"the light from a street lamp / paints a pattern on my wall / like the pieces of a puzzle"

[larryhammer]

PSA: a couple hours playing around with the Pete Seeger station in Pandora reveals that Simon & Garfunkle are really earwormy.

A Comprehensive Guide to Dinosaur Feathers and Scales -- who had 'em and who didn't, based on fossil remains discovered so far. (via)

An early dramatic monologue (almost exactly 250 years before "My Last Duchess") in the voice of Richard III. Full on Tudor smear campaign, of course.

All of my issues with the Goodnight Moon bedroom.

5. The idea that anyone would keep a comb and a brush and a bowl full of mush on the same table.

Come for the vivisection of the colors, stay for the dialog of the bears in couples therapy. (via)

---L.

Subject quote from "Patterns," Paul Simon.

Comments

[puddleshark.livejournal.com]

*tears of laughter*

Thank you for the Goodnight Moon link. Oh, the books...

[larryhammer]

It's currently in high rotation at bedtime (I think I can recite it from memory), and the telephone has always bothered me.

---L.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I'd seen the Goodnight Moon thing, but had to read it again because it's just so, so funny. The comments about the colors, and the existential mouse!

[larryhammer]

The interior decorators had a field day with that one.