Month: April 2012

A good Friday

I had to work today, and I have to work again on Monday, but I’m not complaining, much. My new boss left Easter eggs full of candy on all our desks this morning.

Beyond that, it was just a pretty typical Friday.

Random 10 4-6-12

Last week. This week:

  1. “Big Love” by Fleetwood Mac, guessed by Clayton and Betty
    Oh, you begged me to keep you in that house on the hill
  2. “Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine” by Ricky Skaggs & the Dixie Chicks (orig. Bill Monroe)
    Don’t treat it mean and so unkind
  3. “Loom” by Ani DiFranco
    I won’t do anything you can’t tell your wife
  4. “Making Flippy Floppy” by Talking Heads, guessed by Clayton
    No one makes a monkey out of me
  5. “Margaret vs. Pauline” by Neko Case
    Her bravery is mistaken for the thrashing in the lake
  6. “Your Ex-Love Is Dead” by Stars
    God that was strange to see you again
  7. “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
    I told you you could always count on me
  8. “When the President Talks to God” by Bright Eyes
    Are the consonants all hard or soft?
  9. “Lost Cause” by Beck
    They make it hard to leave you alone
  10. “Overcome” by Tricky
    Phenomenally and properly kissed

Good luck!

Thursday

I think I might be allergic to Thursdays. I think I might have said this before, and not just earlier today on Twitter.

It was a pretty normal Thursday, despite the runny nose and perpetual half-sneeze that seemed to dog me all morning.

Meanwhile, I’m re-reading Watership Down and mostly enjoying it, if it’s not quite as delightful as I remember it, from years and years ago. I did run into an odd phrase, which kind of underlined the fact that this was written thirty years ago by a man born in the 1920s. Adams writes that “a rabbit can no more refuse to tell a story than an Irishman can refuse to fight.”

I mean, it’s not quite the casual, friendly racism of Tintin in the Congo, which I also read this year, but it’s hard to see that phrase getting by an editor nowadays.