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 1, 2009
I love the double use of cannon; ones cannon of knowledge, and ones implement of book dispersal :D
October 1, 2009
88 is a fine year. I’d have some with a bit of cheese.
October 1, 2009
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 1, 2009
BAP BAP BAP bip.
an evocative rendering of the sound of a broken ukulele.
October 1, 2009
Permission-free freecycling! It’s like borrowing, only more permanent!
October 1, 2009
No, Cat!! Don’t burn up all of what Cat and Girl has established as canon!
Nooo!!!
October 1, 2009
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 1, 2009
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 1, 2009
This same thing happened to me recently… except it was not added to canon merely mixed with my other movies.
October 1, 2009
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 1, 2009
I recently found A Brief History of Time in the trash behind the Half Price Books.
October 6, 2009
i *loved* flashman at the charge!!
December 22, 2009
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 21, 2010
To be honest I assumed it was a literal cannon, ready to shoot books and ukuleles into the sky.
January 26, 2010
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 3, 2010
@Krimson — as an avid ukulele player myself I disagree with the “very, very sad” bit.
September 26, 2011
“making a canon in the basement” I’m sorry, but did you just go meta on us Dorothy?
January 2, 2013
.bip.