Reliable source and animal rescuer Mary of Oak Cliff suggests that Queen Elizabeth is not going to attend the Charles/Camilla ceremony because her royal corgis weren't invited. It's possible. Weirder things have happened in that family.
It's a pity. Corgis make such nice wedding guests and they don't gossip afterward. The Royal Family needs more acquaintances like that.
OAK CLIFF VISIONS: These are things I've seen lately in my general neighborhood.
(SIGHT 1) A small white car that looks as if the owner tried to paint it blue with cotton balls. Honest. Not even sponges. Like he dunked a handful of cotton balls in a bucket of blue paint and threw them at the car. All over. This might hurt the trade-in value. Or it might be rolling art.
(Interruption: Speaking of art. I saw a headline about Christo, who just installed the "Gates" in Central Park, planning to hang a bunch of cloth across the Arkansas River and my first reaction was "So what? In Arkansas, everybody hangs out their clothes down by the river." Further reading revealed this is planned for an attractive stretch of the Arkansas River in Colorado. The Arkansas River in Little Rock was already booked for the annual Three Sheets To The Wind White Lightning Festival. I'm kidding. Honest.)
(SIGHT 2) A man slowly driving a pickup on Kiest Boulevard, pulling a horse trailer to the back of which was tied a trotting-to-keep-up slim, white swaybacked mare.
The guy drove into a car wash, got out, tied the horse to the front of the truck, opened the trailer, washed it out, loaded the horse and drove off.
I don't know why he couldn't have left the horse at home, gone off and washed the trailer out, then come back for the horse.
He must have attended a time-saving seminar for inanimate objects at his workplace and decided to apply the ideas to living beings. Horses are too precious to be trotting along behind a pickup on a city street -- too many idiots behind the wheels, too many opportunities to falter, too many chances to slip.
AVAILABLE: Stoneleigh the dog is ready for a home. According to the folks at A Different Breed (www.adifferentbreed.org), "He was found injured and starving in the Oak Lawn area. He had a vicious head wound, but it has healed and he is a love."
The German Shepherd mix loves romping with humans and needs room to do so. But he also, at 65 pounds, "believes he is a lap dog!" Isn't that a great combination! A romper who likes to cuddle.
A Different Breed says Stoneleigh is crate trained, plays well with other large dogs and hasn't been aggressive around cats but "finds them interesting."
He knows some commands, doesn't mind being bathed and is fed up with living in kennel conditions. (To adopt Stoneleigh, contact Monique at [email protected] or 214 676 6824.)
Here's something Stoneleigh does that I've always found endearing in dogs: "He likes to sit on feet or lean against you." That is the sign of a dog that forgives you for being human. We all need that.
CRAWLING CREEPING ILLITERACY: This has to do with TV crawls, those little newsbits that sneak across the bottom of your screen.
Just now I was watching Fox News and it's coverage of Bush and Putin in Slovakia and the crawl said something about someone who "shook off the yolke of Communism." I suspect (and hope) those crawls are computer-generated -- you hate to think a human doesn't know the difference between yoke and yolk. If that's the case, somebody's trying to eat a mighty tough omelet.
I believe there is a responsibility to spell things correctly so young minds will know how to spell things. Otherwiz we have boyz and girlz who spel like TV spels.
Same crawl also reported someone "was tasked to" do something. I'm not sure that's proper usage but I could be wrong. As they say, "A person who livz in a glass howce shouldn't throw scones."
