Ta, ziggywiggy. Happy Mothers Day to all who celebrate. We have MyBacon (made from mushroom mycelium) and air fryer home fries staying warm in the electric oven, and a frittata with two kinds of mushroom, ramps, onion, ripe pepper, and four kinds of vegan cheese in the gas oven. I want to make a carrot cake, but we don't have enough carrots, so that will have to wait till we're back in the city. We have all the other ingredients, but only enough carrot to make half a cake, and that simply will not do. We're going foraging after our brunch. Hooray for ramps! Yesterday, near the ramp field (they have spread so much it's no longer a patch), darling husband found a Gyromitra caroliniana, otherwise known as a false morel. I declare it's not a false anything, it's a delicious mushroom. I first found it growing next to our driveway, and since we weren't sure of the species, we boiled it for 15 minutes before cooking it, because some of the species are poisonous unless one does that. This ain't that. Good day, beloved Wonketteers. I love and appreciate you all and I bless us all with love, health, peace, and grace.
Please, please stay safe. Wear a mask or two, wash your hands, sanitize when you cannot wash and let the sanitizer dry completely, stop touching your face, take Vitamin D, get a booster shot when due and catch up on any other vaccines you're lacking before Bobby Brainworm hereby decrees that you can't, avoid indoor and crowded outdoor gatherings and when you must meet, remove masks only to eat, drink, and take quick photos, and stay the fuck away from me and everyone with whom you do not share a roof. Do this because you love yourself, and because I love you, too. Do this in memory of dear departed family and friends like far-too-young Treg and heroic Tony, Holly's pilot friend, among over seven million dead worldwide. Do this to honor the nurses and other frontline medical personnel (so many Wonkette medicos, greetings and salutations!), particularly ICU Hera Mrs Land Shark RN. Be kind, especially to yourself, and please stay safe.
When our Ukrainian kid gets here, he will have wonderful stories about his 4 days in NYC. It has always been his dream to visit NYC. I've never been there.
So it turns out the new pope has an embarrassing MAGAhead older brother with an open Facebook page full of incendiary MAGA garbage. Yeah that's the Florida brother, of course.
When I worked for the state we had 12 emails back and forth on if we could eat some fresh churros delivered by a taxpayer and this orange, crusty cum sock is being bribed with a fucking plane?
I am a public servant and ditto on my experience of the strictness on the appearance of corruption or conflict of interest even at the microscopic "would you like a cookie?" level. And, the plane is the least of the ways that felon and his crew are cashing in.
At least you got as far as churros. We got 18 rounds for lanyards which the contractors name on them. Lanyards for the badge we were required to wear when in their facility. It wasn’t even the value of the gift, it was the appearance of impropriety.
All right, I know it’s all just a wee bit of fun and games but sending judges whole wheat crust pizza topped with pineapple and spam just might be seen as threatening and intimidating by some people you know, fragile people.
Trump's reportedly not in a hurry to name a new National Security Advisor. While multiple urgent international security issues are requiring attention, "'People like Witkoff and Trump himself are looking at things and saying, I can handle this. I can do this. I don’t need these experts, because the experts were wrong,' said Cedric Leighton, a former senior military intelligence officer." (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-10/once-powerful-nsc-is-sidelined-by-trump-as-rubio-takes-the-helm?srnd=homepage-americas). We are so fucked.
I know everyone's breathless with excitement, so here's the update on our new dishwasher--finally installed on Thursday. We've been waiting to run it until we'll be here the whole time (the last one didn't drain properly and was 100 years old and I'm scarred by that)...so. Started filling it up today in anticipation. THE ONLY PROBLEM SO FAR is the idiots who had this condo before (and made a lot of decorating decisions putting style over safety and substance) had built out a bit of wall next to the dishwasher, and had cut it so the door could open all the way. Unfortunately, we didn't think too much about that, but the door is taller on this one than on the old one (because now they have the buttons on the top inside edge of the door instead of a whole panel) so we can't open the door all the way.
This week will involve a sawzall. You can still access the dishwasher, even the lower rack, but it's annoying.
The installer and I had to pry off a piece of decorative nonsense over the edge of the old washer to get it out, and I don't think I'm going to reattach it.
(I suspect that you may be right about the bit of wall too. For 4 years straight my husband and I "got" each other "let's hire a handyman!" for Christmas. Still haven't done that!)
