D. M. S. Fick - now with more cake!

I dreamt about my Haircut 100 album last night!

Oh, Peewee.

“the thinker of tender thoughts” by shel silverstein [an illustration depicting a boy growing into a man. as he grows, his hair grows out as flowers. people laugh at him for it and he becomes sad. he starts trimming off the flowers, but as he reaches the last one he stops. he is then depicted with a smile and a flower in his buttonhole on his jacket.]

“the thinker of tender thoughts”
by shel silverstein

I would love to visit that tree.

Cartoon of three flickers. One wears a top hat. One sits and ponders existence, eyebrows raised over its head. One puts wing to mouth as though wondering where it left its keys.

May have spotted a flicker this morning. Very soft tan color. Maybe was a pigeon or dove, but it had the nifty black ascot and flitted around to different branches of the neighbor's trees as though wondering where everybody else was. So I'm positing it's the first flicker of the Spring migration.

Cartoon of egg-shaped bird wearing tiny boots. The bird is softly two-thirds grey and one-third white.

Junco has been sighted.

Where I live in the U.S. upper midwest, the weather has gone back and forth from freezing to Spring Thaw multiple times, hence the barometric pressure has been bouncing high and low multiple times. This could have some influence.

Perhaps the cutest cat in the whole dang world.

New lyrics for "A Fine Romance."

Jonathan Winters and Dick Shawn. Two of the craziest funniest galoots to grace the screen.

😍

The New Ulm Journal is printed in Madelia. It's only ever missed printing once. A car crashed into an electrical pole near the printer causing an outage.

😊 (Also got the punctuation right on the rethought version.)

"Answered Eos' rosy fingered call" might scan better.
(Not that anyone was seriously considering this.)

You are living right!

Swell cover design.

Possibly perfect. I say yes.

Oh! 🙃 My problem is that I've taken a gazillion screengrabs (via my computer) and must decide if I want to actually look through them all. I'm a screengrab horder.
Thanks though!

I have a screengrab problem.
First step is admitting it.

"answered the call of Eos's rosy fingers"
This if the character awakes in the morning.

I very much enjoyed the St. Paul location. I think it was north of I-94 west of Hamline.

Actually, the story of how I first saw Fargo is a pretty good one. I was still in undergrad, and at the time I was dating a girl from Brainerd. I’d gone back to her parents’ place in Brainerd with her for the weekend, and she wanted us to hang out with her high school friends, so we all went to see this hot new movie that everyone was talking about that was—can you believe it—kind of about Brainerd. So we went to see it, and, well, everyone was flummoxed; nobody hated it, but nobody really knew what to make of it.* But: the film, famously, starts out with the statement “This is a true story. The events depicted in this film took place in Minnesota in 1987. At the request of the survivors, the names have been changed. Out of respect for the dead, the rest has been told exactly as it occurred.” Unfamiliar with the Coens’ sensibility (although I shouldn’t have been), I asked the group of befuddled Brainerdians if that was true, and they all muttered and nodded and said yeah, they were pretty sure they remembered it, back in the 80s, sure was weird when it happened. For whatever reason, I think about this a lot. *One joke that absolutely did land: there is no laughter more pure than a theater full of central Minnesotans reacting to Steve Buscemi burying a briefcase of money in a snowbank next to a highway and looking around for landmarks.

ok, big one for A Life in Film: let's go to Fargo (and Brainerd, and a bunch of locations scattered around the Twin Cities)

keithpille.com/a-life-in-fi...

Today is a great day. Today is the day @countarthurstrong.bsky.social followed me back.

What's that?

That was weird.

Respect.

Floral graphic. Headline: Stock the shelves! Body text: Join us 3/8 from 12-3. We'll be collecting donations to stock Minnehaha Food Shelf and mutual aid donations to continuing supporting our neighbors. Get a sweet tote bag for your efforts.

Bitter Buffalo is collecting food and donations Sunday, March 8 from 12-3 for the Minnehaha Food Shelf.
There's a free tote bag in it for you, and if you bring a tee (garments also on hand) there's live printing!
www.thebitterbuffalo.com/iwd2026?utm_...

Delicious old people Halloween candy.

I kept reading it so it must be good. I don't keep reading anything if I don't care to anymore.
At a certain point though, I did go read the entire plot on Wikipedia to see if I could bear to read the rest of the book.

The Goldfinch
But I did start rereading James Acaster's Classic Scrapes to even myself out a bit.