Celebrate by viewing Mr.YipYop’s lovely pigeon portraits.
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h/t on the special day to Reid and h/t for the portraits to @strangehours via tweet.
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Blogroll addition of special note
Bookride: Rare Book Guide, Every One a Winner. J.G. Ballard! Aurel Stein! Dr. Seuss! And enjoyable snark. Added to the Booklist section.
Good omen
I’m starting to get ready for a weekend trip the Designer and I are taking to the North American Amphibian Conference. As if to spur me on, peakay posted plates from the ‘Metamorphosibus Insectorum Surinamensium’.
Here’s a detail (the canonical birdeater) from a handcolored plate in an edition he links to – click to see the whole thing.
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I’m going to try a little moblogging from the road, but having fun at the conference is the first priority, so it may be Sunday or Monday before things start to appear here or on my Flickrsteam.
Bizarre homonyms of the day
(OK, properly speaking, these are homophones – but way back when, my teachers confused me and homonym is the word that pops up first.)
I heard a reporter on the radio just now describe some Mexican kids as au fait (the story was on the anti-emokid violence in Mexico). For a confusing instant, I heard ofay and the sentence made no sense to me. Then my head reoriented – a grin ensued.