Almost forgot the February caption contest:
Submit your favorite quote that contains the word "February" in it to be used in the title of this here blog in the comments. Winner gets their site (or, if they don't have a site, a site of their choosing) perma-linked at the top of the random permalinks over there on the side for the month of February.
Have at it, boys (and girls).
But February made me shiver
with every paper I'd deliver
bad news on the doorstep
I couldn't take one more step
Don McLean
American Pie
February - it MUST be Mardi Gras somewhere!
I vote for Mo-Skee.
"Tinsel in February, tinsel in August.
There are things in a man besides his reason."
- Wallace Stevens, "Pieces"
I vote for Linus. Wallace Stevens is always superior :)
Thanks! But technically speaking, Don McLean rocks more...
Late February days; and now, at last,
Might you have thought that Winter’s woe was past;
William James
But technically speaking, Stevens rocked pretty hard for an actuarial sort, yes?
As he said, "It gives a man character as a poet to have this daily contact with a job."
(which I remind myself every day :))
It's a consolation to me too. It's hard to imagine Stevens in the next cubicle. Beats the "death without dignity" job philosophy.
I lack the poetry of the soul:
"Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November;
February has twenty-eight alone,
All the rest have thirty-one,
Excepting leap-year, that's the time
When February's days are twenty-nine."
--Author Unknown--
It was half-past february
And he hadn’t called since New Year’s Day
Elvis Costello: Georgie & Her Rival
"Fuck February. My face hurts"
-Ron (Out There)
The nights were long and cold and scary,
Can we live through February?
- Dar Williams, "February"
i submit:
"february schmebruary"
OR
"february is blog history month"
Give it to Mo-Skee!