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StoryRhyme After Dark: Fur Elise

StoryRhyme.com — 2010-02-13T16:33:31-08:00

Once again, our friend Harry Buschman takes us on a quick whimsical ride; a "behind the story" of Beethoven's famous work and a look at the famed composer/musician through the eyes of a child (who is not impressed). ...You hold out the hem of your skirt on both sides and place your left foot behind your right, and then you ... what do you call it in school? ..."Yes, I know he’s deaf, Elise – but he’d like to hear you play it anyway. ..."Yes, I know he doesn’t smell very nice, Elise, and yes he has food all over his shirt , but he’s a great composer, dear – He’s not like real people, he’s an artiste ... well ... artistes are poor people who can do some things better than anyone else can. ...

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StoryRhyme.com — 2010-02-10T15:48:58-08:00

We've taken our commenting system off-line while we switch to new code (and trace down a gremlin which has been vexing our blog code for a long time). ..."Could you imagine a Sex and the City episode with Bettie Page in it, she could tell the girls a thing or two about being their own women or making an impression or even how a professional temptress thinks." ..."My mother-in-law called to tell me that she's planning on bringing this particular dish to our house for dinner because, "Everyone likes it." ...When I told my friend that I like the gray, she looked at me as if I were so woman away from the asylum." ..."I have lived through so much violence and bigotry and hatred in my many years on this planet that I was almost afraid to hope or believe that things could change."

Cats in Curlers

StoryRhyme.com — 2010-02-03T22:01:32-08:00

It's a good look, especially for a short-haired calico, but I don't know how you would get the curlers to stay on. Then there's the old stand-by dream of standing in a donut shop staring at rows and rows of donuts. ... If that were to happen, I'm sure I'd wake in a cold sweat, and I don't know if I'd be able to get back to sleep. Worse yet, I suppose I could find myself sitting in the chair of a beauty parlor with a calico cat trying to put curlers in my hair. ...