Breakfast Of Champions (279/365)

 
(~click picture~ to embiggens for best view)

“The spider spinning his web for the unwary fly. The blood is the life, Mr. Renfield.”

Garrett Fort (1900-1945), U.S. screenwriter. Tod Browning. Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi), Dracula, speaking to Renfield at his castle (1931). From the play adapted by Hamilton Deane and John Balderston (1899-1954).

TIME:  8:47 AM
PLACE:  Work
SUBJECT:  A spider eating some flies

As I was walking into the office building this morning, I met up with a secretary who works for another lawyer down the hallway.  She pointed to the crab apple tree and said “Did you see our office mascot up there, that huge spider?”  I turned and spotted him in the branches.  It looked like he chose a good spot for his web, as it was covered in flies.  The secretary and I talked a bit more and we both were of the opinion that he was a pretty cool spider ~ just so long as he stayed outside and didn’t visit us in the office building.

Badges (074/365)

 
(After being unable to sell cookies to Albert Einstein)
DOT: Ohh, oh, my heart aches with the sorrow of a thousand scouts. No merit badge. I mourn my loss. *sob* *sob*
YAKKO: [Clapping] Say, those acting classes are really paying off! DOT: Think so?

"Cookies for Einstein." Animaniacs (Episode #2). Perfs. Tress MacNeille, Rob Paulsen. Amblin Entertainment, Warner Bros. Animation, 1993.

TIME:  8:49 PM
PLACE:  Pack Meeting
SUBJECT:  Webelo Activity Badges

MonkeyBoy had a Pack meeting tonight where he was awarded his Engineer Activity Badge (the gears on the green ribbon) and Cub Scout Academics belt loop for Mathematics.  He finally got to show off the catapult that we made back in January – the other boys were suitably impressed with it’s pompom flinging action.