It will come, it will come, it will surely come

Sweet & Tender Hooligan

Not until the next time: Billy Kemmler in much of his glory.

Dazzle Ships II

1983 album by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

Dazzle Ships I

Dazzle camouflage, also known as Razzle Dazzle or Dazzle painting, was a camouflage paint scheme used on ships, extensively during World War I and to a lesser extent in World War II.

Why did I run out of money...

...before getting celestial portraits for all of us...

From Po-Ho to Eternity

So many to choose from in this post.

Take off all your clothes and wear these lovely flowers

That is a lyric from the song I am listening to, "The Nymphs of Umtwalumi Wood" by Green Pavane.

I am alone.

Xythantiops, we hardly knew ye

(Technically speaking, is Xythantiops a furry?)

Oh how I laugh and laugh

I just read this Thoreau quote:
"O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches"

But it looked to me like:
"O how I laugh when I think of my vaguely itchy vagina"

I don't know how that happened.

Now, with even less self-respect... Philadelphia!

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Courtesy of Titus Rochelle

Don't be fooled by the vegan scrapple

This is not a vegan blog.

(confidential to Stormy: if you want to take this down I won't be mad)

The preoccupation with pork fat

The Great Scrapple Correspondence of 1872

Left behind when a hipster disappears into thin air

Okay, so he evaporated. The question is why: Sunlight? Forced to wash hair? Metabolized the last trace of PBR in his system?

Mind you don't go twirly on me!

Bezabor: a peculiar character. "He's a queer old bezabor."
Catch-talk: Trivial sayings. "There's a lot of catch talk in the Bible."
Do a dicker: To make a bargain. "You and I might do a dicker on him."
Innards: Guts. "There'll be a fire built on your innards down in Hell."
Notional: A little queer. "I'm notional that way."
Old apple in the wind: "His head was rolling all over his shoulders like an old apple in the wind."
Rangdangle: To beat up. "Klore intends to rangdangle you."
Rumple: To destroy. "I don't mean that a swaller is going to rumple your innards."
Sheltered honey: Pampered. "She was always a sheltered honey."
Spraddly: Apart. "We saw that his legs were spraddly and his back arched."
Tile: Silk hat. "The gloss of a man's tile is distinctive."
Twirly: Unbalanced. "He bumped his head and went twirly."

From Erie Canal Colloquial Expressions, by Jason Almus Russell
© 1930 The American Dialect Society