I seem to have reached the age where if I don't get myself arranged just so before going to sleep, the next day I may not have the full use of my left arm until noon.
03:15 PM - Apr 08, 2024
I knew that alligators are essentially dinosaurs. I didn't know that apart from getting smaller (an adjustment for which we can all be grateful) in an evolutionary sense they have changed NOT AT ALL in 200 million years - they haven't needed to. Now that's a perfect machine.
12:51 PM - Apr 06, 2024
I say we give 'em each a broadsword and let them decide this thing on the South Lawn.
02:44 AM - Mar 14, 2024
I can't help feeling that if a medication's side effects include an increased likelihood of death from the thing that you're taking the medication *for*, someone needed to spend a little more time in the lab.
03:37 PM - Feb 24, 2024
Every now and then I get one of those helpful ads on my newsfeed reminding me that by now I should have saved $1 million from my assumed $150,000 annual salary for my retirement and I roll my eyes so hard I fall over.
02:30 PM - Feb 24, 2024
The end of an era. My first & always actor-crush Sam Waterston makes his final appearance as DA Jack McCoy on tonight’s episode of Law & Order. Now 83, he originated the character in 1994 & has played the role in over 400 episodes. Jack never aspired to the bench, but let's say it anyway: All Rise.
10:09 PM - Feb 22, 2024
I would in no way be surprised to learn that in preparation for her role in "True Detective: Night Country" Fiona Shaw actually killed and gralloched a wolf.
05:41 PM - Feb 07, 2024
"The novel is written in Omniscient...." Ah yes, the indigenous language of the small nation of Omniscia, unrelated to the languages of its neighboring countries Ironia and Sardonica....
02:20 PM - Jan 19, 2024
I would like to nominate pine litter box pellets to succeed Legos as The Most Painful Thing To Step On Barefoot.
01:39 PM - Jan 16, 2024
"There are supposed to be endorphins or whatever that make you feel great when you exercise. I don’t think I have any, because I only feel great when I’m lying on the sofa reading a book, possibly while simultaneously eating biscuits." -- Judith Flanders
02:59 PM - Jan 15, 2024
Freudian Typo of the Day: "Add the fettucine and salt, stirring to prevent the past from sticking."
Words to live by.
Words to live by.
01:48 PM - Jan 15, 2024
How badly does it date me that when someone refers to "The Avengers" I still assume they're talking about John Steed and Emma Peel?
11:42 AM - Jan 07, 2024
I know we have a ways to go on this, but man I'll be so glad when the year turns enough that 7 AM stops feeling like the middle of the damn night.
11:36 AM - Jan 07, 2024
With her unmistakeable purring voice and sidelong wit, Glynis Johns was an absolute oner, effervescent and sparkling, like champagne in human form, a uniquely irresistible presence in everything she did. Bring down the curtain on a long and glamorous life. Rest well, Desiree.
05:47 PM - Jan 04, 2024
I've never understood the meme-makers assumption that cats would express themselves in revolting snookie-ookums baby talk if they could speak. I'm fairly certain that my cat would sound like Bertrand Russell.
04:08 PM - Dec 29, 2023
Actual footage of me trying to open the door of a Tesla.
12:22 AM - Dec 29, 2023
3 Threaded Spouts
While having an afternoon stare yesterday, I found myself really listening to "The 12 Days of Christmas" and it struck me that there are a lot of birds involved. I mean really an unholy number of birds, especially if you consider that "5 golden rings" probably refers
03:02 PM - Dec 27, 2023
In this quiet week between Christmas and New Year's, allow me to Issue my annual reminder that if you are attacking another person your action is "vicious" and not "viscous," unless you are dousing them in molasses.
03:41 PM - Dec 26, 2023
The most anticipated day in the cat calendar. Happy Boxing Day, everybody!
01:39 PM - Dec 26, 2023
#SpoutingClassics #AnythingGoes
I love the raucous, tankard-swinging, tavern sing-song energy of these traditional Swedish midwinter songs. I don't speak Swedish but the main one seems to be to do with honest men being up-and-doing even though it's still dark, at least the stars are twinkling.
I love the raucous, tankard-swinging, tavern sing-song energy of these traditional Swedish midwinter songs. I don't speak Swedish but the main one seems to be to do with honest men being up-and-doing even though it's still dark, at least the stars are twinkling.
Anonymous: Staffansvisa & för Redelica Män - YouTube
Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupAnonymous: Staffansvisa & för Redelica Män · Anne Sofie von Otter · Bengan Jansson · Kalle MoraeusHome For Christ...
04:05 PM - Dec 23, 2023
#SpoutingClassics #AnythingGoes
An opera star, a radio star, and a musical theatre star walk into a television studio....and have just as much fun performing together as we do watching them!
An opera star, a radio star, and a musical theatre star walk into a television studio....and have just as much fun performing together as we do watching them!
Just Can't Wait 'Till Christmas sung by Dorothy Collins, Eileen Farrell and Dorothy Loudon - YouTube
Dorothy Collins, Eileen Farrell and Dorothy Loudon sing this unique Christmas song on the Gary Moore Show telecast on December 24, 1963.
02:07 PM - Dec 23, 2023
2 Threaded Spouts
#SpoutingClassics #AnythingGoes
"Dark, cold, and snowbound, Russia has the sort of climate in which the spirit of Christmas burns brightest. And that is why Tchaikovsky seems to have captured the sound of it better than anyone else. I tell you that not only will every European child of the twentieth
"Dark, cold, and snowbound, Russia has the sort of climate in which the spirit of Christmas burns brightest. And that is why Tchaikovsky seems to have captured the sound of it better than anyone else. I tell you that not only will every European child of the twentieth
The Nutcracker - Christmas Tree Transformation (The Royal Ballet) - YouTube
Isabella Gasparini and Christopher Saunders perform the Transformation Scene in The Royal Ballet's magical production of The Nutcracker. Book now: https://ww...
01:56 PM - Dec 23, 2023
"Please check to ensure the products you have received match your order prior to opening the boxes." Um.....
04:15 PM - Dec 21, 2023
2 Threaded Spouts
So the shortest day came, and the year died,
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away.
They lighted candles in the winter trees;
They hung their homes with evergreen;
-- more --
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away.
They lighted candles in the winter trees;
They hung their homes with evergreen;
-- more --
01:43 PM - Dec 21, 2023
Looking at the terrifying, primal beauty of the news footage from Iceland on this pleasantly sunny afternoon in Seattle, I thought to myself, "well, things could be better, but at least I don't live on top of an active vol -"
Crap.
Crap.
03:38 PM - Dec 20, 2023
2 Threaded Spouts
Catching up with GA 2.7 before tonight's finale, and my goodness, poor Aunt Ada! Pastor Luke went from a reasonably robust, newly married guy in chirpy good spirits to bedridden in a bathrobe wanly looking death in the face in
04:22 PM - Dec 17, 2023
