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We’ve Gotta Keep Talking (Free Speech, not Freeze Peach) - Saturday Night OT

 


 

I was worried about POTUS Joe hanging around the White House Correspondents’ Dinner tonight, w/all the COVID (& all the Politico whining about the dullness of being a White House Correspondent), but then …

Is it Saturday yet?

 


I think I shot a pheasant the other day but haven't had a chance to check. Meanwhile I seem to have made a couple of friends who like carrots.

It's  local election time on Thursday but I won't get to vote. This seems to be a common problem in Wales. Just came across this news item about a Councillor facing his first election contest in 40 years. 

Friday, April 29, 2022

Fur Face Friday

 Hello and welcome to the home of sweeties, floofs, and darlings known as Fur Face Friday! There's a wonderful collection of furry and feathered friends in last week's comments, from which a noticeable theme arose:

Cosmo has *feelings* about these ears!

Friday Morning Open Thread

 Anything fun planned for today?



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I have to take my car in for inspection this morning. Fingers crossed.

Thursday, April 28, 2022

Thursday evening open thread

 Here's something to edumacate ya, ya filthy animals.

Also; he throws in a "Slava Ukraini" in a blink and miss it frame.



Blaurgh!Talk

...so, if you'd have anything to complain of, what might it be?

Thursday Morning Open Thread!

 

Just close enough to the weekend to think about the escape.

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Pangolin Evening OT

Gaze ye upon the pangolin. Its magnificence. Its scales. Its reticence in the face of stupid people who want to to eat it. And then, dear reader, talk about things totally unrelated. But for a moment, give the panglin its deserved grandeur.

Welcome to another Wednesday, Balkers…

 How’s tricks? Allergy season hitting early here and it’s a killer 🤧😕



Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Tuesday Haiku

 

What does it matter

How long I live?

When the tortoise lives many times as long?


- jisei (death poem) by Kobayshi Issa


Katsushika Hokusai


Good morning

 

Chris Austin -photographer 



Rise and shine Backtalk. It’s Tuesday again. Still a few more days to get through this week…


Let's Pretend Monday Never Happened - PM OT

 Happy Monday evening, all. What did we ever do to Monday that it should treat us so badly? Blues lyrics, right? Oh monday, why you treat me so bad? Oh monday, why you treat me so bad? Sunday makes me weary, Tuesday just make me mad...

The Guy from High Maintenance. Season 2, I think.

Half a tank

 



Another week, another chance to compare our different views on things. 


Monday Morning Open Thread

 

Good morning, one and everyone. Alas, it's Monday again but I myself get to pass it by. Where are y'all headed, this here very last week of April?

Sunday, April 24, 2022

Sunday Evening OT

Today is hopefully my last day of not having a fridge.🤞🏼Happily, I've managed to avoid giving myself food poisoning over the last couple weeks. It's been a low-energy Sunday, but I'm going to have to muster the strength to at least clear things out of the way for fridge delivery. Instead of doing that, I've been prepping a dress pattern and fabric. Ah, procrastination...

Happy Orthodox Easter Sunday for anyone celebrating!

 

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

 Sunny and warm(ish) here. Should cut my lawn for the first time this season before it gets out of hand.



What's on your agenda?



Steam Ahead Saturday

 


Fill her up! The trains are running again round here. Don't walk on the tracks though.

Friday, April 22, 2022

Friday Evening Post

 Good evening.


Anyone got any travel plans in the next few months?

Fur Face Friday

 Welcome to Fur Face Friday. It's Earth Day, and although our floofy friends were a little discouraged last week, they are trusting us to keep the world safe for them. 

Mimi Krimi consults with a cow on sustainable grazing practices.



*TEST* Friday post isn't showing up on Disqus. Checking to see if this shows up

Notes on film noir by Paul Shrader Film Comment, vol. 8, No. 1 (Spring 1972), pp. 8-13 

Dutch angle from Pickup on South Street, 1953. Jean Peters and Richard Widmark


worth reading, but this is only a *TEST*

Thursday Evening Coup

 

Okay, maties, there's no thread, I'll make one. Hoist the sails and swab the litterbox. It's almost Friday.

BLAURGH!TALK

Here's your chance to let out all those festering complaints! I mean, you'd better, other they'll just discolouratingly seep out.

Thursday Morning Open Thread

 

According to the old tradition today in 753 BC Rome was founded.  Not sure how to celebrate that.

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Wendesnay Something Something I Hate The English Language

Speak! OR IS IT YOU WHO SPEAK?

Morning!

 Starting my work week on a Tuesday threw me a curveball. How’s your week going? 


Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Tooz O' Th' Evenin' T' Ye

Harpur, Baron von Smushyface, knows what you've been peeking at on the internyet. He might have special absolutions for your naughtiness (in exchange for cash transactions of course).

Tuesday Haiku

 

In the bamboo grove

The yellow spring sunlight,

I look up at it.


-Takahami Kyoshi


Bamboo by Ogata Gekko


Toosdai Morning Open Thread

 


Hello Balkers. It’s the day before the day before the day before Friday.


So close. And yet. So far.

Monday, April 18, 2022

Monday. That Bum Had It Coming. An OT in the Dark

Can't corral my thoughts today so I'll be brief. A whole village sighs relief. 

They both die at the end

 


Everyone has their own unique perspective on things. We all feel differently about things. Each week we come together to exchange our takes on the topic of the week.

Monday Morning Open Thread

 

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another week in the world. And I... got nothin'. What have you got?