Normally Weird

God Bless Summer Front Porch Sittin’

“And so with the sunshine and great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had the familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”–F. Scott Fitzgerald,        The Great Gatsby.

Farewell Cake

Ben may look terrified but he is really having the time of his life as Jim feeds him Cherry Tarter and Fred Nallia “Face Cake” as a part of their going away party at the South Campus store last week.  All the Best to the Cherry and Fred Duet as they relish the joys of retirement!

Final Final Finally…Celebrate Big!

Is any one else excited about getting through this week?  Happy Final Finals!  Enjoy the Summer.

Maurice Sendak Died May 8, 2012

Maurice Sendak, author/illustrator of Where the Wild Things Are and many other works, passed away at the age of 83 on May 8, 2012.  To read more, click on this link to the New York Times article:

Don’t Sell Back Your Books to Strangers

Make sure your books don’t go back to shady characters.  Sell your books back to The WKU Store–multiple convenient locations: DUC, Rodes Harlin, PFT, Garrett Ballroom, South Campus, Glasgow Campus and Owensboro Campus.

A Spork is Born

The only thing that completes a kitchen more than a cup-plate, is a spork.  Just look at this little guy–he can scoop and stab!  The spork  gets the best of both worlds…

Country Strong: Awesomely Wrong

So apparently when you search YouTube for “White Squirrel” videos, this is one of the fascinating productions that appears in the mix.  If I didn’t share this with the friends of Blanco, I would be no friend at all.  Enjoy free laughs by watching, “Country Strong,” all the while remembering that we had nothing to do with the production of this piece only the random discovery of it:

 

Alas Thy Mirth at Shakespeare’s Birth!

“God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.”–William Shakespeare, born April 23, 1564.

 

Mix a few Thee’s and Thou’s in thine speech this week, paying  homage to the late and great literary king.

 

This Day in History

April 19, 1775

The “shot heard around the world” was fired.  Colonial Minute Men took on British Army regulars at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, starting the American Revolution.

Chasen, in the likeness of a Minute Man (sort of), reminds us of our nation’s earliest history and also his hat reminds us that The WKU Store will be buying books back at higher prices beginning on April 30th.