Yesterday's lawn-mowing adventure cam out nicely, however there was that one moment where I had to yank the mower off the small stump of a boxwood cut down last year, and today I appear to be paying for my bravado in back pain. I'm not being miserable and I seem to have everything I need - it's just the clear need for a muscle relaxant making me out of sorts. Once I take it, I'll be out of commission mentally - so I'm doing a little poking around online, and looking at the editing work before I cave in and zonk my brain out.
I'd make a cruddy drug addict. Ah well, my cross to bear.
And onward with the post. Leila Gaskin has a good look at the irritant that is a chain letter ... and she takes an interesting left turn worth considering!
Janet Reid gives us four pieces of useful advice from the query pile. Her #1 is probably my number one as well.
Finally, The History Blog takes a look at the way resources influence fashion - with a look at the Argentinian development of a Spanish fashion for hair combs. Fashions and fads in history can throw such a fascinating light onto attitudes and the mechanics both of popularity and decline. (Wearing something that speaks of the "Federation of Death" might sound odd to us today - yet that famous anti Semite still permeates our stylistic generation upon generation, so don't sneer if you love Chanel.)
4 comments:
Thanks for pointing me at the combs thing. I'm fascinated by early Argentine history, as you've probably guessed.
Hee - though it's slightly off your track, I found some of the wider-world implications of the combs just fascinating.
I have read your blog post and am pleased. Karma shall smile upon you. Why? Because Diane Major rocks. :)
I'll recycle what I said to one KTAustin earlier today: "Takes one to know one!"
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