I propose we change the name of the eleventh month from November to Black Friday, since Black Friday seems to have started on November 1.
With lemon wedges…
The world is my oyster, but I’m having trouble finding enough cocktail sauce.
Know Your Metaphors Lesson No. 38
It’s low-hanging fruit, person on TV, not low-lying fruit.
Hungry Like the…
I wonder if there is a wolf version of Duran Duran that sings “Hungry Like the Human”?
Boost this post!
Sometimes Facebook offers you an opportunity to “Boost This Post.” One such opportunity on the right side of my page is to remind people to “Please be safe tonight trick or treating.”
So, I’ll do so. Please be safe tonight trick or treating. First, because I don’t think a lot of people are going to be out tonight trick-or-treating, so drivers will not be expecting to see you. Second, because tonight is not a traditional night for trick-or-treating, people might not be expecting to see you in your costumes, and might mistake you for home invaders or bank robbers or something.
One source of rain
Waning crescent moon
Horns’ tips upraised
Goring water from
The clouds they pass through
How you win the World Series
I was just enlightened by a baseball commentator. Do you know why KC won the World Series? Because they set goals. They were determined to win their division, then their league, then the World Series.
Oh, and they had a never-quit attitude. Unlike the other teams, I guess.
“Do we really want to win the division?”
“I don’t know, man. Then we have to play more games. And that Gatorade bath is COLD.”
Getting organized
Have you ever lost something by putting it away in the place it really belongs, rather than in the place you’ve always left it instead?
THAT’LL teach me to try to get better organized.
Maybe evil spirits would be better tempered if they felt welcome somewhere
I wasn’t worried when my neighbors started their massive bonfire. But now they’re shooting off fireworks, and I’d just as soon the evil spirits they’re obviously trying to scare away don’t come this way.
Look in thy heart…
Fool, said my muse to me, look in thy heart and write.
— Sir Philip Sidney
(My Muse was apparently channeling Mr. T.)