I am hoping that Barack Obama wins the Democratic nomination cleanly, and we do not have a brokered convention in Denver. Hillary Clinton clearly wants to win at all cost.

Let Me In Cat

From the creator of "Wake Up Cat" comes "Let Me In Cat".

I'm hoping for a whole series of these cartoons. Simon is a genius.

The Donkey

When fishes flew and forests walked
And figs grew upon thorn
Some moment when the moon was blood
Then surely I was born.

With monstrous head and sickening cry
And ears like errant wings
The devil's walking parody
On all four-footed things.

The tattered outlaw of the earth.
Of ancient crooked will;
Starve, scourge, deride me: I am dumb
I keep my secret still.

Fools! For I also had my hour;
One far fierce hour and sweet:
There was a shout about my ears,
And palms before my feet.

- G. K. Chesterton (1894-1936)

Another Blog

The web is saturated with 'blogs.  We are adding to it. We have a Gloxinia that is in its second cycle of growing.  It grows, blossoms, and completely dies off,  and then lies dormant for several months.  A couple of days ago, we noticed that it is beginning to grow again. 

Follow its growth at our new 'blog.  I think you can subscribe to an RSS feed to get daily updates. 

The Resurrection Plant

Armour for Cats

Simply stunning.

And I can't imagine trying to get Her Royal Highness to wear it.

Click the photo for more examples of this artist's work.

Ban Comic Sans

I have been known, on occasion, to go on rants about things that seem irrelevant.

For instance, the use of the font known as 'comic sans' on everything from posters to worship bulletins drives me absolutely insane. It is a font designed to imitate the hand-lettering in conversation bubbles in comic books. There, it is usually appropriate, but even this computer-generated travesty of a font cannot hold a candle to a beautifully hand-lettered comic.

The use of 'comic sans' for professional communications, exams and most unfortunate of all, worship bulletins in church, is wholly inappropriate, infantilizing, and should be punishable by lashes with wet noodles. The whole-wheat kind, not those wimpy soba or egg noodles.

I am vindicated. Viz.;

Ban Comic Sans