Happy Circling Round the Sun, Fellow Arc-Eelogists,
As the end of the year begins, we welcome you to our Annual Awards Ceremony Extravaganza!
And the winners are ≈≈≈>
Award Category XI: Extreme General Unbelievable Photography Award to Jean Prewitt and Don Cowan, which we hereby celebrate with a partial review in case you focused on your petty obsessions and missed the cosmic flow:
Management requests photo of a polka dot ambulance speeding in reverse. Three days later, Team Prewitt-Cowan delivers. February 1, 2019
Color of the Year October 4, 2019
Muddy When Wet,
Dusty When Dry October 25, 2019
Risqué Signage with Bull December 20, 2019
And among the many other Reader Response of the Decade Awards, we hereby feature:
Category XLII: Extreme General Rants and Tidy Knots of Information. The award goes to Tom Kelley, for everything from the word
Crespusculefrenia (March 29) to "Major Reasons Why Not to Beg the Question", and practically anything in between, such as the brodie knob. Category III.VI: Extreme General Extrapolations of the Mighty Possum and Unrelated Matters Which Run the Gamut from Playing Live to Playing Dead. Flossophy wouldn’t be the same or different without you, Elsa Woodman and Chris Cox. Category CLV: Extreme Unfinished Unsorted Business, thanks and no thanks to readership, staff, the Bilderbergers, and the nice folks who won’t sell Greenland. You’re welcome, people! Item 1: We’re still awaiting content for our fabulous url, internationaldateline.org . . . send some in already, people! We used up our safety budget reserving the name, and it’s just sitting there. Item 2: You enjoyed our wonderful North American Dry Paint
Week. We need the photos now before everything has to get repainted for chrissakes. Item 3: We still have a few extra weeks of pure time up for grabs, from Syracuse Time & Alarm Company, thanks to shrewd upstate scout, Rose Marcus. Fictionary Friday: Words You Need. Whether you know it or not.
Consciousmess(kon shus mess) Noun: Realizing the world is better organized than your brain.
In a sentence:Ann Atomiklee had too many tabs open on her browser, which was confusing enough, but having too many tabs open in her brain induced a severe case of consiousmess.
Wikipedia Friday Favorite: In honor of the intersection of curiosity and logarithmically expanding human knowledge, we offer a weekly favorite obscure Wikipedia page.
Fizzdom Friday: from our collection of favorite quotes.
"Connoisseurs complain that mediocre sushi is everywhere. Well, so is nirvana." – Jonathan Malesic
Friday Fluff: From our International Etymology and Translation Department, thanks to Drew Brookie and Angela Donato of Oviedo, Spain: The English word for your life-after-job sounds like a treadless, joyless anteroom to the morgue. Re-tire-ment. Yuk. Makes you want to take a grumpy nap before your evening gruel. However, en Español, la palabra es Jubilación! As in Jubilation! As in YaaaaaY! Life is a Party, and I am going to Live It Up! Happy New Year! Happy Old Year! Happy Everything! Go Forth and Jublilate, people!
Write if you (do) or (do not) cross the International Date Line,
