Paratrooper Twinkies

(Mad props to Toque McToque for suggesting this blog post title.)

I am back, alive and well, from Early Music Camp. It was an incredible experience to sing in the Tallis 40-part motet "Spem in Alium," and I also enjoyed playing in a rebec consort and singing a madrigal from original notation. Hopefully now my blogging will be less sporadic!

Banjo Player recently visited Los Angeles for work-related reasons, and she took this picture on her iPhone. The traffic was blocked off for eight blocks so that an ad could be filmed, which as you can see involves two cherry pickers dropping white things. What you probably cannot tell so easily from this picture is that those white things are Twinkies on parachutes. So watch for this ad to come to a TV near you.

Paratrooper Twinkies Diverting Traffic

Tiffy was visiting this weekend to catch some of the Early Music concerts (including a guy reciting Beowulf in Anglo-Saxon and of course me singing and playing), and Richard Bonomo wanted to leave us keys to his house, so he left me the following note: "Keys on piano." Yeah, 88 of them, right? And legs on table, numbers on clock, plants in pots... what's your point? Then Tiffy was paging through an actual engineering magazine from 1949 that Katzooks had found and given to Rich, but she was highly disappointed not to find any predictions about the future in it. She was wondering what sort of flying cars we were supposed to have by now. However, the ads ranged from mildly amusing to the wonderfully suggestive ad for Homo-Flex, which they would like you to know is kink-resistant. You would think even back in 1949, one would not have expected something called Homo-Flex to be resistant to kinkiness, so we wondered if the copy writer was having some fun on the job or if he (OK, that's an assumption) was such a classic nerd that he thought this would be a compelling description for a mining hose.

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