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22 thoughts on “February 9, 2000016: Sticky Buttons”
happy mardi gras y'all.
I need to find something to indulge in today. This winter has really been getting to me, and Lent starts tomorrow, and... yeah. I need me a big, fat, Tuesday splurge of some sort.
If you can drive to Minneapolis, there may still be some King Cake in our breakroom (shipped from New Orleans by one of our clients)!
After years of eating the several King Cakes sent to our office, last year I finally wound up with my first baby. Hours later, I found my second.
They're riding on the back of my Schleich Pelican. Fitting if one knows the religious symbolism of beasts and that of plastic babies found in baked goods.
If it were a Brown Pelican*, it would be doubly fitting with representations of New Orleans. But, alas, it's a Great White Pelican**. It wouldn't be hard to pass it off as an American White Pelican***, but that's not the State Bird of the Bayou State.
*Pelecanus occidentalis
**P. onocrotalus****
***P. erythrorhynchos
****So the Brown is the "Western Pelican" and the American White is the "Red-beaked Pelican", but I had to look up "onocrotalus". If I'm reading it right it's "Ass-Clapper"? ("Ass" as in onager/donkey and "clapper" as in the thing that makes a bell ring.)
We also have some "authentic" King Cake here from a NOLA vendor. Baby's still there I think, if anyone's interested.
I think I'll pass.
I've seen that thing up close, and it's way more terrifying than you can imagine.
That makes me love it even more.
Between that and the Pelican, NOLA has some creepy stuff going on at games.
Disappointed to see that the mascot isn't bleeding from its breast.
More digging and "onocrotalus" is an alternate Latin name for pelican*, which I found translated in one place as "a creature that brays like an ass".
*maybe originating with another bird, as may be true with "Pelican" as well. This is a common feature in nomenclature. Consider the American use of "Buzzard" to mean "Vulture" and "Hawk" to include "Buzzard" and "Falcon". Or that the word "Vireo", which is both the Linnean and common name for that genus of birds, is a word originally used for the Greenfinch, Chloris chloris.
We had our annual Mardi Gras dinner with neighbors last night (and with new neighbors who moved in last summer so an added family!):
Popeye's, Abita, and Sheenie's homemade king cake
Hopefully not Purple Haze...
I need to find something to indulge in today.
I think I took care of all the indulging for you.
"Sticky Buttons" sounds to me like it might be a good name for a band.
The band Eats Tapes used it as an album title.
As this came out before my iPod era, I believe I have a copy of this burnt to a CD somewhere. I was interested in them because I found the "Dinosaur Days" EP to be pretty cool.
I never got much further in than this, tbh:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE-xpyYgJSY
If one goes from "Sticky" to "Stuck", there's just a consonant shift to the F--- Buttons, who are pretty good. Instrumental music, so don't let the cuss word in the title dissuade you from listening.
This song was used at the London Olympics opening ceremony:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m1Fkz5oFe0
When Minnesota's Rachel Banham scored 60 on Sunday, she outscored two top-15 women's teams that same day. That was also more points than the Gophers men scored on Thursday at Northwestern.
Bingo.
FTFY. You don't need the "v" anymore, apparently. Just past the URL and hit return.
Then hit "Mail Letter To Editor".
Built in to WordPress these days.
I like the "httpv"
It makes it smaller (see above).
happy mardi gras y'all.
I need to find something to indulge in today. This winter has really been getting to me, and Lent starts tomorrow, and... yeah. I need me a big, fat, Tuesday splurge of some sort.
If you can drive to Minneapolis, there may still be some King Cake in our breakroom (shipped from New Orleans by one of our clients)!
After years of eating the several King Cakes sent to our office, last year I finally wound up with my first baby. Hours later, I found my second.
They're riding on the back of my Schleich Pelican. Fitting if one knows the religious symbolism of beasts and that of plastic babies found in baked goods.
If it were a Brown Pelican*, it would be doubly fitting with representations of New Orleans. But, alas, it's a Great White Pelican**. It wouldn't be hard to pass it off as an American White Pelican***, but that's not the State Bird of the Bayou State.
*Pelecanus occidentalis
**P. onocrotalus****
***P. erythrorhynchos
****So the Brown is the "Western Pelican" and the American White is the "Red-beaked Pelican", but I had to look up "onocrotalus". If I'm reading it right it's "Ass-Clapper"? ("Ass" as in onager/donkey and "clapper" as in the thing that makes a bell ring.)
We also have some "authentic" King Cake here from a NOLA vendor. Baby's still there I think, if anyone's interested.
I think I'll pass.
I've seen that thing up close, and it's way more terrifying than you can imagine.
That makes me love it even more.
Between that and the Pelican, NOLA has some creepy stuff going on at games.
Disappointed to see that the mascot isn't bleeding from its breast.
More digging and "onocrotalus" is an alternate Latin name for pelican*, which I found translated in one place as "a creature that brays like an ass".
*maybe originating with another bird, as may be true with "Pelican" as well. This is a common feature in nomenclature. Consider the American use of "Buzzard" to mean "Vulture" and "Hawk" to include "Buzzard" and "Falcon". Or that the word "Vireo", which is both the Linnean and common name for that genus of birds, is a word originally used for the Greenfinch, Chloris chloris.
We had our annual Mardi Gras dinner with neighbors last night (and with new neighbors who moved in last summer so an added family!):
Popeye's, Abita, and Sheenie's homemade king cake
Hopefully not Purple Haze...
I need to find something to indulge in today.
I think I took care of all the indulging for you.
"Sticky Buttons" sounds to me like it might be a good name for a band.
The band Eats Tapes used it as an album title.
As this came out before my iPod era, I believe I have a copy of this burnt to a CD somewhere. I was interested in them because I found the "Dinosaur Days" EP to be pretty cool.
I never got much further in than this, tbh:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE-xpyYgJSY
If one goes from "Sticky" to "Stuck", there's just a consonant shift to the F--- Buttons, who are pretty good. Instrumental music, so don't let the cuss word in the title dissuade you from listening.
This song was used at the London Olympics opening ceremony:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m1Fkz5oFe0
When Minnesota's Rachel Banham scored 60 on Sunday, she outscored two top-15 women's teams that same day. That was also more points than the Gophers men scored on Thursday at Northwestern.
Bingo.
FTFY. You don't need the "v" anymore, apparently. Just past the URL and hit return.
Then hit "Mail Letter To Editor".
Built in to WordPress these days.
I like the "httpv"
It makes it smaller (see above).
Eventually I will disable that plugin.