Chip Shot 15
Doing some research on plants around Dog Patch, I came across Achlys. The best thing Wikipedia can find to say about it is that you can use it as an air freshener in your tent. Further research suggests the same results if you just quit farting in your tent.
Clicking another time or two, I find that Achlys was the Greek Goddess of eternal Night. She’s the funster who clouds people’s eyes when they are dying. As described by eighth century poet Hesiod, she was “pale, emaciated and weeping, with chattering teeth, swollen knees, long nails on her fingers, bloody cheeks, and her shoulders thickly covered with dust.” If this sculpture of Hesiod is accurate, I’d say he might have dated Achlys a time or two too many.
Anyhoo, my research into Achlys has caused me to rethink the desirability of this whole Goddess thing. I mean, just consider those bloody cheeks and dusty shoulders. The ability to turn men into swine just isn’t worth it.
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This morning, our littlest dog Caesar set a new record for flouting the BAD DOG! BAD DOG! rules. Within a span of 28 seconds, he licked his dick, ate some bird poop, and humped Bella (point of clarification for new readers of the back nine: Bella is another dog). And I’ll bet you were sitting there thinking the phrase “I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him” was about some old emperor.
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Back in the Dark Ages, I asked for some author recommendations. Thanks to Lucy’s Mom, Barry, and Pete for reminding me of authors like Koontz, Cornwell, Sedaris, Reichs. I’ve read them and like them all. .303 Bookworm suggested Lois McMaster Bujold who was new to Sis and she loved the whole series, and The Other Donna got us both started on John Lescroart. Your suggestions made great fodder to pick up at Better World Books
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My friend Jan in Oregon sent this article about a guy who committed suicide in prison after robbing a bank. She circled the bit about what he wrote his note on. As she said to me, “I thought this kind of thing was only in jokes.”
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And speaking of jokes: Limbaugh and Palin both find reasons to leave the country for health care? Don’t you just love it?