Meander Where You May

[appaloosabeach]

I spent some time in Alaska, after a few dead, dark, dismal winters I moved myself south where it was safe. When a grizzley bear was spotted roaming the neighborhoods the schools would cancel recess, nothing looks tastier to a grizz then a first grader on a swing. My next door neighbor was killed by a moose, he wasn't wearing a helmet. You can't outrun the tides, forty feet, plus or minus, every six hours. You can spend months in Alaska and not see another human, no cars, no lights, no noise, no cable tv. Daylight or dark, you can see forever. You don't lock your doors, a bad habit I brought south. You can see forever.

[whiskeypriest]

http://www.freep.com/article/20100326/NEWS07/100326051/1322/Police-Drunken-Pennsylvania-man-tries-to-revive-roadkill

[madupont]

That's all right, Whiskey..., he probably thought it was PUNXSUTAWNEY PHIL, the ground hog, and didn't realize that was last month. Wow! some bender.

[appaloosabeach]

There's this amazing little stream that runs behind our house, I'm talking ten feet off the deck. I once pulled a kitten out of a post flood-stage stream, dirty, nasty water, blew three or four times into her mouth and nose, alive, she came from somewhere up river. I gagged back a few noxious amobeas, maybe some slime covered frog eggs, a little bug that doesn't belong or want to be in my right wing intestines.  We have two of her litter, Big Foot and Little Feet. When she died, road kill, I didn't bury her, I dropped her back in the stream that brought her to me. I figured she knew where she was going.

[appaloosabeach]

" come as sweet as Georgia thru the pines..."

[nnyhav]

I was walking with the Ethicist across the footbridge over the tracks leading to the switching yard when he stopped and said, "Say you were down at that switch there, and a train was coming in to the yard, fast, and that there were a bunch of children playing on the siding that your switch shunted the train on to, but if you threw the switch the other way, it would go on another siding where a workman was engrossed in his task, and you couldn't signal the train to stop in time or get the kids' or workman's attention. What would you do?" So I threw his fat ass over the railing into the path of an oncoming train.

[barton]

Jeremy Bentham says hi.

[nnyhav]

more James Shapiro, in FT on the co-authorship controversy:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/a017cbe4-384c-11df-8420-00144feabdc0.html
also in TLS 3/26 on "Forgery on forgery - Not the first Baconian: the strange case of James Corton Cowell" (alas not online), the attempt to backdate the Bacon hypothesis to late 18c in response to Oxford's advance in early 20c ... (oooh, early!)

[carol polk]

Shakespeare has certainly collaborated with a lot of professors who need to fill out the publication part of their cvs.  What a lot of yammering on about matters that will remain mostly unknown, more unknown than that recently discovered third (or fourth) version of humankind proved up by the DNA from a tiny fingerbone.  None, not any of the chattering attributions, misattributions, reattributions, etc., will prove anything.  Not that it's necessary to do so, unless you're one of those professors with the blank spots.

[appaloosabeach]

So if they unearth Hamlet and do the dna thing we won't know for sure if his father was King Hamlet or his brother, the new King, Claudias. If Gertrude was putting out for both brothers, jeeze, Hamlet may have murdered the wrong man.

[appaloosabeach]

Jack Johnson says "I need this train to break down."

[appaloosabeach]

thirty foot swells, twenty foot surf, when I was a kid, weather like this, the crab boats would'nt leave the dock, no work today, we were paid by the pound, not by the hour .

[barton]

This is the habitat of Meanderthal Man.

[appaloosabeach]

My first father-in-law was Neanderthal, from a cave in Italy, I think.

[appaloosabeach]

habitat is the place where something is commonly found. Welcome to the club.