This is one of those rare perfect books that I will want to keep forever to loan out to friends in need of enlightenment or encouragement. It has everything: a good storyline; characters that are real, complex and that you would want to meet in real life; it’s funny; it talks about the Northwest [...]
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I subscribe to a lot of newsletters, but my favorite is the “Funny Columns” from self-described “writer Melvin Durai, who was born in India, raised in Zambia and brainwashed in America”. He apparently now lives in Canada (go Canada!), and most of his columns have a sarcastic political message, often about the ever-increasing lack [...]
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A farmer just got married and was driving his new wife home in his open buggy. Their mule stopped at one point, and refused to go on. The farmer quietly said, “That’s one.” and whipped the mule, who kept going. A few minutes later, the mule stopped again, refusing to go on. [...]
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In this interesting, somewhat amusing video, a Japanese man plays several instruments that he has handcrafted from vegetables. Yes, you read that right, vegetables! It’s pretty cool, just watch. Introduction of handmade vegetable musical instruments
And another, this time he plays a full song on a broccoli ocarina (a broccalina?) accompanied [...]
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