Weekend Wrapup | The Bleat. 10/24/13 9:00 AM ABOUT Search ACME Novelty Library #19 RECENT COMMENTS polymathamy on 06.14.12 Bleat WEEKEND WRAPUP Amanda from Michigan on Boo. Hiss on JANUARY 5, 2009 · LEAVE A COMMENT · in DOMESTIC LIFE Julie on Testing the new RSS feed idea shesnailie on Autobots and Bruckner Welcome to the new year! Thank our ever-giving friend, the Perpetuity Wagner von Drupen- Sachs on Autobots and Plant: Bruckner 140 OR SO Error: Twitter did not respond. Please wait a few minutes and refresh this page. CLICK – AND SAVE! A BOOK I RECOMMEND http://lileks.com/bleat/?p=3 Page 1 of 5 Weekend Wrapup | The Bleat. 10/24/13 9:00 AM Child 44 Tom Rob Smith Best Price $0.01 or Buy New Privacy Information THE PAST AT YOUR FINGERTIPS OCTOBER 2013 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Sunday Tribune illustration 27 28 29 30 31 « Jul THE DISTANT PAST July 2013 The Perpetuity Plant? It’s an interesting idea, but never caught on. That’s from a 1948 Sunday Tribune, and I’m at a loss to explain why the cartoonist June 2013 drew that. Everyone’s tired of a bare-nekkid infant running in as Old Man May 2013 Previous Year slumps towards the exit, bearing his hourglass and tattered April 2013 sash, but the Perpetuity Plant never caught on. For one thing, you wonder March 2013 what it lives on, and the answer is simple: Blood and Tears, or perhaps the finite exhalations of us all. February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 Perhaps he rejected “Continuity Quilt,” which somehow knitted itself a new November 2012 panel every month, or the Ongoing Opossum, which birthed 12 kits at the October 2012 end of every year. Or 31 at the end of every month. No, that wouldn’t work. You’d have to drown three every February. Two in a leap year. September 2012 August 2012 July 2012 June 2012 Difficult to get back to the rigors of real life; tomorrow I expect to be fully May 2012 operational. Two weeks of “vacation” – meaning, I don’t have to get up in the April 2012 morning and hurry the child down to the bus stop – have destroyed my November 2011 sleep schedule, and I have fully reverted to the feral college state. At least now I stay up doing something. What did any of us do before the internet October 2011 and cable TV? The only entertainment options available at 1:30 AM were September 2011 http://lileks.com/bleat/?p=3 Page 2 of 5 Weekend Wrapup | The Bleat. 10/24/13 9:00 AM headphone-friendly records (the voices are going from left to right and back August 2011 again! These guys had to be high doing this, you know it) or those quaint July 2011 slabs of paper called “books.” June 2011 May 2011 I have been reading. Enjoying Michael Palin’s diaries, a Christmas gift. You April 2011 forget how young they were when they did Python. This made me smile: March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 “Monday, May 11th, Torquay. Our hotel, the Gleneagles, was a little out December 2010 of Torquay, overlooking a beautiful little cove with plenty of trees November 2010 around. Mr. Sinclair, the proprietor, seemed to view us from the October 2010 start as a colossal inconvenience, and when we arrived back from September 2010 Brixham, at 12:30, having watched the night filming, he just stood and looked at us with a look of self-righteous resentment, of tacit August 2010 accusation, that I had not seen since my father waited up for me fifteen July 2010 years ago. Graham tentatively asked for a brandy – the idea was June 2010 dismissed, and that night, our first in Torquay, we decided to move out May 2010 of the Gleneagles.” April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 Cleese stayed, and good thing he did. He never forgot Mr. Sinclair, and put January 2010 him to good use. December 2009 November 2009 Anyway. Friday we drove out to Natalie’s piano teacher’s house for a October 2009 Hootenanny. A Jamboree. She invited a few other students & families and a September 2009 couple who were professional musicians, intending to have a night of music August 2009 after dinner. The guy-half of the non-student couple was a guitar instructor July 2009 of great skill, and his presence kept everything from falling apart into a mash of amateur thrashing. We ran through the staples and the standards, June 2009 and I found myself having one (1) hell of a time playing a solo on “Sweet May 2009 Home Alabama,” of all things. The distortion pedal made it all sound more April 2009 accomplished than it was; it’s the beer goggles of pedals. The kids took turns March 2009 at the mike; Natalie sang, of all things, “Sk8ter Boi,” and some song about a street of broken dreams. She has a lovely voice, but what really warmed the February 2009 ventricle-cockles was the nerve she worked up to take the mike. Ah, the January 2009 smile on her face when she was done, and everyone clapped. HOST WITH THE MOST I don’t know if this sounds right, but I was glad to see her a bit nervous to take the mike, and so happy to see others respond. It means she doesn’t operate under the assumption that THE WORLD wants to sit back in awe and admiration of anything she chooses to do. Confidence is one thing, but solipsistic assumptions are another. I also noted how she shot me a look to http://lileks.com/bleat/?p=3 Page 3 of 5 Weekend Wrapup | The Bleat. 10/24/13 9:00 AM see how I was responding, which told me she doesn’t think my approval is automatic. Good. I don’t stint on the praise and encouragement, but it’s not handed out like fliers on a New York streetcorner, either. Pass it along, if you wish UNTOLD RICHES AWAIT YOU This is just a fragment of the site, you know. Head HERE for the full menu. Enjoy! BLEAT PREMIUM Go HERE to join - for as little as you like. You'll get an email with your passwords. The page for your bonus-secret ulta links is HERE! LOOKING FOR SOMETHING? 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I wrote that somewhere else once, and got a sniffy letter from someone who just thought that was the stupidest thing on so many levels, because A) it was a superstition in the first place, and I probably believed in Astrology (I don’t, and delight in walking under ladders and jumping on cracks, especially when Mercury is in transit) and B) the point was not the 13th, but the confluence of Friday and the 13th. Idiot. A BOOK I RECOMMEND There’s nothing you can do if people don’t know the classics. The fear of the 13th was Churchy LaFemme’s signature bit, but “Pogo” is mostly forgotten http://lileks.com/bleat/?p=189 Page 1 of 5 Tuesday, Jan 13th | The Bleat. 10/24/13 9:09 AM these days. I wonder if it would be picked up today; it seems so wordy and elliptical and leisurely by modern standards. And so well-drawn, which might make modern audiences a bit confused. Comic pages have trained people over the years to accept absolute crap. Our paper is now running a strip called “The Child 44 Tom Rob Smith Knight’s Life” – it isn’t Absolute Crap in the “Close to Best Price $0.01 or Buy New Home” sense, but it frequently stoops to indicating an Urban Setting with poorly-drawn distant buildings and the dreaded Two Bricks That Signify Privacy Information Many More Bricks.