my beautiful wife reminds me that my rooster fascination goes back 24 hours earlier as i was wondering the origin of the Alice In Chains lyrics. some light research indicates that the Alice song has nothing to do with daybreak.
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Speculative Fiction Query III
how did i go for 23 years without hearing the smoky tones of one bruce cockburn and this great piece of honky tonk?
When you’re lovers in a dangerous time
Sometimes you’re made to feel as if your love’s a crime —
But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight —
Got to kick at the darkness ’til it bleeds daylight
When you’re lovers in a dangerous time
Lovers in a dangerous time
And we’re lovers in a dangerous time
Lovers in a dangerous time
Speculative Fiction Query II
on commenting on my DST challenges, a co-worker replied in spanish: “ah, el cambio del horario.” which literally means “the change in schedule” but is generally interpreted as “the change in time”
only problem is i misheard it and thought she said: “ah, el cambio del gallo.” which literally means “the change in rooster” but i interpreted as some old school spanish saying.
i like the gallo saying better so now– how do i work “ah, el cambio del gallo” into my daily spanish?
Speculative Fiction Query
this morning’s revelation:
How am I supposed to understand time travel
when I can’t even figure out Daylight Savings Time?!?
The "S" Word
The word “scrotum†does not often appear in polite conversation. Or children’s literature, for that matter.
Yet there it is on the first page of “The Higher Power of Lucky,†by Susan Patron, this year’s winner of the Newbery Medal, the most prestigious award in children’s literature. The book’s heroine, a scrappy 10-year-old orphan named Lucky Trimble, hears the word through a hole in a wall when another character says he saw a rattlesnake bite his dog, Roy, on the scrotum.
