Jayne ,'Serenity'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Interviewed by Canadian Press when she won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize, Jacobs said, "People really know themselves that the dark age is ahead. They're worried, and they haven't articulated it, but they feel it."
Uh-huh. Except I can semi-articulate it. I think.
cthulhu stew
The ingredient list sounds like this would be yummy.
Bah. No lunchtime cephalopods for me. I shall have to wait until dinner....
Jane Jacobs.
sad now. One of my heros.
I was unfamiliar with her name, but after reading the obit I realize her writings on suburbia have really (indirectly) influenced me.
I'm askeered this confession will now put me ON THE LIST for Corwood and bt, but I cannot tell a lie.
That's one of the best reasons I've ever read to eat squid et al. However, I, for one, welcome our new spineless, many-tentacled overlords.
Tomorrow is Secretary's Day.
FYI.
Just because I'm not YOUR secretary doesn't mean you don't have to send me gifts. Nothing in the rules says I have to be YOUR secretary to receive chocolates and flowers.
I'm still waiting for my Administrative Professionals Day gifts. Never. Ever. Got. One.
The New York Times Book Review offered a capsule review of a new book by TV dog trainer Cesar Millan (host of the show Dog Whisperer):
Millan likes to talk about the importance of being a pack leader and projecting what he calls "calm-assertive" energy around your dog. The thing to avoid, he writes, is being "angry-aggressive," a trait he identifies in Bill O'Reilly of Fox News. This type of person "would not make a good pack leader," Millan writes, "because the other dogs would perceive him as unstable." (Our presidents are often unable to control their dogs, Millan said in a recent lecture. He added, "We are the only species that follows unstable pack leaders.")
bt? Is this so?
Cesar Millan's show is great--he does things with fractious dogs that I wouldn't believe possible in such a short period of time. His philosophy is basically not letting your dog be dominant over you and always being confidant without being pushy about it (thus "calm-aggressiveness"). Also, treat your dog like a dog, and not like a human.
Of course, I kiss and cuddle my cat, so who am I to talk?