So my fine wireless shortie Apple keyboard died, as they do all too quickly, and I happened to be in TBJ!, formerly Woolworth's Five & Dime, or something.  One step up from Dollarama.  They have keyboards!  I bought the cheapest, at ten bucks or something.  Naturally, only a few days later, it's crapping out.  B and hyphen practically require a hammer to make them work, and the right-side Shift is shit. Serves me right. Next time in town I get a proper keyboard...even if I have to pay as much as $20.

 

Or order a replacement from Apple.  The UPS guy knows where I live and how to get thru the baffling door lock on the garage (thru which you pass to get to the house) and he carries milk(hyphen)bones for dogs and he likes mine...

 

Sigh. (Oh damn, now the left-side shift is giving out...)

 

I did get a sticky rejected keyboard from my daughter - I might try it. Meantime, this one is curing me of my addiction to hyphens...

 

Okay, down to business.  Too frustrating to compose deathless prose, so I'm just gonna clear up some of the tabs cluttering my browser and present some weird oddments for your (hopefully) amusement.

 

First, you've probably heard that annoying performers Beyonce and Jay-Z have had a baby, which they promptly named Blue Ivy, which spelled backwards is Eulb Yvi, which, as everyone knows, is Latin for Lucifer's daughter.  Yup.

 

In other Satanist news, apparently Satanism is a growing problem in...Iran. Who knew?  

 

In other Iran news, you've heard about the guy who had "Good luck on your journeys" and the initial of his girlfriend tattooed on his penis. Leaving him with a permanent semi-erection.  Dunno if it's otherwise functional.

 

My reaction to this:  Iranians can be girlfriends/boyfriends?  Don't they have to get stoned for that?  (And not in a good way...)

 

 

As a further aside, look at the arms on Madonna! (I'm watching the Globes as I type, to see if Lezlie's son's movie gets a Globe.)

 

Back to Satanism.  Idly idling thru the TV channels the other night, I came across a blurb about a documentary called "Unspeakable", about a "Satanic priest", named Steven Johnson Leyba.  So I watched for a while, somewhat baffled...it appeared to be about stutterers.  Well, yes, I see by my friend Google that there is another documentary called  "Unspeakable" about, yes, stutterers.  That blurb writer is in trouble...

 

In further Colbert news (my last post was about him) I see by a piece about him in the NYT that "He even studied with the strange and legendary Del Close, a reformed drug addict and a pagan who was sometimes known as the Ted Kaczynski of comedy."  A pagan? ?? Wikipedia doesn't mention anything like that.  

 

In further Wikipedia news, I have an item around here somewhere about some crazed fundy who disapproves of Wiki because, are you ready for this? - the name sounds too much like Wicca.

 

You can't make this stuff up! 

 

In further political news (ref. Colbert), there's a cool website, Dogs Against Romney (ref. Romney driving to Canada with his dog strapped to the roof of the car - a matter that endlessly inspires NYT columnist Gail Collins.  For example. I look forward to her columns.