Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for January 18, 2010

I like those spells, full of magic of the right sort. “ice cube, ice cube in the pot…”

Oh if I had a nickel for all the times I was told to stop casting spells and go to bed…. (the one on learning math never did work…)

I bet Sabrina never had to put up with such parental indifference …

AL GORE EXPLAINS WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS GLOBAL WARMING THEORY!

Alice, you are delightfully strange

REALLLLY, REALLLLLY CUTE.

She’s interceding to Calvin’s snow demons.

I think I’ll try the same spell – I want snow!

Bad Witch! A good witch would chant

Ice cube, ice cube Do a scuba. I want to wake up, In Aruba.

Maybe Petey could help you with those spells, Alice. Go wake him and ask!

Those are the exact expressions and gestures i use when i flush a toilet. –

I wear my pj’s inside out…nice touch Richard.

This is as good a spell as “Double Bubble Toil and Trouble”. I wonder if it will be chanted in school lavatories all over the nation? (except here in FL - we hate the cold)

really cute!

It’s raining, it’s raining. Yee haa!!! Sorry I had to. I live in Las Vegas and rain is good :-O

it would have been nice to have those spells to get a snow day from school, but now that i am retired, i don’t get snow days anymore :-(

FABULOUS !

love the “Harken to me ”

Way to go Alice - it worked! Nice little blizzard here in NH!

Napa, no snow, just liquid sunshine. Catch it in a bottle a few years from now.

I thought it never rains in Southern California. Seems I’ve often heard that kind of talk before.

Here in S.F., it’s falling by the bucket…

(Half an hour later)

Ooh! It stopped!

But fritzoid, don’t they warn ya? It pours, man, it pours… It is currently pouring a little further north from you (and a LOT further north from the openminded one). It is also currently snowing not very further north from me. Alice needs to get her parents to move.

Ushindi I’m out of work, I’m out of my head I’m out of self respect, I’m out of bread I’m underloved, I’m underfed, I wanna go home It never rains in Southern California, but girl, don’t they warn ya? It pours, man, it pours

Albert Hammond, released 1972.

This is the best wish for snow I’ve ever seen a child make.

napaeric :

what part of napa are you in? I had a lot of friends in napa i used to live in american canyon and vallejo

“Toy rabbit sacrifice I offer, Coat with white its dingy fur! As I snuggle in my quilt Bequeath us snow up to the hilt!”

She is really going all out

I liked the reaction of the flush. In an arc, “r t h o m p s o n”. Now, where have I seen those letters before? Hmmm. Somewhere, but where?? Yes, Richard, I know it’s you!