England has always reveled in its drawing-room dramas, from Jane Austen’s social minefields to E.M. Forster’s Howards End to Upstairs, Downstairs — and yes, the blockbuster Downton Abbey. John Lanchester’s brilliant Capital, set on a once-ordinary London block whose housing prices have skyrocketed, has the distinction of being the first brick-and-mortar novel set squarely in our current times.
Why did the radio have such small hands?
Posted by Lizzie on 12/28/06
Wee paws for station identification!
Etc. Which is to say, although it hardly needs noting, if you haven’t noticed, we’re on vacation until the New Year while the former BOOG finishes upgrading WordPress and fixes the photo upload feature–since, lord knows, if we can’t do stuff like this 90 times a day, life is not worth blogging.
A brief coda: Since in the past six months, we’ve already done ANYTHING we intend to do for the next three years and are only resolving, in the New Year, to hook up our DVD to have yet more unproductive time wending couchward, we would like to take this moment instead to thank the many former BOOGs of note. In the past few months, they have, only mildly complainingly, a) provided technical assistance of all kinds, b) vetted various jokes for publication, c) informed us when their step-aunt or milkman read something we’d written, and d) promptly replied "You’re the most beautiful girl in the world" everytime we demanded they tell us we’re pretty. Gentlemen, we would make a sandwich for each of you anytime, if we hadn’t already made 6,000 sandwiches for you. Make your own sandwich.
Okay. Now who’s free to hook up the DVD?
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Am I the only one who doesn’t have a clue who the BOOGs are?
Yeah, I thought so.
Comment by Khalil A. — 12/29/2006 @ 2:43 am
Are former BOOGs available to help me hook up the wireless, which has been lying forlornly in my apartment for 6 months now???
Comment by Sarah — 12/29/2006 @ 1:57 pm
Girlfriend, I can hook up your wireless. Ain no thang.
Khalil, BOOG is “Boyfriend of Old Hag”. No, it makes no sense, but I think glottals are important. If you had been reading my site for three years, as you should, you would know that.
Comment by altehaggen — 12/29/2006 @ 2:21 pm
Mille excuses.
Comment by Khalil A. — 12/29/2006 @ 2:57 pm
Oh, cinq is fine.
Comment by altehaggen — 12/29/2006 @ 3:20 pm
Quite glad, that vous comprenez le francais.
Comment by Khalil A. — 1/1/2007 @ 7:27 am
“old hag lit”
Jesus woman! Think of the hits your site is going to get once that book trend takes off.
Great article, btw.
Comment by Elizabeth — 1/2/2007 @ 12:42 pm
Oh, mille fois merci (and thus concludes my glossary of french terms). I have more things to put up related to the article, ONCE THE EX FIXES THE PHOTO UPLOAD. Ungrateful sandwich-forgetting bastards.
Comment by Old Hag — 1/2/2007 @ 1:14 pm
In lieu of it being “DELURKING” week (or so I’ve heard, over in blog land) You are supposed to comment on blogs you read all the time but never say anything. I have never commented, so, I wanted to take the time and let you know even though I don’t comment, I READ you all the time, and LOVE THIS BLOG! so, um, thanks.
Comment by meleahrebeccah — 1/10/2007 @ 8:05 pm
Thanks again!
This is the post de mille fois merci.
Comment by altehaggen — 1/11/2007 @ 12:55 am
In honor of “delurker week” I wanted to add a comment and say how much I truly enjoy your blog. :) I’ve been reading it for months and finally took a minute to say “hello.”
Comment by Jessica Burkhart — 1/14/2007 @ 3:13 pm
Wow, thank you! I should probably post something sometime, huh.
Comment by altehaggen — 1/14/2007 @ 8:44 pm