Is this ‘canon’ in the sense that these things have been highly influential in the development of culture? Were these things really important to this one family? I thought it was just a joke about C and G continuity, but now Wikipedia has me all confused…
My garbage-diving for literature has yielded Brideshead Revisited, Swann’s Way, and the Time Traveler’s Wife. Not too shabby, but certainly nothing I want to build a canon around.
Cat, do not burn the ukulele. Restring it and you will be loved for your hip kitschiness! Ladies and gents will love you! (As an avid uke player, I can confirm that this is true. It is embarrassing and very, very sad. Frowny emoticon sad.)
I used to have a huge collection of books I have found in the trash. I just couldn’t stand to see them discarded, even if I hated what they contained they were still worth it…
October 1st, 2009 at 5:47 am
I love the double use of cannon; ones cannon of knowledge, and ones implement of book dispersal :D
October 1st, 2009 at 9:14 am
88 is a fine year. I’d have some with a bit of cheese.
October 1st, 2009 at 9:26 am
Is this ‘canon’ in the sense that these things have been highly influential in the development of culture? Were these things really important to this one family? I thought it was just a joke about C and G continuity, but now Wikipedia has me all confused…
October 1st, 2009 at 11:09 am
BAP BAP BAP bip.
an evocative rendering of the sound of a broken ukulele.
October 1st, 2009 at 11:38 am
Permission-free freecycling! It’s like borrowing, only more permanent!
October 1st, 2009 at 11:43 am
No, Cat!! Don’t burn up all of what Cat and Girl has established as canon!
Nooo!!!
October 1st, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Books I have read because they were found in the garbage: The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing, Flashman at the Charge.
They might have been in the garbage for a reason.
October 1st, 2009 at 1:58 pm
My garbage-diving for literature has yielded Brideshead Revisited, Swann’s Way, and the Time Traveler’s Wife. Not too shabby, but certainly nothing I want to build a canon around.
Nice to see Girl whistling a happy tune.
October 1st, 2009 at 2:14 pm
This same thing happened to me recently… except it was not added to canon merely mixed with my other movies.
October 1st, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Cat, do not burn the ukulele. Restring it and you will be loved for your hip kitschiness! Ladies and gents will love you! (As an avid uke player, I can confirm that this is true. It is embarrassing and very, very sad. Frowny emoticon sad.)
October 1st, 2009 at 2:40 pm
I recently found A Brief History of Time in the trash behind the Half Price Books.
October 6th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
i *loved* flashman at the charge!!
December 22nd, 2009 at 3:53 pm
I know its hardly an intellectual laugh, but I laughed when cat played the stringless ukulele by hitting it. He looked to happy doing it, I think.
January 21st, 2010 at 9:51 am
To be honest I assumed it was a literal cannon, ready to shoot books and ukuleles into the sky.
January 26th, 2010 at 3:29 am
I used to have a huge collection of books I have found in the trash. I just couldn’t stand to see them discarded, even if I hated what they contained they were still worth it…
August 3rd, 2010 at 12:32 am
@Krimson — as an avid ukulele player myself I disagree with the “very, very sad” bit.