I always thought the name was inspired by the (bad) old joke: What do you get when you throw a stick of dynamite into the kitchen? Linoleum Blownapart.
Yesterdays Substack page was confluence of auspicious occurrences! ( I was taking pictures of a flower when a hummingbird jumped in front of the camera) I found a terrific Mary Oliver poem to go with it.
If you like what you see - think about subscribing! I'm getting close to 200 subscribers and by the end of summer I will have posted 400 pages. I'll never charge a fee (too much stress !) though, if I get enough subscribers I guarantee I will try to sell everyone a set of Mule on the Hill and the Minions coffee mugs and T-shirts.
She is one of my favorites! I also highly recommend Joy Harjo and Sara Teasdale. Amy Lowell is another. I'm not familiar with Gwendolyn Brooks Ask me tomorrow I'm sure I will be!
Cat the Ripper sits in front of our large front room windows and obsessively watches the birds and other small creatures outside, but to this day he has NEVER made a sound while doing so.
I read an article on KOS yesterday with screen shots of MAGA comments about this. Some of them ARE angry about turnip but not for the right reasons. "I was angry with him in 2024 but I voted for him anyway because what choice did I have". They are idiots.
Beto O'Rourke: "in order to change anything, we need to be in power. If we don't win elections, we're not going to have a democracy."
I'm paraphrasing, but that's the same thing I've been saying for years - if you don't WIN, you don't get ANYTHING you like, and you get EVERYTHING you don't want.
Look. I know shark attacks are rare. But I don’t agree when the shark experts say stuff like they don’t like the taste of humans or humans aren to the menu.
I get it. Shark conservationists don’t want us to be afraid of them. They don’t want us killing them by the thousands.
But let’s not pretend they’re cute and cuddly. They’re apex predators and they’re very dangerous. If you’re in the water you’re on the menu. You might not be a popular buffet item but you’re still on the buffet.
A lot of people completely and abjectly fail to realize that when they go into the sea/forest/swamp/etc. they reenter the food chain, and not at the top either.
IMO the base hates child molesters because that's what their bosses tell them to do, that's why so many of them get arrested for diddling kids every day.
Hey, ziggy, chiming in late here (the morning after, at least one of which there's got to be -- I heard it on the radio). Thanks, as always, for the movie night. I didn't watch the flick -- tried, but my mood wasn't aligned -- but this morning I watched the dance scene and the Birdbox. Watched the Birdbox twice in a row -- short and sweet and a lot of fun. Cheers!
August 16 you say? Just added it to my calendar.
I didn’t find it to be all that funny, just incredibly awkward
But that was the point right?
B4 I go, remember to Vote for Pedro!
I always thought the name was inspired by the (bad) old joke: What do you get when you throw a stick of dynamite into the kitchen? Linoleum Blownapart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnbRLVMeeZE
Tina, you fat lard. Eat the food!
Yesterdays Substack page was confluence of auspicious occurrences! ( I was taking pictures of a flower when a hummingbird jumped in front of the camera) I found a terrific Mary Oliver poem to go with it.
It turned out well! You should go look!
https://brawlatthepoetscafe.substack.com/p/where-the-hummingbird-comes-like?r=insr
If you like what you see - think about subscribing! I'm getting close to 200 subscribers and by the end of summer I will have posted 400 pages. I'll never charge a fee (too much stress !) though, if I get enough subscribers I guarantee I will try to sell everyone a set of Mule on the Hill and the Minions coffee mugs and T-shirts.
Wow. Great photos.
I didn't comment on Mary Oliver yesterday and that was an oversight. I don't know many poets but she and Gwendolyn Brooks are my favorites.
She is one of my favorites! I also highly recommend Joy Harjo and Sara Teasdale. Amy Lowell is another. I'm not familiar with Gwendolyn Brooks Ask me tomorrow I'm sure I will be!
Blacks is the name of collected works by Brooks I have. My favorite poem is When you have forgotten Sunday: the love story. It breaks my heart.
Oh yes ! Gwendolyn Brooks!
" We Real Cool"!
I still need to get up to speed.
This is terrific! -
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43310/a-song-in-the-front-yard
"(On account of last winter he sold our back gate)."
Made me laugh out loud.
I want to memorize her stuff- her rhymes seem inevitable.
I'm in.
THANK YOU !!
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Would you mind if I drew one of those. I wouldn’t use your image for anything but daily practice.
I would like that so much!
Thank you!!!!!
Mr. Mick letting the backyard birbs know they're infringing on his territory
https://substack.com/profile/106661048-vorpal/note/c-137115684?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=1ri46w
Birbs: "Yeah ... whatEVER!"
My Viggo is doing that right now.
Cat the Ripper sits in front of our large front room windows and obsessively watches the birds and other small creatures outside, but to this day he has NEVER made a sound while doing so.
Ripper is a weird cat.
....with an appropriate name.
This is such a strange and bizarre timeline.
Trump Boasts That ‘Jeffrey Epstein Hoax’ Has Boosted Poll Numbers ‘Significantly’: ‘My Highest, Ever!’
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-boasts-that-jeffrey-epstein-hoax-has-boosted-poll-numbers-significantly-my-highest-ever/
The man is deranged. Utterly and entirely.
The fact of the matter is that he is a dangerous, vainglorious psychopath.
