I just had another fruitless encounter with my sister over Trump. Even when he was President, she thought he was harmless and irrelevant. "Who cares what Trump says? Who cares what Trump does?" was her refrain. Now that he's out of office, she acts as if he's not even a public figure.
I made the mistake of sending her a link of an interview with three Republican ladies who worked in the White House who are all anti-Trump, who were interviewed on ABC, Cassidy Hutchinson, Alyssa Farah and Sarah Matthews.
She wrote back and said that dealing with my worries is "exhausting," and that he's been banned from the ballot in two states, and other states will follow suit.
She said I am "poisoning" myself with hatred for Trump.
I did write back and say that that ballot ban will be overturned by the Supreme Court.
Give generously, if you can! Or you'll be explaining to Judge Ruby why her picture hasn't been substituted for at least Judge Cannon if not one of the Evil Supremes.
A college professor got an offer to speak to a group of hedge fund managers about future trends in the country. It wasn't his field, but the money was too good to pass up. He figured they'd want to know about future trends in tech development and potential investment opportunities.
They only wanted to know one thing. How do they keep their private security loyal when money's meaningless?
Clearly Mark needs to take a class in Geology or Oceanography. Kauai is long past the Hawaiian hot spot so there is no active volcano to build his lair under. He needs to be on Hawaii or even better he could go to Loihi before it becomes overrun with tourists.
There is an eerie and unsettling parallel in the (HULU) series "A Murder at the End of the World." (Issues regarding femicide and toxic masculinity are also addressed, FYI.)
And have WAY too much money and power. ETA: I think it was Robert Reich who first said about that bunker business that he didn't want to hear that Zucker couldn't "afford" to pay more taxes.
So what time did I get to sleep? I’ll let you know when it happens.
I hit around 5:30 AM without falling asleep, and I finally said screw it and made a double espresso. I assume sleep will settle upon me eventually sometime today or tonight, but, for the moment it remains at arm’s length.
The amazing part I can is completely sentences rite without the slightest problem doubt thing. Copacetic even.
Hello. Is this on? Are we in Fairbanks yet? How fair are these banks?
What you obviously need, Notreely, is a cat. A cat will ensure that you are not dead by periodically awakening you when you finally do fall asleep. Cats were featured heavily in the insomniac howls from Night Shift last night/this morning.
Jeff Beck died in January, and I'm still not 100% used to the idea of a world without him in it. Beck was a legit virtuoso. And the original Jeff Beck Group at one time or another included Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, Max Middleton, Nicky Hopkins, Aynsley Dunbar and Cozy Powell. His albums Blow by Blow and Wired also featured a slew of superb musicians and are among the best instrumental albums in rock history. He toured in 2022, I still harbored hopes of seeing him perform live someday.
There's a great story about Beck becoming dissatisfied with his work - as he often did - and calling up producer George Martin to say he wanted to go back in the studio and rerecord a solo on Blow by Blow, only have Martin tell him the album had been in stores for weeks.
Here he is performing an old classic of his in a band that also features Tal Wilkenfeld (bass), Lizzie Ball (violin), and Beth Hart (vocal).
The other day, I was very sadly trying to pick out the notes for Jeff & Rod Stewart’s cover of “People Get Ready,” and I realized that it wasn’t just that Jeff was lyrical and could be as fast as anyone while still being tasteful as hell.
He’s also doing this weird shit with fading in the volume with his little finger while he’s making a three-note bend and then playing a bit of the melody using the whammy bar and finishing off the phrase with a harmonic that he fades out with his little finger and….
Jeff was never idle. I miss the shit out of him. Fortunately, I was lucky enough to see him in concert, and I’m very sorry to report back to you that it was absolutely flawless.
I'm sorry you never got to see him. He had a tendency to blow the roof off any venue in which he performed. Last night, Patti Smith dedicated a song to Tom Verlaine, her friend since 1974, who also died in January.
Nth day in a row of dark, drizzly weather here in Vermont -- in the 40s, no snow, no winter. There are five deer on the lawn* right now chowing down on whatever they can find.
* which is basically a mowed meadow. Any plant species that can stand being mowed over every couple of weeks is welcome.
Just found out that auditions for a little community cabaret are this evening. I haven't prepared anything! Panic ensues...what should I sing? I have a low alto voice and lean toward classic American songbook.
UPDATE: well, I sang some Bonnie Raitt, "Too Soon To Tell". It went okay. I would say half of those who auditioned were better than me and half were worse. But I swear if Bob B. gets more than one solo I will commit assault! Especially if I don't get one!
The correct term for New Year's Eve Eve is New Year's *Adam*. This is Tumblr canon, don't @ me.
Tonight's Movie Night is The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
https://open.substack.com/pub/ziggywiggy/p/wonkette-movie-night-dec-30-the-poseidon?r=2knfuc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
I remember being a bit stressed throughout this movie. I kept thinking to myself, surely, there's got to be a morning after.
