A little Carl Hiaasen will both warm you up and entertain.

There I am. But a friend's granddaughter hid Lucille as a child's middle name recently. I also share my name with B.B. King's guitars. An anesthesiologist once sang Kenny Rogers's song "You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille" as I was being put under pre-surgery. Bizarre moment.

In 2019 I attended a program where the speaker on constitutional law was a professor at Stetson in FL. I asked him who I could follow on that other site to get good legal info on national politics. He said Laurence Tribe. I did, and now I'm happy you moved here.

He looks like a grown-up Schroeder.

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Yes, that line! It's probably my favorite film. And Stalin's son at the hockey rink - "What plane crash? There was no plane crash!" - hysterical! But with this viewing I had a different reaction to Beria's lists and the raids, snatching & jailing people. Too close to current reality.

I re-watched The Death of Stalin (3rd time) a couple days ago and I get a whole new feel about what the fallout will be when their leader is suddenly "not there". Who stabs who in the back?

What a very strange man he is!

A 100 year old hotel built during the FL boom days. A spectacularly beautiful law school.

What country joined? I haven't seen a list. If I travel, I need to know

Yet he sent ICE and DHS to Memphis. Why? Because their mayor is and has been a Democrat for over 20 years. Claimed it was because of crime, but seizures went far beyond the bad guys

I keep an old DVD player just so I can watch films I get from my library. Libraries are treasure chests in our communities. Free too!

Recently cancelled my subscription but will return when Bezos is out as owner and good journalism returns, especially editorially and in national political reporting.

Half through The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's the Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson, for our February book group. I get great ideas for other book group choices from posts like yours.

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

Candles going into our windows at my Florida retirement community tonight for Alex Pretti and for Minnesota.

Running off to work on a story.

In the meantime:

Religious left: still a thing.

I wonder if I'm the only one getting Wizard of Oz vibes here.

St. Petersburg and Tampa FL too.

Isn't this just one more distraction from the Epstein files? We're only days away from the Venezuela distraction. What's on tap for tomorrow?

Reading Fermor is a great way to journey thru Europe in the mid-20th C. I read A Time of Gifts several years ago and still relive memories of traveling with him.

Beautiful film, and those last 15 minutes were just so perfect. Jessie Buckley deserves a couple awards.

The protesters showing up every week to shut down ‘Alligator Alcatraz’: ‘We will end this’ — Guardian US Every Sunday, protesters from Florida and beyond go to the notorious immigration jail and advocate for its closure

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As Ella sings🎷: I didn't know what time it was Then I met you
Oh, what a lovely time it was How sublime it was too.
I didn't know what day it was You held my hand
Warm like the month of May it was
And I'll say it was grand
Grand to be alive, to be young...

He's already dead inside.

Just watched the President's address to the nation.

I've never felt better about our prospects in Florida next November. This state is ready to elect a Democratic Governor.

Change is here. The tidal wave is building. Be a part of it.

My much-older cousin worked for large American oil companies scouting for oil in the Mideast in the 1950s. Why don't we go get "our" oil wells back again from Trump's buddies?

So next we're going to demand all our sugar and banana plantations back from Cuba?

After the tragic events of this weekend, it’s clear: we need to have a serious conversation about gun violence.