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Thursday, October 3, 2024

(unless it's not)

Word of the Every So Often

clowder:  (noun)  a group of cats, a word that traces back to the word “cluster.”  The clowder got in the chowder. 

Today's Holiday Is...

Today is National Boyfriend Day.  Unlike National Girlfriend Day, which is set aside to honour the special kind of friendship that girls have, National Boyfriend Day is a day for girlfriends to celebrate their boyfriends.  I suppose it’s just as well.  I’m a card carrying guy, have been for all my life, and for the life of me I wouldn’t know how to celebrate the “special kind of friendship” that guys have.  And I’m fairly certain I couldn’t find a guy to celebrate it with me even if I wanted to.  By the way, National Girlfriend Day was August 2.  If you missed it, don’t worry.  It’ll be back next year.  That’s just the way the calendar works.

Cartoon of the Week

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PROSE  (prōz)

 

The Grinn Brothers Photography Company of Seattle, Washington, adopted as their advertising slogan in 1954, “Go to the prose.”  Although excellent photographers, neither of the Grinn Brothers could spell worth a darn.  However, the slogan caught on, eventually being distorted to “Go for a prose.,”  The word “prose” is still prominent in the Pacific Northwest, although it can be heard on occasion throughout the United States and Canada.

STUFF

October Grasshoppers

 

blithely ignore all prognostications

as they scatter like errant leaves

before an indifferent wind

on the dry and broken grass

of the roadside

 

Those incontrovertible signs

The woolly caterpillars

and the persimmons

and the buckeyes

The leaves that turn from green to red to brown

before falling like lost souls

cast out of perdition

 

How many more days

before the hoarfrost

finely dusts the ground

like nitre on catacomb walls

 

They pay no need to the obvious

until the obvious pays heed to them

and their frozen bodies

unnoticed

crunch beneath the feet of passersby

MORE STUFF

Tom Segura’s Basic Law of Humanity:  Some people suck.

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