it’s a keeper:

A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of psychological states; it may be a nostalgic glance backward; it may be any one of an infinite number of concepts, none of which may have any possible bearing upon its degree of newness. — Ben Shahn

I’ve been pretty diligent about the haikupedia and when Naomi suggested this book as an ending for the Mabinogion…

Book of Taliesin
tales told for so many years
the great bard of Wales.

I cleaned off a shelf near my sewing machine (and put my thread boxes up there, we’ll see how that works out) and found a bunch of archeological and interesting things.

First up, this, from a Miss Piggy statue that used to live in the front garden many many years ago.

And then this: one of the best pencil boxes ever. Ever.

I thought this was interesting – one of the reasons why I like WordPress is how valiantly they fight the good fight against spam. It’s very rare for me to be asked to decide: is this spam or not? Last night I paged through all the spam that was currently awaiting the aging process before it was pushed into digital oblivion. Then I hit the select all button and deleted it myself. Some of the individual spam posts were immense and rambling pieces about economics which I find amusing in itself.

But there you go. This one ain’t got much spam in it…