2zday Nite Talkies

Well, it's been Tuesday, and all that it encompasses. How'd we all go?

Tuesday Haiku

 

The short summer night.

Dream and reality 

Are the same thing.

-Takahama Kyoshi 

Terrible Tues Open Thread

 

Thanks. I hate it. 

Wake me when it’s over.

Monday Evening Opennessitude

Monday evenings seem to be Open Territory of late, post-wise, so I'll just shhhedule this and see what happens. As always, if another post beats me to it, I'll remove this of course. If not - gab way, everybody!

But I know what I like

 

We all have our own thoughts and opinions. Every week this post is a chance to voice your own and hear out others’ points of view.

Good morning

 

How’s it going today?

Sunday evening OT

 Sunday evening just kind of snuck up.

 http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151225-five-of-the-worlds-sneakiest-animals

I spent a lot of time driving this week, so it's been nice to have a day of rest.

In honour of the little girl in Québec city who stopped me and Alice to ask if rabbits poo a lot, I present this quiz: https://www.bbcearth.com/quiz/poodunit-can-you-tell-your-droppings-from-your-dung

How's it going? While it's mostly been a lazy Sunday, I did get a couple things done. I moved the kayak I brought inside while I was away, back outside. Watched a little soccer/ football, did a few chores, read a book. It's been low-key. 

The Photo Gallery

 

 It’s your weekly Photo Gallery! Come on in, take a look at what people have been up to over the past week and share some of your own photos.

They don’t need to be taken with a fancy camera or works of art. Share any SFW photos you’ve taken with even the poorest of potatoes. Of course we love to see that arty stuff too. 

Sunday Morning Open Thread

 Last night I watched Annette.

Link to trailer if on mobile

Link to international trailer in case US one is blocked.

It was very good in an interesting way but it ran a bit long with my attention wandering after the strong first act. Or maybe it was less my attention wandering and more my brain needing a rest.

It Was Gonna Be All Rolling Stones Tributes for Charlie Watts, Then Suburban WI Karin and Darrin Clark Had To Try to Starve the Kids

 

it’s fascist behavior, and I don’t think we play that

 

🍷 Speak Kind Words to the Bats 🦇

 Welcome to Speak Kind Words Day and International Bat Night. So caped crusaders, how are you today?

 

Friday Evening Post

Good evening.

In The Small Hours

Artwork © George Clausen
1909 & 1911 pic.twitter.com/WOnSyp3ZHI

— Jo (@Jopolkadot) April 16, 2021

What's new? I am tired.

Fur Face Friday

Welcome back to your weekly festival of fabulous faces! Last week saw an excellent summer crop of adorable furry friends - I highly recommend a repeat visit.

Here's one sweetie to get us started:

Knievel plotting the downfall of some devious twigs!

Friday Morning Open Thread

 I just don't know anymore.

Thursday evening open thread

 Still at the cottage, if all goes as planned

Blaurgh - Trying to Be Naomi Osaka and Failing So TG We Have Mitch Hedberg Quotes in the Meantime Division

 

After she beat Coco Gauf in the Western & Southern Open Masters 1000 US Open lead-up tournament the other day in a thrilling three-setter, N.O. said

“Waking up every day is a win”.

Thursday Morning Open Thread

 Sounds like it’s already been a week and half for a bunch of us, me included.  

Fire away! Hopefully next week I get a little more time to put together a post.

It's The Evening of the Big W-Day!

Yessiree, the Big W! Let's have a cheer for ol' 'Smiler' Grogan, and tell him it's all OK. And if you have no idea what I'm prattling about, get thee hence and watch It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, one of the most hilarious comedies ever made. NOT RIGHT THIS SECOND, I mean. Firstly, let's have a bit of gab.

Good morning, Balkers!

 I hope everyone is having a lovely week. Please tell us all about it. 

I Think It's Tuesday Evening For Most Of Us.

If it's a totally different day, my apologies. I am rapidly slipping into a lockdown coma. Or at least delirium. What day is it? Where am I? Why is there air? How many can't you do that? So many questions. How is everyone else holding up in their part of the world?

Tuesday Haiku

 

A willow branch

Unable to reach the water

At the bottom of the vase.

-Shigenobu

Tuesday AM Thread

 

Good morning. I’m here to ruin your morning with a quick reminder:

Monday Evening Free-For-All

It's Monday, as Bowie wearily sang in 'Joe the Lion'. Hope everyone had a decent one, and is left with energy to chit-chat. Take it away!

You scream, I scream

 

We all scream occasionally, but let’s try to keep this civil. Welcome to a likely very contentious edition of Parley Vous Mondays.

Good morning Monday!

 

I don't see anything in drafts for this morning. If the One True Post turns up, please disregard. How's your week going? None of the news coming out of Ontario makes me excited to leave the east coast.

I hope everyone further south has been safe during Henri! It's going to disappate before reaching here, so we're expecting rain and some big waves.

How is your week starting?

Sunday evening OT

 Today things were accomplished! We had a Family Fixit weekend, and now my parents' deck has only safe, rot-free boards. Yay! I'm all tuckered out from all the pulling up boards, unscrewing screws, and fitting new boards ect. 

