"New Year's Prayer" - Jeff Buckley (1998)

 

Friday EEK!ving Open Thread

New Year's Eve for many! Who's ringing in 2022 and who's hunkering down in an Albanian bunker [raises hand for latter] [well, by this time, my bunkering has already taken place and I'm enduring 2022 already]? Who wants to hang out and do a blow-by-blow report of what we're enduring this evening? Or are we all just hiding in bed? Welcome to the latest edition of our slo-mo apocalypse. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Fur Face Friday

 Welcome to Fur Face Friday, it's New Year's Eve and I can't think of anyone I'd rather spend it with than you animals. Here at FFF headquarters, the champagne is chilling, and the caterer is setting up the horse d'oeuvres and catnapes.

Friday 2021 Goodbye-day Morning Open Thread

 Morning, all.

Very last day of 2021 and aren't we glad to be done? Not that done is a thing like poof, wave yer paws, all gone. But still - what are the things you would like most to see happen next year? Any good hopes for things that might not suck? Any stuff in particular you would like to see join this year on the flaming trash pile of life?

"The Moving Finger Writes" - The Four Kents (1968)

Thursday evening open thread

 Anything here that we could add to BalkTalk Village?

https://www.boredpanda.com/people-share-best-room-designs/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

Blaurgh!Talk, Last 2021 Edition

So, 2021 comes to an end at last. And who knows what 2022 will bring- no, let's not ponder that. Let's live in the present, and beat it mightily with our Brooms Of Complaint! What's blaurghed you this week?

Thursday Morning Open Thread!

 Good Morning All!  Hoping today ends up being my Friday, got to see how the new installs go today before I know for sure.

Anybody else looking forward to a long weekend? Maybe got some NYE plans? It looks to be cold and potentially icy to ring in the New Year here, so I'm probably home bound.  

Have at it below.

That Middle-of-the-Week Day Open Thread, Evening Edition

Like sands through the hourglass, 2021 slowly seeps to the bottom of the sand-thing-measury-device (and deservedly so). So, who has vast plans for 2022, aside from watching the world wriggle, millipede-caught-in-an-ants'-nest-like, in writhing pain and torment, being mandible'd into oblivion, to its final end?

Happy Wednesday! 2021 is almost at an end!!

 It's almost time to put ornaments away and turn our attentions on the New Year. It can only go up from here, right? 

Tuesday Evening Open Thread

We're in that odd null zone betwixt Xmas and NYE! How we all doing floating in the void?

Tuesday Haiku

 

Terrible Tuesday Morning Open Thread

 

Mornings. Ugh.

Monday Is No Fun Day, An Open Thread In The Dark

 

Maestro dei Cassoni Campana - Theseus and Minotaur. 1510 - 1515  Try climbing out of the maze, you dolt.

Last Monday of 2021. How did today go? Didja have to work? Stay home and veg? Let us know.

Sometimes, we all could use a little help out of a jam. Sometimes that jam lasts an entire year or longer. I think about Ariadne a lot when I think of the helpers, and how regularly they are tossed aside by the Theseuses of the world. Perseus, Odysseus, Jason, etc. The stories in Greek myth are strewn with discarded women's bodies. Maybe Circe and Medea had the right idea.

Get in the groove

 

It’s time to ponder a new theme & learn more about how others view the world. Let’s get this discussion going!

Post-Holiday Mondaze Open Thread

 

Morning, all the peoples. The feasting has ended and it seems to be something like a Monday again. Do say hello and let us know what you've got to chew on in this, the very last week of 2021.

Sunday Eveing OT

 

More boxing day fun!

So pleased to announce that my paper, "If I Fits I Sits: A Citizen Science Investigation into Illusory Contour Susceptibility in Domestic Cats (Felis silvestris catus) has just been published in AABS! #IfIFitsISits #CatSquare #CitizenScience #CommunityScience pic.twitter.com/AXbDttnOGC

— Gabriella E. Smith M.A. (@Explanimals) May 4, 2021

 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/if-i-fits-i-sits-experiment-shows-felines-also-sit-illusory-boxes-180977681/

That's about all I've got this evening, besides leftovers.

