These aren’t necessarily the best of the bunch, heck a few are drive by or cell phone shots but it must be the tags. And they may be low stats… but they are my top tens. Woo hoo!
The year was full of surprises and challenges both good and different. Our posting was sporadic at best but we’ve enjoyed every minute of it. By the end of the year, my humanoid had a firmer grasp on what this blog is precisely and even a better tag line!
Two fictional characters blogging fictionalized facts.
Although, I’m not sure who the fictional characters are. Hmm… anyways we also changed the look a few times and have started ruminating on a few new challenges for 2010. Hope your 2009 was every bit as exciting as ours and share your 2009 round ups below. Read more »
If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
~Betty Reese
Conversely, imagine the world taken over by mutant mosquitoes! Here is a series of photographs taken in the 1940’s giving humankind a dark glimpse into the grim possible future. Being eaten and ruled over by striped mosquitoes…
Considered a lost word, quibbleism is just another excellent example of my humanoids behavior. According to a lovely new site we stumbled across, The Phrontisrey, it seems the term quibbleism was used in 1836.
This one shouldn’t be too difficult to deduce since the root is quibble.
The practice of quibbling.
”Not to sound like I’m arguing, but I really must insist that it is you whom constantly quibbles about this and that.”
Readers, you see! Doesn’t it sound like she is interjecting an inconsequential complaint? Doesn’t that sound like a quibble to you?
Do I really need to say more? They had so many great performances but ding-a-ling hitting those notes is not easy, especially a capella. Believe me, as a gifted mutant ant even I struggle to- ahhh, stay alive!
“Why are you running away from me Eliza Leigh? Come back it is only your medicine.”
*Update: Orginally I found a great clip of Nota on YouTube but then TheSingOff channel took them all down. Waaa! Ooh, but instead I found the jackpot uploaded from RickeyTVX aka Rickey.Org *
Last month while my human was neglecting me she was also neglecting her novel (no wonder she failed) and decided to snap some shots in a nearby park. After work, instead of feeding me she grabbed her point & shoot and headed out to take pictures of a partially demolished building. Did she see the gray skies? Yes. Did she bring a camera cover? No. She doesn’t even have one unless you want to count a sandwich baggy.
It has been some time since my human has posted a Word of the Week. Have you missed them too. The interesting thing is she is what you might call a bablatrice.
Just what is a bablatrice you may be wondering. Well it isn’t a technical term for a part of a castle, that is a buttress, nor is it an archaic synonym for genius. Babla- might give you a clue, it pertains to babbling. In fact-
A babbling female.
If there is one thing that my human excels in, it is talking nonstop, usually complete gibberish. Now, pretend you are watching Pee-Wee Herman and instead of screaming when you hear the word, try to add it purposely into your everyday conversations.
Hello Readers! It is me, Eliza Leigh Mutant Ant and I’m back. After a month of listening to my Humanoid aka Translator mutter out dialogue and write her novel in her Wonder Woman notebook National Novel Writing Month is over. (It took her almost another month to get back to me!)
This means my forced exile is also over. Can I get a hallelujah? Don’t worry I know you’ve missed me.
Over a month away has given me time to reevaluate my blog & my human’s usefulness. A few new topics will be unveiled in the coming months. One I am very excited is an advice column hosted by yours truly… that is if I can convince my human. In other news, I have plenty of things to tell you about, complain about and educate all of you on.
How was your month? Did you participate in NaNoWriMo, NaBloPoMo, PiBoIdMo or Movember? I tried to convince my human to do the Mustache bid. She didn’t like that idea at all.
I have a lovely post just waiting to go live telling you what I’ve been up to this past month but in the meantime I wanted to let you know that my human has finals this week and another dratted cold so she is still ignoring me.
If she keeps this up much longer I’m going to have to take drastic measures.
The plus is that she has promised to devote more time to Muah on her break than her silly camera and I have some brilliant ideas that have been hard to hold back.
Here it is a rainy, icy, slushie mix. See even the sky is sad that my blog has been so quiet. Really, next semester I’m going to have to lay the law down with my humanoid. No homework until my blog is done.
That sounds fair doesn’t it!?
Hope you are all staying sane, one crazy human is enough to deal with at a time Thank You very much.
