Until next year

Goooodnicht!

Happy Halloween!!!!

Homemade Halloween Decor

Deep thoughts by Jack Handy: Halloween edition

For mad scientists who keep brains in jars, here’s a tip: why not add a slice of lemon to each jar, for freshness?

Just needs a slice of lemon

Thing I found

Spotted this in an old Introduction to AV for Technical Assistants my coworker unearthed from the library collection.

I was way into Magic Lanterns back in aught-nine, I posted about it here.

Divine

things in me head again

This is from Kristin Hersh's new album Possible Dust Clouds.  I don't think this is even my favorite song on album, but it's stuck in my head.  Only I'm singing "no shade in shadow" like the Psychedelic Furs front man lounge singer style.  Yeah, I'm already riffing on it, it's that good!  Enjoy!



Maybe this is my favorite song.

Burn! Burn! Burn!

via GIPHY

This is from the RiffTrax version of City of the Dead, aka Horror Hotel.  You all really need to see it, it's my favorite to date.

Christopher Lee as a Professor of Mumbo-ology.
"It's Hammer Horror time!"

Other favorites:
"Kick ass Dina Shore mixed road tape"
"Sailed the ocean blue"
"Not everyone respects my degree in mumbo-ology"

Things in my head this morning

I sang this over and over on my way to work, trying to do my best Kate Bush

I wondered if Tina Turner and Jon Bon Jovi had the same hair.

Pretty much!

I keep thinking "from the rooter to the tooter!" 
I currently have all the indigestion symptoms, seriously, from the rooter to the tooter.

My hair right now

Is Bonnie Franklin going on Schneider

Scheider is disgusting!  I don't even remember anything about One Day at a Time except the fact that Schneider disgusted me.  Oh, how I long for those days when only Schneider was disgusting.  One day at a Tiii-hIIIiime!

The Mark Twain Anniversary

20/10 years together/married is when you celebrate the Mark Twain Anniversary.

Oh look!  See!  This year marks the 150th anniversary of Sam Clemens and his wife, Olivia Langdon, courtship.  http://theconversation.com/mark-twains-adventures-in-love-how-a-rough-edged-aspiring-author-courted-a-beautiful-heiress-90739

Mark Twain is for Lovers

Make the pilgrimage to Hannibal, MO on this special occassion

We need more Furs

Oral Hatch

Guess Who's Shakin' All Over

This Week with GOP in Power

Red Rust Hills

I didn't realize until now how much I love Georgia O'Keeffe's landscapes.

The Hidden Staircase

I started reading Nancy Drew for the first time ever.  Seems strange I missed this.

Woodward and Bernstein https://money.cnn.com/2018/09/05/media/reliable-sources-09-04-18/index.html

Me on the weekend

Luteal Phase

I no longer need this shame
Aim is exercise my demons
96 tears on my pillow
I'm a woman, man
I can't spare a square
I wad up these memories like rough drafts
And watch them burn bright as I toss them through my
self-styled force field
Even its ash can't penetrate my atmosphere

If you men had a luteal phase
I bet you'd've sung a song about it long ago
It took me til I was 42 until I knew

My cycle's on haywire time
My cycle's on haywire time

I'm edging past my prime
oh.
oh, how sublime.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

I love you.

It is a takeover

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america

Suppressing voting, changing legislative processes so that a normal majority could no longer prevail, sowing public distrust of government institutions— all these were tactics toward the goal. But the Holy Grail was the Constitution: alter it and you could increase and secure the power of the wealthy in a way that no politician could ever challenge.

MacLean is not the only scholar to sound the alarm that the country is experiencing a hostile takeover that is well on its way to radically, and perhaps permanently, altering the society. Peter Temin, former head of the MIT economics department, INET grantee, and author of The Vanishing Middle Class, as well as economist Gordon Lafer of the University of Oregon and author of The One Percent Solution, have provided eye-opening analyses of where America is headed and why. MacLean adds another dimension to this dystopian big picture, acquainting us with what has been overlooked in the capitalist right wing’s playbook. 

Weekend Update

Bottom's up!

We the people are here and we aren't going anywhere.

Remove Trump

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-kremlin-and-gop-have-a-new-friendand-boy-does-she-love-guns

Me on the weekend

Gorey Friday

Ttlit!

FBI Agent Strzok testimony:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?447953-1/fbi-deputy-assistant-director-peter-strzok-testifies-2016-investigations

Book review:
https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/07/11/how-to-change-your-mind-michael-pollan/

Ode to Dandelion

It is my job to propagate you
how could I not?
you give everything
two showy blooms
one of gold and one of wishes
toothy leaves and deep roots that nourish
The wind, children and I will ensure you flourish