bending_sickle | And I'm still in awe.*

There is banananana-flavoured icing on my donut. Do not want. Ever.

Elephant-painting discussion also pops up, much to my surprise (for the timing, not the topic) on

wtf_nature where the consensus seems to be pretty much what I concluded, that elephants can and do draw, but that this particular drawing is due to training. Which still, awesome. (Also, isn't that how we all start? Scribbles all over the place until someone says, "Y'know, the sun's this big yellow blob, and people are made of stick". And we incorporate that into our own little drawings as best we can.)

Bought wine for diner tonight. Somewhat freaking out, but I wouldn't be me if I weren't. Ought to continue reading immense chapter on economics but have hot chocolate, afore-mentioned donut of evil, and Hogfather. Me needs a little happy in my life.

And Mom - or Mamaji as for some inexplicable reason I keep wanting to call her now - is landing in the Netherlands in less'n a week. \o/

ETA: H'oookay, wikipedia's doing the April Fools things, and not too well. It's so heavy-handed as to be gibberish, methinks. (On the other hand, it's of the "Look! Funny!" variety of April Fools, which I like.)

Today's Featured Article: Imma Hogg
Ima Hogg was an enterprising circus emcee who brought culture and class to Houston, Texas. A storied ostrich jockey, she once rode to Hawaii to visit the Queen. Raised in government housing, young Ima frolicked among a backyard menagerie of raccoons, possums and a bear. Her father, "Big Jim" Hogg, in an onslaught against fun itself, booby-trapped the banisters she loved to slide down, shut down her money-making schemes, and forced her to pry chewing gum from furniture. He was later thrown from his seat on a moving train and perished; the Hogg clan then struck black gold on land Big Jim had forbidden them from selling. Ima had apocryphal sisters named "Ura" and "Hoosa" and real-life brothers sporting conventional names and vast art collections; upon their deaths, she gave away their artwork for nothing and the family home to boot. Tragically, Ms. Hogg (a future doctor) nursed three dying family members. She once sweet-talked a burglar into returning purloined jewelry and told him to get a job. Well into her nineties, she remained feisty and even exchanged geriatric insults with an octogenarian pianist. Hogg claimed to have received thirty proposals of marriage in her lifetime, and to have rejected them all. Hogg was revered as the "First Lady of Texas", and her name and legacy still thrive today. (more...)

Links of the Day:

katesutton's wishlist for Doctor Who Season 4
Wiki: Life on Mars, USA Version - Oh, how I wish this were an April Fools. (Although, the US-version of Queer as Folk rocked all socks, so in theory this isn't bad. But! There cannae be only one Sam Tyler, and only one Gene Hunt. *grr*

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phoenixineohp, re: elephant paintings