Donald Trump crashed a wedding at Mar-a-Lago last night and went on a 26-minute rant about #trumpsmells.
Is this true? Wow, he must have stunk up the place big time!
i tried to google it but too many other crashes came up and the right one didn't appear. :(
While smelling the place up.
"My shitty wedding."
Do you have a linky? I need a laugh this AM :))
Can't remember where I saw it, and now I can't find it again. Sorry. It was pretty good.
I'm sure the audience just held their noses.
For real? Or is that a joke?
Honestly, who can tell anymore?
The bouquet was horrendous.
It wasn't a bouquet, it was a smell. A bouquet has flowery and fruity scents, it promises delights to come. A smell doesn't promise, it threatens.
--Gareth Blackstock.
It wasn't pretty either.
I just had another fruitless encounter with my sister over Trump. Even when he was President, she thought he was harmless and irrelevant. "Who cares what Trump says? Who cares what Trump does?" was her refrain. Now that he's out of office, she acts as if he's not even a public figure.
I made the mistake of sending her a link of an interview with three Republican ladies who worked in the White House who are all anti-Trump, who were interviewed on ABC, Cassidy Hutchinson, Alyssa Farah and Sarah Matthews.
She wrote back and said that dealing with my worries is "exhausting," and that he's been banned from the ballot in two states, and other states will follow suit.
She said I am "poisoning" myself with hatred for Trump.
I did write back and say that that ballot ban will be overturned by the Supreme Court.
Give generously, if you can! Or you'll be explaining to Judge Ruby why her picture hasn't been substituted for at least Judge Cannon if not one of the Evil Supremes.
https://substack.com/@paulomatic/note/c-46284992?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=edsu
We just realized that Ruby has Sand Cat colors! Which are completely wrong for an Abyssinian which she is, allegedly.
She's quite a regal cat.
Fabulous fierce scowl! Go Ruby!
Well, at least she'll never be subjected to the horrors of cat shows then, yay!
Ahahaha. If we ever took Ruby to a cat show we'd get arrested for impersonating a brand-name cat.
Banning classic literature is SO, FUCKING, STUPID, STOP THIS SHIT!!
Especially since in previous generations and iteratations, the far right has vociferously fought to maintain the superiority of that literary CANON.
How presumptuous to try to suppress art that generations have valued!
It will make the forbidden fruit more intriguing (sic) and so they will get read
Knock wood, fingers crossed, etc.
This is what happens when you're wary of your low paid employees.
https://time.com/6551188/mark-zuckerberg-underground-bunker-hawaii-report-reaction/
A college professor got an offer to speak to a group of hedge fund managers about future trends in the country. It wasn't his field, but the money was too good to pass up. He figured they'd want to know about future trends in tech development and potential investment opportunities.
They only wanted to know one thing. How do they keep their private security loyal when money's meaningless?
Don't let your meat get too marbled?
My Hawaiian relative tells me the locals have already put some curses on the place.
now we'll just have to convince these weirdos that doomsday is coming and they better get into their bunkers.
then we just have to lock the doors from the outside.
Lock tfg in there with them. See how they like that smell.
Hopefully they are metal doors and we can just weld those suckers shut.
Some TikTok asshole in that article is going on about “the billionaires know what’s coming.” The billionaires don’t know shit.
Im all for them walling themselves off in underground bunkers. Just get a D9 and bury the entrance, problem solved.
And also afraid of the rest of the 99%.
Clearly Mark needs to take a class in Geology or Oceanography. Kauai is long past the Hawaiian hot spot so there is no active volcano to build his lair under. He needs to be on Hawaii or even better he could go to Loihi before it becomes overrun with tourists.
PLEASE have your bunker in a volcano, Mark Blofelderberg…
Gee, why do you feel like you need so much protection, Marky?
'Cause Faceshit is burning the World down...maybe??
There is an eerie and unsettling parallel in the (HULU) series "A Murder at the End of the World." (Issues regarding femicide and toxic masculinity are also addressed, FYI.)
Psst -- paying taxes is cheaper than confronting pitchforks, you selfish dweeb.
And have WAY too much money and power. ETA: I think it was Robert Reich who first said about that bunker business that he didn't want to hear that Zucker couldn't "afford" to pay more taxes.
Paranoid Schizophrenic...
He has no irises, it's all pupil all the time.
That's how he was manufactured.
So what time did I get to sleep? I’ll let you know when it happens.
I hit around 5:30 AM without falling asleep, and I finally said screw it and made a double espresso. I assume sleep will settle upon me eventually sometime today or tonight, but, for the moment it remains at arm’s length.
The amazing part I can is completely sentences rite without the slightest problem doubt thing. Copacetic even.
Hello. Is this on? Are we in Fairbanks yet? How fair are these banks?
*thud*
Sorry...have you tried Melatonin? I use 3 mg a night but double that when I am having issues.
