i hear you crying on the sloth parade

Does anyone remember those Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books? Which one had the "I-thought-you-said-ers"? I had a conversation awhile back with a friend who'd re-read some of the Madeline L'Engel books and was floored by how religious they were, and we talked about what other books we'd like to go back to and read. Some of the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle stuff would definitely be on my list. I wonder what all that would sound like to me now.

creepy pencil hooves.

Would it be weird if I started signing all my personal correspondences with "Pray for rain"? I cannot think of what else to say. I've never "owned" a signoff. This is a whole other thing, really, but I've always felt like once I don't own something, I will never own it. For example: Grease. I didn't see Grease, and in probably about 9th grade, I realized that I'd never seen this thing called Grease, and lots of the songs at homecoming were from it, and that's where everyone knew those dances from. But instead of thinking, hey, I'd better see this Grease thing and get up to speed, I just added that to the (mental) list of things I'd missed and would never understand.
That list contains lots and lots and lots of pop-culture references.

I've been pondering this new signoff, because it may or may not be what Cat Power is saying in one of the very pretty songs on her new album (see aforementioned bit on I-thought-you-said-ers), and then Garrison Keillor said it and I was like, hell, there it is.