Oct. 7th, 2004

pegkerr: (I am all astonishment)
Cheney is just unbelievable. Now he is going around saying that the weapons report that a finding by the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq that Saddam Hussein's government produced no weapons of mass destruction after 1991 justifies rather than undermines President Bush's decision to go to war.

wtf? I am just flabbergasted by this. What weird alternate reality do these people live in?

pegkerr: (ice palace at night)
I finished reading my research book Ice Palaces while at work today. I worked on reconciling my checkbook tonight after the girls were in bed rather than spending the time on writing stuff. Gotta keep those plates spinning, even if I'm back to novel writing.

Ice Palaces was pretty good, but I felt greedy for more. I wanted much more information on structural detail, especially, and all the hoary details of actually building the things. The book included drawings for several palaces which were planned but never built, due to unseasonably warm weather. Presumably I could easily swipe one for my own ice palace.

There was a mention of someone named Robert Olsen, who in 1975 when he was a student at St. Olaf College (my alma mater) came and asked the St. Paul Carnival committee why they weren't building ice palaces anymore. So they told him, "Why don't you build one?" And he did, a rather modestly sized one, and got college credit for it--I suspect it was his interim project. Anyway, the book called him an "ice palace historian." I wonder if he might have some of the sorts of info I'm looking for and I could track him down through the college's alumni office. With a name like Robert Olsen, he should be real easy to find here in Minnesota[/sarcasm]. Hmm. My sister was class of '76, I think; maybe she'll remember him? I'll have to ask her.
pegkerr: (I am excessively diverted)
[livejournal.com profile] shirebound started it here.

Boromir: To defend Gondor against its enemies
Gandalf: I thought I told everyone to stay off the Road.
Sam: Look, Mr. Frodo! The roast chicken we've been waiting for!
Legolas: It has heard the Sea, and will now be ever restless.
Pippin: Did someone say chicken?

[livejournal.com profile] grimnir1 added:
Galadriel: It passes the test. It will diminish, and cross the road and remain a chicken.
Eowyn: It doesn't want to stay in a cage behind bars any more until all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.

[livejournal.com profile] ethereal_hobbit:
Boromir: It's a strange thing that we suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a chicken . . . such a little thing."

[livejournal.com profile] sorrowful_eagle:
Gandalf: It's not a chicken. It is one of the Nine, disguised as a chicken, and the other eight are following close behind. I warned you that the Dark Lord had many servants - beasts, birds - that includes chickens.

[livejournal.com profile] green_ghost:
Smeagol: What's chicken precious? What's chicken, eh?
Gollum:: Because it doesn't have any friends. Nobody likes chicken.
[livejournal.com profile] green_ghost then added: Actually, it never got across that road. Gandalf wouldn't let it pass.

[livejournal.com profile] anna_burrows:
Gandalf: The chicken is never late, nor is it early. It crosses the road precisely when it means to!
Bilbo: It needed a holiday, a very long holiday, and didn't expect to return. In fact, it meant not to.
Boromir: It better not have gone to Gondor. Gondor has no chicken. Gondor needs no chicken.
Sam: If the chicken takes one more step, it'll be the farthest from home it's ever been.

[livejournal.com profile] myladylyssa:
Treebeard: Don't be hasty, young chicken. It is likely that you go to your doom. The last march of the chickens.
Bilbo: It was quite ready for another adventure.
Gamling: It leaves because there is no hope.
Theoden: It leaves because it must.

[livejournal.com profile] clever_hobbit:
Bilbo: Frodo, tell me again, lad- where was it going?
Arwen: I wish... I could have seen him... one last time...
Elrond: Take it by the safest road. A bus lies on the other side to carry it to KFC. The last journey of the chicken.
Eomer: What business does a chicken have in the Mark? Speak quickly!
Faramir: Is this what you wish? That I had crossed the road and the chicken had not?
Frodo: There was no other way.
Gollum: Clever chickenses to walk so far!

[livejournal.com profile] lilybaggins:
Denethor: Bring wood and olive oil. We're having roast chicken.

[livejournal.com profile] slightlytookish
Orcs: Chicken? Why can't we have some chicken? We've had nothing but maggoty bread for three stinking days!

[livejournal.com profile] elanor1013
Merry: All the other chickens have crossed. It would be ashamed to be left behind.
Eowyn: Why can it not cross for those it loves?

[livejournal.com profile] wordsworthy:
Frodo: I will take the chicken, though I do not know the way.

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