Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for May 18, 2018

It is light in Chinese.

And I think I am turning Japanese.

Quick! There’s a sprouting Lame-Froglandious-Teresa …

get the Weed and Feed before it’s too late ….

A snack while you read and a place holder for when you’re not.

A flag, flageolets, and ligature "et"s.

We don’t need no stinkin’ bookmarks, simply dog ear book pages when taking a break from reading for a short time, & be happy..

Is there any chance we can French paper-cut those green beans, maybe throw in some cream of mushroom and top them with deep fried onions? It is a traditional holiday dish among my people, which we brought with us when we made the long and perilous journey to Froglandia. Just the recipe, not the actual covered dish, of course. You could never cross the Ampersand Plains in a covered dish.

By day, she’s mild-mannered Teresa Typographer, but by night, henchmen, minions, and ne’er-do-wells know and fear her as Bookmark Girl, who will haul you to the downtown Froglandia precinct and BOOK you.

The Book of Kells

Sounds like the title to a Homer & Jethro song.

Like ampersands through the hourglass, so are the days of Frog Applause.

I’m pretty fancy myself, ampersands got nothing on me.

Entropy is speeding up, things are getting rotten faster than they used to.

The ampersand is derived from the medieval and earlier ligatured abbreviation for the Latin “et,” meaning “and.” Every schoolboy knows that (to paraphrase T.B. Macauley). I also like green beans, even with mushrooms in the fabled casserole! As for bookmarks—well, they’re a dime a dozen, ranging from little improvised devices (scrap of paper) to the most elaborate embossed leather tchotchkes….