Of course it will get cooler, we need to remind the silent majority that summer’s over. Short sighted? You betcha.
Pinus Volatilius, yes we learned about that in forestry class, that’s the common exploding tree, found throughout the west coast, particularly where there is lightning. Stupid asshole.
Exploding trees? Now, why didn’t he say that before I finished my fantasy decalogue, with leaf people playing a big role. Exploding leaf people…that would have been so cool. But I promised myself I will NOT write another volume; I want to remember when I wrote something other than young adult fantasy (a genre I never thought I would write one book in, let alone ten). If I end up adding a book, it will be Trump’s fault. And twiliter’s – it’s hard to resist Pinus volatilius.
One year after we took down the Christmas tree we decided to burn it instead of just tossing it on the brush pile out back. We cut the boughs off and fed them into the fireplace one-by-one.
I won’t say they exploded, but it was pretty scary watching them go up. I was a lot more diligent about fire safety after that.
How does he mispronounce “Oregon”? In California they often pronounce the last syllable like “gone”, but I gather the people in Oregon don’t like that. You also hear people say the first syllable like”or”, but Trump’s version sounds like what I’ve mostly heard. I’m all for criticizing the Dear Leader when he’s clearly wrong, but it’s hardly necessary to scrape the bottom of the barrel.
Athel @ 9 – the way lots of people mispronounce it – as OReGAHN instead of Oreg’n. It’s not a huge deal, true, but he is the president of the states, he could at least learn how to pronounce them all.
iknklast, I really, really want to read your fantasy series. Yes, I know – it’s for Young Adults and I haven’t been one of those for decades. But when it comes to reading, I seem to have done things backwards – starting with newspapers, the encyclopœdia, and stuff by people like Dickens and Austin, Tolkien and a whole slew of SciFi authors, when I was tiny; and slowly working my way towards the things toddlers are supposed to read, like Ladybird books, in my sixties. By the time I’m eighty, I shall probably be enjoying picture books. I learned to read far too young to appreciate them. By the time I was one, I could tell which way up words were supposed to be*. By the time I was two, I wanted a book with a proper story to read.
*But not that they were only supposed to go in one direction. At eighteen months, I would hold a pencil in my right hand and write from left to right, conventionally; then switch to my left hand and write from right to left. My poor mother. Not a lot of books around to tell a young woman how to deal with a hyperlexic ambidextrous baby.
Sounds like he’s channeling Bill O’Reilly: “Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can’t explain that.”
Given where Trump has gotten most of his thoughts, that’s not really a surprise.
“Winter is Coming” — Ned Stark
Of course it will get cooler, we need to remind the silent majority that summer’s over. Short sighted? You betcha.
Pinus Volatilius, yes we learned about that in forestry class, that’s the common exploding tree, found throughout the west coast, particularly where there is lightning. Stupid asshole.
lol
Must be one of these
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVnK3hwzJIk
Exploding trees? Now, why didn’t he say that before I finished my fantasy decalogue, with leaf people playing a big role. Exploding leaf people…that would have been so cool. But I promised myself I will NOT write another volume; I want to remember when I wrote something other than young adult fantasy (a genre I never thought I would write one book in, let alone ten). If I end up adding a book, it will be Trump’s fault. And twiliter’s – it’s hard to resist Pinus volatilius.
I could tell you about exploding sheep, but plagiarizing Johnny Carson is bad luck. ;)
Carnac the Magnificent >> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=76wzA2A2T1Q
One year after we took down the Christmas tree we decided to burn it instead of just tossing it on the brush pile out back. We cut the boughs off and fed them into the fireplace one-by-one.
I won’t say they exploded, but it was pretty scary watching them go up. I was a lot more diligent about fire safety after that.
How does he mispronounce “Oregon”? In California they often pronounce the last syllable like “gone”, but I gather the people in Oregon don’t like that. You also hear people say the first syllable like”or”, but Trump’s version sounds like what I’ve mostly heard. I’m all for criticizing the Dear Leader when he’s clearly wrong, but it’s hardly necessary to scrape the bottom of the barrel.
Twiliter @6, if you want exploding sheep there are some early Peter Jackson movies set in NZ you need to see.
You’ve heard of the Lost Ark, the Lost Chord and so on? Well Trump is the Fourth Stooge, the original others being Larry, Shemp and Mo.
Athel @ 9 – the way lots of people mispronounce it – as OReGAHN instead of Oreg’n. It’s not a huge deal, true, but he is the president of the states, he could at least learn how to pronounce them all.
twiliter, I told my husband if I take up my series again and can’t put it down, it’s your fault. Pinus volatilius. It’s too tempting.
iknklast, I really, really want to read your fantasy series. Yes, I know – it’s for Young Adults and I haven’t been one of those for decades. But when it comes to reading, I seem to have done things backwards – starting with newspapers, the encyclopœdia, and stuff by people like Dickens and Austin, Tolkien and a whole slew of SciFi authors, when I was tiny; and slowly working my way towards the things toddlers are supposed to read, like Ladybird books, in my sixties. By the time I’m eighty, I shall probably be enjoying picture books. I learned to read far too young to appreciate them. By the time I was one, I could tell which way up words were supposed to be*. By the time I was two, I wanted a book with a proper story to read.
*But not that they were only supposed to go in one direction. At eighteen months, I would hold a pencil in my right hand and write from left to right, conventionally; then switch to my left hand and write from right to left. My poor mother. Not a lot of books around to tell a young woman how to deal with a hyperlexic ambidextrous baby.