incarnation

i was dying in new york city. a whole lifetime ago. now i'm into ultimate frisbee and my dogs. can take or leave the beatles. barely remember that incarnation, to be honest.

The Walsh Files: Let's tell each other where we were when Lennon was murdered.

via Incoming signals

dissolved

This is in response to RuTuLu's request for the Seven Minute Frosting recipe from the Sunbeam Mixmaster Cookbook. I have a 1962 version of the cookbook that came with my Sunbeam Vista Mixmaster my mother gave to me as a bride in 1969. Though the cookbook survived, the marriage did not, and was dissolved three years ago. I will copy it exactly from the book, and I hope this is what she wanted.

The Collector's Newsletter

max

Why did Max become eloquent over a zany gift like jodhpurs? has quickly become boynton's favourite sentence. She has mused over the panagram, meditatively repeating it within the koan zone of pre sleep.

Why did Max become eloquent over a zany gift like jodhpurs? etc.

Sometimes you take things to google in an act of faith -and failing that magic: there'll be some unconscious connection out there known only to google. One of the pages it returned was this who where family history page with unsolved mysteries within photographs. If you scroll down you'll see that the photo of a Young man in jodhpurs & Dot with curly locks. May 19, 1918 has now been solved. But boynton was so taken by the first image that she forgot about Max. We think that's Lell on the left. The next, we don't know... Boynton has always had a soft spot for these unknowns, unidentifieds, friends in group photographs, the hostages of gatherings, imposters at picnics, undercover footballers, wedding spies. The anonymous possess such narrative power. It diminishes with every unearthed detail.

Meanwhile : why did Max ...?

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Comments: max

Why did ...

Because he's kinky! Simple when you know how, Miss b!
Posted by Scott Wickstein at August 20, 2003 12:48 AM

Ah, Mr W... The kinky aspect was not completely missed by miss b. (And she even saw some kinkylinks to zany kinkyland from "jodphurs" that she chose not to pursue - even in the name of narrative mystery.)
Posted by boynton at August 20, 2003 01:01 AM

A spiffing sentence, I'll allow. Although my favourite remains, "Jack, you have debauched my sloth." (*HMS Surprise*)
Posted by Rob Schaap at August 20, 2003 09:36 PM

I have just added yours to the inventory, Rob.
(and the Suprise itself)
For some reason it reminds me of a Shakesperian quote one of my sisters was quite fond of:
"thou hast comforted me marvellous much." Juliet
(in the "not" sense of course)
Posted by boynton at August 21, 2003 11:49 AM

galosh

boynton was doing some image sourcing on behalf of esnet and ms Pea and their "upcoming literary release, a penny dreadful by the name of Oh No! Miss Morris Has Misplaced a Galosh"
It was intriguing to come acrosss this picture from a google image search for galoshes. The wedding of the Galoshes? In its original context, the image bears the annotation: Elegant satin gowns or married in a suit/ because he was being shipped overseas - which does not in itself explain the riddle. However slide 77 above may, as it does feature a rather glamorous example of this usually fairly unfashionable item of footwear with the curious etymology. And curiouser: could the faceless model somehow be related to miss morris?

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Comments: galosh

Oh will Pea ever be pleased! She was just this morning going on and on about the latest affairs and how she hadn't a clue wait to wear. 'Rosiest in the fall, dear,' as I always say.
Posted by at August 2, 2003 05:20 PM

doncha find the word "galoshes" deliciously onomatopaoeic?
Posted by Gianna at August 4, 2003 10:49 AM

gosh yes, gianna, gloriously so.
Especially in Melbourne.
(that was one for the melb-bashers out there) ;)
Posted by boynton at August 4, 2003 11:45 AM

...and you know how Blogger banner ads pick up on the content of your posts...when I just checked into your blog, Gianna, I got "overshoes headquarters" and "Child's Rain boots"...gosh.
Blogger/google as secret research-assistant spider.
Posted by boynton at August 4, 2003 12:40 PM