October 02, 2003
"Penguin" Isn't One of Them

Sometimes I’m prone to Pooh-like songs (that’s as in silly-old-bear, thank you very much). Today it was a sort of rhyming fugue based on the phrase "Noodle Nose", which is the nickname of a friend of mine whose real name is Monster. She is not especially monstrous, except maybe in a Where the Wild Things Are way, nor does she have a noodle-like nose.

It would probably be more accurate to call her Gnocchi Nose, if all gnocchi were adorable-shaped.

A lot of words rhyme with "nose".