...it being Bubble Wrap (or as we call it, BubblePop) Appreciation day :)


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Passed on from solosundance, simply because it's... simply lovely :)



And I just had to click on the next...

... in the comments to the last post about Into The Woods, a passing reference to children and fairy tales put me in mind of this poem... and for no other reason than I love it and want to share it...

Here it is:)

Don't Cry, Darling, It's Blood All Right
Whenever poets want to give you the idea that something is particularly meek and mild,

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The Diagram Prize

Because there is a special place in my heart for people who take their craziness seriously, folks.

The Diagram Prize, offered by Bookseller's magazine each year, is for the weirdest real book title, and over the years has alerted the world to such gems as American Bottom Archaeology, Bombproof Your Horse, People Who Don't Know ( Read more... )

The Utah Baby Namer

I have mentioned this site before, but let me be honest, giggling at silly names never gets old, and these are as silly as they get, folk :) One of these days I am too going to name my Authorial Insert Vyquetoriya just to see if I can get away with it... or maybe my Authorial Insert's pet budgerigar.

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The Spooky Men's Chorale and The Affirmations of St Kevin the Usual

I mean, I love the Spooky Men anyway, both their comedy and their more serious pieces. (They do a version of Dancing Queen that will never ever ever get old, folks).

But the Affirmations of St Kevin the Usual -? This is all of us ordinary people to a T. Honestly, I am seriously ( Read more... )

Anna Russell's The Ring of the Nibelungs (An Analysis)

It's probably no secret - or even surprise - to most of you that I love any good mix of classical music and comedy. Victor Borge, Gerard Hoffnung (the three Hoffnung Concerts are things of beauty and joys forever), P D Q Bach, What's Opera Doc and The Rabbit of Seville, the Portsmouth Sinfonia ( Read more... )

Fred McGherkin-Squirter

... was once, apparently, a real person. In the Sydney telephone book. Many years ago.

I have no idea who he was or where he came from... or went... or even if he was real or just a journalist's imagination at work, but along with the 1991 newspaper cutting that brought him to my attention and the others immortalised ( Read more... )

Southern Seven 5... the covers


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And going from the sublime (see no 49) to the sublimely ridiculous or ridiculously sublime :)



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