"Stuff is eaten by dogs, broken by family and friends, sanded down by the wind, frozen by the mountains, lost by the prairie, burnt off by the sun, washed away by the rain. So you are left with dogs, family, friends, sun, rain, wind, prairie and mountains. What more do you want?"
Federico Calboli
Saturday, April 28, 2012
QOD # 1
"Taking me to a ball game is like taking a dog to the Louvre."- Julie Zickefoose.
Yeah me too...
I think a dog would actually enjoy hiking it's leg on many of the items in the Louvre. Just as an Anthropologist would be enthralled at observing the tribal social behaviour at a ball game--but certainly not in the boring, pointless game itself.......Speaking of the Louvre(we kinda were)--I always found it interesting that it was named after a wolf denning spot. Another interesting bit of wolf lore I only recently learned about is the origin of the word "loophole"--those holes drilled in doorways/walls to shoot out of--from, obviously, the French term for wolf "loup"! My reading of loophole use usually involved people shooting at other people, and I never made the "Loup" connection in my mind before.....
I am coaching Little League right now to support my sons passion for baseball. It is a little surreal to me as baseball is a strange colonial game to me,"Just not cricket old boy"I would still rather be hawking or coursing but I do get a kick out watching my son play. There are rabbits all around the fields so I may be able to combine the two!
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I think a dog would actually enjoy hiking it's leg on many of the items in the Louvre. Just as an Anthropologist would be enthralled at observing the tribal social behaviour at a ball game--but certainly not in the boring, pointless game itself.......Speaking of the Louvre(we kinda were)--I always found it interesting that it was named after a wolf denning spot. Another interesting bit of wolf lore I only recently learned about is the origin of the word "loophole"--those holes drilled in doorways/walls to shoot out of--from, obviously, the French term for wolf "loup"! My reading of loophole use usually involved people shooting at other people, and I never made the "Loup" connection in my mind before.....
Same with me.
I am coaching Little League right now to support my sons passion for baseball. It is a little surreal to me as baseball is a strange colonial game to me,"Just not cricket old boy"I would still rather be hawking or coursing but I do get a kick out watching my son play. There are rabbits all around the fields so I may be able to combine the two!
Yes, but you are missing an important cultural experience (in the anthropological sense)
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