Tuesday, October 27, 2026

Happiness is a cook's rhyme


Cookery bookery Wordle
The mouse ran up her girdle
The maid took fright
And the mouse took flight
Into her soup with the turtle.
 
-- Johnny 

Sunday, October 25, 2026

Happiness is everyman dwelling safely under his own vine and under his own fig tree



 But I've got the mornin' sun, I've got the evenin' breezeI got the woman that I love lyin' close to meI've got a few good friends and all my bills are paidI got the moon and stars above and I've got it made

-- John Anderson, I've Got It Made 1993 

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

I flunked out of the School of Magic

 During the final exam I suddenly disappeared and didn't come back.


 


 

 

Friday, October 16, 2026

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

Sunday, October 4, 2026

Happiness is The Frito Bandito from 1965

 Ai Yi Yi Yi!   I am the Frito Bandito!


 

Thursday, October 1, 2026

Thursday, September 17, 2026

Friday, September 11, 2026

Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Happiness is Hoyt Axton's 1974 cover of Murphey and Quarto's 1972 Geronimo's Cadillac

 IMAO Axton's cover is far and away better than Murphey's original, Cher's cover, Johnny Rivers', or Jeff Stevens and the Bullets'.

That song was made for Axton's voice, and for the voices of none of the others.

 


Sunday, August 30, 2026

Monday, August 24, 2026

One of the happy ironies of life is that the accent on ultima falls on the antepenult

 One of the happy ironies of life is that the accent on ultima falls on the antepenult.

No matter what uncertainties life may throw in your way, you can always double-back on that.



Thursday, August 13, 2026

Happiness is wood heat


 Hard by a cottage chimney smokes,
From betwixt two aged oaks.
 
-- John Milton