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A delicious, tangy palette cleanser to savour after reading this sugary, overcooked paean to the Holy White Child in Manhattan by The Washington Post.
The Big Apple's Little Boom
As Fewer Parents Head for the Burbs, Manhattan Is Crawling With Kids
By Robin Shulman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Found on ebay: 1941 Cavalry Horse with Gas Mask
More information on gas masks for our four-legged friends:
Gas masks for dogs
Horses, dogs and pigeons
and of course:
How to protect darling kittens from gas!
An illustration from a very old, very damaged book I picked up a few years back in Hay-on-Wye, the booklover's paradise.
Urchins of the Sea
Marie Overton Corbin and Charles Buxton Going
1900
Longmans, Green, and Co.
University District, Seattle Washington
“Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?”
---Stanislaw Lee
Mother (a fine example of Chickens With Human Hands) cautions her children not to get too close to breakfast, which is, of course, delicious boiled eggs.
“Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.”
---Walter Benjamin
This Easter season we have seen the scourge of Hungry Kittens eating brand new chicks, and the Ravening of Bunnies who consume an even earlier form of bird. What could possibly be worse than these Easter gastronomes, you ask?
Try cannibalism.
It's very common among the poultry set, if this charming antique image is any indication. Nothing like a little late night work over the ledger books and a quick quaff of the unborn for refreshment.
“'For what we are about to receive, Oh Lord 'tis Thee we thank,'
said the cannibal as he cut a slice off the missionary's shank.”
--- E. Y. Harburg
