we're all mad here

Today is mad. I have a mad deadline for tomorrow. Mad students keep trying to ask me mad questions while the phone madly rings. I'm under the desk with straws in my hair. It is clearly the time for mad linkery.

1. Hee. Ursula Vernon is drawing phalloi. (Those are the weird little classical winged penises, so don't click if your boss is watching over your shoulder). Including ridiculously cute Valentine's cards. I do enjoy the insanely lateral way her mind works.


2. Also via Ursula: dog meets sweet potato. Our cats used to be mad for the cooked pulp and seeds from inside a gem squash, but they weren't quite as amusingly pathological about it.


3. At the game on Tuesday night, someone incautiously mentioned "Safety Dance", causing me to say "Men Without Hats" as a sort of deeply conditioned reflex, given that I haven't either heard the song or thought about it for about eighteen years, i.e. the entire lifespan of the teenager that I was when I listened to it. Then I spent a happy hour last night watching 80s hits on YouTube. Somewhere in my future is a possibly expensive rendezvous with a bunch of 80s mix CDs, I don't have any of this music any more. The Thompson Twins hit I was unable to remember at the time was, of course, "Hold Me Now." I love his voice. On the other hand, I dug up Cutting Crew, and OMG but that's a seriously insane mullet alert.
   
   
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