(Mumblety-mumblety) years back, I shared a whim with
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Senior Postman Tolliver Groat lives!

No, not that one.

This one.

The one who is calling himself Chester Reed (and not Tolliver Groat), who never in his 95 years missed a day of work in the postal service, lives by the Bible, eats onion and mayonnaise sandwiches as what are very healthful and puts sulphur in his socks and goose grease on his ( Read more... )

Today's real life whimsy includes:

• Young child unicycling across a brick paved crossing, arm in arm with parental.
• Vending machine moustaches. I assume that this is the I.M.W.L.'s version of baseball cards; swap a pushbroom for a snidely-whiplash and so forth?

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But how I thought about the indigo. I imagined tall trees rising to a cathedral canopy, their slim trunks as lovely as kabuki actors in kimonos. And I pictured men dressed in Gandhi-white robes and pink turbans strolling through dappled glades to tap a rich blue dye into beaten tin pots.

- Victoria Finlay, Color: A Natural History of the Palette, ( Read more... )

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By day, Mooney is an over-achieving, six year-old girl living with her Grandparents at their junkyard in the forest. By night, Mooney is a member of a secret jazz band with a group of ex-convict animals.
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• 22:23 Like Something The Cat Dragged In: Oh hey. Heat exhaustion. I guess this means it's officially summer. #
• 23:49 Safety First: I am utterly stealing the velveteen riding helmet idea. Oh yes. I need a new equitation helmet anyway. twurl.nl/nmb1ei #

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I posted this briefly on Twitt'r and then thought the better of it because people are just a touch jumpy about the word 'hijack' these days. It's better off here, with no character limit to inhibit the explanation.

Riffing off of the 14 ton Oreos spillage, a plan to take over an industrial-size tanker truck filled with soft-serve icecream has ( Read more... )

• 15:14 The Irony, It Is Sweet. And Bitter: The thing I am most anxious to knit next is the Springtime in Philadelphia hat: twurl.nl/33xlv6 #
• 16:04 Delight!: A Vegetable Lamb of Tartary! twurl.nl/ojx1i0 I've totally forgotten about those in my encyclopedia of mythical beasts. #
• 19:05 @ BZedan Awesome. You need an "ACTIVATE PARASOL" button - like a ( Read more... )

Hey. You want to know what's really aggravating?

Having the Harlem Globetrotters' theme (Sweet Georgia Brown) stuck in your head ( Read more... )