Good evening.
I took a picture of Dandelions in the shadow.
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It is Friday, May 31st, 2024.
Backtalk: A Medium Place
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Friday, May 31, 2024
Fur Face Friday!
Hey all, another Friday is upon us, which means it's time for Fur Faces! Let's check out the best from last week last week!
First up is Flora:
Thursday, May 30, 2024
Thursday evening open thread
Saw the periodontist today and got a special CT scan to see how the jaw is healing from the extraction. They'll call me when they get the results and then I guess we schedule the post implant.
Also; I rented a car for August; a Prius, which I've never driven. And I did get a pretty good deal; $1700 for the entire month (Enterprise charged me $2000 for two weeks a couple of years ago), and he said that if I rent for 3 months next year, he'll give me an even better deal.
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Wednesday Last OT – Music Why?
Anyone still have 8-tracks or cassettes? 78s? Part of my semi-embarrassing collection of music from my high school years, unpacked from a moving box in 2015 and now safely tucked away in the attic:
Wednesday the 29th Backtalk Morning in the US
Hope your workday goes smoothly. Your summer vacation is coming up right? How's your unlimited paid time off plan working out?
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
Tuesday OT – No Sleep Till Brooklyn
Feels like I caught the wild thing baby just a week ago. Opened her eyes for a moment and went back to sleep without a peep.
Tuesday Haiku
I write, erase, rewrite
Erase again, and then
A poppy blooms.
-Tachibana Hokushi
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| Suzuki Kiitsu |
Monday, May 27, 2024
Monday the 27th – Angst It Up
Everyone loves webtoons. Except me. This is one of the few I sort of like.
Sunday, May 26, 2024
Sunday Evening ⚾️T
This afternoon I almost saw a baseball game. I left a little late, then ran into a former work friend I hadn't seen in ages and had a chat. Finally arrived at the park only to realize I lost my team ballcap somewhere enroute. Decided to retrace my steps a few blocks but ended up with mission creep and retraced them back so far in the end I decided it wasn't worth it to turn around and go back. I didn't find my hat. 😢 I did get an ice cream.
The 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.
☀️DAY AM OT
Hope you’re having a good weekend. Be sure to fit some relaxation time in there somewhere.
Saturday, May 25, 2024
Friday, May 24, 2024
Fur Face Friday
Hello and welcome to Fur Face Friday, where we vicarious through the relatively precious travails of our floofy friends. Last week hosted some magnificent floppage. CTSenVy’s vintage Critter shot shows us how it’s done.
Thursday, May 23, 2024
Thursday evening open thread
I may still be out by the time this gets posted, so talk amongst yourselves.
Thursday Morning Open Thread
Honestly, 10 seconds is being pretty generous. Probably deserves to punched by the e In Teams.
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Wednesday Open Thread the Last – Two Nonagenarians
Ninety+ year olds in the news: RIP, Alice Munro who died at 92. I haven't read much of her work but have enjoyed the stories I have. She won a Nobel Prize and had two movies adapted from her stories, and 92 is pretty good. A career any writer would envy but it's always sad when a good one passes. At least I wasn't reading her work when she died.
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| Gordon Pinsent and Julie Christie in Away from Her, Sarah Polley, 2006. Based on "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" by Alice Munro. The cast is terrific. Nice to see Olympia Dukakis and Michael Murphy. (Murphy and Christie were in McCabe & Mrs Miller and Nashville by Robert Altman. – trivia-minded SQRL) |
Wednesday Open Thread the First
Hope the people west of me are doing OK. Sounds like a horrible mess. Winds are still ~ 25 mph here.
Please check in and say "Hi," so we know you're alive.
The news in general is bleak and terrifying, and this particular item isn't necessarily a happy story tho it has a killer title, but at least it's visually rewarding. Per the AP, "Mexico’s often violent disputes between street performers reached a new level this week when a group of guitar-toting mariachis attacked a flame-swallower. What happened next was, perhaps, predictable."
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Monday, May 20, 2024
Mon Day May XXth OT – Doc, I would like a second opinion...
