INTERACTIVITINESS

I would like to take a little time away from my usual posts and take advantage of the interactivitiness of the internets, where the magic of the information super-highway allows you and I to reach out through the series of tubes that make up the internets (tubes that can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material) and communicate. That is to say, I would like to respond to some recent comments:

1) Do not listen to Adale. If you are my friend you should buy me any side-show memorabilia that you come across and I will reimburse you. Send me the fetal pig with three snouts and let me deal with Adale. And when I say that I will deal with Adale, I mean I'll hide the pig in the basement until we buy a house and I have my own office, (that she will refuse to go into because it will be so disorganized) to hide it in.

2) Joe's right - the picture on the taco truck is of a manta ray. In Mexico restaurants used to make tacos and stews out of the Cahuama, the green sea turtle. Because the green turtle is endangered and hard to get, restaurants began using manta ray meat and just changed the name to "cahuamanta" (manta ray in Spanish is rayo de manta). There's a lot more wordplay like this in Spanish than in English. It may be that Spanish lends itself better to that kind of thing, but I suspect its because they're just funnier than we are.

3) I was wrong to harbor ill will towards Canadians. I was young and foolish and now know that Canadians totally rule. I won't make that same mistake with the MA accent because I am absolutely certain that I will never like the way those people speak. Nothing personal Lynn.