{"id":28112,"date":"2021-04-30T07:07:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T12:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=28112"},"modified":"2021-04-30T07:07:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T12:07:30","slug":"lileks-identifies-a-lacking-i-had-not-acutely-noticed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/30\/lileks-identifies-a-lacking-i-had-not-acutely-noticed\/","title":{"rendered":"Lileks Identifies A Lacking I Had Not Acutely Noticed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lileks today <a href=\"http:\/\/lileks.com\/bleats\/archive\/21\/0421\/45.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">has a picture from downtown Minneapolis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/pussywillow.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a pussy willow.  We don&#8217;t have those in Missouri.  Unlike <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/28\/book-report-lake-shore-journal-jim-marshalls-view-from-the-bridge-by-james-r-marshall-1999\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">when I said we didn&#8217;t have white birch<\/a> only to find that the park near our house in Old Trees was riot with them, I checked the range of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Salix_discolor\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">American Pussy Willow<\/a>, which appears a bit in Northern Missouri, but certainly not here in the Ozarks.  When I was a boy, and later a student at the university, I would have seen blooming pussy willows every spring.  And as a man, I had not noticed I was not seeing them until today.<\/p>\n<p>A couple points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aren&#8217;t you afraid of stealing Lileks&#8217; photo here?  C&#8217;mon, man, he still could have the <a href=\"https:\/\/remodernreview.wordpress.com\/2021\/04\/28\/wft-nfts-are-the-latest-establishment-art-world-con-game\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Nonfungible Token<\/a> on it (Link via <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/447271\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah Hoyt at Instapundit<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Aren&#8217;t you afraid by naming that tree several times that you&#8217;ll suddenly be beset with <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/em> fans looking for, erm, spicy pictures of Alyson Hannigan?  Gentle reader, I am counting on it.  I could use the traffic.  So below the fold, I&#8217;ll post a picture of Alyson Hannigan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At any rate, I have the sudden urge to plant some pussy willow trees at Nogglestead; likely, though, they would fare only as well as the <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/22\/lileks-recycles-my-schtick\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\"><strike>Lileks<\/strike> lilacs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This is apparently a picture of Ms. Hannigan from 2018:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/alysonhannigan2018.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Wherein Ms. Hannigan is (checks notes) in her middle 40s?<\/p>\n<p>One thing I will say for the 21st century is that women seem able to maintain ageless beauty easier.  I am not speaking only of celebrities, who have access and funding for the latest cosmetic medicine advances, but also normal women.  Or extraordinary women, such as my beautiful wife; I have a slideshow of family photos running on a monitor nearby all day, and I get a steady stream of her photographs from the last twenty-five years or more, and I am hard pressed to tell where she is 25 and where she is still 25, but the photos were taken at Nogglestead.<\/p>\n<p>Wait, how did we get from trees to a feeble Rule 5 post?  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We don&#8217;t have those in Missouri. Unlike when I said we didn&#8217;t have white birch only to find that the park near our house in Old Trees was riot with them, I checked the range of the American Pussy Willow, which appears a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28112"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28118,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28112\/revisions\/28118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}