Good morning. It's the last week of November already. Hope all your Thanksgiving stuff is sorted, if you're in the US. If you're not Usonian*, then hey. Have fun cleaning up our mess for the next thousand years.
Be grateful for whatcha got, BT. But also: Being poor is getting tired of people wanting you to be grateful according to Scalzi (in 2005), who's no longer poor, he'll have you know. Hunger still looms large for many though.
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*"Usonian" is a term coined some time during the Victorian period and that Frank Lloyd Wright attributed to British author Samuel Butler in reference to anything in and of the US states, as opposed to "American". That's an inaccurate attribution and the likely minting comes from writer James Duff Law in 1903. Everyone knows Wright's Prairie Style, but he also drafted a bunch of Usonian houses as well. Broad Margin isn't his most famous, but I like it because I like the Thoreau quote from which its name was taken. I detest the house though the large drawing room seems like a good space for a gathering, should you be so socially inclined:
"Shelter should be the essential look of any dwelling." ~ FLW
Now WTF was this post supposed to be about? I don't remember. Oh, yeah. Happy Thanksgiving, Usonians. Chat away.
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ETA – Just heard "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" for the first time the other day. Sure, it's been #1 on the Billboard charts for nineteen weeks, but I'm old. I was surprised by how much I liked it. Actually, you're not old just because you heard a hit song later than everyone else, you're old because you heard the performer's name and the first thing you thought of was:
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