So that is it, really - it's taken me well over a year, but I've come up with 100 ( listed under the cut... )

Our white violets

I though of doing something big and special for The Hundredth Thing.... then I thought, but these are things that make being me just that bit better. I decided I wanted to go with... just a little thing.

And they don't come much littler than these humble flowers.

And these do. Our rather overgrown and rambly garden has always ( Read more... )

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.

(and because this is ( Read more... )

So okay, they're really 'beckoning' cats - Maneki-neko, but I see them waving :) Sis gave me the little black and white ones years ago after seeing them in a Japanese specialty shop (they only had the two matching, not the threesome - they're simpler and plainer than many I've seen, but me, I like them all the better for that). White ones are ( Read more... )

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... )

Peacocks in Space, or What the Over-Dressed Rebel is Wearing For the Revolution.

It is a simple fact that all future clothes in science fiction film/TV/comics whatever dates as quickly, if not moreso, than fashion in the real world. What looked like the Whateverth Century in 1955, in 1975 looked... old, even quaint (though of course, by 1985 the ( Read more... )

HP Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu (for beginning readers).



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The lithographs by David Roberts of Egypt and the Holy Lands (1838-40)

For years, Sis and I bought large art calendars for the kitchen and dining room - and we both loved Roberts' art: deeply romantic, delicate yet luminous, wonderfully expressive while coolly remote, somehow catching the feeling of both timeless serenity and long-gone antiquity ( Read more... )