Maybe Let the Dishes Soak for Bit

Eventually, the few names on the Voyagers' Golden Discs will be the only people whose existence will be recognized from the entire course of human history, of which by that time there may be no record of having ever existed otherwise.

Penelope Keith

You can real Penelope Keith's obituary in the Guardian HERE.

Business & Bullshit Oh My!

Its funny that for at least the last quarter of a century Republicans have tried to sound smart by insisting the country should be run like a business & these are the two business geniuses they’ve come up with so far.

Goals. I Have Them.

Moi Say Moi back in 2011:

I wanna quit drinking so I can be incredibly judgmental and self-righteous. I don't really have a lot to hang over my friends. I'm not rich, or successful; I pretty much go through life like a fucking buffoon. But if I quit drinking and lord it over everybody, then I'd have something! I just wanna be sitting around with my buddies and when I hear one crack open a beer, loudly sigh, "great, HERE we go," and act disgusted the entire time. 

I want all these new & amazing AI music production/recording programs to become the industry standard so I can super-snobbishly say to some young musician "hey buddy I was on the front lines of rock, recording on a goddam reel to machine & sweating out train money back from practice in Manhattan before Brooklyn was even a thing, youngblood."

Probably won't happen, but hey.

 

It's Actually Pretty Easy Being Cheesy, Thank You for Asking

You might remember when I was so happy that the people in the cheese department downstairs were drawing funny faces on the cheese:

I don't know what the hell kind of cheese this is and I sure as hell didn't know cheese came looking like cantaloupe but if you put funny faces on it YES I WILL BUY IT!!

Thanks whoever did this at Wegmans, I needed this today. 🤗🤗🤣🤣❤️

10 months later it's finally time to throw it out - some sort of surely disgusting fluid is gathering against the plastic & threatening to burst open - but I wanted to send Mr. Smiley Cheese McCheeserson off with a proper salute:

🫡

Okay that was pretty lame, in particular when put up against how much joy the smiley faces had on the cheese, but it's at least half the sendoff it deserves which is the best I can do.

They haven't done the faces on the cheese in a while, but I will be looking for them later on today & will be sure to tell the people doing the drawing how much I love it, as I did last time (you now know what it takes to get me to initiate a chat with strangers and it's faces drawn by Sharpies on cheese. )🕺🧀

Just Browsing

Either my eyebrows are trying to escape or they're making money on some sort of Late 19th-Century President Impersonations tour. 😬🤷‍♂️

RIP Penelope Keith

Stone-cold BBC Legend Penelope Keith has died at 86.

She had a great, long life so there's no reason to be extra sad, but this is a big one. Incredibly beloved as a National Treasure in her home country, the discussion was never whether or not she belonged on Mount Rushmore, but which of her characters, Margo Ledbetter or Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, should represent her.

Incredible. I'm grateful I got to know who she was while she was alive.

From my Top 10 BBC Sitcom Characters List back in 2018:

Her role as Margo Ledbetter in The Good Life could’ve easily gone in here since they’re basically the same character, but I chose [Audrey fforbes-Hamilton] because it’s the lead. It takes an amazing actress to pull off a character we’d normally be set up to not like, the sort of English upper-crust who believes people around her exist merely to maintain her own social status. There is a thrill in her initial “downfall”, but we quickly root for her because even though she’s a snob, she’s so damn likable. Partly because she’s of the (maybe?) last generation of “noblesse oblige”; she’s lost almost everything but the idea of letting her butler Brabinger loose out into the cruel world is unthinkable to her. Her role is to desperately fight maintain the status quo of her once and future estate. How good of a character is this? Incredibly, her natural sense of entitlement is somehow endearing.

As this clip below says, she was Comedy Royalty. And yes, she made my THINGS I LIKE list from a few years back. 

Current Events

Trump demanding his followers agree there's a 350-gash in a reflecting pool that's incredibly easy for anyone to observe at any time of the day may be his most strident "blindly believe me like you would God" thing yet.

Sip Club Life

Me every time I'm leaving for Panera:

Garfield du Jour

Xmastime Films

 
 

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Dexter Manley That's Correct, I Said Dexter Manley

Jesus. That was a roller-coaster, this shit could be a short film.

MUKLUKS: Rrthur (YES, ladies, THAT Rrthur!!!!!) 

First Couple Ever Brought Together by the Well-Worn "AWOOOOOOOOOGAH!!!/Googly-Eyes Strategy Celebrates 62nd Wedding Anniversary

Sunday Morning with Xmastime

Christians wanna believe in & fight for a God who is so monstrously evil in his first book that they dismiss it in enthusiastic favor of the sequel of which the main plot centers around God deciding you know what, if you torture and murder my son I might be nice to you. 🤔

This has been Sunday morning with Xmastime.

Xmastime So Sayeth, So Sayeth Xmastime

The people who came up with the idea to use gravel under train tracks should be the people running the country.

Sunday Morning with Xmastime

So...Christians wanna believe in & fight for a God who would start it all by putting two naked people together & then gets upset when they go a little off the rails? Really?

This has been Sunday morning with Xmastime.

Another Country Western Song Title in Search of a Song

There's a Dog Fight at the Panera (and I've Got Tickets)

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"Made Me Sit on His Lap. 0 Stars."

I Don't Think They Mean This.

An Xmastime Audio Prayer Card

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