So the little ProtoRockers are sent to “Band Camp” and the kids get bored with the necessary repetition. So what’s next? Teach Pentatonics? Arpeggios? Etudes? NO!
Let’s Make Posters!
I really want to hear what these kids can put out. Honest.
If it’s for fun, let it ride.
On the other hand, if someone is telling these children that they will be wealthy and famous someday by merely jamming C, F and G, then I’m against it.
[Images w/ more info found here.]
[Found here.]
Any book other than a dictionary that employs the terms Polyptoton, Aposiopesis, Merism, Hyperbaton, Anadiplosis, Diacope, Hendiadys, Epistrophe, Tricolon, Epizeuxis, Syllepsis, Enallage, Zeugma, Chiasmus, Catachresis, Litotes, Metonymy, Pleonasm, Epanalepsis and Scesis Onomaton gets thrown into The Department of Overwhelming Pretentious Verbiage unless it’s written by P.J. O’Rourke. Unfortunately, this one was not, but it could have been [via].
Don’t know about you, but I’m kinda glad the Aztecs are gone.
Cyrus Cylinder is not a rock group.
We posted this before, and we’ll likely post it again: Milton Friedman explains how Capitalism works [via].
Full-time employment is inching up. Maybe.
Cat Eats Dog. You’re on your own with this one. Yeah, it’s safe.
Google “Dog Barf” and you get this – nothing but links to advertisements for canine-gastrointestinal products. No fun at all.
The Neighborhood Boy Saga:
Episode 1 – March 2016
Episode 2 – May 2016
Episode 3 – April 2017
Episode 4 – June 2017
[Top image of a Banded Diacope, (Jardine, William (1843) Fishes of the Perch Family, Naturalist’s Library, vol. XXXVIII, Edinburgh, Scotland: W. H. Lizars) found here.]
Click on each and any image and be amazed.
[Found here. This related .gif got a lot of attention recently, too.]
[Found here.]
Tacky Raccoons 