Hello, North Bergen

This blog is apparently quite popular (and has been for a few weeks) in one particular New Jersey town for reasons I don’t understand. I’m guessing it’s the same person? Can’t imagine sixty different people in one town I’d never heard of until recently being interested in my nonsense. Hopefully whoever’s checking in from there is finding what they’re looking for, at any rate… hate to think they’re checking in so much and I’m just disappointing them somehow. Hi there.

GAF!

Well, damned if that’s not the most Goth As Fuck thing I’ve ever seen. This is one of the Highly Commended images from this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year, a group of fruit bats flying around some sort of monument, taken by Sitaram Raul in what the caption calls complete darkness. So, um, fuck yeah. Makes me wonder how he knew when to fire the camera off, though I suppose he would’ve been listening for movement. However he did it, what an amazing picture anyway.

Give generously!

I thought this last one couldn’t possibly be real, but a quick Google search demonstrated otherwise. Alas, there was no actual source that I could see (I would LOVE to know who coined this astounding phrase), but I did find a book review from 2008 so that at least predated brother Adam’s citation. I wonder about some of the idioms and slang he posts, except when they’re obviously jocular ones, but it appears he’s not the originator here… Still, if we can’t quite determine where it did come from, we need to find contexts for reintroducing “give one’s arse a salad” into conversation…