The blog that rains frogs
There are no secrets on the Internet, so when one blogger gossips about another, you’re bound to hear about it sooner or later.
I’ve just learned that this past March 9, Anne Zender and/or Eric Sinclair offered a link to Dali House on their Chicago-based blog, called Bells and Whistles, which also has an artistic bent.
“In the spirit of Dali,” he, she or they said, “this blog, which features musings on modernists and surrealists [is] fun to read, but I could do without the animated flying tadpoles, or whatever they are, that run across the screen.”
I refuse to consider that the author(s) is/are somehow aware that, when I was very young, a certain classmate generated from my given name Paul the unseemly nickname Wog, via Pollywog. For years many people called me Wog, and I didn’t particularly like it.
For the record, the raindrop effect at Dali House is made of the oblique strokes on your keyboard. They are a swampy green, but I don’t think they look like tadpoles. I did experiment with a tiny image of Magritte’s man with an umbrella, raining down at various angles in varying numbers, but it was just too much. See the rest.
