Neurotic Owl

flapping vaguely downward through clouds of uncertainty on wings of existential dread

Tag Archives: anachronisms

Oh, look! A post! It’s like I’m reliable or something. Mostly or something.

I’m just going to leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpiIWMWWVco It’s clearly not the best quality video, but this is the first version I remember from mah childhood (except in black and … Continue reading

May 1, 2014 · Leave a comment

Only one more Passover cartoon after this, I swear.

So another Pesach tradition you may or may not be familiar with — insanely long songs with 7,000,000,000 verses.  It’s all fun and games at first, and I can hang … Continue reading

April 23, 2014 · Leave a comment

Toy? Or TERROR?

He’ll be bouncing from now on, thanks.

April 18, 2014 · Leave a comment

Moooooon Chiiiiiiiild!

It’s Thursday, which apparently means that old stuff is acceptable, which is excellent timing because I just last night finished reading The Neverending Story and SOMEBODY ELSE READ IT SO … Continue reading

April 17, 2014 · Leave a comment

OTTER. And some clothes.

I don’t like to pick favourites, but I do really, really like this set.  

April 11, 2014 · Leave a comment

Papierpuppen! Part the third.

These are the ones you haven’t seen yet, right?  Right?  Oh, god, I can’t tell anymore because my brain is filled up with all the ways I might murder our … Continue reading

April 8, 2014 · 1 Comment

Just cast a snowy owl, you!

This came up several times recently, both because underrepresentation of people of colour in theatre is always an issue, and because the opera company I work for announced next year’s … Continue reading

March 25, 2014 · Leave a comment

Hey, L? IT’S A THING NOW.

A few days back L coined the term ‘britster’ (like an Anglophile, but with more irony), and then was immediately horrified by what she had wrought and demanded that no … Continue reading

March 25, 2014 · 2 Comments

Happy non-Irish-people-getting-drunk-and-pretending-to-be-Irish day!

This is a repeat, but it’s an appropriate repeat, plus I’m about to give you a new one too, so quit your whining. By the way, can we have a … Continue reading

March 17, 2014 · Leave a comment

Please don’t steal shoes from dead witches, because then someone will have to steal your shoes off your body three times, and that seems challenging.

Seriously, who could resist sparkly red shoes, right?  Even off a corpse?  OK, most people, probably. It’s a shame my scanner doesn’t really pick up glitter.  I didn’t even try … Continue reading

March 10, 2014 · Leave a comment