Jim Donahue

It's weird that you can see a post that says "the Nazi has withdrawn," and you have to ask, "which one?"

Symptoms are mild--I got new vax a month ago.

Well, I'm no longer a COVID virgin.

Young further claimed to have set up private meetings between Edwards and Hunter, and that Edwards once calmed an anxious Hunter by promising her that after his wife died he would marry her in a rooftop ceremony in New York with an appearance by the Dave Matthews Band.[109] Young also maintains that Edwards asked him to "Get a doctor to fake the DNA results ... and to steal a diaper from the baby so he could secretly do a DNA test to find out if this [was] indeed his child."[110]

Unforgivable.

Up $700 since last fall.

Nope. I am told home insurance from all insurers is up all over the area.

"We love you..."

He's just not that into you, though.

Challah with sesame and poppy seeds. It's not pretty, but it is tasty.

My first attempt at challah. The braiding wasn't successful (the dough was very wet and difficult to handle), but the taste and texture are very good.

Late last week, I briefly considered using an AI program to create a video of a certain someone sitting on a golden toilet that's overflowing with diarrhea. But a) I don't want to use AI programs and b) the thought is so gross I wouldn't want to share (or see) it.

And then Saturday happened.

I am SO PROUD of you, muscular baby jeb lund!

Wait... am I your father? I've only seen "The Exorcist" once, though it was probably 25 years ago. I have, however, seen Blatty's "The Ninth Configuration" around 10 times.

I love that "A Shot in the Dark" -- the funniest of the series -- was co-written by William Peter Blatty, of all people.

Hmm. archive.is seems to have stopped working for the NY Times.

I wonder how the president was able to save up that much of his own diarrhea. He should really see a specialist.

Sign reading, "America, you in danger, girl" being held by a woman at a No Kings rally

There was one chud in a huge black pickup with a MAGA flag that kept circling in Port Jeff. Only one I noticed.

Crowd at No Kings rally in Port Jefferson, Long Island.

I'm terrible at guessing crowd size, but I'd say about 500 to 600 in Port Jefferson.

German Apple Cake This German apple cake is an easy-to-make, moist, dense cake bursting with fresh apple and cinnamon flavor for a delicious fall treat.

This is a good basic apple cake recipe. (I cut back on the sugar--that's too much.) www.allrecipes.com/recipe/7915/...

Our house insurance was $1.4K in 2022.

Now it's $4K.

Yikes.

POKING A DEAD FROG: Conversations with Today’s Top Comedy Writers

10th anniversary

Amy Poehler

www.amazon.com/Poking-Dead-...

I still find the similarity here to be very odd.

Alida Valli - Wikipedia

Quite a career -- her first film was in 1935 and her last in 2002. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alida_V...

Looked up Alida Valli after watching "Eyes Without a Face" and discovered her full name was Baroness Alida Maria Laura Altenburger von Marckenstein-Frauenberg.

Oh, I don't know--I don't consider this unhinged, but I refuse to read any novel that doesn't use quotation marks to indicate dialogue (and, you know, other basic punctuation). Take that, Cormac McCarthy et al.

You know, I was disappointed to find that the guy who runs the company that makes KIND bars (which I like a lot) is a big booster of Bari Weiss (currently dismantling CBS News), but then I realized that 99.99% of large businesses are run by right-wing nutjobs.

I went to see Dave Brubeck in the early 2000s, and two douchebags a couple of rows behind me almost came to blows -- over what, I have no idea. Didn't actually get physical, but there was much yelling that went on for a couple of minutes.

Every single time!!

"something," dammit. Grrrrrrr.

Archived version. archive.is/YWizc

Bret Easton Ellis Thinks You’re Overreacting to Donald Trump The novelist, whose first book of nonfiction, “White,” is an interlocking set of essays about America, talks about Trump, Roseanne Barr, and giving everyone the benefit of the doubt.

Bret Easton Ellis said some reactionary? Yawn.

Let me refer you to his interview with Isaac Chotiner from 2019, in which he exposes his entire ass. (Paywall, so I'll put archived version in next post.) www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...