Kat, I have a copy of Brave New World I can send you.
'Dirty Girls'
Natter 61*
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.
Oooh... Symphonic Metamorphoses!
Played first horn for that my senior year in high school.
I missed the FedEx guy AGAIN.
If I'm not home at 6:55, what are the odds I'd be home at 2:55??
A CD company, Archeophone Records has released Debate '08. That's 1908, dear friends, the master debaters being Williams Jennings Bryan, Democrat, and William Howard Taft, Republican.
Ah, the Great Commoner. I have such an inexplicable fondness for William Jennings Bryan, the little toad.
They're keeping Mister Kitty tonight, and the vet will call me in the evening to go over what the tests turned up.
They're keeping Mister Kitty tonight, and the vet will call me in the evening to go over what the tests turned up.
Keeping fingers and toes crossed for your old man.
I have such an inexplicable fondness for William Jennings Bryan, the little toad.
Even though he palled around with terrorists? Or whatever Republicans accused Democrats of back then. I suppose "Communism" wasn't a big bugaboo then. Ooh, he "palled around with anarchists", right?
Didn't Eugene Debs run against Bryan and Roosevelt in '04 from his jail cell? He and Emma Goldman are the two anarchists I can think of from that time period. Unless you want to count Czolgosz, who was more a wanna-be anarchist who just happened to be able to get close enough to McKinley to shoot him.
Ooh, he "palled around with anarchists", right?
Populists.
Loved the zoo baby pictures. I think - unusually enough - that the grown-up red pandas are cuter than the babies ... at least until they have their eyes open. And awwwww.