Saturday, October 31, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Ode to a Billy Goat
There once was a Billy Goat named Gene
Who lived in a time machine
But it whirred real fast
And flung him to the past
And he never again was seen
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Back in the USSR
Recently rediscovered in my boxes of junk, I purchased these while in the Czech Republic a few years ago, where Angela and I wandered into an antique shop in the "Art Nouveau" district of Prague. Full of the typical antiques and curiosities, it was also full of boxes and boxes of old Soviet era trade union pins being sold for cents apiece. It was hard to find repeats in the thousands of pins, and each design was unique and beautiful, sometimes identifiable to the trade but most mysterious acronyms or illegible (to me) czech.
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