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There's a song that goes... Like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel, Never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel, as the images unwind, like the circles that you find, in the windmills of your mind! I thought of this song as I started to pull this post together, because it never really begins or ends, and it spins a bunch of things at you that have been collecting dust in my mind, my bookmarks and my image library. First up was this pic...it's what a masochist might make himself for lunch... Speaking of sandwiches, did you ever wonder if when 2 turkey sandwiches mate would their offspring be inbread? Oh, you never stopped to think that? Well, I did. And while we're on about turkeys, know why the musical group invited the turkey to be their drummer? 'Cause he had his own drumsticks! (rimshot). With all the problems in the auto industry did you ever stop to think what might happen if IKEA and Volvo merged? Here's one for you. Why the heck do the...

Over at Boing Boing there's an interesting poster from yesteryear on the hierarchy of beards. Dangle-Swaggles and Soup-Saver are just two of the interesting names given to facial hair. merci

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The "Rover" from one of my all time favourite TV series, The Prisoner . Amazon.com says: The Prisoner, one of the most remarkable and challenging science fiction series of all time, follows "No. 6," a former government operative sent into a seemingly idyllic but twisted prison known as "The Village," where he struggles to retain his identity in the face of sophisticated and relentless attempts by the powers-that-be (known as "No. 2") to extract his secrets. The 10 DVD, 17 program, series of The Prisoner made for excellent viewing. Here's the entry at Amazon.com... http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Prisoner-Megaset/dp/B00005NKCQ And there's even a Prisoner Appreciation Society...Six of One : http://www.netreach.net/~sixofone/ Book: The Sanctuary by Raymond Khoury Music: Real Life by Joan as Police Woman

Yesterday was the big "3" in the life Maryse and I have chosen to spend together - our third anniversary. Maryse loves Italian food and so I made reservations at La Roma http://www.laromaottawa.com/ on Preston Street. We had an absolutley scrumptious meal. Maryse had trout with pasta and I had a simply delicious seafood pasta. Maryse's appetizer was an antipasta and mine was snails in a garlic and pernod sauce. We each had a cream of asparagus soup. The piece de resistance was the complimentary liqueur our server Shawna brought us when she discovered we were celebrating our anniversary. I've never had it before, but I'll be sure to have it again - Frangelico. Here's how one website describes this wonderful liqueur... We’ve talked about nut liqueurs here on The Spirit World in the past. But to the best of my knowledge this one, Frangelico , is the granddaddy of them all. From the first moment you see the bottle you know there is a story involved. The bottle...

Well the birthday ended with a quiet, romantic meal at the Wellington Gastropub. Unlike the "McTon" the dinner was delicious culminating in a yummy ginger cake with a special message from Maryse!

Mildred Bailey once admitted that "I couldn't sing big if I wanted to." But if her voice was one of the smallest around, it was also the sweetest and the sighing-est; and she had a natural rhythm to her phrasing that made her (with the Rhythm Boys—Bing Crosby, Harry Barris and her brother Al Rinker) one of the idols of the early '30s. Since those days, many of Mildred's old records have become collectors' items. Out this month is the first album commemorating the roly-poly singer who died last December. Mildred Bailey (Decca, 2 sides LP) includes eight of her best-known songs, if not the best versions of all of them. Even so, Lover, Come Back to Me, More than You Know, and the song Hoagy Carmichael wrote for her, Rockin' Chair, are still outstanding. Recording: good. Other new records: Raminay! (Jo Stafford; Columbia) was a New Orleans chimney sweeps' cry. Judging from this song, neither the tunesmith (Sammy Fain) nor pseudo Blues Singer Stafford ever ...

Yesterday was "Earth Day". Fascinating fact: were you aware that Earth Day has been around since 1970?! I find that amazing. This being the age of the internet, certain websites got in on the act. Like You Tube; look at it's logo in the uper left hand corner: Here's what Google went with... And here's a quick vid of what Yahoo! looked like... Here's a photoshopped pic I found... And here's a page from Wikipedia that explains the whole story behind Earth Day... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day Book: Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay Music: Mr Love and Justice by Billy Bragg

On the Quebec side of the Ottawa River they've extended the Boulevard des Allumettieres (the old McConnell-Laramée boulevard/boulevard de l'Outaouais) so that it's possible for us to travel from Aylmer to the Interprovincial Bridge and over the river to Ottawa. We often return home along this route when we've been to the Byward Market for lunch or dinner. There's one disconcerting feature associated with this roadway - a series of 4 "rond-points" or roundabouts (I guess that would make for 4 disconcerting features). Maryse and I always comment on how dangerous these roundabouts are, each one an intersection of 2 crossing streets. The problem is twofold: a) a distinct lack of respect for who has the right of way, and b) unexpected right turns from drivers in the inside left lane. You really are taking your life in your hands as you navigate through a "rond-point" and one has to drive very defensively. We travelled this route last night after dinne...