Sryashta spins golden yarn inside which she weaves your fate. (If you are a good and kind person, she may just take matters into her own capable hands and improve it.)
She is the goddess of good fortune and serves as the household assistant of Mokosh, the Slavic earth goddess.
Sryashta is a variant of the Dolya/Nedolya myth.
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
Show and Tell
This is the phone in my office. It is 2005, and this is my phone. Public radio. I'm just sayin'.
Well, dammit, I LIKE that phone. Still, I'd need to buy an outboard CallerID thingy since that is THE greatest invention ever. The polio vaccine is a booger in comparison.
I admit that I love the way I can really punch the numbers into the phone. I hadn't thought of getting an outboard call-i.d. thing, Joke. You're brilliant!
It's a gift, really. Now, I got all excited when I saw that blue note to the right of your retro-cool phone, because I thought it had something to do with Finlandia Vodka, only to have my hopes dashed.
OK, I'm about to admit to a mild, innocent, weirdness, but WTF, right?
I really think it's attractive to see a woman dialing a pushbutton phone with a pencil...using the eraser end, natch. I remember that from watching Moonlighting EONS ago, and seeing Cybill Shepard doing such a thing.
Okay, if we're really telling tales here . . . sometimes I dial numbers with my pencil eraser WHILE I PRETEND TO BE A GROWN-UP OFFICE LADY! (I am 34 years old.) For some reason, though, I don't see Cybill--I see something more on the order of the woman in the Van Halen "Hot for Teacher" video.
You guys should all come over and play in my head sometimes--it's never boring. :-)
don't you need to have killer-long fingernails slickly painted bright red for this image to work? Or am I feeding into it my *own* fantasies?
I have in my possession somewhere in this house a short mother-of-pearl stick with a gold cherub on one end, that was my grandmother's, that was used eons ago to dial rotary phones. Not as off-the-cuff-cool as the pencil-dialer, but a pretty neat little thing.
What is necessary for that visual to work relative to the video is not arguable, not up to individual choice or free will. It's captured on video to examine.
Now, I'm still fogged as to why Gina would associate that video with dialing a pushbutton phone with a pencil, but in the fullness of time, I suppose all will become clear.
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PS-You probably can't tell, but that yellow post-it says, "If television's a babysitter, the internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up."
It's from a comic called Cat & Girl.
my next blog will be called the drunk librarian...:)
and at least the phone IS push button...what if it were rotary?
If I had a rotary phone, I would simply hold the line for the next available assistant. :-)
Do you guys have an Atari in your break room, too?
We don't even *have* a break room!!!
Well, dammit, I LIKE that phone. Still, I'd need to buy an outboard CallerID thingy since that is THE greatest invention ever. The polio vaccine is a booger in comparison.
-Joke
I admit that I love the way I can really punch the numbers into the phone. I hadn't thought of getting an outboard call-i.d. thing, Joke. You're brilliant!
Gina,
It's a gift, really. Now, I got all excited when I saw that blue note to the right of your retro-cool phone, because I thought it had something to do with Finlandia Vodka, only to have my hopes dashed.
OK, I'm about to admit to a mild, innocent, weirdness, but WTF, right?
I really think it's attractive to see a woman dialing a pushbutton phone with a pencil...using the eraser end, natch. I remember that from watching Moonlighting EONS ago, and seeing Cybill Shepard doing such a thing.
This was, of course, before she went mental.
-Joke
Okay, if we're really telling tales here . . . sometimes I dial numbers with my pencil eraser WHILE I PRETEND TO BE A GROWN-UP OFFICE LADY! (I am 34 years old.) For some reason, though, I don't see Cybill--I see something more on the order of the woman in the Van Halen "Hot for Teacher" video.
You guys should all come over and play in my head sometimes--it's never boring. :-)
Now I have that song stuck in my head. Yeah. Thanks.
"I don't feel tardy."
-Joke
Ha! Sweet, sweet Waldo. :-)
don't you need to have killer-long fingernails slickly painted bright red for this image to work? Or am I feeding into it my *own* fantasies?
I have in my possession somewhere in this house a short mother-of-pearl stick with a gold cherub on one end, that was my grandmother's, that was used eons ago to dial rotary phones. Not as off-the-cuff-cool as the pencil-dialer, but a pretty neat little thing.
BabBab,
What is necessary for that visual to work relative to the video is not arguable, not up to individual choice or free will. It's captured on video to examine.
Now, I'm still fogged as to why Gina would associate that video with dialing a pushbutton phone with a pencil, but in the fullness of time, I suppose all will become clear.
-Joke
I'm not so sure. I mean, I've known Gina for close to ten years now, and I am still befuddled by this one.
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