The site’s not quite ready for primetime, but tonight I’ve been working on a page for the Shakespeare course that I mentioned over on Palimpsest.
Watch this space for more thoughts about the course to be posted.
As the KCBloggers site notes, providing several relevant links, today is “is the one year anniversary of the worst tornado outbreak in US history, including nine twisters that tore through much of the western and northern portions of the Kansas City area.” I wrote about it after it happened.
Weather forecast today predicts isolated thunderstorms with a high of 73. Right now outside my window it’s bright but partly cloudy.
Over lunch recently, Jeff mentioned the joke behind the title of Lynne Trusse’s book Eats, Shoots and Leaves, which goes a little something like this:
A panda bear walks into a bar and orders lunch. He sits quietly munching his food, and after he finishes he wipes his mouth with his napkin, pulls out a gun, fires into the ceiling and walks out.
“What was that all about?” the bartender asks the waiter.
“Oh, that’s what a panda bear does. Eats, shoots and leaves.”
(Obviously, this joke really only works when it’s spoken: “eats, shoots and leaves” sounds just like “eats shoots and leaves.”)
Later in the week, as we were talking about this joke and others of the [fill-in-the-blank]-walks-into-a-bar genre, I said that it seems to me that people don’t really tell jokes so much anymore. I proposed a contest, or party game, in which people challenged each other with the front end of a joke, requiring the other participant to complete the joke. Whoever could do so in the shortest amount of time would win.
Jeff proposed, “A panda bear, a fox, and a gorilla walk into a bar.”
I proposed, “A three-legged sled dog walks into a bar.”
So, can you finish these jokes?
Last fall I started picking up the free copies of the locally produced comic “Sparrow’s Fall” available at the Broadway Cafe. Somehow, I recently learned that the creator, Parrish Baker, has his own blog. You can read some of his work for yourself on this page and this page. I think it’s great stuff.
Via Crooked Timber, where I have been running my mouth in the comments section.
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