Anvil in a Lace Bootie

A SENTENCE BY JOHN MUIR

Doc — Sat, 19 May 2012 14:12:55 +0000

The surface snow, though sprinkled with stones shot down from the cliffs, was in some places almost pure, gradually becoming crystalline and changing to whitish porous ice of different shades of color, and this again changing at a depth of 20 or 30 feet to blue ice, some of the ribbon-like bands of which were nearly pure, and blended with paler bands in the most gradual and delicate manner imaginable.

John describes a glacier in the high Sierra.

GRETA GARBO KWIZ ANSWER

Doc — Fri, 18 May 2012 14:14:26 +0000

Greta Garbo did live in a small hut near the La Brea Tar Pits, although she didn’t care much one way or the other where she lived. The hut was convenient to the Tar Pits, true. But any other domicile in the area would have suited her daily Tar Pits habit just as well. However, she had a passionate, never fulfilled, desire to own a herd of donkeys. It was her greatest regret.

THE GRETA GARBO KWIZ

Doc — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:17:37 +0000

Greta Garbo didn’t want to be alone. She wanted:

a. to be remembered for her penmanship.

b. to be the president of Nicaragua.

c. a herd of donkeys.

d. to collect pollen.

e. to live in a hut near the La Brea Tar Pits.

ATTACK OF THE LAVENDER HORDE

Doc — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:24:06 +0000

On a planet far far away in a galaxy actually pretty close, our roving candid intergalactic camera captured the onslaught of the lavender horde of beemulls as it began the attack on the Great Living Pillar of Darkness. I won’t kid you. Things did not go well for the Great Living Pillar of Darkness.

THE BEL CANTO RAINMAKER

Doc — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:45:42 +0000

The Bel Canto Rainmaker brought forth her splendid sound , and the thatched roofs peeled back, and the walls crumbled, and the doors disintegrated into mounds of quivering slivers, and the populace dropped to the ground in rapture, and the mill wheel tumbled from its moorings and fell on its side, and the parched fields shivered in anticipation, and the clouds gathered in force, and it rained for maybe ten minutes, tops. And the sun came out more brutally than ever. And now the drought, if anything, is worse, and the village is pretty much in ruins. Thanks a lot, Bel Canto Rainmaker.

HANNAH BELLE LECTURN

Doc — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:18:25 +0000

With sentinels on guard outside her pen of detention, Hannah Belle Lecturn rages red.

TURN, TURN, TURN

Doc — Sun, 13 May 2012 14:30:21 +0000

Four Seasons in Three Pictures

spring or summer, check this tree

and this is what you’re gonna see

when autumn comes a ramblin’ by

this here sight will blast your eye

you can tell it’s winter ‘tho there ain’t no snow

by the tree’s wintry habit to leafless go

A SENTENCE BY AIMEE SEMPLE McPHERSON

Doc — Sat, 12 May 2012 14:18:08 +0000

Night gathered the purple fringed folds of her garments together and lifted them clear of the mountains that surrounded Los Angeles …. Hurry, sun, hurry!

Sister Aimee takes an overwrought stab at dawn.

BUSTER KEATON KWIZ ANSWER

Doc — Fri, 11 May 2012 14:22:29 +0000

The key word in the kwiz is ‘regularly’. Though it’s common knowledge that Buster did everything listed, the only activity he undertook ‘regularly’ was hanging out in his lair under the Mojave Desert. There he escaped the hustle bustle of Hollywood and relaxed with his harmonica and several trained mice.

THE BUSTER KEATON KWIZ

Doc — Thu, 10 May 2012 14:33:04 +0000

Buster Keaton regularly:

a. swam to Catalina, ate a fish sandwich, and swam back to Santa Monica.

b. visited his secret lair hidden under the Mojave Desert.

c. slept in a canoe.

d. fell into his swimming pool while wandering around blindfolded.

e. remodeled his oil derricks and vice verse.