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

 Happy Boxing Day!

"We Three Kings" - Wynton Marsalis -Live from the Lincoln Center (2015)

 

Hopes for Happy Holidaze For All – Christmas Saturday Night OT

 

Merry Christmas 🎅🏿

 

Or should I say Nadolig Llawen?

"What of that, my dear?" said Scrooge's nephew. "His wealth is of no use to him. He don't do any good with it."

Christmas Eve Evening Post

 Good evening. 

"Christmas Waits" by Stanley Berkeley.

Fur Face Friday Christmas Eve Late Edition

 

Darwin wowed us all with how handsome he is, looking like a Christmas card

Welcome to a very late holiday edition of FFF, guest hosted by me, CestLaVie.

I hope this very quickly made post works out okay.

Christmas Eve Midday Smooth Jazz & Cozy Christmas Beats

Photography © lucybennettt 

Friday (Almost Christmas) Morning Open Thread

It's the morning before Christmas and you procrastinators know what that means. 

He waved good-bye, saying, "Don't you cry. I'll be back again some day!"

"Santa Claus is Coming to Town" - Bill Evans (1964)

Thursday evening open thread

 From Bored Panda;

https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-cat-memes-tweets/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

Blaurgh!Talk Has Been Cancelled!

 Just kidding. You all need a midday Blaurgh! to talk about having to do what you hate to do. You know what? I hate doing things too, but you don't hear me complaining.

Thursday Morning Open Thread!

 Good Morning.  I've got nothing cool to report because I spent most of the night playing Gran Turismo Sport.  I did use the games photo tool to make the lead photo, so there was some productivity going on.

Wed Eve OT

'Allo! Sorry I missed last night's thread - we got two last-second cancellations for booster shots the day before, and while I had no awful icky side effects, I was totally wiped out and slept all day. Hopefully improvement has occured since then as I shhedule this in advance.. Anyway, I'm all boostered up, perhaps even awake, and ready to take on ... um, something. How's things with you?

Good Morning and Happy Holidays!

 Happy holidays to all who are celebrating this week! How is everyone doing? 

Slap Dash Tuesday - PM Open Thread

Christmas is just around the corner. How'd your day go?

Tuesday Haiku

 

Tuesday Morning Open Thread

 

‘Twas the week before Christmas 

And all through the house…

"My Favorite Things" - John Coltrane (1961)

Twas the Monday Before Life Day OT: Favorite Childhood Toys

Do you remember any good Christmas gifts from your youth? Let us know in the comments.

This Book Was The WORST!

Monday Morning Open Thread

 

Morning, all. It's Xmas week and I feel like by the end of it, everybody's gonna be on one list or another. What with last-minute shopping, cold weather making people foolish, and just general holly jolly distractions, we could all use a few magic reindeer to get us safely along. What are your plans for this week? Are you lying low, or will you be out in the fray?

In the Arms of the Angels

 

Midwinter's Eve Eve OT

 

It's almost the shortest day of the year, northern hemispherians! We're nearly there! The sunlight will be returning soon(ish)!

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 OT

 Morning everyone, I hope nobody minds me posting today’s OT but I thought I’d go for it as there wasn’t one and I’m very nervous about my first OT as I’m not sure what I’m doing . How do you add a pic or gif ?

Ok here goes , pressing publish and wait to see the disaster.  

Teen Sees Image of Christ in Lava Lamp

Quiet Tonight (Even) on Cornelia Street – Saturday Night OT & bell hooks RIP

 

How many nights to go?

Running out of time. Frosty start to the day has set up clear blue skies. 

Friday Evening Post

 Good evening.

via Eva.

Are you ready for the weekend?

Fur Face Friday

Hello and happy Friday, one and everyone! Some of us have been having craptastic days lately, and we all need a little floof in our lives to make things better.

Kristinbytes' Bindi days she knows it's hard, but try to stick with it.

Friday Morning Open Thread

 I know the alarm went off but it's waaaaaaaaaaaaay too dark to be getting up for work.