Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Eight Hours of Fame


591 Photography Blog published seven of my "A Few Days One Summer" photos with a brief essay yesterday. Psyched. I am always happy whenever anyone is nice to me. 591 always makes me happy. Check it (and me) out!

I just spared you a long diatribe on "happy" with one stroke of the "delete" button. Now you are happier, too. Trust me.

Ground Hog Day. Something about it has given me the creeps since I was a child. A smiling man in a top hat holding a giant rodent in front of a crowd always seemed more than a little nightmarish. I like knowing that today is the midpoint between winter and spring. There is something in that. Perhaps a celebration of sorts is called for, but they need to stop with the other thing.

And since I'm at it, ventriloquists should stop it, too.


4 comments:

  1. it was a great article! ventriloquists? where did that come from? Are there any ventriloquists left?

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  2. It's been awhile since I've visited your blog. I see I need to come back more often.

    It is a happy time when one gets recognition and yours is deserved.

    Thanks also for the link to 591. I had not seen that blog before.

    Hey what is it this year. A lot of people seem to be against Ground Hog Day. A columnist in my local paper wrote and I'm paraphrasing - that they should do away with it, that it didn't fit with the times and was stupid. I read somewhere else some negative press about the little guy it the last few days.

    The use of animals as weather predictors goes way back. A February winter ritual actually goes back to even ancient Europe when badgers and bears were used instead of whistle pigs. I suppose if you tossed in some alcohol and threw beads at drunk chixs showing their bare tits it would be more fun to pass the mid-winter doldrums.

    Rhonda - Google Jeff Dunham.

    D.L Wood

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  3. L, You're messing with me. You will make me write that missive on "happiness" after all.

    R, I think that the fellow holding P.Phil looks like a ventriloquist doing an act. That hadn't occurred to me before, but now it seems obvious.

    D.L., Welcome back. Yes animals are good predictors of weather--in the wild. Free Phil!

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