Lorrie Moore won the National Book Critics Circle Award for I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home in March. She's long been one of my favorite short story writers, but I Am Homeless... is the first novel of hers I've read. She's very funny and twisted, there's a sharp edge to her humor. There's a darkness even in her earliest stories, and they've only gotten darker. Themes and humor have remained pretty consistent overall. There's a cancer, sometimes literally, behind every joke. A pun or a riddle at the end of the world. I love her and have been slowly rereading the collections of her work I have in the house.
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| This is the cover of the copy I own (1990) |
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Sunday evening ⚾️T
Back to the field of skunk dreams for another season! It was a little sunny for the team's unofficial mascots to make an appearance.
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| Can you spot the tip of the CN Tower? |
It was a pretty good turn out. Everyone was crowded into the shade under the big leafy tree to my left. Sadly, the home team lost a two run advantage in the 7th to lose to the visitors.
I can also report that they. Sold. Beer. In a public park! In Toronto the Good! On a Sunday! We're actually officially allowed to drink in a designated area around the ball park.
To understand how astounding this is you need to know that some neighbourhoods were dry by city bylaw until very, very recently. In fact, Ontario had laws to prohibit sports on Sundays which weren't relaxed until the 60s. The provincial Lord's Day Act wasn't repealed until 80s.
The 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.
Saturday, May 18, 2024
Friday, May 17, 2024
Friday Evening Post
Good evening.
Wading out after hunting ducks to pick up my decoys. Easy find. No hints
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It is Friday, May 17th, 2024.
Fur Face Friday
It's finally Fur Face Friday! And not a minute too soon. Last week's friends were feeling a little stressed out.
Best Coast/ Codco's Flora
Thursday, May 16, 2024
Thursday evening open thread
It's a gorgeous day here, which I have wasted napping, which segues into; I went to my doctor today for a number of things, including asking why I'm so sleepy all the time, and she asked if I snore, and I said that I knew she was going to think of sleep apnea. So she's scheduling me for a sleep study.
I also mentioned restless legs at night, and she suggested trying a glass of tonic water, which contains quinine, and might help. So I burst out, "That reminds me! That's why the British colonials would drink gin and tonics all time, because quinine is used to malaria"
Blaurgh!Talk
Thursday Morning Open Thread
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Like a 16 Wheeler Jackknifing at 60 MPH Across the Median and Into Your Lane, Wednesday Is Unavoidable, and This Is the OT
On a Zoom call with my wife and the kid's psychologists. Wife is in a conference room at work. We are reviewing a 20+ page report of kid's observed behavior. Dead boring and anxiety provoking in equal measure. About thirty minutes into the meeting, I notice my image in the corner fidgeting and wonder how long I've been doing so. Worse, my chair creaks loudly, and it seems any burst of sound brings the image of the noisemaker to the fore. I'm wondering how often I popped up on the other participants' screens, just rocking or fixing my glasses or fussing with my collar. To them I probably look like I'm doing Chair Yoga*.
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Open Thread
Good evening. I only see the start of an OT that wasn’t finished, so here is an open thread post for tonight. Feel free to bump this one or send it to drafts if it’s unnecessary.
Tuesday Haiku
The snake slithered away
Yet his eyes, having met mine,
Remained.
-Takahama Kyoshi
| Kitagawa Utamaro |
Monday, May 13, 2024
Arms Akimbo, He Boomed Laughter and Declared, "Nothing Beats a Russian Waterfall!" Monday PM (for some) OT
Having worked as a bookseller, I've heard more author names and book titles butchered than most. OWYAC probably has some doozies. I want to make clear I'm not making fun of people's ignorance. Quite the opposite. These people noticed lacunae in their episteme and were willing to risk a tiny bit of dignity to increase their knowledge of the world. Ordinary bravery. I appreciate them.
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| Isabelle Huppert, Godard's Passion from 1982. Probably the Godard work I've seen the most times. Three day rental period back when video stores were a thing, so I watched it seven or eight times in two days trying to make sense of it. |
Sunday, May 12, 2024
Sunday evening OT
Good evening/ night/ morning!
Wishing a happy evening/ night/ day to all the moms and grandmoms in BT village. 🌷
The 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.
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