By the way, Big Dave asked me if I was getting anywhere on this particular reference, in my message center lately [message center somewhere hidden my brain].
That was last Thursday. I regret I have not even a smidgen of inspiration even now Wednesday. If Dave calls me regular Thursday, I will look like a dweeb... okay no comments from the peanut gallery.
Any one got a clinger for this week on those beings that are messengers?
Carrots: that has to do with snacking... so far so good. Carrots rather than Dagwood sandwiches at midnight..... eases the gastronomic advance of a girth.
More later, more or less, that is
Patrick out
Dress in your Armor Everyday
Answer a Call to Revival
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Hugs aren't Just for Girls..... it's Hug your Guitar Week
Hug Your Guitar, so say some sentimental types,,, hey hug your harmonica, or piano, or bassoon,,, any instrument is better than having an SUV !! For the love of God and Country, don't let me catch you hugging your SUV !
iG:
I just read your article: http://igblog.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/hug-your-guitar-week/
I arrived here via http://www.guitarflame.com/2008/why-i-love-my-guitar/
Some guitars need hugs... or they will simply cease to exist.
This one has a funny condition, that the guitar repair dude at Mom2Pop Music store said "Hey, I'd like to take your $580!"
To him I said, "It has sentimental value, but not that much!"
So I put some thought into it, and clamps to it, as you might see in the photo. Its made in "Japan" as it is stamped japan, but unfortunately there is no label left, Classic nylon string guitar. Very old now. Used when given to me by best friend's wife, 22 years ago. Jack Pribek has even had a turn with it, picked it up and practiced his scales. Then he pulled out his file to take the frets down, or shave down the nut to his liking... making this primitive guitar sound like Anne Murray.
...all the rug rats have used it, drawn on it, and so on. I played it in churches, and at Guitar Preservation classes when two of us taught basics to middle schoolers. Some one used it as a paddle in a flood... [not really]
Then one tuner cracked, so I fashioned a nylon sleeve, that continued to buzz. I discovered replacement tuners for this simple guitar, and was really happy about that. Then it developed a weird sag, I think someone sat on it... is all I can figure.
So, you see the guitar is a very worthy instrument, especially this one, deserving lots of love and hugs. I would say a guitar is better even than having a boat.
Hug it you huckster; hug that presidential dreadnaught-----------}
Go on and hug your girls too!
moopigwisdom.blogspot.com
Stillicide, by Michael Quinion
A falling of water in drops. World Wide Words is copyright © Michael Quinion, 1996–2008. All rights reserved.
The word is not one of that melancholy collection ending in -cide that refers to an act of killing or something that kills (suicide, pesticide), since it comes from a different Latin verb, caedere, to fall. The first part is from Latin stilla, a drop; the English word is a reformulation of Latin stillicidium, falling drops.
The Latin word could mean in particular the drip of rain from the eaves of a house, which is exactly equivalent to an ancient meaning of our eavesdrop. This meaning led to the main historical sense of the word, a legal term in Scots law. If a householder let rain fall from his eaves on to the land of a neighbour, he needed the neighbour’s permission. John Erskine explained this in 1754 in his Principles of the Law of Scotland: “No proprietor can build, so as to throw the rain water falling from his own house immediately upon his neighbour’s ground, without a special servitude, which is called of stillicide.” (Servitude is another term for easement, a special permission relating to access to land.)
It’s not a word much encountered these days. When it appears it has the sense of falling water, not the legal one. It is in a poem in Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire: “Stilettos of a frozen stillicide”, one of a collection of unusual words in that section that also includes shagbark, torquated, vermiculated, preterist, iridule, and lemniscate. Its most famous use is perhaps that by Thomas Hardy, again in a poem:
They’ve a way of whispering to me —
fellow-wight who yet abide —
In the muted, measured note
Of a ripple under archways,
or a lone cave’s stillicide.
World Wide Words is copyright © Michael Quinion, 1996–2008. (See: also sidebar)
Saturday, May 3, 2008
UPDATED: Write a Caption for this Photo... Contest
FLOOD GAUGE FUSION
See comments....
richard capotosto to you - 2 hrs ago *CHALLENGE*
Rules Committee,To you, rc, we say:
If you read all 20 pages of the Haiku Rules, current
and anachronistic, you will not longer be confused by
8-10-2 . Maynard G. Krebs used it all the time and
most modern jack hammers are synchronized to this beat
because the resonance is proven to break apart solids
3 times faster than 5-7-5.
www.ahapoetry.com/HAIKU.HTM#comego
"How to write Haiku In Japaneses, the rules for how to
write Haiku are clear, and will not be discussed here.
In foreign languages, there exist NO consensus in how to
write Haiku-poems. "
So, even though until recently I thought Haiku was
Japanese for "a sneeze" I still feel inclined to say
that poetry is as much for the ignorant as it is for
those who count to 17 on their fingers & toes.
Question: How did you know we had to take our shoes off to judge that verse of yours?
チャプスイ
お客様の訪問の思い出
には、左側の- overs
loosely translated as --
CHOP SUEY
MEMORIES OF YOUR VISIT
IN THE LEFT-OVERS
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