Boggling goes here

[soc_puppet]

So I found out the other day that my roommate J had never been exposed to the works of Shel Silverstein. Recognizing the grave oversight for what it was, I took it upon myself to borrow "A Light In The Attic" from my parents yesterday so that she might read it.

...

This morning she read the first seventy-three pages, and then approached me as I was making lunch to inform me that Silverstein was her second cousin.

He was her mother's cousin, and she had never read or heard any of his poetry or books until today.

Yeah, I don't even. I just. Wha...?

(Stop destroying my childhood-based assumptions, J! *fistshake*)



In other news, it looks as if America won't be finished (or near-finished) on time for me to offer amigurumi at this round of LJ's Help_Japan. I'll probably be taking another month off from crocheting after I finish the last of the stuff from Help_Brazil and Queensland Flood Auction as well, hopefully let my wrists fully recover. Or at least get closer to fully recovering.

The Sponsorship tickets and Postcards from/about Iowa are both still open to bids through the 28th-ish, and I finally got around to putting up my mom's other two postcard offers for postcards with humor and postcards on "places she's been/hasn't been", just squeaking in by the "No more new offers" deadline (sometime in the next few hours).

I've also got a request up for an Esperanto learning buddy or tutor. No nibbles yet, alas :( Still, hope springs a turtle. I'll learn the language someday, and I'm planning to donate $10 anyway, I just thought this might be a nice way to do both.

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[redsixwing]

hope springs a turtle

*sporfle*

Good luck with finding a tutor!

[soc_puppet]

¦D I'm pretty sure that's originally a Beverly Cleary turn of phrase, but I can't say for sure.

Thank you! Though really, at this point I'd accept "someone to nag me into doing lessons regularly" ^^a

[avocado-wish.livejournal.com]

Your friend is a second cousin to Shel Silverstein? That's AWESOME! I loved almost all his work when I was growing up, especially his ABZ book. Heh heh heh.

*Didn't care for The Giving Tree, though. I have to agree with Bart Simpson on that one.*

[soc_puppet]

I know, right? Which makes it even more of an oversight that she didn't read his stuff when she was younger, but whatever; at least she's getting to some of it now.

XD O man, I don't remember Bart's thoughts on it, but in Jim Hines' third Jig the Goblin book there's a hilarious parody of The Giving Tree. Basically, there's this tree that has almost exactly the same back story as the Giving Tree, except he got fed up with the stupid human being selfish and decided he would rather fling him somewhere instead ♥ So there's a bunch of stuff with a tree catapulting random people and monsters and such at the slightest provocation - and sometimes just because he can. It's pretty great X3

[avocado-wish.livejournal.com]

OK, that's hilarious! XD

Bart's thoughts: in one of the Simpson's episode openers, he's seen writing on the chalkboard, "The Giving Tree is not a chump."