Tuesday Haiku

 

Right at my feet!

When did you arrive here,

Snail?

-Kobayashi Issa

Tues am Open Thread

 

Rawr.

Monday Evening Open Thread

It's Blue Monday!

Actually, it's Blue Monday Evening.  How was your Blue Monday?  Was it really blue?  Or was it just another Monday?  It seems unfair to Dr King that he has to share his day with a day described as the most depressing one on the calendar.  

Me, I will be celebrating a Blue Friday as I have a birthday coming up and it is one that is giving me trouble.  Last year was a milestone birthday of sorts, and this year is ... I'll put it this way: last year's birthday was the top of the hill, and this year's birthday puts me over the hill IMHO.  We can't even celebrate properly because of the pandemic, so it will probably just be me and Ma Finch sending for pizza.  She offered to make me the dinner of my choice but I don't want her going shopping for ingredients, so I said we'll do something later in the year, when with any luck things will be safer.  But it made me think: what was a really good year?  I remember the year I turned 22 was a really good year. I quit smoking and I went to England and I made new friends and just had a whale of a time that year. The year I turned 40 was the year I went to Malta, and the year I turned 50 was the year I went to Costa Rica, so those were also good years.  But the year I turned 30 was the worst: that was the year I survived knee surgery, the near-amputation of a finger, severe food poisoning and a house fire.  BEWARE THE IDES OF 30.

What was your best year so far?  What made it great?

Hey, you’re getting good at this...

 

It’s time for another installment of Parley Vous Mondays, where each week everyone can chime in with their own different opinions.

Good morning

 

It’s Monday again. That weekend went by way too fast.

Radio Free Sunday

 

Welcome to your evening OT. "What's going on in some of the rest of the world?" I heard you ask.

“Better not to ask where the meat came from”: Stalin-themed kebab shop in Moscow shut down after being open for just one day. https://t.co/6yApfibJnB

— Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (@RFERL) January 12, 2021

Four human rights organizations are calling for immediate support for nearly 2,500 refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers who remain without basic shelter in dire winter conditions in Bosnia-Herzegovina. https://t.co/qfRpJEhHuU

— Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (@RFERL) January 12, 2021

 

His expected return sets the stage for a potentially dramatic new showdown between the Kremlin and Navalny, one of President Vladimir Putin's most outspoken foes. https://t.co/XU2b26TjA6

— Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (@RFERL) January 17, 2021

I'm excited to see if I've embedded these tweets correctly. I haven't tried it before.

How'd the weekend go?

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'm feeling lazy this morning, how about you?

Living on A Rollercoaster – 100 Hours If We Can Make It – Saturday Night OT

 

Some of the worst news I’ve heard in just the past three days is that the MyPillow Guy showed up at the WH and one of the WaPo photographers got a look at his notes, which included phrases like “blame the Chinese” and “martial law”, and that Rudy showed up (which I’m thinking means he has to at least suspect he’s going to get charged by the real non-crooked Feds with something, and he’s angling for a pardon, since he KNOWS he’s not gonna get paid because 45 already stiffed him but if he’d checked with any of the  “little people” at any point where he was angling for a THIRD TERM as “New York’s mayor”, according to Pataki’s book, he would have already known Donald ALWAYS stiffs his contractors).

 

Some of the *best* news, though, is that Vice President Kamala Harris is going to be sworn in by Justice Sonia Sotomayor using SCOTUS Justice Thurgood Marshall’s Bible.

 

Also, it is Lin Manuel Miranda’s birthday today, and it will be Rev Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday on Monday.

 

 

So.

 

Here we are.