I can remember back in the day when parents scrimped, sacrificed and saved in order to send their children to the US for their education. At one time the US educational system was the envy of the world.
I'm resisting the urge to text my brother and make sure he remembered its Mother's Day. As he's the smart responsible kid and I'm not. Normally he sends a card and orders the flowers to arrive on Friday to avoid the Sunday crush. Plus a mid morning text and call.
Aww jeez, eh?
Ta, ziggywiggy. Happy Mothers Day to all who celebrate. We have MyBacon (made from mushroom mycelium) and air fryer home fries staying warm in the electric oven, and a frittata with two kinds of mushroom, ramps, onion, ripe pepper, and four kinds of vegan cheese in the gas oven. I want to make a carrot cake, but we don't have enough carrots, so that will have to wait till we're back in the city. We have all the other ingredients, but only enough carrot to make half a cake, and that simply will not do. We're going foraging after our brunch. Hooray for ramps! Yesterday, near the ramp field (they have spread so much it's no longer a patch), darling husband found a Gyromitra caroliniana, otherwise known as a false morel. I declare it's not a false anything, it's a delicious mushroom. I first found it growing next to our driveway, and since we weren't sure of the species, we boiled it for 15 minutes before cooking it, because some of the species are poisonous unless one does that. This ain't that. Good day, beloved Wonketteers. I love and appreciate you all and I bless us all with love, health, peace, and grace.
Please, please stay safe. Wear a mask or two, wash your hands, sanitize when you cannot wash and let the sanitizer dry completely, stop touching your face, take Vitamin D, get a booster shot when due and catch up on any other vaccines you're lacking before Bobby Brainworm hereby decrees that you can't, avoid indoor and crowded outdoor gatherings and when you must meet, remove masks only to eat, drink, and take quick photos, and stay the fuck away from me and everyone with whom you do not share a roof. Do this because you love yourself, and because I love you, too. Do this in memory of dear departed family and friends like far-too-young Treg and heroic Tony, Holly's pilot friend, among over seven million dead worldwide. Do this to honor the nurses and other frontline medical personnel (so many Wonkette medicos, greetings and salutations!), particularly ICU Hera Mrs Land Shark RN. Be kind, especially to yourself, and please stay safe.
Slava Ukraini. 🌻🇺🇦💙💛
When our Ukrainian kid gets here, he will have wonderful stories about his 4 days in NYC. It has always been his dream to visit NYC. I've never been there.
Old Jokes Home:
My mother made me a lesbian
If I give her the wool, would she make me one?
What gift did the kitten get for the Mother Cat on Mother's Day?
Mice Krispies
So it turns out the new pope has an embarrassing MAGAhead older brother with an open Facebook page full of incendiary MAGA garbage. Yeah that's the Florida brother, of course.
https://www.facebook.com/share/14zee9Tfss/
Every family seems to have one nut case.
He’s not invited for Christmas at St. Peter’s.
I saw Puccini’s Tosca last night at the Seattle Opera.
Spoiler alert: everybody dies.
Dammit! I wish we still had the spoiler tag like over on the DicksUS site!
The spoiler would actually be if somebody DIDN’T did in a tragic opera.
When I worked for the state we had 12 emails back and forth on if we could eat some fresh churros delivered by a taxpayer and this orange, crusty cum sock is being bribed with a fucking plane?
I am a public servant and ditto on my experience of the strictness on the appearance of corruption or conflict of interest even at the microscopic "would you like a cookie?" level. And, the plane is the least of the ways that felon and his crew are cashing in.
At least you got as far as churros. We got 18 rounds for lanyards which the contractors name on them. Lanyards for the badge we were required to wear when in their facility. It wasn’t even the value of the gift, it was the appearance of impropriety.
It is infuriating.
This country is so cooked for a good while.
Judges say unsolicited pizza deliveries are meant to intimidate them
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/11/justice-judges-threats-intimidation-pizza-deliveries/
Free food is a threat??
https://archive.ph/I1Qnt
I assume because it shows "we know where you live".
Huh. I guess my WaPo subscription just expired today. (We had an annual subscription but, nope, ain’t renewing.)
All right, I know it’s all just a wee bit of fun and games but sending judges whole wheat crust pizza topped with pineapple and spam just might be seen as threatening and intimidating by some people you know, fragile people.
So knock it off!
Right MEOW
And no anchovies!
any unsolicited pizza deliveries may be forwarded to my address
The Scattered Spider hackers do the same thing.
