Comments on: But I am outside of the house but my hand is in the window and my foot is in a grapefruit. As you can see from my diagram… http://greendinosaur.net/puck/2007/02/04/but-i-am-outside-of-the-house-but-my-hand-is-in-the-window-and-my-foot-is-in-a-grapefruit-as-you-can-see-from-my-diagram%e2%80%a6/ (now the world is suddenly wonderful) Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:03:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: A.J. Luxton http://greendinosaur.net/puck/2007/02/04/but-i-am-outside-of-the-house-but-my-hand-is-in-the-window-and-my-foot-is-in-a-grapefruit-as-you-can-see-from-my-diagram%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-52 A.J. Luxton Tue, 27 Mar 2007 06:58:25 +0000 http://greendinosaur.net/puck/?p=26#comment-52 Possibly. I'm not too familiar with Eddie Izzard except peripherally, but his Wikipedia entry says he "also imitates activities such as sawing wood, vacuuming, and mowing the lawn, anthropomorphizing the machines with accents and personalities", while one of Stein's most famous works is <i>Tender Buttons: objects, food, rooms</i> which occurs partly in the voices or capacities of furniture and household items. "A closet, a closet does not connect under the bed. The band if it is white and black, the band has a green string. A sight a whole sight and a little groan grinding makes a trimming such a sweet singing trimming and a red thing not a round thing but a white thing, a red thing and a white thing. " I think we may have a fit! Possibly. I’m not too familiar with Eddie Izzard except peripherally, but his Wikipedia entry says he “also imitates activities such as sawing wood, vacuuming, and mowing the lawn, anthropomorphizing the machines with accents and personalities”, while one of Stein’s most famous works is Tender Buttons: objects, food, rooms which occurs partly in the voices or capacities of furniture and household items. “A closet, a closet does not connect under the bed. The band if it is white and black, the band has a green string. A sight a whole sight and a little groan grinding makes a trimming such a sweet singing trimming and a red thing not a round thing but a white thing, a red thing and a white thing. ”

I think we may have a fit!

]]> By: puckish http://greendinosaur.net/puck/2007/02/04/but-i-am-outside-of-the-house-but-my-hand-is-in-the-window-and-my-foot-is-in-a-grapefruit-as-you-can-see-from-my-diagram%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-43 puckish Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:19:00 +0000 http://greendinosaur.net/puck/?p=26#comment-43 i wonder if eddie izzard could be gertrude stein reincarnate... i wonder if eddie izzard could be gertrude stein reincarnate…

]]> By: A.J. Luxton http://greendinosaur.net/puck/2007/02/04/but-i-am-outside-of-the-house-but-my-hand-is-in-the-window-and-my-foot-is-in-a-grapefruit-as-you-can-see-from-my-diagram%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-42 A.J. Luxton Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:00:37 +0000 http://greendinosaur.net/puck/?p=26#comment-42 "But I am outside of the house but my hand is in the window and my foot is in a grapefruit. As you can see from my diagram…" Your subject line -- though when I googled it I discovered it was from an Eddie Izzard routine -- sounded first to me like it came from Gertrude Stein's weird language constructions. I suppose Eddie IzzardGertrude Stein is also a great venn diagram, itself! “But I am outside of the house but my hand is in the window and my foot is in a grapefruit. As you can see from my diagram…”

Your subject line — though when I googled it I discovered it was from an Eddie Izzard routine — sounded first to me like it came from Gertrude Stein’s weird language constructions. I suppose Eddie IzzardGertrude Stein is also a great venn diagram, itself!

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