The northern answer to the Bloody Mary. It started in Calgary about 50 years ago.
Clam broth /juice is the secret ingredient
From the girlheartfood site from 6/8/17:
This Ultimate Caesar Cocktail is a total Canadian classic. It’s Clamato juice based with a hit of vodka and the whole thing gets flavour and spice from ingredients like horseradish, Worcestershire sauce and hot sauce.
An Instagram site that searches for posted material that can be treated as a haiku (a 3-line poetic form with 5, 7, and 5 syllables in the lines). Recently, the robot took on sex between men (not at all graphically).
An example of a found haiku, based on a posting that went:
I suppose ant-man’s boss could be considered a micromanager
— to which the robot responded with the 5-7-5 version:
i suppose ant-man’s
boss could be considered a
micromanager
A Rhymes With Orange, with an outrageous pun; and a Zits, with a fatherly fabrication of names:
(#1) Airbnb / DnD
(#2) If Orion’s Belt, why not Orion’s Fanny Pack?
Today’s One Big Happy, with a now-classic mishearing:
(#1) the sky’s heard as this guy’s
In my 5/30/12 posting “Annals of mishearing”, discussion of the sky misheard as this guy, on several occasions.
Today’s Zippy, on the relationship between the two:
(#1)
In brief: utilitarian objects can be aesthetically pleasing — can be seen as art objects — without any conscious intention on the part of the designer; or they can be created with an eye towards pleasing design; or they can be self-consciously designed as objects to view (because they are pleasing or playful or both) as well as objects to use. Above: type 1.
(For the day of the Marches for Our Lives.)
On March 2nd in the Stanford Report, the university’s daily newsletter for faculty and staff, the top item:
(#1) About the video “Run. Hide. Fight. — Surviving an Active Shooter Event”
My main interest here is in the family of expressions that includes active shooter and armed gunman, but as usual my attention will wander far afield.
A portmanteau (fishwich), a perfect pun (on the lam / lamb), an imperfect pun (bar / bark mitzvah):
Glanced at yesterday’s NYT when it arrived at 6 a.m., and read the headline for the top story:
[REDACTED] Chooses Hawke
For 3rd Security Adviser
As Shake-Up Continues
Ooh, I thought, a bold appointment: accomplished actor, director, and writer Ethan Hawke, a sturdy Democrat, feminist, and activist for gay rights.
Then I looked carefully at the headline and saw that it said Hawk (referring to a hawk, someone who supports a warlike policy in foreign affairs). not Hawke (referring to Ethan Hawke). The appointment was of überhawk John Bolton.
Just unearthed in my files, a follow-up to my 6/26/17 posting “Put a sock on it in parade season”, about cock socks: a 6/27 message from Aric Olnes:
I got this FB targeted ad for something called a Suspensory, which I had not heard of, that looks suspiciously like a cock sock or a ball sack with straps. I can only imagine typing dick sock or the content of [your] post is the connection. Now FB thinks I need a medical jock strap!
(#1)
In the print edition of yesterday’s NYT, an ad on p. A5 offers this astonishing piece of furniture:
Grandeur of Versailles
On the site of M.S. Rau Antiques – Fine Art – Jewelry, 630 Royal St., New Orleans LA, this description:
This monumental Boulle marquetry commode was crafted by Robert Blake (ca. 1820). Modeled after those made by Boulle for King Louis XIV. The entire ebony commode is covered in Boulle marquetry and doré bronze. A similar pair of commodes also marked [= signed] by Blake are part of the famed Frick Collection. Item No. 30-6334 : $398,500
My first interest here is lexicographic, having to do with the item commode (and its semantic development). Then on to marquetry, Boulle, and Blake.