While I'll admit to a certain amount of geekishness, there whole vistas of obsession that I've only a nodding aquaintance with -- examples that spring to mind are scrapbooking, cake decorating and casemodding. But I can appreciate examples of their art, and The Best Case Scenario is pretty impressive.
(Admittedly, I'm also a sucker for puns -- if someone did something clever with icing that reproduced the cast of Shortland Street, and called it "A Cake of Soap", I'd probably like that, too. On the other hand, I'm not sure about this range of t-shirts -- "the girl from echinacea" and "We all live in a yellow butterbean"? Weak, very weak. :)
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Important food-related tip: the gooeyness achieved by buying a fund-raising bar of Caramellow chocolate, putting it your trouser pocket, and forgetting it for an hour is delicious but impractical. Hmm... given that pockets often seem to be given short shrift in women's trouser designs, this may be mainly a male problem.
Does anyone ever get given a long shrift? Or an average-sized one? [utilizes the mighty power of Google] Oh, okay, it's the noun form of "shrive" (to grant penance and absolution for sins), and comes from such phrases as "a short shrift and a long drop" (or "come on and hang him, already").
Yep -- chocolate to women's fashion to the death penalty. I never know where one of these things is going to end up.
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For political commentary, why not go to this automatic complaint generator and enter the name of your least-favourite politician? :) This particular complaint generator has been on the web for more than 11 years, by the way.
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Some friends of mine are playing at Bodega on Friday. Here's some links to Michael-as-Jet Jaguar's musical output, but there's no easy link that I can find to the mellow tones of Andrew-as-Group-5 or Stu-as-Aquaboogie -- at least, not in the five minutes I'm devoting to looking. Sorry, guys! :)
Anyway, that gig doesn't start until nine, so who knows what I'll be doing until then. (I really hope it isn't work. :)
Posted by svend at August 25, 2005 5:17 PM"be plain ny good son, and homely in thy drift
riddling confession gets but riddling shrift"
...I always remember thei line because of the way Pete Poselthwaite says it to Leo as the priest character in Romeo and Juliet :)
Posted by: Shakespeare Geek at August 25, 2005 6:14 PM