This makes me feel happy to buy mini penne rigate again. Happy days!
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Signs
All of my good linguistics books are in store (i.e. parent’s house in San Diego) and I wanted a brief and clear explanation of Saussure’s signifier and signified. The reasons why escape me at the moment (I think I was feeling sentimental about taking lit theory classes. And feeling sentimental about being 20 and excited about Stuff.), but it’s not the point of the post anyway.
The point is this: Sassure: An Introduction
It’s rare to find something that is just exactly what I need at the exact same time that I want it, but that introduction wins this time around and I wanted to share. Yay.
Thanksgiving
American Thanksgiving is the last Thursday of November. It is a day of pie. Sometimes people eat other things like turkey or mashed potato. I’m in it for the pie. Jodie, a friend also interested in pie, thought we could have a little Thanksgiving pie day ourselves with our two little families. So Tom and I went to Jimboomba (ha!) and had Thanksgiving among the snakes, toads, and kangaroos. We had pumpkin pie and a berry-apple pie. They were good. We also had mashed potatoes with mushroom gravy, green beans, stuffing and cranberry sauce!
I also got to meet Jodie’s cows. Well, I saw one, and met the other. Mavis is 23 years old and comes when she is called. She eats bread like a bread vacuum cleaner. I didn’t know cows liked bread. This cow does at least.
Derby
This year I discovered the joy of roller derby. Sometimes I think I’m not in the mood for a bout and get dragged along by my husband, but I always end up enjoying myself. There are quite a few flat track leagues in Queensland (Brisbane City, Gold Coast, Toowoomba are a few), but we follow Northern Brisbane Rollers (NBR). I always cheer for the Diner Might Dolls because I have the biggest rollercrush on Dead Meat. She mostly plays jammer and is this crazy rubber monkey jumping bean.
A friend of mine wants us to try out for a league. Which would require me to learn how to roller skate. Sounds scary! And, of course, I’d need a derby name. Husband and I think it should be library or book related. I only have a few thoughts so far: Dewey’s Revenge, Authority File, Shelf Her (ha!)…and then they just get more silly and inappropriate from there.
Curious pages
“A site for all your reading disorders.
Looking for books about teddy bears or rainbows or feelings? You’re at the wrong place. Here we celebrate the offbeat, the abstract, the unusual, the surreal, the macabre, the inappropriate, the subversive and the funky” -Curious Pages
First: I love Lane Smith…’s books. Pretty much every single one he’s written and/or illustrated. Also my drool starts to flow when Molly Leach steps in to do design.
*wipes drool from mouth and takes deep breaths*
Curious Pages: recommended inappropriate books for kids is a blog written by Lane Smith and sometimes Bob Shea. Lane (and Bob) review (in a loose sense of the word) both vintage children’s books and his own publications. Anything I write about it will just be unsupreme, so go have a read. Here are some of my favourites: