the ass and lamb kept time

The Grizzly clan is super busy, what with the holidays and BUYING A FREAKING HOUSE, but I wanted to jump in here to wish you a happy, safe and warm holiday season.


Oh, and though I don't want to endorse one tradition over another here, I think it's a safe bet nobody ever got lost looking for their menorah.
That's one in your column, Jews!

brotherhood of the traveling pants

For several years my father and a friend of his exchanged the same tie rack as a gift. they would disguise it in various forms to delude the recipient into believing that this time it would be something else. If memory serves, this included baking the rack into a loaf of bread.
It was a hoot.
Eventually, even my father and his buddy got bored with this game. I am sometimes disturbed to find myself daydreaming of similar ways to torture those closest to me. What is this tendency?
I don't know, but I doubt that anyone has taken the tendency to a greater extreme than these guys.

I think I linked to this from my old blog, but I think it merits perennial mention.

nifty

Ol' Griz loves him some vintage paperbacks, but has no time for blogposting, nevermind cataloging and indexing book covers by artist.
Who does?
This person does. Enjoy!

Oona's new fighting technique is unstoppable

IMPORTANT BULLETIN

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has recalled children, finding that they pose a significant health hazard to children and have a tendency to release toxic chemicals.

Sorry, just channeled Erma Bombeck for a second there!

Glad that's over!

note to my daughter

I know your mother and I kid around alot with the "I'ma eatchyoo up!", but I just wanted you to know- if you were a bank vole or a house finch we might not be kidding!
And listen to this:

Klug said filial cannibalism could be a way to root out offspring that take too long to mature and therefore require a little too much parental care

So, you know, shape up or, well, let me just see what this apple looks like in your mouth...

partly Sonny Perdue

Georgia Guv: And can we have a pony?

There's something reminiscent of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court here, since I think rain has been forecast for just after the prayer session since last week, but who knows? Sonny seems a little whackadinghoy himself.