Happy Birthday Philippa!
Philippa is my bike, in case you forgot. It’s the 4th anniversary of me adopting her! She has new handlebar streamers as well as some new stars for her spokes.
I just rode her to go see Jamie Lidell at the Paradise, and the show was AWESOME! I was a little dubious when I heard he was going on the road with a backing band, but it all ruled. I knew I should never have doubted Jamie Lidell, the man is a god among scrawny British freaks! He did a bit in the middle where he beat-boxed and scatted into the sequencer and made his own backing music to sing to. I love when he does the whole experimental bit, and this time around it was as brilliant as ever. As for the backing band, they were really great! The drummer’s dad even came out and played a number on the bagpipes. I can’t remember what he played, but I think I played that tune back before my pipes were destroyed in that flood (I’m still annoyed that my SECOND FLOOR bedroom flooded in a rainstorm, but what can you do?). Anyway, it was a nice touch!
My current mini-obsession is the mouse lemur:
They are nocturnal arboreal primates found in Madagascar with really huge eyes that make them look like those creepy computer-enhanced pictures of animals. They’re PRIMATES! They’re related to us! Some varieties find grubs under tree bark by echo-location, which is pretty cool- no other primates do that. Anyway, read up on the mouse lemur if you’re into small mammals.
Oh yeah, it’s also Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran’s birthday– maybe I should embrace all the useless knowledge my 0-12 year old self amassed and celebrate it somehow. I am always lamenting on how I can remember, for example, the names of Nellie Olsen’s husband and children on Little House on the Prairie, having seen the episode where she has twins ONCE, yet I can’t remember my phone number or my cousin’s kids’ names.
The genealogy saga continues– one industrious person traced a line of people back 17 generations. That’s back to the 1300s– there’s probably more, I just haven’t had the patience to keep tracking. I’m glad distant relatives have done all the research for me, because I really don’t need another thing to be obsessed with to take up all my time. As it is I’ve been staying up until 2:00 a.m. every night looking up stuff on ancestry.com because my free trial subscription runs out in like 12 days.
