Today's thoughts

The oppressed become the appointed.
The top priority is not the bottom line.
Ambition is not a skill.
No one knows what the shadow knows.

Wake Up Cat

Munchkin musak

The Circus in America

Voltige, a French word for mounted gymnastics. In a voltige act, the rider vaults off the horse’s back and runs alongside it, holding onto a handgrip attached to the harness. Turning cartwheels and somersaults, the rider might spring back up to assume a rear-facing position, before he scissors around to the front. According to the late British circus historian Antony Hippisley Coxe, there are many variations: “voltige à la Richard, where the horse is unbridled and unsaddled (Davis Richard, an American in 1860, performed this act), “voltige à la cowboy,” (where a lariat is used), or “tcherkesse” or “Cossack” riding, involves lying across the horse’s back with the ankle in a loop attached to the surcingle, the band passed around the horse’s midsection. (Antony D. Hippisley Coxe, A Seat At the Circus (London: Evans Bros, 1952) 43. While virtually upside down, the Cossack rider can in this manner retrieve handkerchiefs and other objects from the sawdust floor, while the horse gallops around the ring. The Circus in America.

The downside of Powerpoint

Sometimes brevity is not the best way to go . . . observe.

- Met on battlefield (great)
- Dedicate portion of field - fitting!
- Unfinished work (great tasks)

Everyone knows what a dragon looks like

"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." ~G.K. Chesterton

Pass the color

Tag, you're it

Will "Once upon a time" give way to a series of metatags?

Dr. Caligari's Storage Areas

What are the odds of mentioning the name, "Dr. Caligari" twice in this blog in a 60 day period? Not very remote I guess.

From Mcsweenys . . . Dr. Caligari's Storage Areas:

BY CODY SHAFFER

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The chifforobe of Dr. Caligari

The lazy Susan of Dr. Caligari

The cupboard of Dr. Caligari

The roll-top desk of Dr. Caligari

The hope chest of Dr. Caligari

The curio of Dr. Caligari

The liquor cabinet of Dr. Caligari

The smelly closet in the basement of the apartment of Dr. Caligari

Lead

If you happen to have the pencil shown here or other rareties like it, this man would like to take them off your hands.

Princess Haunt

Pumpkin Palace

School Daze