Flat Iron

I suppose everyone carries around misconceptions that go uncorrected for years. Ray, my roommate on Mission Hill, pronounced the French poet’s name as “Rim-bod”, probably thinking that those who pronounced it correctly were confusing him with the Sylvester Stallone character. Ned Stone, for another instance, persists—to this day, I saw him only last month—in pronouncing the word heinous as “heenous”. I myself was 30 or so when I finally learned the word that everyone pronounced “egree-juss” and the one I thought was pronounced e-greg-ious, the second syllable with two hard g’s, like the man’s name Greg, were in fact one and the same, meaning outrageous or flagrant.

Well it was only when I saw a little clip on Entertainment Tonight on how to achieve the look of stars at the Emmys—in this case, Halle Berry’s look—that I realized that a flat iron, used to straighten women’s hair, is an implement somewhat like a waffle iron or, more to the point, a curling iron. I had always thought that when women would iron their hair, they would lay their heads down on an ironing board and iron it straight. It’s a crazy image but that’s how I thought women straightened their hair. Silly moron.

Saving Cranes

Well Juliana left to go to Baraboo WI for a month to do an internship at the International Crane Foundation. I'm not exactly sure what she'll be doing but this is their website with lots of nice pictures of cranes.

Losing Nemo

Nemo died yesterday, suddenly and unexpectedly. Nemo, for those who don't remmeber, is our sweet, cuddly, quiet, yellow bird, Harpo to her brother's Groucho. She was a dear friend and we will miss her.

Hey it's Tracy's birthday today. I didn't really bring a present but how's this:

Today is Tracy's birthday
Her virtues are most manifold
She made a little movie
For the Museum of the Seminole

Well, Peter's better at this sort of thing than I am. Anyway happy birthday Tracette.

When The Man that the singer is waiting for finally shows, he's all dressed in black with a big straw hat. What kind of shoes is he wearing? Pierre shoes?