Guess we just heard G*d’s answer to the duck-caller’s invocation.

Seattle had a landmark Henry Moore sculpture (Vertebrae) which was sold away from us *sob* ... and we bought it back *yay!*

here’s a masculine beauty from the ACM

Cuban grandparents gonna be laughing at us all the way to the bank.

thank you!!

Does your book have the one about the girl who went to a well, and she was nice to an old lady, and the old lady made it so every time she opened her mouth to speak, a gem or a pearl dropped from her lips? (and her idiotic sisters were mean to the old lady, and got frogs and snails and slugs dripping from their lips?)

We had a friend staying temporarily with my family of 3 in our smallish two-bedroom... He had to sleep in the living room.

Good to know! Would it be wrong to ask that he also say something while wielding his veto pen? How about something along the lines of “Not only no, but HELL no. Go brush up on your actual Christianity.”

it’s my favorite Taratino film ever. I love Pam Grier. And Robert Forster. How he falls in love with her at first sight gets me in the feels every time.

I haven’t watched any of this but it looks like fun! (Although, I probably won’t get around to watching. My TeeVee schedule is basically binge-ing on Criminal Minds and Daredevil).

Guerlain Pampelune ;-)

if he eats even the smallest morsel, he will explode!!! back to his previous weight. (not really.) I guess if you are addicted to sugar and carbs, it’s like being an alcoholic? You can’t even have a sip... I dunno. I could lose a lot of weight if I stopped eating carbs. But could I abstain forever? probably not.

Kentucky - currently attempting to revive 1950s anti-”miscegenation” laws.

oubliette - a form of dungeon which is accessible only from a hatch in a high ceiling.

and that’s why it needs to be brought up to the Press. Every time. See, it’s never going to work if people are cowed into silence.

If the ones targeted don’t do anything, the behavior continues. I mean it has to start someplace. There has to be a reaction. And because it’s a “quiet” or “private” crime, it won’t be addressed until somebody makes a big stink. For damn sure the perp isn’t going to report himself.

ah, by “we” I meant to imply all humans, together.

I know we need to work to change this behavior but how?

I understand it’s difficult to be uprooted from your friends and your school. I was an Army brat. I went to 4 elementary schools, 2 middle schools, and 2 high schools. It was just a fact of life for us, but it was never easy.

Statistically, tigers on the Indian subcontinent live closer to more people than lions in Africa do. Humans are just more likely to run into them. That’s my thought. It could be wrong (or imcomplete)