He could molest an underage girl on Fifth Avenue. That's MAGA for you.
I read an article on KOS yesterday with screen shots of MAGA comments about this. Some of them ARE angry about turnip but not for the right reasons. "I was angry with him in 2024 but I voted for him anyway because what choice did I have". They are idiots.
of course, he has no idea what day of the week it is or that he made Jerome Powell the Fed chair, so take it with a grain of salt
Desperate times call for desperate bullshit.
I've heard of making lemonade when life hands you lemons but you can't make lemonade out of your own shit.
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YiQr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fmedia_upload%2Fcomment%2Fe4a01a89-8806-428f-bab1-b3f2b1d37ec7%2Fa87f621c-d254-47e1-9178-5c0a8410bdef.jpeg
His cult would still drink it.
The Printer Lady had to dig pretty deep on the web for that poll.
Does that asshole ever go below 40%. I stopped looking at polls a long time ago.
Remember the ear bandage?
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:vysdl4bhvlnjr4nciocx6dri/bafkreiak2cphkrhld6j3nifhxcbpe7ja2bipm2febgntml5tap7edhytne@jpeg
Is this for real???
Not unless that is a picture of lepers whose toes have fallen off.
LOL! Oh, it's coming!
It appears to be AI as some of those feet are just one large toe.
I want to smack 'em upside the head.
I'm guessing it's parody, I hope to fuck it is anyway.
It's SO hard to tell anymore.
But tell me again it's not a cult.
You forgot the leg braces.
Took 40 minutes to mow the back yard. Hydrating for the past 15 minutes, and then I break out the trimmer.
Well, if you used something bigger than nail clippers ...
[Edit: BAD TYPO! Sorry ...]
*double take*
Typo alert.
Also . . . 1030 AM, and I is done.
*bigger
Beto O'Rourke: "in order to change anything, we need to be in power. If we don't win elections, we're not going to have a democracy."
I'm paraphrasing, but that's the same thing I've been saying for years - if you don't WIN, you don't get ANYTHING you like, and you get EVERYTHING you don't want.
Look. I know shark attacks are rare. But I don’t agree when the shark experts say stuff like they don’t like the taste of humans or humans aren to the menu.
I get it. Shark conservationists don’t want us to be afraid of them. They don’t want us killing them by the thousands.
But let’s not pretend they’re cute and cuddly. They’re apex predators and they’re very dangerous. If you’re in the water you’re on the menu. You might not be a popular buffet item but you’re still on the buffet.
Humans, the jellied salad dish on the buffet table
That type shit is what caused Grizzly Man.
If we didn’t regularly eat new species for dinner, evolution would get kinda boring.
That's another thing. Sharks have been here for hundreds of millions of years; we're parvenus.
One of the things temperature impacts is geochemistry and biochem secondarily. I’m thinking sharks could survive any catastrophe.
Omg what if we have to create human-shark hybrids to save humanity?
South Park did the dolphin-man hybrid, but not a shark. That's innovative!
https://y.yarn.co/0afa80e2-9d7f-4723-b263-437a1df62f17_text.gif
A lot of people completely and abjectly fail to realize that when they go into the sea/forest/swamp/etc. they reenter the food chain, and not at the top either.
We already kill sharks by the thousands - that's why a lot of the different kinds of shark are "endangered".
The sharks in my area are pretty "bite-y." Somebody seems to get nipped every year.
Shark expert: That’s just an exploratory bite.
Could also be a love nip. Maybe that's their way of showing they want to be friends?
Sharks don’t look at humans and say, “that’s a human, I’m. It supposed to eat that.”
They say, “I’m hungry, what do we have to eat around here? What is that? Is that edible? Let’s see.”
From Ted Cruz to 9/11, this seller has a coloring books for every occasion you never thought would be suitable topics for a coloring book.
https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AReally%2BBig%2BColoring%2BBooks&s=relevancerank&qid=1753018936&text=Really+Big+Coloring+Books&xpid=o6_7ZqDZnOCWE&ref=sr_pg_1
I want the Ronnie Milsap coloring book because that’s the strangest thing ever.
This book looks like fun
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81JVTSJX2fL._SL1500_.jpg
I MUST acquire a copy.
So now it's not OK to have your friends and supporters be pedophiles?????
Texas GOP event will feature Ted Nugent, who's bragged about sleeping with underage girls
The gathering follows the state GOP passing anti-LGBTQ+ bills they say target 'groomers' and child abusers.
IMO the base hates child molesters because that's what their bosses tell them to do, that's why so many of them get arrested for diddling kids every day.
I think the GQP is mostly made up of child molesters and closeted gay men. They are just deeply disturbed people.
It is ALWAYS ok if you are MAGA. (and famous)
I never can decide if it's the hypocrisy, or the stupidity, of the GQP that bothers me the most.
AOT, K!
Hey, ziggy, chiming in late here (the morning after, at least one of which there's got to be -- I heard it on the radio). Thanks, as always, for the movie night. I didn't watch the flick -- tried, but my mood wasn't aligned -- but this morning I watched the dance scene and the Birdbox. Watched the Birdbox twice in a row -- short and sweet and a lot of fun. Cheers!
That is great to hear, I love finding the animated shorts, going to put together another collection soon.