Kate of Kate Hall

Lovely!

Good news! I did some research and there's a Nuremberg in Pennsylvania. It's kind of small, but I bet we can make it work.

I’m old enough that I remember the battle of the Carmens. And that was when you had to choose instrumental music out of copyright. Why have I watched Unchained Melody, Gladiator and Elenor Rigby so many times in the last week? What playlist are these skaters listening to?

Possibly the last time I went to mass with my mother, the priest quoted that line. I think about it all the time.

This is exactly the point. We don’t have to resign ourselves to the compromise candidate if we just find a better candidate. We have time!

I really want some Aussie who wins to do the Kangaroo hop move.

And the replay of the Brazilian commentators…amazing!

I am playing Olympic catch-up, between working with the dog trainer on deaf puppy manners, and birthday cooking for my forever Valentine. But the Brazilian skier? Oh my heart!

I don't know why Newsom's 2026 Ronald Reagan Day proclamation is suddenly going viral but for the record he has done this every year in office and I have the receipts for you. (I make this thread only to further point out that Gavin is a shitheel but also proclamations like this are widespread.)

well it’s too bad I already declared today and every day Fuck Gavin Newsom Day

Reporter: “no time to process”
Me: no shit! You are not giving him any time to process!

I am newly obsessed!

“Which way to Quincy Market?”

I used to live in Quincy, and one fall there was a group of young people who went to Harvard. We knew they went to Harvard because they spoke loudly about it as if there was a prize for who could work the word in the most. They departed at Quincy Station and just before the doors closed we heard:

I used to work at an org where one of the heads literally wrote the book on terrorism (almost 30 years ago). One point that stayed with me was her point that terrorism is a tactic, not an ethos. You can no more have a war on terror than a war on carpet bombs.

Please read this whole thread.

“We must not look away.”

Hooray!

I have a history of colorectal cancer in my family. I had to fight and argue to get a colonoscopy at the age of 45 (clear as was the result for my eighty something father the same week!). Argue. Advocate. Don’t take no for an answer. Early detection saves lives! (And get your mammogram!)

I read this to my wife.

My wife: Oh my god! ET!

This was in response to another thread, but seriously, we all deserve flowers!

Five small vases with abundant pink flowers.

I have to have tiny arrangements in small vases on a high shelf because my cats are punks. But every two weeks I grab carnations, alstroemeria, and (other)(sometimes spray roses, sometimes sweet peas, sometimes something that pops in the moment). We all deserve flowers.

Northwest DC is absolutely crawling with police right now, but the reason turns out to be surprisingly wholesome

A gin martini with olives and some extra sparkles from a bartender who embraces both glitter and joy!

Our favorite bartender is absolutely willing to add glitter to any drink. Up to and including water. That is the joyous energy we need right now!

I am at a bar, in a not particularly blue county. And a couple asked to turn on the women’s hockey, and the whole bar is so invested, and everything sucks except that.

All tales told, not a great day to wake up at 5 for women’s alpine skiing and stay up for the Super Bowl (no glory kept from Breezy Johnson, who is magnificent!)

OMG! Yes!

football is gay in spanish now. sorry i don't make the rules

This is such an excellent history of the best ever halftime show ever! (said w 6 minutes to go in the second corner). A joy to read.

Thank you for all of this background. I’ve loved it bc it was great. It’s amazing to understand the importance.