Dan Lehrer

Honest question: do you see much progress towards phasing out fossil fuels?

Best. Episode. Ever.

Is that a real quote?

What? Dumped rain like crazy in the North Bay.

I dunno. I’m undecided.

Thank you! Is it my imagination, or is the final panel done in the style of Calvin and Hobbes?

The Red Delicious, a random seedling, was introduced in 1894 and sold by Stark Bros., which really did have the best PR in the nursery business at that time. Of course, the first strain of Red Delicious (originally named Hawkeye) was far better tasting than its redder, darker sports later on.

I notice he used his booking photo for that extra special something.

There’s a new Muppet Show??? What? And here I thought the world had gone dark and Sauron controlled all.

I loved this band too back in the day!

Fantastic!

9 AM for us, so I started eating guacamole at 2 AM, like a colonoscopy prep in reverse.

This isn’t The Onion??

This tree has clearly watched both The Wizard of Oz and Poltergeist and taken notes.

Fair. Unless he’s on BlueSky it’s a bridge too far.

I am petty enough that I would forward this post to the professor.

I figured that was a chapter name, thanks!

Is this The Artist’s Way?

I’ve been lucky and seen a pileated twice in a week, and they are rarely around my neck of the woods.

Wait, so many, many factors brighter than the ISS or Chinese Space Station at its brightest? That is complete garbage. I know I’m a curmudgeon, but I truly cannot stand seeing all the tin cans overhead in the sky at night.

I do wonder how this has been so forgotten during the current crisis. As I recall, when military officials refused Trump’s order to shoot protestors, his response was, “Just shoot them in the legs!”

It’s always Groundhog Day with this guy — he’s never held to past statements.

Yeah, crazy. Wow.

Fantastic photos.

If only there were some sort of system of checks and balances, in which one of the other equal branches of government could step in and stop the evisceration of US law by the individuals charged with protecting it. Oh well, design flaw I guess.

Slightly diminish a band:

Mumbling Heads

A crème brûlée with a tropical flavor — coconut, pineapple, passionfruit, mango, etc., combined with vanilla. Easy to make and always a crowd-pleaser.

though, about the postscript. @hjm.bsky.social writes that Mabel flew for several more seasons before succumbing to untreatable aspergillosis (which I looked up this am). But it’s written in the passive voice. So did Mabel find a new home after that spring molt at the end of the book?

I finished this book last night. I had put it down with a couple dozen pages to go, afraid to finish it a week ago—partly because I didn’t want it to be over, and partly because I was afraid that Mabel would die at the end of the book, given all the foreshadowing throughout.

I was curious,

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You could ask the reporter for an unlocked copy, no big deal.