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Month: May 2020
Anti-Virtue Scolding Hot Links
Happy Mothers Day.
RIP Little Richard Penniman (1932-2020).
A fruit tested positive for COVID-19. So did a goat and a sheep.
Amazing milestone: First US Space Force recruitment video was released 6 May 2020.
36% of voters would turn in their neighbors for ignoring stay-at-home orders. That is disturbing.
Top image: Old man arrested for fishing under quarantine rules. Photo essay here.
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
Not sure what happened to the side bar. I blame meerkats.
Cutesy little standy-uppy weasel-lookin’ bastards.
Saturday Matinee – Thee Lakesiders, Thee Sinseers, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, & Taj Mahal
Thee Lakesiders have a good East L.A. retro vibe that kinda matches my mood lately. Let’s groove it up a bit.
More East L.A. R&B, this time from Thee Sinseers.
St. Paul & The Broken Bones successfully channels the Stax Records sound, and my mood is improving a bit.
Taj Mahal takes a ride around town, pickin’ the classics, and I feel better.
<vent>Way too much stuff went down in meatworld this week, some very good, some pretty bad, and the latter was starting to get to me. Backing into a BMW SUV in a hospital parking lot didn’t help either – just one more damn thing to accept and deal with. Yeah, the Lord’s testing me…</vent>
Ah well, have a great weekend, folks. Wear masks if you have to, don’t if you don’t. Do what you want and ignore the scolds – they’re not going to eat you (unless you let them). See you tomorrow.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 633 – Breakfast Chump, Shotgun & Dog Fish
“Roof roof roof.”
Werewhale?
Big Busts
4 May 1970 – Kent State
Remember Always
Who Set It Up and Who Paid The Price
It began when left-wing activists from off-campus arrived by bus on Friday May 1 1970 to host a May Day protest rally. Kent State, a small university in northeast Ohio, had been chosen.
My WebEx Meeting Notes for April 2020
9AM daily. Pen on paper, 8-1/2 x 11
Rebullitional Hot Links
Crash crash ding tinkle tinkle
THIS.
From the Too Much Botheration Dept.:
Lotta frustration these days.
Mientras tanto en España [sound up].
Twitter thread of creepy objects posted by museum curators [via].
It rhymes with “biscuit,” but what does the name “Triscuit” really mean? (Mystery solved!)
For 36 years Military specialized in publishing 1st hand accounts from WWII to the present. According to the editor, June 2020 will be its final printed issue.
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From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
Tacky Raccoons 