Appreciate a Dragon Day

Appreciate a Dragon Day was Saturday. I hope that you all found time to remember and appreciate the important dragons in your lives.

My belated appreciation for some of history's best-known dragons:

**Norbert/Norberta: Norwegian Ridgeback of HP fame. Favorite food: a bucket of brandy mixed with chicken blood (every half hour). 

**Smaug: Derived from Beowulf. Loves riddles. Hates hobbits.

**Glaurung: No one writes dragons like Tolkien. And Glaurung was father of them all.

**Mushu: Possibly my favorite movie dragon of all time. Partially because his name reminds me of Moo shu pork, but mostly because he makes puns about Huns and makes Mulan's eggs and bacon look like my perplexed breakfast bag. Also, Eddie Murphy is much more believable as an animated dragon than as an animated donkey. (It's irrelevant, but true.)

**Elliot: Obvious winner of Best Dragon 'Do. His movie may have lost its Oscar to A Little Night Music, but you have to love a film in which one of the main villains is named after a sandwich.

**the Magic, Puff: Favorite things include: strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff (coincidentally(?) shares similar/the same enthusiasms as Carroll's walrus). Covered by Dolly Parton, Marlene Dietrich and, unfortunately, Paul Shanklin.

**Quetzalcoatl: Ongoing feud with Stephen Colbert (2005-20**). 

As you can see, the next important Holiday You Should Be Celebrating is coming up quickly: Answer Your Cat's Questions Day on January 22nd. Maybe the campus cats will give me some questions to share?

Updated terms of venery are coming soon!