'Now, the making of a good compilation tape is a very subtle art. Many do's and don'ts. First of all you're using someone else's poetry to express how you feel. This is a delicate thing.'
Happy Zombie Jesus Day! In our house the main reason for Easter festivities has always been Bertie. Alice doesn’t even like chocolate and all 3 littles are ovEr egg hunts for many years. This is Bertie’s first Easter at army so I sent him his beloved Peeps and other treats and we are having pizza, mini eggs, and the un-Peeps, Sour Patch Kids and Sour Mike &Ikes..
So many comments and associated links, this AM, are leaving me void of hope. Like the final act of Jonestown is being planned for the near future, that our leader, despite and because of his narcissistic vision, is somehow aware of his mortality and will destroy everything he can. When he is gone the world ends anyway right?, it makes sense. I need to check out of here for awhile. I need to maintain, for my kids and a few friends.....and oh yeah, for myself. Be good and stay well.
It seems like Trump wants to see the US and possibly the world crash and burn. Thinking he can make a fortune out of the rubble. Something I have felt the right wing politicians, think tanks, and billionaire supported PACs controlling the GOP and thus the government have felt for a long time. As long as they are sitting on top of and controlling the rubble they were satisfied. Because with power comes the money. Meanwhile Trump is dissolving any government body that can investigate corruption while ordering any agencies left to launch baseless actions against universities, law firms, individuals, and soon the corporations that put him in power.
It's like you are seeing your legs rot from gangrene and wondering if amputations can save your life and if it does, how much it will affect you for the rest of your life. America will never fully recover from Trump, MAGA, and idiot bigoted voters since 2016. If not sending us into another 20 year depression, it will take the legs out of American worldwide power and importance forever. No one will trust us and our doctrine reflecting at least relative economic competence. We will always be just one election from another chaos inducing tyrant.
One of the online right's favourite pseuds has had a horrible awakening- the actual Nazis are using his work to justify their shit.
Which is what everyone has been saying about him for years. That and pointing out how eagerly he promoted himself hanging out with members of a sexually violent cult.
It’s total bullshit that having a gay character in any context makes a book “very sexual” while having a straight character does not. And it “confuses kids”? Only if you believe the myth that any straight child would suddenly become attracted to the same sex if they find out that same-sex relationships are an option. Look, dammit, no one is trying to turn your child gay, something that is impossible to do in any case. Just what the hell is wrong with the parents, anyway, that their ideas about sexuality aren’t even remotely logical?
Eggs deviled. Ham warming. Rolls risen, (appropriate). I gotta mac and cheese and green beans and we're set. Strawberries and pound cake for dessert, with some lemon bars, in case you don't do strawberries and pound cake. Not a fancy feast, but as good as people are gonna get with one day of notice.
My husband has managed to lose two walking canes in as many days. We've looked everywhere. I'm about to put an air tag on them. He's limping around with a walking stick like you'd use for hiking. I'm sure he'll misplace it, too.
I left one behind at a casino once. I went to the lost and found and asked if one had been turned in, and the cashier asked me what color was it? They had quite a selection!
When my sciatica was acting up and I was using a cane, the cane was always within reach. Why was my cane always within reach? Well, if cane wasn't in reach it's because I set it down somewhere and walked to a place where I couldn't reach it from. But then, I would have been walking without the cane which is impossible. Therefore, I never lost the cane and it was always within reach.
He sets it down wherever he lands and walks off without it. He can get around pretty well without for short periods of time, but sooner or later, he needs it and then the search begins. If he hasn't lost it, he's put it in the most inconvenient place possible, like right in front of the dishwasher or laying across a counter top in the kitchen. NASTY. The tip of that thing has been in the restrooms at work!
I would like to wish thoughts and prayers to all of the conservative pastors who are going to attempt to make pretzels out of the scripture tomorrow. Best of luck writing a sermon about a dude who was wrongfully picked up off the streets by the cops, not given a trial, and then literally descended into Hell to pull off the biggest prison break this side of the ethereal plane. Happy Easter!
"Thanks to Christ's sacrifice, all your sins are forgiven. Which is why *we* must never, ever, ever forgive anyone who commits the sin of being ethnically or culturally different from us!"
Perfectly logical, in their minds. ( For lack of a better word. )
While I definitely appreciate that, I must not know enough about the Gospels, because I don’t remember the liberation from hell being anywhere in the books.
I'm gonna do what I always do on Easter. Watch Jesus Christ Superstar and smoke something. Its very fitting that these two days are one and the same today. Yesterdays NO KINGS rally was amazing but it also wore this old lady out. Enjoy your chocolate bunnies and bong today! :)
15 arrests? The judge is being very generous in not holding the AG in contempt for this. The AG, of course, is arguing that the judge can't stop cops from *arresting* people (or handing them over to ICE) - only that she can enjoin his office from *prosecuting* them.
"Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has directed state law enforcement officers to stand down on enforcing a new state immigration law, guidance that came shortly after a federal judge in Miami said she was 'astounded' that state authorities had continued to make arrests despite her ordering them not to.
In a hearing in Miami federal court on Friday, it was disclosed that as many as 15 arrests have been made by Florida law enforcement officers over the past two weeks in violation of an April 4 order issued by U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams. One of the people arrested was a U.S. citizen born in Georgia." - Miami Herald
What he said about undocumented women: “We know who you are, we know where you are, if you marry one of our Californian incels then you can stay but if you don’t, then, well you get sent back across.”
'Louis I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship'
Rick Blaine
Happy Zombie Jesus Day! In our house the main reason for Easter festivities has always been Bertie. Alice doesn’t even like chocolate and all 3 littles are ovEr egg hunts for many years. This is Bertie’s first Easter at army so I sent him his beloved Peeps and other treats and we are having pizza, mini eggs, and the un-Peeps, Sour Patch Kids and Sour Mike &Ikes..
Come, Mon, drink da potion. It will make you stronger than death…
She bent down, turned around and gave me a wink,
Said, “I’m gonna mix it up right here in the sink,”
So many comments and associated links, this AM, are leaving me void of hope. Like the final act of Jonestown is being planned for the near future, that our leader, despite and because of his narcissistic vision, is somehow aware of his mortality and will destroy everything he can. When he is gone the world ends anyway right?, it makes sense. I need to check out of here for awhile. I need to maintain, for my kids and a few friends.....and oh yeah, for myself. Be good and stay well.
It seems like Trump wants to see the US and possibly the world crash and burn. Thinking he can make a fortune out of the rubble. Something I have felt the right wing politicians, think tanks, and billionaire supported PACs controlling the GOP and thus the government have felt for a long time. As long as they are sitting on top of and controlling the rubble they were satisfied. Because with power comes the money. Meanwhile Trump is dissolving any government body that can investigate corruption while ordering any agencies left to launch baseless actions against universities, law firms, individuals, and soon the corporations that put him in power.
It's like you are seeing your legs rot from gangrene and wondering if amputations can save your life and if it does, how much it will affect you for the rest of your life. America will never fully recover from Trump, MAGA, and idiot bigoted voters since 2016. If not sending us into another 20 year depression, it will take the legs out of American worldwide power and importance forever. No one will trust us and our doctrine reflecting at least relative economic competence. We will always be just one election from another chaos inducing tyrant.
So right Mr lefty
Watching some old episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Nothing like Tales Murder and Comeuppance for this holy holiday.
https://bsky.app/profile/robertdownen.bsky.social/post/3ln7ugy7cqs2q
One of the online right's favourite pseuds has had a horrible awakening- the actual Nazis are using his work to justify their shit.
Which is what everyone has been saying about him for years. That and pointing out how eagerly he promoted himself hanging out with members of a sexually violent cult.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-supreme-court-public-schools-lgbtq-books_n_680415fce4b057453bea89b4
It’s total bullshit that having a gay character in any context makes a book “very sexual” while having a straight character does not. And it “confuses kids”? Only if you believe the myth that any straight child would suddenly become attracted to the same sex if they find out that same-sex relationships are an option. Look, dammit, no one is trying to turn your child gay, something that is impossible to do in any case. Just what the hell is wrong with the parents, anyway, that their ideas about sexuality aren’t even remotely logical?
From the story I posted earlier:
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/60638853/
______________
“He is risen,” the sheep said. Then he hopped out of sight.
Donna looked at me.
And looked down.
“He is risen,” she said with a smile.
I looked down.
“He is risen indeed,” I said. “Want to go back to my place for lunch?”
Sounds like a park I knew in Boulder.
Lunch? Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
What The Narrator and Donna get up to is Not Our Business.
But they are rabbits, so draw your own conclusions.
Flunch!
Eggs deviled. Ham warming. Rolls risen, (appropriate). I gotta mac and cheese and green beans and we're set. Strawberries and pound cake for dessert, with some lemon bars, in case you don't do strawberries and pound cake. Not a fancy feast, but as good as people are gonna get with one day of notice.
Sounds like a feast to me
Used the new air fryer to make potato slices, warm the ham while eggs were frying on the stove. I think it's working out. Anyway, the kids ate it...
Sounds hearty and delicious.
"But it is written: man shall not live by bread alone."
And the devil offered him an egg.
"All this will I give to you."
And Jesus was sorely tempted.
The idea of deviled eggs goes back to Rome, but not as 'deviled.' I think we give that to the Protestants.
Was there some nice smoked paprika on top? Because that's what gets you into hell.
"Eggs deviled."
Today? Really? Today of all days?
I'm not saying I can think well, yet. My brain is a little pickled from last night.
My husband has managed to lose two walking canes in as many days. We've looked everywhere. I'm about to put an air tag on them. He's limping around with a walking stick like you'd use for hiking. I'm sure he'll misplace it, too.
