While breaking into the Beast's treasure chamber...

Ludovic - (Belle's brother) - "I'm not scared, I'm thinking."

Avenant - (His friend) - "Same thing."

Belle et la Bête

1946

Jean Cocteau

Chronicle of Cocktails: Indian Summer

1 oz. rye whiskey
1/2 oz. amaretto
1/2 oz. creme de cacao
rocks

New Fall Decoration

Thanks Ang!

While at the Jackson Junior League Ball & Benefit

...Eleanor Causwell, an original found of the League frowns. "Bosoms," she announces with a hand to her own, "are for bedrooms and breastfeeding. Not for occasions with dignity."

"Well, what do you want her to do, Eleanor? Leave them at home?"
[Eleanor's husband who is decidedly older than 75]

The Help

Words of the Day

quaggy \KWAG-ee\, adjective:

1. Marshy; boggy.
2. Soft or flabby.

Quaggy ultimately derives from the Old English cwabba, "shake or tremble," in the sense of viscous fluid.

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ambrosial \am-BROH-zhuhl\, adjective:

1. Exceptionally pleasing to taste or smell; especially delicious or fragrant.
2. Worthy of the gods; divine.

Ambrosial comes from the Greek ambrosios, "of the Gods." Ambrosia refers to the food or drink consumed by the Greek pantheon.

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kith \KITH\, noun:

Acquaintances, friends, neighbors, or the like; persons living in the same general locality and forming a more or less cohesive group.

Kith finds its origin in the Old English cunnan, "to know." Can and other English words stem from the same source.

Out West

Only in Santa Fe (and places like it) can you get a weather report which includes Heavy Thunderstorms and 0.00" Precipitation. I miss the West. Sometimes.

Nook Farm

Mark Twain's House

You know you are not a Lit major when...

... you like Hellboy II over Pan's Labrynth.

Walking Unprotected

"Dragons don't kill people, people kill people. They kill themselves by walking unprotected in a world where there are dragons."

~General Kynot
Son of a Witch