Audio recording function works well – it saves to Quicktime movie format, which is easily convertible to mp3 with iTunes.

Playing with Food

Recorded with the new Quicktime. Am having difficulty with the synching. It looks fine on the computer, but the conversion process to YouTube is messing it up.

It’s been a few months since April, but stuck for a poem to write, I went back to Flickr’s The Commons.

Origins

The caption tells us the young boy
in cowboy hat is Floridian.
There are no cows in the picture,
though there is a Sicilian donkey.

Mental images involving pizza and gangsters,
however inappropriate, come to mind.

The caption says nothing concerning
the origins of the dog, suggesting
unknown parentage, or lack of interest
in canine genealogy.

Young boy with Sicilian donkey and Dog

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I don’t intend to make this blog solely a place to post humorous comics I see around the net. Most of my blogging is still here.

(Click on image for original comic, along with mouseover text)

Source

I think whoever coined the phrase meant to say, the struggles we go through in life make us stranger. Someone misunderstood.