Susan A. Kitchens

Andromeda #1
Exhibited at Astoria Art Center in May 2025

10 x 10 inch
Pulled mulberry paper on stretched canvas

#paperart #mulberrypaper #interiordesign #comfortart

a baby is sitting on a bed wearing a varsity shirt and crying . ALT: a baby is sitting on a bed wearing a varsity shirt and crying .

Googly eyes! Love it love it love it!

Butternut squash cut in half with the small seed belly looking like a mouth opened in distress with seeds spilling out, and a couple of eyes carved out higher on the fleshy part of the squash. Scene on cutting board with vegetable peeler on kitchen counter.

Finally cool enough in SoCal SanGabrielValley to cook with the oven. Trying Samin Nosrat’s buttermilk chicken recipe.

This little butternut squash (harvested from the communal garden I volunteer in) had an expressive moment in the midst of food prep. It’s now cubed and ready to go in oven.
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I tapped through to read about Beyoncé the Metal Chicken and oh my I didn’t know I needed that but I did. Thank you.

Since the law no longer matters, I think blue states should ask people to pay their IRS taxes to the state...which will then pay out the grants Trump is taking to fund his little mansion.

at this point "is Mike Johnson also in the Epstein Files" feels like a question worth pondering

Good morning.

The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.

Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

This is the best elevator pitch I've seen from Dems on the shutdown.

Flowing into fall with an autumn-inspired paper marbling 🎨🍂🌀 A pattern for future #bookbinding efforts! 📚
#crafts #handmade

Fixed it.

The overall point still stands. We are children in our hearts, remembering sitting in front of the Tee Vee letting Go See Cal Go See Cal get burned into that place in our brains where deep memories go, but nowadays when we look in the mirror, oh my! we are not the children we thought we were!

Ah the ravages of time will soon come for us all.

Sincerely,
A Member of Generation Jones

Okay but KCET did NOT run those cal Worthington late night commercials

President Trump and Congressional Republicans just shut down the government because they refused to stop your health care costs from rising.

Let me be clear: Republicans are in charge of the White House, House, and Senate. This is their shutdown.

I love this. Big metropolis, late night tee vee and someone who made an indelible impression on the boys and girls within the broadcast antenna range of KABC KCBS KNBC KTLA and KTTV

And now those boys and girls are have graying hair and are stooped with age but the jingle oh they (we ) remember it.

I’ll stand upon my head till my ears are turning red

Go see Cal go see Cal go see Cal

youtu.be/QOsLdT4slsk

Nope, not Pasadena public library but LA County Library has a copy.

It’s published by arroyo books in Pasadena

Wonder if there a a copy at Pasadena public library. I would totally go there to look and check it out.

Oops my bad. $110. Obvs Earl Scheib is doing a number on my brain!

There’s a a children’s book of that name and the Cal Worthington story. Book available for $129

Now mixing him up with Earl Scheib, thinking that it isn’t worth a penny over $29.95

www.abebooks.com/DOG-SPOT-CAL...

No! Going straight to my dog Duck Duck Go to learn more about the book, as people do in the 21st century…

Shout out to all my SoCal peeps who grew up on Cal Worthington (and his dog Spot)

Go see Cal, Go see Cal, Go see Cal

Just skimmed the Wikipedia entry and didn’t see anything there, yet.

I came back here to reply that this opinion, and the postcard writer’s statement, is going to send curious people down the Harry Hole rabbit hole

We don't often see anaphora like this repetition in judicial opinions.

"But not all of them." (law firms)
"But not all of them." (higher education)
"But not all of them." (media outlets)

Constructed through footnotes.

WOW: "I fear President Trump believes the American people are so divided that today they will not stand up, fight for, and defend our most precious constitutional values so long as they are lulled into thinking their own personal interests are not affected.”

I hope you found this helpful. Thanks for writing. It shows you care. You should. Sincerely & respectfully, Bill Young P.S. The next time you’re in Boston [the postmark on the card is from the Philadelphia area] stop in at the Courthouse and watch your fellow citizens, sitting as jurors, reach out for justice. It is here, and in courthouses just like this one, both state and federal, spread throughout our land that our Constitution is most vibrantly alive, for it is well said that “Where a jury sits, there burns the lamp of liberty.”

Also he bookends the opening:

Ahead of the case caption, a handwritten note: "Trump has pardons and tanks . . . . what do you have?" Judge Young's reply: "Dear Mr. or Ms. Anonymous, Alone, I have nothing but my sense of duty. Together, We the People of the United States –- you and me -- have our magnificent Constitution. Here’s how that works out in a specific case –- "

AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court –- squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.” “No law” means “no law.”

Judge Young—who has been on the bench for as long as I have been alive—calls it the most important case he has ever considered.

OMG this William G. Young opinion that just dropped (12:30pm) in AAUP v. Rubio.
It begins with a postcard sent to Chambers and Young's reply

card: "Trump has pardons and tanks, what do you have?"

WGY: "We the People of the United States — you and me — have our magnificent Constitution"