It's So Shiny, An' It Mixes Stuff

Yesterday we received a KitchenAid as a gift from buxom_bey's mother. And there was much glee. As I explained to Bey, getting a KitchenAid was one of the reasons I got married in the first place.

So, we're petting it, and reading the manual, and having trouble deciding where it's going to live in the kitchen. Bey gets on the phone with her mother, to thank her and let her know it arrived. Partway through the conversation she turns to me and says, "Jon, mom knows exactly where the KitchenAid should live."

"So do I, but you like to sleep on that side of the bed."

. . . Must make cheesy bisucits soon . . .

Quotes About Pirates Day

Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.

—Nietzsche

What a hero Tom was become now! He did not go skipping and prancing, but moved with a dignified swagger as became a pirate who felt that the public eye was on him.

—Mark Twain

Sir: Between buccaneers, no ceremony; I take your dry goods, and in return I send you pimento; therefore, we are now even. I entertain no resentment.... Nothing can intimidate us; we run the same fortune, and our maxim is that the goods of this world belong to the strong and valiant.

—Pirate José Gaspar, in a letter to a passenger on a ship he had captured

Arrr!

—various, passim