Ghoulish Fun
I can't go through a whole Halloween without reposting the Tombstone Generator.Inspired by the Church Sign Generator.
Inspired by the twisted mind of this fellow Texan here.
Inspired by the folk wisdom of this fellow Texan rightchere.
Ooooh, wait. I'm sorry. Eeesh, that was way too scary, even for Halloween.
Which, by the way, do you agree with certain knowledgeable culture-watchers that Halloween is rapidly becoming the new Christmas?
Where was I?
Oh. Yeah: scary stuff.
So I am reading this great book Stuart got for both of us called In the Company of Crows and Ravens. I've had a fascination with these birds since I moved into a neighborhood replete with crows and grackles some eight years ago.
There are fewer of them nowadays, more song birds.
The book is filled with interesting information that I'd tell you all about, except I'm due at a Halloween costume parade at my kid's school in, like, ten minutes ago.
She's Hermione Granger.
I leave you with this thought, courtesy of the authors of In the Company of Crows and Ravens:
How is it, do you think, that crows have learned to prefer scavenging through a McDonald's bag than a regular paper bag?
That they know an electric-orange puffed cheez doodle is edible?
I'll tell you how:
They're watching us.
categories: amusement miscellany
posted by lisa schamess @ 12:12
6 Comments:
ok, the church sign generator is hilarious.
Since I won't have the time to read In the Company of Crows and Ravens any time in the next 9 months, I'd like to request a book report. ;) Okay, maybe just some good excerpts. I've heard about the book from a couple of different sources, and if I didn't have this dissertation hanging over my head, I'd have already picked up the book.
I love crows and ravens, which play an important roll in early medieval Germanic cultures. And my attachment to them keeps growing with time. I've become convinced that Odin's two ravens, Hugin and Munin (Thought and Memory) are a mythologized personification of the pre-modern understanding of interplay between thought and memory, the understanding that places memory on equal footing with thought as a creative and inventive process.
Our mutual friend Robin Barber had recommended that book to me a couple of years ago. I didn't get around to it then, but your comments will send me running to the library as soon as i finish Zadie Smith's book On Beauty, which is lots of fun and well written, but not as great as some reviewers cracked it up to be. I imagine that crows and ravens are much more interesting than academics, which is what she's writing about!
Yep, those crows are something. They've been known to put nuts out in the road for passing cars to shell; the crows then retrieve the nut meat. Friend of mine tried the same technique with poor results - seems a Hyundai is no match for a bag of Black Walnuts.(Who's really the bird brain, hmmmmm?)
Don't think its a twisted mind that makes the generator, it's the person who's generating the image that can be twisted. Can't say that BIC pen makers are twisted cuz some psycho writes dirty letters to old ladies! Hehe...
Okay, it's a bit morbid in our times to play with death, but it was only a couple hundred years ago we used to keep the dead in our house.
Anyhow, put you name on a toe tagger generator VIA http://www.CustomSignGenerator.com .
Wish I'd visited your blog sooner.
Great links.
I'll be back!
~michaelm
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