Sunday, October 17, 2010

Another weekend has zoomed by.

Twister and I did a Meet & Greet on Saturday at the Bethel Park Petco. Of which I have to say one of the most interesting side events was watching (when there were no customers interested in greyhounds) a young man and his father buying a snake, and all the hardware and apparatuses appertaining there-to. Dad wanted no part of it. Said young man is in the background of the photo, wearing the grey hoodie.

Snakes aside, it was a nice couple hours, and I think we got at least two or three people interested in adopting a greyhound. Oh and in the photo, Twist is cut off on the left. Hogging the camera is FX, our co-star for the afternoon. Thanks to Rob McGinley, FX's dad, for the image via iPhone

On to the next topic: One of my very favorite bloggers, Wanders, has decided to hang up his shoes. His blog is Mary Worth and Me and it pokes gentle fun at a newspaper comic strip that has outlived its prime by many decades.

The days are getting so short, I take every chance to sit outside and absorb the sunlight. This afternoon, speaking of comic strips, I felt like I was in "Mutts."

Why, you may ask?

Because, completely minding my own business sitting on a chair in the back yard, I got bonked in the head by an acorn falling from the pin oak on the back slope. And it hurt!

So, was there a squirrel up there laughing?

Hmmm

Sunday Serendipity (on Monday). And cancer

Well, in spite my best efforts, Sunday got away from me. However, now that it is Monday I can more fully reflect on the weekend.

My favorite part of every Sunday is the New York Times. I always reach for Sunday Styles, Week in Review and Sunday Business, and thereafter the front section and the Book Review. As Philip Roth's latest offering was on the cover of the Book Review this week, I felt comfortable in AVOIDING IT COMPLETELY. If you get my drift. Angry old Jewish men. Writing about their anger. No thank you.

Ann Coulter catering to gay conservatives on the Sunday Styles cover. Gads. I read it, but it was more about AC than why gays think its acceptable for them to support her.

Ahem.

Twist and I had a lovely walk in the Sunday dusk, below a silvery-gold crescent moon.

Wait.

What's that you say?

It wasn't PINK!!!!!!!

Oh, the nerve of Mother Nature to ignore Breast Cancer Cancer Cancer Cancer Cancer Cancer, oh, one more time, Cancer Month! The nerve. Fountain waters are pink this month. Big, burly football players are wearing pink gloves. Even the Sunday funnies in the newspaper are pink. So seriously. Get with it Mom.

That said.

My style icon for Sunday is a new acquaintance, Jill Black, from Mary Worth. That's right. Black. She looks to be a real hard case who will reduce Adrian Cory, who is as dumb as a drawer full of hammers, to a puddle of jelly while helping her "choose" her wedding dress. Again, imagine the nerve of the comic strip's author introducing a character named BLACK!!! during pink cancer month.

And speaking of cancer, cancer, cancer, I like this post from Blag Hag.

The "illustration" is done by deviantART muro. Just call me Jacksonia Pollock.

Cheers. Happy Cancer Month!