Michael Odom

Judith and Holofernes by Caravaggio at the Kimbell in Fort Worth

A tiny green anole outside our house in Dallas. He blesses us inside, I think.

Seven fucking million people, fer cattsake.

Incompetence

Toasted bread slices with dried figs in them on a glass plate with a green and white leaf pattern printed on it

Toasted sourdough with figs for breakfast

Selfie of a 74-year-old man in a black tee shirt. Lettering on the shirt reads "We are Americans. We are not the enemy."

My attire for Saturday

I ask that you not use age as a reason for dismissal. I’m old but not easily slotted into simple categories.

Black plastic pot on a glass top table with a small date palm growing in it.

I sprouted a date seed. Here’s my baby date palm.

Small red bowl with a number of white anchovies, also called boquerones

My appetizer for last night’s dinner in Béziers was marinated white anchovies.

The view of the Allées Paul Riquet from the tiny balcony of our apartment in Béziers this morning.

My latest for CALÓ News:
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The ignorance is embarrassing.

Our dinner was grillades and grits from a recipe in Queen Ida's cookbook.

Oh, yes, it was good.

Appalling ignorance becomes policy.

From "Woodstein!" to "Epstein"

Three imperfect disk waffles on a cooling rack, one with pecans in it.

I made sourdough waffles for dinner tonight. Here are three.

Charlie Kirk was murdered today.

Anyway, one of the sourdough loaves I baked this evening had dried Turkish figs in it. I like it very much.

Presidential pubes!

The crows outside are laughing at a dirty joke one of them told.

I just scheduled two jabs -- Covid 19 & Flu -- for tomorrow at my pharmacy.
Fuck RFK Jr. And not in a good way.

Terrifying prospect

It's my understanding that IRB research standards regarding human subjects came about in response to Nazi medical torture "experiments" after the war and the Nuremberg trials.

It's George Herriman's birthday. He was born August 22, 1880. Here's his creation, Krazy Kat referencing the Navajo Beauty Way Chant:

Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.

Having undergone a mastectomy and a round of chemotherapy, I take this personally.

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My wife got me an "All you Fascists / Bound to lose" ball cap from the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa: shop.woodyguthriecenter.org/collections/...

Lucinda Williams on the turntable "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road"

The whole album is a fucking masterpiece.

The Berlin Museum of the DDR (East Germany) comes to mind. The gift shop was an unironic treat of Communist gewgaws and Leninist tchotchkes.

Relievers need another career.

Put some faux gold on it.