Well, dear readers, chestnuts are roasting on an open fire, which is, after all, better than chestnuts roasting on a closed fire. We are, of course, continuing our Countdown to Christmas. We are spreading Christmas cheer here at haineshisway.com, and our cheer can be felt the world over, so potent is it. Today is a day to send your true love three French hens. Your true love will be so happy when they receive three French hens. One French hen doesn’t really cut the mustard, although I’ve been told that one French hen does cut the mayonnaise. Two French hens are like having two stooges – it just doesn’t work. But three French hens? Voila! The three French hens should greet your true love by saying “Bon jour” in unison. And your true love should say in return, “Merci,” just to keep the whole French thing going. Can you imagine how confused the three French hens would be if your true love said, “Danke schoen?” In any case, your true love should now have quite a collection, what with the two turtle doves and the partridge family in a pear tree. Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too?
This morning I was supposed to attend a very private screening of Scent of Mystery, but it got cancelled, and we’re now hoping it will be Friday. I was so disappointed – I’ve been waiting for weeks and weeks to hear about the screening and now I have to wait a few days more – hopefully it will not be cancelled again. I need my Smell-o-Vision, you know. Perhaps we can figure out a way to have these here notes be in Smell-o-Vision. Wouldn’t that be wonderbar? Smelly notes. I love this idea. Of course, there are those who think the notes already smell, but to them we merely say phut.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below, and whilst doing so you will smell the aroma of a gazelle juggling fresh oranges.
Can you smell the aroma of fresh oranges? Isn’t that amazingly amazing? BK’s Notes in Smell-o-Vision. As soon as you finish this sentence, you will smell the aroma of a plate full of what is it, fish.
Whew, that smells really fishy, doesn’t it? This new process is the berries – and now we can smell the berries. Strawberry, blueberry, huckleberry, and raspberry, and also Berry Gordy.
Yesterday, I received an eBay item, a 45 EP of songs from Li’l Abner – Love in a Home sung by Doris Day, Namely You and If I Had My Druthers sung by Don Cherry, and Jubilation T. Cornpone played by Percy Faith. It has a wonderful picture cover, too. I have become completely obsessed with Li’l Abner (and will be writing an article about the musical and film for Scarlet Street) – I’ve been buying up the comic books, I have a complete set of the Kitchen Sink press Li’l Abner dailies (twenty-seven volumes), I have a window card from the show, I have various color stills from the film, and I have two original negatives for ad slicks for the movie, and also a faboo color transparency from the film, featuring our beloved Miss Leslie Parrish. I’m going to do up some color prints from the transparency, which should look wunderbar. Since we’re talking about Li’l Abner, you will now smell the aroma of pig slop.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must write, I must do errands, I must mail Christmas cards and various and sundried other items, and I must eat a small amount of food in my quest to lose a few pounds before the Christmas Eve “do” here at the home environment. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Ask BK Day, the day in which you get to ask any old question and I, or any dear reader, get to give any old answer. So, let’s have loads of lovely questions and loads of lovely postings, as we stop and smell the aroma of freshly strewn manure, which is currently wafting its way from my front yard.