Mine has a carved T-rex head for a handle. I get more compliments! And everyone knows whose it is, too.
I left one behind at a casino once. I went to the lost and found and asked if one had been turned in, and the cashier asked me what color was it? They had quite a selection!
When my sciatica was acting up and I was using a cane, the cane was always within reach. Why was my cane always within reach? Well, if cane wasn't in reach it's because I set it down somewhere and walked to a place where I couldn't reach it from. But then, I would have been walking without the cane which is impossible. Therefore, I never lost the cane and it was always within reach.
QED!!
{{{Takes another great 4/20 hit...}}}
He sets it down wherever he lands and walks off without it. He can get around pretty well without for short periods of time, but sooner or later, he needs it and then the search begins. If he hasn't lost it, he's put it in the most inconvenient place possible, like right in front of the dishwasher or laying across a counter top in the kitchen. NASTY. The tip of that thing has been in the restrooms at work!
I've threatened to burn them, but I haven't, yet.
I once knew a guy with a prosthetic leg and whenever his prosthetic got upgraded, he'd leave the old one in a weird public place.
Airport elevator, hotel poolside, public park, mall escalator ...
Have a leg, leave a leg
Need a leg, take a leg.
Maybe a cute light up tag, "If I'm lost, call x"
if it makes you feel better, I have a similar issue with umbrellas
I keep going back to these two paragraphs from the essay I posted very early this morning:
𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘺 𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺’𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧𝘧. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘨 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢: 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧𝘧.
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵 20 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘵: 𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘥𝘰 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥, 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/20/american-dream-trump-canada
Counterpoint
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion/black-americans-trump-politics.html
https://youtu.be/_vw-NuTyHhQ?si=nZgMbmJogJqlaNyH
https://youtu.be/tHD8kyhrSIs?si=1GJo8OsNccMwlbAW
They want invulnerability, even to death. Absolute and total, without end.
The great vibraphonist Lionel Hampton, born on this day in 1908. Here he is in concert in 1958:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZa92eyZIfY
Just came across this:
fathernathan
I would like to wish thoughts and prayers to all of the conservative pastors who are going to attempt to make pretzels out of the scripture tomorrow. Best of luck writing a sermon about a dude who was wrongfully picked up off the streets by the cops, not given a trial, and then literally descended into Hell to pull off the biggest prison break this side of the ethereal plane. Happy Easter!
"Thanks to Christ's sacrifice, all your sins are forgiven. Which is why *we* must never, ever, ever forgive anyone who commits the sin of being ethnically or culturally different from us!"
Perfectly logical, in their minds. ( For lack of a better word. )
While I definitely appreciate that, I must not know enough about the Gospels, because I don’t remember the liberation from hell being anywhere in the books.
The harrowing of hell is from the apocrypha, you are correct.
Heh.
I'm gonna do what I always do on Easter. Watch Jesus Christ Superstar and smoke something. Its very fitting that these two days are one and the same today. Yesterdays NO KINGS rally was amazing but it also wore this old lady out. Enjoy your chocolate bunnies and bong today! :)
15 arrests? The judge is being very generous in not holding the AG in contempt for this. The AG, of course, is arguing that the judge can't stop cops from *arresting* people (or handing them over to ICE) - only that she can enjoin his office from *prosecuting* them.
"Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has directed state law enforcement officers to stand down on enforcing a new state immigration law, guidance that came shortly after a federal judge in Miami said she was 'astounded' that state authorities had continued to make arrests despite her ordering them not to.
In a hearing in Miami federal court on Friday, it was disclosed that as many as 15 arrests have been made by Florida law enforcement officers over the past two weeks in violation of an April 4 order issued by U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams. One of the people arrested was a U.S. citizen born in Georgia." - Miami Herald
"Give lit to Ulthmeier. He's a sneaky little shit "
'generous' is one word for it
What he said about undocumented women: “We know who you are, we know where you are, if you marry one of our Californian incels then you can stay but if you don’t, then, well you get sent back across.”
https://2paragraphs.com/2025/04/republican-governor-candidate-proposes-female-undocumented-immigrants-can-stay-if-they-marry-incels/
Is there a legal definition of "incel"?
What a maroon.
Tell me you never get fucked without using those words.
https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D5622AQEqgqLvvALQbw/feedshare-shrink_800/B56ZUGl3mgGUAg-/0/1739572347768?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=Vu3Iw7w4Qc2U43Mp_vRUDmOT0IKhydpqpMe_Sx7IfXQ
These people really have a weird concept of what marriage is.
Gee, it's baffling why a guy like that can't get a date
Pulling up the clip, saw he is a single Catholic, saw his face and heard him speak. On behalf of the gays, who are you fooling, honey?
👏 😂
That would work out splendidly for the enslaved immigrants, no?
What the actual hell?
Fucking for real.
There's a lot of bunnies around the yard. No eggs. Mrs. Toomush wonders how bunny tastes. "Like chicken", I say...
Like goat