How about Rocktober?

Bananas? If you like Thai food, then the next time you're in a That restaurant ask if they have Banana Fritters for dessert. With luck they will, and if you're very lucky they'll make them with those little finger bananas with some vanilla ice-cream on the side.

I just got back from the auto-da-fé
Auto-da-fé, what's an auto-da-fé?
It's what you oughtn't to do but you do anyway

Let's put this into perspective, OK?

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Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi!

When I buy glasses it is for the quality of the frame, not the logo. Just as when I buy a car, I tell the dealer I do not want the dealer name on the trunk nor do I want their license plate holder.

Erecto Patronus!

Soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur.
Happy kitty, sleepy kitty, purr purr purr.

Ah yes, Prince Albert ... in the can.

I guess the skeeters don't like living in town as I've never encountered one over twenty years we've been living high atop Queen Anne Hill (and with all that climate change, someday we may be beach-front property).

After years living overseas in the tropics and living on the East coast's Mid-Atlantic states I am grateful for Seattle's low humidity and general lack of mosquitos. That's right no mosquitos or gnats (unless you live in some of the swampy areas).

How long is thirty seconds? HAL knows its about as long as it takes to sing to yourself:

He, all grey, hot.

I also stash several Ziploc® baggies for any small electronic devices, cigs, and my wallet ... essentially anything on my person and/or in my pockets. I've lived in the tropics and sudden torrential downpours are not uncommon.

Yes Lea, its all about you. Yikes.

"OMG, I'm gonna tzatziki!"

Spiderman The Reboot II: Tobey Maguire and James Franco Best Friends With Benefits Light Up The Night.

As a surname younger British royals usually use the the name of the area over which their father holds a title, which is why you'll note on Prince Harry's military uniform the name Wales. His real surname is Mountbatten-Wales.

Add some vodka. If a beer is a sandwich in a bottle, a Bloody Mary is its butchier older sibling.