Bruce Arthurs

I've pointed out a few times that RFKjr has killed more children than Anders Breivik.

Harvest from the front courtyard planter. A pile of purslane next to a pile of basil leaves.

A bowl of pesto made from the previous pic's basil and part of the purslane.

Harvested some basil and purslane from the courtyard planter. Used the basil leaves and a third of the purslane leaves to make a pesto for dinner. Served with fettuccine, and crumbled bacon over the top. Pretty good.

(A dab of pesto on a piece of crisp bacon, sans pasta, is a heavenly snack, btw.)

Have you ever read Ray Bradbury's story "The Fruit At the Bottom of the Bowl"?

(Although maybe that's not the best story to read right just now.)

"figure out how to use what he has to offer" is why I often point out George Hamilton's brief role in DOC HOLLYWOOD as one of the most perfect casting decisions ever.

#BookWormSat
With Summer in full heat, and trees standing in their full glory, what better time to revisit Taliesin’s famous poem Cad Goddeu, the Battle of the Trees? This treatment by Mark Wigan is lovely, though sadly the printed edition seems to be no longer available.

There was an old "imaginary story" (what they called alternate scenarios before they coined "Elseworlds") where baby Kal-El was found and raised by a mobster.

Had chicken feet several times at a dim sum restaurant with wide-ranging offerings. (Long closed, sadly.) A lot like a jumbo version of working the meat off the end piece of a chicken wing.

The Oxbow Bridge, a Colorado River crossing, and a key connection between communities in Arizona & California, was destroyed by fire earlier this week. The classic wooden-trestle structure was first built a century ago, and rebuilt after a similar fire in 1971.

www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

My wife Hilde was a big enough fan of Jo Clayton's work that, at a local con where Clayton read from a WIP, Hilde was able to point out a big continuity error with earlier books Clayton hadn't caught. So the book (BLUE MAGIC, iirc) was revised before publication, and Jo dedicated it to Hilde

Dear U.S. Politicians,

If you are not in my state or my district, please stop asking me for money. Unless there is something particularly unusual about your race, I'm not going to send my limited funds to you when there's so much work to be done right here in Arizona. I'm really not.

Me

Bachelor Chow.

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How can it be apocrypha when the Gospel of Luke is right there?

Imagine if drug commercials weren't required to mention side effects. (And hoping trashing that requirement isn't on Trump's wishlist.)

Wife suffered four years of recurrent jawbone osteomyelitis & multiple surgeries before it came out Fosamax (supposed to *strengthen* bone) was the cause.

A living room with a couch and recliner, both with old blankets helping protect the fabric from cat claws. Multiple cat trees are in front of the room's large window. Seven cats and kittens are scattered around and on the cat trees, furniture, table and floor.

#InternationalCatDay

Can you find all seven cats in the photo?

In a side-by-side review of Piper's LITTLE FUZZY and your FUZZY NATION, I said FN felt like the novelization of a Hollywood version of LF, with changes that would play better on screen. (Younger protagonist, talky stretches shortened or cut, etc.) Once rights untangled, would be an easy greenlight.

96 ounces? Yikes!

I remember a steakhouse near my folks' vacation home, whose 72oz steak was free if you could finish it in one sitting. (Never had the -pardon the expression- guts to give it a try.)

Knowing there was a time when shit just... Worked... Is a real old person vibe these days. I have had to shed that expectation quickly or perish and devolve in Karenism 😆

"C'mon, just kiss already."

Erfurt latrine disaster - Wikipedia

Shades of the Erfurt Latrine Disaster, with poop and people reversed.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt_...

Storage closet?

I have been honestly surprised that no Secret Service agent has yet decided to exercise the Indira Gandhi Option.

Just a plain wooden desk

Now it’s a ladder!!! You open the top and the ladder folds out

I am obsessed with this 1820s desk that converts into a ladder for your library???

Today I Learned:

That Stephen Marlowe (whose Chester Drum detective thrillers I read and enjoyed a fair number of) was actually Milton Lesser, who I knew of vaguely as a pulp science fiction writer but don't think I ever read any of that SF work.

An unbelievably grumpy-looking cherub measuring a polygon with a compass, flanked by two other regular looking cherubs

I forgot to post this horrid little cherub when I first took a picture of it, so here he is to darken your feed

There was a female fan, Leslie David, who was a member of APA-DAVID, an amateur press association otherwise consisting of guys named David (back when apas were fandom's social media of the day). But, tbmk, she never tried her hand at fiction.

"Uvulitis" sounds like it should be the name of a malign god in some bad fantasy novel.

Kyle Rittenhouse wanna-bes?

To avoid any confusion, the above comment is responding to Jordan Harper's repost of my skeet. Harper worked on THE MENTALIST; I wrote an episode of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION.

"one other thing. Anna Sophia Heger is a genuine acting powerhouse. It is not a kid's performance. It a superb, thoroughly professional performance by an actress who happens to be a kid. She is great. She is amazing. Trust me."

(It would be great if Adam-Troy was on Bluesky.)