Here’s something I stole from Cal:
For want of an idea to post….
100 Tweets about overalls
OK, I recently got a search engine hit for “100 Reasons Why Overalls Are Awesome”. Well, I suppose I could come up with such a list, but…well, I don’t feel like doing that much work, even though I’ve certainly done my own yeoman duty on singing the praises of bib overalls throughout the years! So I’ll just do something lazy, and do a search on Twitter for “overalls”, and post the tweets the amuse me the most. Here we go!
(Oh, I’m not actually grabbing a hundred of these. I haven’t got that kind of time.)
NEW RULE: Overalls are not conducive to dancing to (80’s) Music. It makes the nipples raw. That is all. (Here’s why shirts are handy.)
Case in point: this guy asked me out the day I wore a skirt. The next day, I wore overalls, and he broke up with me. *sigh* (Some guys are idiots. What can I say?)
So in my college years guys always thought it was hot when girls wore overalls but I just found out why they really wore them…yuck. (No idea.)
If I do not maintain my appearance with clippers, it looks like I’m wearing fuzzy overalls (I’m trying not to picture this.)
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” ~Thomas Edison (Judging by how often this shows up in the search results, this must be the most popular quote about overalls in history.)
Wearing only overalls in public should never replace pants and a shirt. Put on a shirt, old man. (For God’s sake, yes. They don’t cover everything, guys.)
Some redneck in overalls just picked his kid up at the bus stop while holding his hunting rifle! WTF?!
I miss wearing overalls. (So wear them! Do you need a permission slip from The Queen of Fashion or something?)
Only babies and toddlers should wear bib overalls. (Duly noted. Next.)
Th-this guy just walked in wearing overalls. I don’t know how to feel. (Such angst over some stranger’s clothes! How will we go on! Style points for stammering on Twitter, though.)
I wish overalls were instyle. I would wear ’em all the time. (Again with the notion that the arbitrary decisions of other people should determine what we do. Weird.)
I haven’t researched outside of this rural Georgia McDonald’s yet, but so far my study shows that 87% of Americans wear overalls. (This cracked me up. For the win!)
Didn’t wash my painting trousers till yesterday afternoon and they are still damp. Wearing damp overalls is not the best start to a Monday.
It was not a good idea for my roommate to wear overalls while I’m high. (I don’t wanna know.)
I’M NEVER TAKING THESE OVERALLS OFF. Soo comfy! 🙂 (Now there’s the spirit!)
OK, I’m done now. Sifting through a bunch of tweets can be a horrible, horrible experience. If tweets are representative of how some people actually talk, civilization is doomed. But overalls are awesome!
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A Random Wednesday Conversation Starter
Holy SHIT.
Sorry I couldn’t come up with a more eloquent title for this post, but…well, sometimes you gotta go with the words that hit you. Therefore: Let there be dancing in the streets!
Yup, I won a copy of Doug Adams’s The Music of The Lord of the Rings, which makes me so utterly happy that…well, later there may be opening of beer and dancing once I am alone and no one can see.
The entry rules were simple: in addition to providing contact info, entrants had to identify their favorite bit of music from the films and describe why. Here’s what I wrote:
My favorite bit of music from the LOTR scores? That’s a nearly impossible requirement for me to fill, as I adore just about every single note in the trilogy, from start to end. But for the purposes of this contest, I’ll name the music that plays as Gandalf leads the Fellowship into the ruin of the subterranean Dwarvish city of Dwarrowdelf, in Moria. There’s just something so majestic and regal about the music in this scene: most of the Moria music is dark and forbidding, but in this one passage, Howard Shore conveys some of the optimism that the Dwarves must have felt as they started digging into Moria. The music builds and builds, and it feels like it’s about to open up into a huge melody — but that melody never comes, which is fitting since Moria never reached the heights that the Dwarves had hoped. Instead, the music turns dark again as Gimli finds Balin’s tomb. This moment in the score always makes
my spine chill a bit. (The film actually blunts the impact a bit by having Sam say “Now that’s an eye-opener and no mistake”. It’s a scene that needed no dialogue.)
Here’s the music I’m referring to. It’s the first 1:15 of this clip, and I shiver in awe every time I hear this passage. It’s so regal and sad and evocative of Tolkien’s world that is full to overflow with old things that are lost and nearly forgotten:
That music is Middle Earth.
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Yes, I did.
I got home from voting a short while ago. My polling place changed this year, from the community room in the main building of our own apartment complex to the gymnasium of the Catholic school down the street. I suppose this is because they needed more room to put tables, since we’re now no longer using the “flip the lever” gizmo and are instead filling in the ovals on paper ballots that we then stick into the scanner ourselves. I always enjoy voting as an exercise, even if they seemed a bit disorganized today — the only signage directing people where to go assumed you knew what Assembly district you live in, and to be honest, I have no idea. So I had to ask if I was in the right line. (I was.)
And since the polling place workers are all elderly volunteers, everybody had to shout their names to be heard. But still, it took me all of ten minutes to vote, and nine of that was standing in line. That’s the nice thing about being unwilling to vote Republican unless the Democrat is literally an axe murderer; takes a lot less time to just go across the top and fill in the circle next to every Democrat on the ballot.
Anyway, now to see what happens.
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Bring on the Bucs!!!
Yeah, right…but as I write this, it’s about ten minutes since the San Francisco Giants won the World Series. I didn’t pay a great deal of attention, but I always try to be watching when the final out of a World Series takes place, and tonight was no exception. A few thoughts:
:: The game ended around 10:35 pm, Eastern Time. Wow. For baseball, that’s ridiculously early, innit? I’ve seen World Series games decided after midnight in recent years.
:: And since it ended early, Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum won’t be out quite as late on a school night! (Seriously, the guy looks like he’s 14.)
:: FOX Sports does a great job with its World Series and baseball coverage. They really do. One thing I always love about them is the way they have a camera on just about everybody on the team that’s going for the win in the 9th, so when the final out happens, they’ve got footage of every single player’s reaction as they see the last out and start jumping for joy, screaming, and charging for the pile-up on the pitcher’s mound. That’s always very cool.
:: They also had the obligatory footage of a crowd’s reaction in San Francisco as the final out happened. It was the usual stuff — a crowd of mostly young-ish people suddenly jumping up and down and screaming and hugging as their hometown boys won the title. The camera then panned across the crowd, and suddenly there’s a little old lady, maybe all of five feet tall and around 80 years old, jumping and screaming and looking for someone to High-Five with the best of ’em. What a great moment!
Congrats to the Giants!
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Carusology
Sentential Links #226
Linkage….
:: This is a sheep farm. I know that now.
:: I love to eat while I read or read while I eat, which may result in unfortunate accidents.
More next week….
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Was Ben de-rezzed?
Even closer…
Wow, these Buffalo Bills are certainly looking how I expected them to look this year. Lots of losses, but at least the team is playing more interestingly, they’re playing harder than they ever did under Dick Jauron, and the games are more fun to watch. But they keep ending up in losses. Oh well. I don’t have much to say about today’s game, except to say that I saw a lot of heart on the field. Oh well. They came really, really close…they took the Chiefs all the way down to the last few seconds of overtime…and still ended up on the receiving end of the loss.
I was almost wondering how I’d do a post without using this graphic, but here it is.
Sigh.
(But isn’t watching the Dallas Cowboy demise a lot of fun? As someone said on Twitter: “Welcome to bizarro world in Arlington. Dejected Cowboys fans & excited Rangers fans meet in the parking lot near the ballpark.”.)
(Oh, and on an unrelated note, there shouldn’t be a possibility of injury when receiving a pie in the face. Yeesh.)