This Book’s a Winner

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Murder Must Advertise (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries Book 10) by [Dorothy L. Sayers]

One of the things keeping me out of the booby hatch lately is a crackerjack mystery novel, Murder Must Advertise, by Dorothy L. Sayers. I’m re-reading it and I don’t want it to end.

Lord Peter Wimsey gets called in to solve a murder at an advertising agency, where he goes undercover as a copy-writer. Dorothy Sayers worked for several years as an advertising copy-writer, and she knows all the ins and outs of the business. In fact, her depiction of the agency is so fascinating, you almost don’t care about the murder.

Just to show you what the author knows, Ms. Sayers considered this one of her least best books, didn’t like it much. She never realized what a terrific book it was!

I’d like to say more, but again the computer’s giving me fits and I don’t know whether I’ll be able to post this or not. Suffice it to say that this is one of my all-time favorite mysteries–and it does a superb job of taking your mind off whatever’s bugging you.

Memory Lane: Jon Gnagy

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Throughout the 1950s and 60s, Jon Gnagy’s Learn to Draw was among the most popular educational TV shows. I watched it regularly, and sent away for one of his instructional kits. And you know what? It really helped me learn to draw!

His lessons usually started by showing you the basic geometric shapes–cones, cubes, spheres, etc.–underlying the objects that you wished to draw; and then he’d show you how to build on those. For instance, you’d start with a cone and build it, step by step, into a sheaf of wheat, a teepee, or a church steeple. The kit had a variety of pencils, charcoal sticks, and this really cool “kneaded eraser” that was like a ball of Silly Putty. And it had a book of scenes that you could learn to draw–again, step by step.

Over the years, I got rather good at drawing all kinds of things. It was fun! We still have Patty’s Learn to Draw kit stowed upstairs. Still lifes, landscapes, people and animals–it’s all in there.

Fewwww-tility!

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Well, our tech guy has come and gone, he’s installed the new modem, and we’re right back where we started from because, he says–well, never mind what he says, I don’t understand it, just makes my head spin. Somehow we have to replace our Internet service.

So for the foreseeable future I’ll be taking half an hour to do a five-minute job, and maybe it’ll work and maybe it won’t, etc., etc.

I need to sit down outside and have a cigar.

I shall return if possible.

It’s Driving Me Crazy

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The guy is supposed to come and install our new modem sometime this afternoon, and that’s supposed to solve our problems, and I have to hang onto my sanity until that happens.

This schiff with the computers is driving me up the wall. Half the time I write a post and it just disappears. Half the illustrations I post wind up missing. And it takes half an hour or more to do a five-minute job.

Virtually everyone in the Western world is better with computers than I am.

Ooh-ooh–“Saving of Draft Failed”! Why are they telling me that? I don’t have a draft yet, I’m still writing it.

Give me strength.

P.S.–I did pray for my blood pressure, and the Lord heard that one. He sent my pressure right back down to where it ought to be.

‘Fantasy to Save Your Sanity’ (2014)

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Six years later, I might rephrase this if I were writing it afresh. But one point would still hold it together.

What leftids like to call “reality” isn’t real and the world can get by just fine without it.

Fantasy to Save Your Sanity

Yes, boys ‘n’ girls, we can get by just swimmingly fine without transgender, without “gay” activists, without feminism, without all those other isms they’ve unloaded on us.

And when we write fantasy, we can keep all that rubbish out of it.

‘Yield Not to Temptation’

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We haven’t posted this in a while: an old Sunday school favorite since 1868, Yield Not to Temptation, performed by Nathan and Lyle. We never would’ve thought of adding a mandolin.

Cats & Bunnies

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We’ve got a wind and rain storm outside, and maybe two more minutes before my connection conks out and no more Internet–so all I’m gonna tell you is, here’s some cats and bunnies, enjoy ’em.

By Request, ‘He’s Still God’

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I have to get this posted in a hurry, before my connection conks out again.

Requested by Erlene, He’s Still God, by C

Watt Aboat The Noodists???

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Watt aboat The Noodists????

Whel i alyaws thinked Noodists thay whir theeze peple in Lost Vagus whoo shayved thare heds and banged on spacial Gongs butt thenn i fowneded Out that “those” Are Not noodist but Boodists,, i seen pitchures of themb butt i alyaws thinked “thay” wer Methaddists.!

Noodists, thoe, thay Are peeple who doughnt ware No Clotheses!!! Like, nevver! And nhow The Guvermint say Thay got “To” ware Faice Makses and that “is” aginst thare Printsipples!!!! i hasnt nevvr seen no Noodist i gess we hasnt got nun Arowned Hear butt annywhay thay are Up-Sett!!! Thay saying Haow can “yiu” “Be” “a” reel Noodist if yiu are Waring a Maks?????

I stil Cant Figgre out haow “To” putt On “the” maks,,, my Moth Antenners thay get “In” the Whay!!!!!! Wye didd thay has to maik “It” So harrd??? Wee hased a hole Class and Whirk Shopp on haow to ware a Mask butt evry boddy thay Fluncked It!!!!! i eevin Tryed Tayping It “on” and it stil Fell Offf!!!

We “are” goingto has a spacial meating “of” “the” Stoodint Soviet to-nite to deside weather we awt to Try be-ing Noodists four A “wile”!!! I hoap thay doughnt say yiu “got-to” Un-tye yore shoos becoase i hasnt hased That coarse Yet!!!

Noozie: Christ Was Not Perfect

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At least a professional fool is funny. A noozie isn’t. Well, not intentionally, at least.

I do get tired of being lectured by idiots. Just because you’re an overpaid noozie doesn’t make you a theologian. Isn’t it bad enough that they lie about the nooze, putting words in people’s mouths that they never said, making it up as they go along because that’s their stupid “narrative”? But with liberals it’s never bad enough.

CNN nooze-squawker Don Lemon recently said Our Lord Jesus Christ was “admittedly”–where did that come from?–just a guy like you or me, and not perfect (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/don-lemon-cnn-theologian-says-jesus-admitted-he-was-not-perfect). Can I use the word “douchebag” to describe him?

And of course he never produces the scripture in which Jesus “admits” he’s not perfect. Are we supposed to take his word for it? The fact that there is no such scripture makes no dent in his towering ignorance.

As my high school math teacher, Mr. Gracchi, used to say, “Empty barrels make the most noise.”

There’s nothing in this barrel.