ps

The following didn't make the final cut when I posted the initial series of outstanding posts.* But I have been inspired by More Dam Posts at This Public Address, and a thoughtful collection of Posts! at dirty beloved to include them for consideration, though I'm leaning towards most metaphoric to nail it.


Most retiring post

Most dramatic Post's

Most post modern

bluest post
double entendre

Most overlooked post

Saddest/ dead tree post

Post that could make it in the mainstream

Post that generated the most traffic

Best gender equity in the construction of/best Personal Post

gratuitous chicken post

Most poetic post

Most metaphoric post

Best last post
 

threshold

At the Threshold of Womanhood

best posts

Best post

Best post with a dog

Most typical post, topical post

Most observant post
 

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

spoke

Prompted by a question by Lunar Brogue* on the style of online image cataloguers, I was searching for a word for over-stating the photodata. I was thinking perhaps, you know, of Factimemoriativeness - The faculty of retaining previously attained knowledge - from my old favourite *

Or maybe Observativeness The quality or disposition to look closely and with rigid care at every object,
or even Ordinimentality The quality or endowment that inclines one to arrange and systematise thoughts, and ideas

Anyway, googling the book alerted me to: Physiognomics as she is spoke.


(Ogling the book again, I was tempted to scan some pages for images denoting Ordinimentality Large- Ambriose Parr (sic)- who first tied arteries with ligatures, and Ordinimentality Small (Ratasse, Prince of Madagascar) but am fearful of damaging the binding.)

the beetle

Christmas Beetle...



(Inspired by Laura's post, I wandered up the road to the local lights display)

verandahs

Some misc. verandahs found when looking for VERANDAH.

A GROUP OF PEOPLE ON THE BALCONY AND IN FRONT OF A TWO STORIED TERRACE HOUSE.

...THERE IS FURNITURE ON THE VERANDAH

...CORRUGATED IRON AND HESSIAN...

...a conversation on the verandah at Eel Creek...

shopping

Christmas song generator

(Update: by holly via kevan)

blogmeet

Pic from last night's blogmeet.


Well a pic from a magazine presented to me last night by Laura - a wonderful surprise.

And was that a caption-in-search-of-its-picture contender? Apparently this is: We took Julie to tea in Mayfair...In Her Undies."

From Today week ending April 23, 1950

pillioning

pillioning boy...

(or Bunaloo, db)

beside a bicycle

wordied

Wordie Like Flickr, but without the photos
via the presurfer

At (74) Schadenfreude is the Most Wordied. Beats defenestration (35)



I'd better not stand too near the pangrammatic window, especially at karaoke.

I sang, and thought I sang very well; but he just looked up into my face with a very quizzical expression, and said, "How long have you been singing, Mademoiselle?"

bats

Mary Gets Paul Out


(I almost forgot the cricket. It's lucky I just noticed a search request for do bats hiss )

shelters

H Bomb Haven
World Book Encyclopedia 1956 Annual Supplement via things

Fallout Shelter Handbook 1962 via the Presurfer
 

note

Hmmm... don't know what's going on with the recent comments. Looking at the list, the most recent are not the latest. The Latest have got stuck in a November time-warp. Hope it all settles down when December takes effect, probably sometime this afternoon.

penguin

Penguin are publishing 6 books without covers in a new series of books called My Penguin.
Draw Your Own My Penguin and submit it to the gallery.

We're throwing open six of our favourite Classics by publishing them with naked front covers and we'd really love for you to be involved - and to have as good a time coming up with covers as we've had in putting the series together.

via fimoculous

Here's my thinkin' on The Picture of Dorian Gray
 

liner notes

Listening to: The Girl From Ipanema
The Blue Parrots - Having a Wonderful Time

Each man in the popular sextet is a versatile musician who plays at least four instruments*

via PCL Linkdump


(Looking at: The Girl from Ipanema by Gilberto/Getz)
 

a lump

Flo had a lump on her chest removed the day before yesterday, and it’s a mass.
The rest is anyone’s guess.
She’s dumb with the Elizabethan collar, can’t negotiate it like other dogs.
I think it tests her patience, or that her herder peripheral vision makes it harder to lose corners, she knocks her head against the chair and gives up.
The big stitches make her look like a badly patched toy
baring her soft underbelly,
the side we rarely get to see.(Only when she’s scared by thunder
or sizeable phantoms, my anger,
when she drops her ears and defences, or barks arced up at fears)
Compared to the other dogs, in sickness she sits this side of submission.
But in a crisis she will still seek the shelter of a palm.

perfect pop

(Inspired by a comment by Disgusted and Drunk of StK*:)

The Perfect Pop

Something clicks, and somehow all the emotions swirling in your head are summed up in three quick minutes
NPR: Perfect Songs

I could

I like the sound of a pink champagne diet...

among the scans from Women's Household
at A Hole in The Head via Things