Reading: City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer
Music: Solas
TV/Movie: old MOnty Python episodes
Link o' the Day: CIA's World Factbook

More letters from manic mailman... Where do these come from?

Dear Miss Posh,

Last Sunday at tea, my fiance's mother mistook the demitasse spoon for a common coffee spoon. I am considering cancelling the wedding because I find it horrifying that I might become related to such a person. My fiance agrees with my sense of horror, but has instead offered to formally and legally disown his mother over this. When the time comes, we will adopt a rich child from Kennebunkport or, perhaps, Luxembourg.

Our problem is this...

We have already printed the wedding invitations--gold lame on sheepskin--and there may not be time to have new ones printed. Is it acceptable to simply black out his former mother's name, or must we settle on more simple invitation featuring hand-crushed Chinese tea ink on hand-pressed paper hand-lettered by maidens with impeccable posture?

Yours most sincerely,

Miss Pelanthia A. Corn
Newport, Savannah, Monte Carlo

and

Dear Sirs,

We await your signal.

(unsigned)

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Woke up late (for me) this morning, so keeping things short as I have full day of work ahead of me. No time to chew the fat, gnaw the gristle, gum the blubber, suck out the marrow, or masticate the mango with you folks. (how are these similes working out for you? Or are they metaphors? Or are they just "figues of speech"?) I need to re-read my Strunk & White.



Rumor has it...In ancient Christian tradition, one of the reasons why the Easter Bunny is so special is because it, unlike other bunnies, had only three toes, representing the holy trinity, on each foot. This is related to the idea of a lucky rabbit's foot as originally it was a souvenier common among holy pilgrims in 14th century England. Such feet had a toe removed so that only three remained, a call back to earliest Easter bunny traditions.

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Today's link goes to a useful research tool for writers and spies. None other than the CIA's World Factbook. Nonstop fun is to be had here as you page through the details of every country from Aghanistan to Zimbabwe. An easy to read text version can be found here.

Cheers!