Dan Higgins

How the Grinch met your Mother

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

So emotional!

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

Slaughterhouse Double Shift

How high a ridge, they could not tell

At my Latvian tailor doing shots of Taiwanese whisky for Giorgio Armani.

Yeah, I’m thinking about Abundance, an abundance of beers.

Shout out to Randy from Northern Music and Video.

1966 USA # 2 Bobby Hebb - Sunny

Finally, we called a MUSIC STORE and hummed a few bars to a guitar sales guy we sort of knew. It worked!
The song, btw, was Sunny, by Bobby Hebb. He wanted to use the chord progression to practice improvising.
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in college, we had a friend from Japan whose English wasn't so great. He was a brilliant blues and rock guitarist though, and was studying classical guitar.
He wanted us to hear a song but couldn't remember much of it. It drove us all nuts because we wanted to crack the code. ..

The fact that so many public schools still lack air conditioning feels like a moral failure. (Also, bureaucratic failure, political failure, messaging failure, etc).

You won't learn to write well unless you read a lot

"Where are the leakers, journalists, etc.?" they ask. Yes, please. Why can we find no, you know ... I guess "evidence" would be the word?
Almost there, Rasmussen Reports. You alllllmost got it.

The dream is for all our iCloud accounts endlessly emailing each other without our intervention or knowledge, while we revert back to a more feral state.
But then there will be more warlords.
Anyway, I think I just had a libertarian sex fantasy

Oh, well I’ll be dipped. This is a pic of the actual rag man and - possibly - the actual horse my father harassed.

Oh, the prompt was: "Show your age with a vague benchmark," or something.

Re: Petty Carping. There's no feeling quite like opening a vein to finish a piece of personal writing and publish it, only for someone to send you a helpful note that they don't believe in splitting infinitives.
It's very much: "Otherwise, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?"

My father's neighborhood had a "rag man," who went up and down the streets in a horse drawn carriage, selling rags. My dad, who was six or seven at the time, got in bad trouble for putting a piece of long grass in the horse's nostril.

I also learned that Frank Sinatra once rhymed, "For Heaven rest us/ I am not asbestos." (Technically I guess it was Oscar Hammerstein and Dorothy Fields who did the original rhyming).

Learning a lot this week as I teach a 40 hour course to unionized construction workers.
"You don't want to get two checks today" = don't do anything to get fired.
"Must be the shop steward" = the guy who is most attentive to when lunch time starts.
"If you're not in a hurry, you're behind."

Yeah the T9 texting dialect is already ancient history. “R U there?” Is the equivalent of someone who puts their ball cap on backwards and sits backward on a chair to have a rap session with youngsters.

This is miserable a*****e erasure

well don't leave us hanging !

The rat is making supper while hiding under your hat, yes?

Oh, you must also have a tween son.

When he says, "Remember, you worship one," he is revealing more than he perhaps intended.

I never understood that movie or its appeal.

Hey! I'm "casting a wide net," as they say. So yes, teaching and other options are on my list.