Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

Oh, wow, that is without exaggeration the best thing I've read in a long time.

You probably know about Lamb House (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_Ho...). And here's my quasi-synaesthetic artwork showing how I've always visualized the days of the week. The anomalous Tuesday was shaped like our early 1960s vacuum cleaner, rather than a rectangle. I bet someone vacuumed on Tuesdays!

I don't rep the Stones a lot, but that's the album I always recommend. Not for the lyrics, obvs., but the exuberant, unified sound, esp. the drums and piano!

Haughty Melodic - Wikipedia

This Wikipedia passage is not duly sourced, but it appears to explain things: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haughty...

As I recall, the Simple Minds was my introduction to the awkward effect of LP-designed back-cover or inner-sleeve art layouts being simply sliced up into little squares for a CD booklet.

I was temporarily losing interest in newly released music in 1985, but I remember most/all of the first CDs that Hilary Caws-Elwitt brought into our household: U2 Joshua Tree, REM Life's Rich Pageant, Simple Minds Once Upon a Time, and either a Bach or Handel two-disc set.

Do you think we need two more specific meta-sniglets to differentiate sniglets that have a transparent logical etymology (though they're novel coinages) from those that are simply nonsense words that "sound right" for the assigned meaning? I believe the Sniglets books had some of each kind.

And backatcha!

Thank you, Wally!

And the lack of a question mark in "Where Were You" is also consistent with the back cover. Harder to justify that one grammatically, but maybe the flat declarative (not even an indignant exclamation) connotes a jaded dis.

Note that "Despairs Cafeteria," without an apostrophe, is an attributive rather than a possessive—like Arches National Park. (Lack of apostrophe is consistent on the back cover and label, I see at Discogs.)

Bonus points for the best anthropomorphized artichoke I've seen all day.

The "moody blues"! Seriously, though, that's a neat insight. Oddly enough, the DS-inspired gothic-soap spoof series that I write for involves mood rings. (More info on request—don't want to be overpromotey.)

Also fun with a film guide, a bird encyclopedia, etc. Once we played it with a 1950s high-school yearbook (given the student's name, we had to make up their nicknames and hobbies).

At the same moment I was pondering Password, you were suggesting Taboo. Somewhat similar, so if they don't meet the criteria, at least we'll go down together!

Not sure if it qualifies, but around here we've revived Password recently (DIY version).

Just orienting myself to Bluesky this week... I see repost, repost, repost, repost... now over to Andy Z., and YES, this is why I'm here!

Let it be known that this post of yours was the one that made me set up a bluesky account after all.