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Today, I smelled dirt. Winter is on its way out…

I laughed, I cried. Monte Python/Star Trek mashup.

Here is a list of all the combinations of any two of the seven deadly sins, and their labels. BG (Gluttony and Pride): Fat men in Speedos.BD (Gluttony and Sloth): Saturday.

Use your media player set to random to answer the questions with random song titles. The musical fortune cookie! – What does next year have in store for me?Mercy Street – Peter Gabriel (Whew.)– What does my love life look like?A Boy Named Sue – Johnny Cash (“My name is Sue! How do you do?

One of my favorite “robot” stories is “No Woman Born,” by C. L. Moore:A famous performer is horribly burnt in a fire; her brain is put into a robotic body. Her arms were pale shining gold, tapered smoothly, without modeling, and flexible their whole length in diminishing metal bracelets fitting one inside the other clear

I’ve been on a “good chocolate” kick lately. I don’t really know how to describe chocolate yet…but I’m trying to learn. There, you’ve been warned. Santander Columbian Single Origin Dark Chocolate (70%) The chocolate smells delicious, and would probably make a good Mexican-style drinking chocolate (that is, the kind you make with extremely hot water

Tomorrow is Groundhog Day (or Candlemas, or Imbolc, or Brigid’s Day, or Cross-Quarter Day), which marks the return of Spring, and usually the return of my Spring food cravings. None yet, though. I say we’re in for more winter.

and the Deathly Hallows comes out on July 21st. Hee!

I should save this for March, Women’s History Month. Bah! List of Known Women PiratesFreydis Eriksdottir Widow Ch’ing Grace O’Malley Update: Aw…this poor little quickie newsletter article is being totally rewritten to focus on O’Malley. Incidentally, the musical “The Pirate Queen” is about Grace (or Granuaile) O’Malley. So here goes: Women’s History Month: Lady Pirates

chatoyant (shuh-TOI-uhnt) adjective Having a changeable luster like that of a cat’s eye at night. noun A chatoyant gemstone, such as a cat’s eye. [From French, present participle of chatoyer (to shine like a cat’s eye),from chat (cat).] – Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org)