Sunday Reads: What shall we hang…the holly or each other?
**Post updated below** Irish actor Peter O’Toole studying for his role in Lawrence of Arabia. “I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.” Actor Peter O’Toole, who died last...
View ArticleWednesday Reads: Warm-up and melt-downs
Good Morning… 01/08 Luckovich cartoon: Chilled out | Mike Luckovich Ah…tis the season for “expert” climatologist analysis on the circle box, of course I am speaking of Fox News and the other right-wing...
View ArticleWednesday Reads: There goes the neighborhood
Comic by Jack Kirby Good Morning So, it is Wednesday? Really? I have lost track of time, spending most of the day and night listening to my daughter coughing her lungs out. It is so frustrating, after...
View ArticleWednesday: What if they were only secondary players…what if it was all...
What if it was all just various scenes from old plays…good plays. I mean isn’t it only kabuki, smoke in mirrors (or is it smoke and mirrors.) What if the players were switched out, and the real life...
View ArticleSunday Reads: NY Underground Library and GOP Aboveground Dumbassery
“A Confederacy of Dunces,” by John Kennedy TooleFound on undergroundnewyorkpubliclibrary.com Good Morning Well, perhaps “dumbassery” is being a little forgiving, since dumbass is not what I would call...
View ArticleThursday Reads: Freedom Fried Edition
Good Morning! BB is having internet problems this morning so I’m going to try to get this quick post off this morning! I’ve really come to believe that the Republican Party is basically the victim of...
View ArticleSunday Reads: Dairy Queen Time
Good Morning Summer is definitely here. Hot and lazy, with just a hint of a Dairy Queen old fashioned soft vanilla ice cream chocolate dipped cone. Do they even still make those? Whatever, things are...
View ArticleWednesday Reads: Serenity When?
Good Morning Things are heating up all over, in a literal, political and actual sense. Meanwhile I feel as if I am stuck inside a glass tube of Vaseline…where I cannot move or see and I feel trapped in...
View ArticleLazy Saturday Reads: You People are so Ridiculous! Edition
Morning Coffee in the City, by Michele Byrne Good Day!! Hillary and Bill Clinton are grandparents! From the AP via The Boston Globe: The couple’s daughter, Chelsea Clinton, has given birth to her...
View ArticleSunday Reads: Street Art, Fine Art, Women’s Art
Own Your Power by Indie 184 “Graffiti has taught me so much to not only put myself out there even if what I do is not perfect but most importantly I learned how to be fearless and just go for it.” –...
View ArticleWednesday Reads: 10,000 Full Cavitity Searches…on Pigeons?
Good Morning That tweet is something innit? It seems like a logistical nightmare to me: China Subjects 10,000 Pigeons To Anal Exams Due To Terrorism Fears On Tuesday, China’s largest newspaper The...
View ArticleWednesday Reads: 2014 Going Out With A Bang
Morning All I really don’t have anything to add to the picture on the left. That is pretty much how things seem to be going lately. Each day another bomb drops, and many of us sit here wondering will...
View ArticleWednesday Reads: Getting your goat.
Good Morning Ugh…I just knew that this year was going to be even shittier than last year. Wouldn’t you know that here we are not even into the 3rd week of the new year and so many horrible things are...
View ArticleSunday Reads: Glad-hand, Glad-hands, Glad-handing, Glad-handed
Good Whatever it is… Morning, Afternoon, Evening…ugh. (That this post is getting published, finally, is something in itself. I don’t know why, lack of motivation or enthusiasm…) The images for today...
View ArticleWednesday Reads: Listen to me
(listen to me) helena almeida, 1979 Morning All This post is going to have a theme focused on women in photos with their mouths being silenced in some way. Whether it is tape, a hand, skin,...
View ArticleSunday Reads: Bigots, Backends, BB and Bernie
Good Afternoon Don’t know about y’all, but my insomnia is working overtime lately. I’ve tried to get some sleep last night but no such luck so, here is this morning’s post. If it seems a little...
View ArticleSunday Reads: How long to sing this song?
How long to sing this song? How long to sing this song? How long, how long, how long, How long to sing this song? U2 – ’40’ Lyrics | MetroLyrics In aftermath of Charleston tragedy, Ogden...
View ArticleWoman in Red: Debate, Election and the Shutdown…The GOP’s Albescent-churian...
Good Morning As promised…I bring you the latest edition of The Woman in Red….(It has taken me days, in fact almost the last 24 hours has been straight on through.) You can read the earlier issues at...
View ArticleWednesday Reads: It is good cape weather.
Good Early Afternoon I found that image on Facebook. I got the idea for the capes from a friend of mine who is doing a pimp thing for Halloween…at least I think that was the look he was going for....
View ArticleSunday Reads: This stuff cures everything…even hiccups?
Good Morning or Afternoon Okay, it is going to be another post brought to you by a heavy dose of vintage advertisements. While searching for sexist and just flat out, crazy ass ads for Wednesdays...
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