Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
New Chuck tonight.
Also, BombIranforChrist passes along this pic of his dearly departed Lola, who had to be put down today:
That’s just something I am completely unprepared to deal with. I bet I spend several hours a day petting Tunch and Lily. I can’t imagine having one of them gone.
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Is it just me, or does Fred Willard make everything he is in better? He’s like the bacon of comedy shows/movies.
Sorry for the lack of posts, but the others have you all covered nicely. Had some work work to do today, then I had some stuff to do in the yard that was irritating me.
Off my back porch, where I have hung the feeders, is a large white pine that had the bottom six feet of the side facing my house with nothing but dead branches and bramble. The only living thing that might have found that attractive would be turkeys, and the only turkey around these here parts got himself stuck on the roof the other day. So I hacked that all down and hauled it away, cleaned up about ten years of pine needles, repositioned the feeders, and then went and bought a couple trays of pachysandra, which is a nice ground cover, works really well in acidic soil, and is native to the SE United States (although not the kind I bought). I figure I will plant that there and it will serve as attractive cover, and I won’t have to spend the rest of my adult live trying to grow grass under a pine tree. I also transplanted a bunch of wild spearmint to some flower boxes to contain it until I can figure out where I want to put it.
How was your day?
From the CSMonitor, because it just seemed appropriate for this particular Monday.
Since it appears that the order of the weekend is lengthy, open-mouthed kisses for Laura, here’s my contribution to the genre.
Open Thread: The Face in the Misty LightPost + Comments (48)
I try not to get all judge-y about what other people choose to do for entertainment, because there is no room for skeletons in my closets (basement, attic, garage, or shed) given all the hoarded craft supplies & collectibles I’ve stashed away. But has the economy really improved so much that people are going to spend $350 on a dedicated cake decorating stenciler?
Are there really enough cake-worthy occasions in the average American household to require spending a week’s minimum-wage salary to decorate them adequately?
Could we have inadvertently discovered the cause of the “obesity epidemic” that all the kewl media kids are talking about?
And aren’t there better ways to spend a sunny spring Sunday?
Early Morning Open Thread: Food Pr0n Gone wRongPost + Comments (51)
Maceo!
BTW- have any websites popped up yet dedicated to the music of Treme?
Cranking the J.B’s. Forgot how much I loved this album
Also, since you obviously have no life since you are here on a Saturday night, go fill out some petitions to the right for causes that interest you. It helps pay the bills here and helps your cause.