From a site (and book!) I love, Homesick Texan. Apparently, it’s like food-crack, and I have never made the recipe but it pops up to the top of my memory bank frequently.

I came to post that my brother named his cat Onyx and we have a hard rule in our family not to name people animal names and vice versa. That is why I do not have a cat named Steve.

So, how much do you thin\k she make per book? Ten cents? I hope it’s at least a quarter. Maybe I should buy a few more copies.

Well, it might get me to read the thing.

Dear Macy’s:

I would have paid BIG money to sit down with James Carville and a bottle of bourbon after that “conversation”. If Mary could make it, I’d double the money.

Katy Perry as an opening act of anything confounds me. I’m still puzzling over that Super Bowl thing.

It almost makes me throw up to realize that 24 years ago that was my plan. I was going to get my son through high school and gently pushed out of the house. But, something lured me to Portland and it turned out that my future husband (who was not looking for a wife, nor was I looking for any sort of permanent anything…

Margaret Atwood, whose quotes some complain always show up in the comments for posts on violence committed upon women. But, unfortunately for the complainers, her quotes are too fucking dead-on so there.

M. A. yes.

As an old baby boomer woman, I heartily concur. The number of parties I avoid because there’s always some idiot air drumming to Hotel California now needs more than two hands to count. “Why don’t you ever come out?”, acquaintances whine. Simple, you have idiotic friends and/or taste in music. I like a Jimmy Buffet…

Is it “Sugar We’re Going Down”? I can’t help myself, it makes me want to turn up the radio to 11. Everything since that album makes me question my affection for that song.

The list of things I have not/will not forgive Katy Perry for could stretch the length of the Rockies. Every time she appears somewhere, my first thought is “Why? For the love of (your deity here)?” and then something else is added to my list.

Maybe Hulk Hogan can hook her up with someone who likes to spend vast amounts of money on lawsuits on behalf of others.

I looked for the insanely hysterical website that posted their pictures almost daily awhile back, but was in a rush. I must find it, it was such a treasure. They put Paris & Nikky Hilton to shame and that’s saying somethin’.

You say insufferable, I say weirdly fascinating. Comme ci comme ça.

One of my best memories of ALL TIME involves a really nice bar in Santa Fe that looked exactly like an old West saloon only all the wood was polished (The Palace, for those who are wondering). It had been a long day, it was the middle of the afternoon, and my bestie and I had dropped in for a refreshing beverage.…

I’m going to keep this post at hand 24/7 for a while. With all of the awful events, this little piece of froth is like a cool breeze through my brain. God bless you.

Now that you mention it, where IS the law-abiding open-carry person who will shut this down?

Is that what you kids are calling it these days?