Neurotic Owl

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

Tag Archives: anachronisms

Cursive is hard, yo.

Seriously, when was the last time YOU used script?  And if your answer is, “Five minutes ago.  I hand calligraph letters to all my friends beautifully and can absolutely remember … Continue reading

May 1, 2014 · Leave a comment

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