You think you just finished “the holidays” but, yet again, you could be wrong. Guess what? Youarewrong: let the real holiday celebration commence!
Welcome to the Fifty-second Edition of Flossophy Friday! And at the rate of, say, one a week, that could add up to, well, A YEAR! You should be really proud of yourself! You made it, and it hasn't been easy on any of us!
Staff certainly is. Proud of yourself, that is. Staff got so proud and over-excited that they spent over half their regional budget on printed matter. Like books and magazines, for example. Bound. On paper. And they reported back with all kinds of stuff we never thought about thinking about, and now we are considering realities we’d never imagined, such as café life in Damascus, Syria (seriously) (Monocle #128), and the annual crop circle report (Nexus, The Alternate News Magazine). And to put everything in perspective (ha-ha), look at all that we have to celebrate now that the holidays are just beginning:
First Anniversary of Flossophy Friday
250th Anniversary of Beethoven
500th Anniversary of Raphael
12th Full Moon in Flossophical Time
Full Moon in the Fabulous Fiefdom of Flossophy
And with all this celebratory excitement, don’t forget that the Superbowl is coming up in a few weeks. It’s all about preparation, folks, and our new Offensive Coordinator says:
Your grandmommy wears combat boots to church.
Your mullet wig is on backwards.
Your nose smells.
Staff welcomes your Defensive Coordinator replies to these dastardly epithets.
Fictionary Friday: Words You Need. Whether you know it or not.
Intaxication (Inn taks ick kay shun) Noun: Hallucinating that you won’t owe anything this year.
In a sentence: Robin Banks suffered a debilitating bout of intaxication after he lost all
of his receipts in the inner ring of the Cirencester, Gloucestershire crop circle.
Wikipedia Friday Favorite: In honor of the intersection of curiosity and logarithmically expanding human knowledge, we offer a weekly favorite obscure Wikipedia page. As beneficiaries of staff’s exposure to the printed word, we offer Bertram Goodhue, prominent American architect of the
early Twentieth Century who employed the young Frank Lloyd Wright:
Fizzdom Friday: a matching pair from our collection of favorite quotes.
"The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense." – Tom Clancy “I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal." – Groucho Marx
Friday Fluff:
And in case you were worried that our celebration might suffer from monodimensionality, lighten up already! Our annoying Art Department is staging a tumbleweed installation in New York City. More information on a need-to-know basis, but you heard it here first: stay off Broadway between 14th and Canal until we give
the all-clear.
Write if you (do) or (do not) believe you Flossophized for a full year.