What's new?

The Photo Gallery

  

 It’s your weekly Photo Gallery! Come on in, take a look at what people have been up to over the past week and share some of your own photos.

They don’t need to be taken with a fancy camera or works of art. Share any SFW photos you’ve taken with even the poorest of potatoes. Of course we love to see that arty stuff too. 

Sunday Morning Open Thread

 I just took Bindi out and it's already warm and humid.

It's going to be another hot and humid day followed by a hot and humid week. I'll probably just hide in my house most of today.

What about you? Any plans to brave the world?

Please Do Not Bring Toasters and Other Appliances: Saturday Night Jam and OT

 

 

I know Kate Ivey is in charge down there but I am still absolutely goggling at the clinging to ideology of white supremacy that’s manifesting in the otherwise completely unexplainable idiocy of inviting a public figure (no matter how odious) and the attendant anticipated public attendance (read: superspreader event) to a locale that has *already been designated an official disaster area*.

 Really feeling the Beyond Jim Jones vibe right about now.

I am happy that the FDA appears to have reached the end of its collective rope with this special brand of stubborn idiocy at the same time I still find myself wondering how it took this long.   I’m breathless at the entitlement that allows people like Abbot and DeathSantis (it really is a Which Is Worst type Rumble of the type they broadcast on WWE, isn’t it?  Never mind that I sometimes look at that programming and wonder how much of that is part of the How We Got Here In The First Place thing the historians who come behind us are going to write about us) to demand federal support to deal with the fact that they themselves have filled their own hospitals past capacity as a result of their sustained refusal to issue mandates in accordance with CDC public health directives because they feel as if they & their cult followers should be the only determiners of who lives & who dies, & as such they don’t believe in protection of public health en masse.

 

Saturday Honey Pot 🍯 🐝🐝🐝

Welcome to World Honey Bee Day. Hopefully sting free.

El post del viernes por la noche

 Good evening.

Casa Quimet, Barcelona, Spain. I had a beer and noodled around on one of those guitars a couple of nights in a row.

Mazzy Star at the Bikini Club, Barcelona, Spain.

What's new, Backtalk?

Fur Face Friday

Welcome to Fur Face Friday, the travel edition. Last week, our dauntless doggos and courageous kitties faced misfortune with floofy fortitude. This week they hit the road.

Alice and Best Coast/ Codco sampled some regional cuisine.

*nom nom*

In case you're new here, favorites are chosen by one of the Snout Selectors (facw, k2b,Hannibal, leahaven, Iroqdemic and myopicprophet), entirely on our own whimsy. WHIMSY! However, in the interest of solidarity, we try to select one dog picture and one cat picture (minimum!) each week. Other pets will also, of course, be considered. We love all your rats, bunnies, ferrets, and other furry, feathery, and finny pals. WE WILL NEVER DISCRIMINATE AGAINST CUTE.

Friday Morning Open Thread

 Hopefully today won't be too busy and annoying.

Thursday evening open thread

 I'm at the cottage, so I won't be participating;

Blaurgh!Talk - Le Blaurgh, Frantaurgh

Rail ye mightily against The Fates or Random Cruelties of the Universe here! ... or just have a little fuss over your week's blaurghish moments. Either's good.

Thursday Morning Open Thread

 

Morning Everybody!  Did you know that today back in 1909 was the first day Indianapolis Motor Speedway opened to the public?  It was the first day of three days of racing on dirt. Race lead
Louis Chevrolet (yes that Chevrolet) was temporarily blinded when a rock smashed his goggles.

Wed Night Hootenanny

Chat, sing, whinge ... whatever you feel like doing.

Good morning, y'all

 How is your week? Please chat amongst yourselves about all the goings on. 

Good Eve-uh-nink: Tues Night OT; I Bidchew ... Velcome

Thanks folks for taking my shifts last week. So ... Tuesday. Yup; Tuesday. How'd it go for you?

Tuesday Haiku

 

Cranes

Flapping ceaselessly 

Test the sky’s upper limits

-Inahata Teiko

Good morning

 

Welcome to Tuesday.

How are you escaping the world today? 🎈 

Monday Evening Open Thread

 I'm not seeing anything so I'm throwing this up.

Beyond that, I've got nothing. Already exhausted with the week. 

It’s a free for all

 

Every week, there’s a new post for us to compare how each of us feels about the topic we are discussing. It’s called Parley Vous? Mondays.

Monday Morning Open Thread

 I guess I'm up, y'all.

What about you?

Sassy Sunday Evening OT

I thought I had lost my collection of Sassy magazines in the move after my separation, so imagine my joy when I discovered them all in my old room in my parents' home!

Loved, loved, loved this magazine! They had book reviews! And articles that pissed off Moral Majority.

The Photo Gallery

  It’s your weekly Photo Gallery! Come on in, take a look at what people have been up to over the past week and share some of your own photos.

They don’t need to be taken with a fancy camera or works of art. Share any SFW photos you’ve taken with even the poorest of potatoes. Of course we love to see that arty stuff too.