Get some rest whenever you can....
Thanks, man, but my brain just laughs at melatonin. I’ve tried it, and all I hear in my mind’s ear is derisive laughter.
Can't take it. But after nearly brutal 2 hour sleep periods once or twice a day for a week, I just nailed 5 and feel like Neil Armstrong or somebody.
What you obviously need, Notreely, is a cat. A cat will ensure that you are not dead by periodically awakening you when you finally do fall asleep. Cats were featured heavily in the insomniac howls from Night Shift last night/this morning.
This is real.
Somebody sent me a cat. I had to send it back. I couldn’t get it out of the box.
You're not supposed to take it out of the box! The box is a feature, not a bug.
Jeff Beck died in January, and I'm still not 100% used to the idea of a world without him in it. Beck was a legit virtuoso. And the original Jeff Beck Group at one time or another included Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, Max Middleton, Nicky Hopkins, Aynsley Dunbar and Cozy Powell. His albums Blow by Blow and Wired also featured a slew of superb musicians and are among the best instrumental albums in rock history. He toured in 2022, I still harbored hopes of seeing him perform live someday.
There's a great story about Beck becoming dissatisfied with his work - as he often did - and calling up producer George Martin to say he wanted to go back in the studio and rerecord a solo on Blow by Blow, only have Martin tell him the album had been in stores for weeks.
Here he is performing an old classic of his in a band that also features Tal Wilkenfeld (bass), Lizzie Ball (violin), and Beth Hart (vocal).
https://youtu.be/DVc4RSjnb00
Tal!
The other day, I was very sadly trying to pick out the notes for Jeff & Rod Stewart’s cover of “People Get Ready,” and I realized that it wasn’t just that Jeff was lyrical and could be as fast as anyone while still being tasteful as hell.
He’s also doing this weird shit with fading in the volume with his little finger while he’s making a three-note bend and then playing a bit of the melody using the whammy bar and finishing off the phrase with a harmonic that he fades out with his little finger and….
Jeff was never idle. I miss the shit out of him. Fortunately, I was lucky enough to see him in concert, and I’m very sorry to report back to you that it was absolutely flawless.
I'm sorry you never got to see him. He had a tendency to blow the roof off any venue in which he performed. Last night, Patti Smith dedicated a song to Tom Verlaine, her friend since 1974, who also died in January.
Thank you for the heads-up that Patti Smith is still at it!
She has a Substack -- pattismith.substack.com and posted a video from last night in Brooklyn. The song is Masters of War.
She hasn't lost a beat.
Making dips today for tomorrow's NYE party. I want no mess to deal with tomorrow!
Nth day in a row of dark, drizzly weather here in Vermont -- in the 40s, no snow, no winter. There are five deer on the lawn* right now chowing down on whatever they can find.
* which is basically a mowed meadow. Any plant species that can stand being mowed over every couple of weeks is welcome.
$8 a month or $120 a year? But $8 x 12 = $ 96 only. Am I doing math wrong because it’s early in the morning?
Two different donation levels.
The extra money is a tip to the Wonk Baby!
Yeah, generally you get a discount for an annual subscription. The math is rather (takes off sunglasses) … Wonky.
Apparently an "Annual" subscription is $120, paid in a single payment and a "Monthly" subscription is $8 per month, paid each month.
The terminology is is little confusing to me but I'm assume either counts towards the goal of 5000 subscriptions.
I was told there would be no math, but you're right.
Yer morning bun shoulda worn Helly Hansens.
https://substack.com/profile/76665937-weejee/note/c-46281425?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=19n7td
And today would be New Years EVE-EVE. Right?
From last night OT, my understanding is that in a certain wonker family, tonight is New Year's Adam.
My sis and I always connect on Christmas Eve Eve. It's a family tradition by now I guess.
Prefer EVE².
Looks like the title of a made-for-syndication low budget sci-fi series.
Isn't - like - tomorrow eve = New Year's eve? At least the official one, not the Wonkette one.
Affirmative.
"Negative, Ghost Rider, the pattern is full'
CONsternation!
Just found out that auditions for a little community cabaret are this evening. I haven't prepared anything! Panic ensues...what should I sing? I have a low alto voice and lean toward classic American songbook.
UPDATE: well, I sang some Bonnie Raitt, "Too Soon To Tell". It went okay. I would say half of those who auditioned were better than me and half were worse. But I swear if Bob B. gets more than one solo I will commit assault! Especially if I don't get one!
(Oh, the drama of community theater!)
https://www.theonion.com/community-theater-gives-part-of-blanche-dubois-to-kathy-1819576385
[Bogart voice] “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,” baby.
Sweet Transvestite from Transylvania?
Winner
HA!
Something from Simon and Garfunkel?
"Fools Rush In"?
Know any Black Sabbath? I know they're not American but great material.
A proper New Year's Evill.
Embraceable You
If it's a farming community, Embraceable Ewe.