Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Home Collecting

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:

TCW said...

Thanks for pointing me at the combs thing. I'm fascinated by early Argentine history, as you've probably guessed.

DLM said...

Hee - though it's slightly off your track, I found some of the wider-world implications of the combs just fascinating.

Leila said...

I have read your blog post and am pleased. Karma shall smile upon you. Why? Because Diane Major rocks. :)

DLM said...

I'll recycle what I said to one KTAustin earlier today: "Takes one to know one!"