Below you’ll find a few recently posted selections from the Good Clean Wholesome Fun tumblelog.1 As usual, the links in this list go directly to the single item described. All these entries as well as the posts that preceded them and any posts added since this list was compiled can be accessed in a single sequence at GoodCleanWholesome Fun.
And, GoodCleanWholesome Fun is now comment-capable. Once I added a few snippets of code from a company that does nothing but handle comments to the GCWF template, those comment dialog boxes appeared like magic.
The GoodCleanWholesome Fun Posts
Loveliest of Trees by AE Housman set in Legos
- Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now: Vignettes drawn from the poetry of A.E. Housman (also shown are “To an Athlete Dying Young” and “Yonder See the Morning Blink”) displayed in Legos. Is that cool or what?
- “[The sonnet is] a small vessel capable of plundering tremendous depth.” From WSJ’s book review of The Making of a Sonnet
- Skeptic’s Anthem. YouTube rendition by singer/songwriter Bob Carroll of The Skeptic’s Dictionary, who has set Dylanesque lyrics to the music of Leonard Cohen’s Tower of Song to form the titular “Skeptic’s Anthem.”
- “Sexual promiscuity is rampant throughout nature, and true faithfulness a fond fantasy.” From New York Times article, In Most Species, Faithfulness Is a Fantasy.
- “Poor Leonard Cohen, he had a tippy tummy.” James Reaney writes about Leonard Cohen’s participation, as a young man, in a panel of poets, spotlighting an account of his queasy stomach.
The search for the best US hot dog. (Click on image to expand)
- America’s Top Dog. The Wall Street Journal sends a reporter across the continental US looking for the best hot dog.
- Top Secret Recipes Recipes for famous foods from commercial establishments. The recipe featured on this date is the perfect complement to the best hot dog from the previous post - the burger referenced in the radio commercial, “In-N-Out, In-N-Out, that’s what a hamburger’s all about.”
- Yeah, but he’ll never be as popular as his sister, Debbie Does Dallas Deep Throat Devil in Miss Jones … The “15 Craziest Personal Names” opens with “James Dr No From Russia with Love Goldfinger Thunderball You Only Live Twice On Her Majesty’s Secret Service Diamonds Are Forever Live and Let Die The Man with the Golden Gun The Spy Who Loved Me Moonraker For Your Eyes Only Octopussy A View to a Kill The Living Daylights Licence to Kill Golden Eye Tomorrow Never Dies The World Is Not Enough Die Another Day Casino Royale Bond,” the name chosen by a “James Bond fanatic” (lucky guess).
Sombrero Galaxy (Click on image to expand)
- Hubble Space Shots - The European Edition. The photo above is “The Sombrero Galaxy,” one of the literally 100’s of awe-inspiring shots housed at the European Homepage of NASA/Hubble Space Telescope.
- Bad Baby Names - A Boy Named Sue, and a Theory of Names
- If Celebrities lived in Missouri…
Footnotes
- GoodCleanWholesome Fun is the quick-witted, energetic, happy go lucky younger tumblelog sibling of DrHGuy’s jocose but prolix, sometimes abstruse Heck of a Guy blog. For details, see Try Some GoodCleanWholesomeFun↩
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1 Lady Lawanda // Apr 1, 2008 at 8:46 am
Gene and Jude’s Hot Dogs have been my favorite for 50 years. My dad and I would stop there on Saturday afternoons. We would each get a hot dog, complete with homemade, greasy fries. He would add a tamale and a Coke and I would get a Kayo. When he passed away I took my children there in his honor. We all hated the tamale but the hot dog is still our favorite. Warning - don’t ask for ketchup - they laugh at you.