Anchovies? I HATE anchovies. What monster sent this?
Infant rattle snake: "Mom are we poisonous?"
Mother rattle snake: "Yes we are dear. Why did you ask"
Infant rattle snake: "I bit my tongue!"
Ha! There you are! I saw this and thought of you and your crew.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/999322998666526
We are very particular of how toilet paper is put on the dispenser.
Venomous. Toads are poisonous.
We need less of this type of post, gatdangit!
Dad jokes on Mother's Day? What's up with that?
The patriarchy strikes again.
Trump's reportedly not in a hurry to name a new National Security Advisor. While multiple urgent international security issues are requiring attention, "'People like Witkoff and Trump himself are looking at things and saying, I can handle this. I can do this. I don’t need these experts, because the experts were wrong,' said Cedric Leighton, a former senior military intelligence officer." (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-10/once-powerful-nsc-is-sidelined-by-trump-as-rubio-takes-the-helm?srnd=homepage-americas). We are so fucked.
The experts could be wrong, but I'm gonna say that the odds of Trump being right are pretty goddamn marginal...
"No problem, I got this!"
"Yes, sir. Here's today's briefing...."
"No time. I gotta golf date in Mar a Lago. You can brief me on the course."
"But, sir..."
"WHERE THE FUCK IS THE HELICOPTER?"
What, is Fox running out of talking heads he can poach?
He's listened to 12 Daily Briefings since Inauguration.
12 daily briefings were read aloud in a room he was in. He didn't listen to anything.
He's not attending the briefings anyway.
Well, it simplifies the org chart below Putin I guess.
I know everyone's breathless with excitement, so here's the update on our new dishwasher--finally installed on Thursday. We've been waiting to run it until we'll be here the whole time (the last one didn't drain properly and was 100 years old and I'm scarred by that)...so. Started filling it up today in anticipation. THE ONLY PROBLEM SO FAR is the idiots who had this condo before (and made a lot of decorating decisions putting style over safety and substance) had built out a bit of wall next to the dishwasher, and had cut it so the door could open all the way. Unfortunately, we didn't think too much about that, but the door is taller on this one than on the old one (because now they have the buttons on the top inside edge of the door instead of a whole panel) so we can't open the door all the way.
This week will involve a sawzall. You can still access the dishwasher, even the lower rack, but it's annoying.
Not load bearing? Not a problem.
heh, heh, heh....sawzall...heh heh heh.
(yeah, I may have some subscriptions)
lol
In my house, noncritical bullshit like that eventually turns into an annoying but permanent feature.
Glad to hear it's all working out.
The installer and I had to pry off a piece of decorative nonsense over the edge of the old washer to get it out, and I don't think I'm going to reattach it.
(I suspect that you may be right about the bit of wall too. For 4 years straight my husband and I "got" each other "let's hire a handyman!" for Christmas. Still haven't done that!)
We were watching a 2024 kdrama last night, when being "educated in the States" was still spoken of as being something to be proud of/envy.
What show? I've been watching only k-dramas (on Netflix).
I do love the k-dramas – each one I've seen works in a half-dozen genres, all done very well!
< -- a fanatic. Also cdramas.
"Queen of Tears" - not enough comedy, for my tastes, but the lead (Kim Soo-hyun) is SUCH a DREAMBOAT.
(My two faves, to date, are "Mr. Queen" [hysterically funny] and "Vincenzo" [brilliant comedy between the male and female leads].)
Queen of Tears is on my list. I'll look at those other two.
BTW, "QoT" is aptly named, so FYI...
I know "Mr. Queen" is on Netflix. I strongly recommend it.
I can remember back in the day when parents scrimped, sacrificed and saved in order to send their children to the US for their education. At one time the US educational system was the envy of the world.
Not any more...
Thanks, Republicans!
Enmity of the world
I'm resisting the urge to text my brother and make sure he remembered its Mother's Day. As he's the smart responsible kid and I'm not. Normally he sends a card and orders the flowers to arrive on Friday to avoid the Sunday crush. Plus a mid morning text and call.
Everything JD Loveseat knows about Kashmir he learned from Led Zeppelin.
Whole lotta couch love.
Hate Immigrants Song
Trampled under foot.
Tangerine, living reflection of a urine stream.
Ok, I am out for the day. Everyone take care and enjoy all the good moments!