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Am I Out Of Gas? Am I Out of Potatoes?

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I feel like an empty burlap bag.

Maybe it’s because we never get two sunny days in a row around here. That gets to you after a few months. Maybe it’s because nobody living under this roof feels exactly in the pink. Maybe it’s just the nooze wearing me down. Or some combination thereof.

And where is everybody?

All these maintenance errands to do today. Supermarket. Bank. Convenience store (not really convenient at all). Call doctor’s office. Try to get prescriptions refilled, drive to the mall and stand in line, waiting to pick them up. How do I do all that and still do my work?

Ai-ya, time to take my blood pressure…

P.S.–Are any of you seeing these posts as real light-grey letters on a white background, almost impossible to read? That’s what it looks like at this end. *Sigh*

‘A Joke Comes to Life’ (2018)

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What do you think when you see a corny old joke acted out in real life?

Do you think our civilization might be headed up the creek without a paddle?

A Joke Comes to Life

Yup, it’s real, all right. Bottled hot dog water. Here’s some with the hot dogs still in it. Guaranteed to make you smart, just like in the joke about the rabbit poops. (“Hey, Ollie. Remember how dumb I used to be? Well, I’m better now.”  –Stan Laurel)

 

Be Here Tomorrow!

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Why should you be here tomorrow?

Because we’re gonna see history made!

Tomorrow I’ll unveil the first Bell Mountain video anyone has ever made. Made by Katheleen, a talented girl in Brazil–and her approach to the story, well, I think you’ll find it totally unexpected. The dialogue is in Portuguese (hence the Portuguese language cover, above) with English subtitles.

I find it hard to describe my reaction to this video; but delight is a major part of it. Hey, this book is my baby!

Well done, Katheleen–and thank you. (This is just so cool!)

Normal Service Is Being Resumed

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Yup, I’m sick again. This time it’s one of those horrific allergy attacks, sick all day and all last night (I spare you the details). Experience tells me I’ll start feeling better around mid-afternoon today.

I will try to continue. Blog won’t work if I don’t post stuff to read.

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You won’t get a grey tree frog out of it, but at least I can give you a nice picture of one.

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Your Disappearing Comments: Solved!

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So yesterday I finally decided to consult the WordPress Happiness Engineers to find out why some of you find your comments disappearing into the Blahsmos as soon as you think you’ve posted them.

First I got a surprise, a message I’d never seen here before: All the happiness engineers are currently busy, please check back with us later. All busy doing what? I’ve been here ten years and never saw that message till yesterday evening.

By and by I got through–and then learned that my readers’ missing comments are probably in a cache called “Pending,” where they have to be either approved or rejected. I looked, and there they were. “You have to train the algorithm so that it knows what you want or don’t want,” the engineer told me. Well, okay, fine. I got rid of a lot of junk and approved a bunch of comments.

If you try to post a comment and it simply disappears, please let me know: there’s a decent chance that I’ll be able to find it and revive it.

Algorithms. Does that mean “mindless robot”? Stupid robot that dumps everything into the spam folder unless directed otherwise? Yeah, I think that’s what it means.

Machines are supposed to be our servants. [Fourteen-minute laugh break.] Well, at least they don’t steal the spoons.

I Can’t Hear You (Anybody There?)

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Listening, but not hearing

Has WordPress done it to us again? It’s telling me there have been no comments here–zip, zero, nada–since midnight, and hardly any views, for that matter.

I wouldn’t be suspicious, except that yesterday several of you had difficulties seeing the comments that you tried to post. Maybe today it’s my turn not to see them.

Please drop me an email and let me know if you’ve tried to comment today and couldn’t do it. Not that that’ll do any good! But at least I’ll know something’s up.

Or if you haven’t tried it and been frustrated yet, you could try to post a comment and see if it gets through.

Anybody else having problems like this?

They Wanted the Army (?) Called In Against Protesting Parents

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“Yeah, wait’ll they see the tanks come rolling in–that’ll learn ’em!”

This just gets better and better.

Now it’s come out that in early drafts of its infamous “letter” to the, um, president, the National School Boards Assn. “called for National Guard and Military Police to be deployed” against parents objecting to school board policies (https://www.foxnews.com/media/nsba-letter-called-national-guard-military-deployed).

What? They wanted soldiers and MPs deployed to cow parents who don’t like Critical Race Theory being “taught” to children in the public schools–which they pay for?

Apparently so.

One of the drafts said, “We ask that the Army National Guard and its Military Police be deployed to certain school districts and related events where students and school personnel have been subjected to acts and threats of violence.”

Whoa! Where did these “acts and threats of violence” occur? We haven’t been told that, have we? Just take their word for it! Honk if you’re willing to do that.

They also try to deny that they “teach” Critical Race Theory–which they do by changing its name to “Equity Education” or some such bilge as that. Liar, liar, pants on fire.

‘But Is It Art?’ (2017)

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Remember this? A couple of students buy a pineapple at the supermarket and gull the art museum authorities into displaying it as a work of art.

But Is It Art?

Art has been in trouble for a very long time. Oh, you can still find gifted artists. But all the headlines seem to go to the crapola-meisters. And most of the money, too. I knew a high school art teacher whose art was positively gorgeous–and original, too. She was lucky to have the job she had. No way any of her work was going to make it into a museum.

*Sigh*

‘Curses, Foiled Again! No Sea Level Rise for New York, Washington D.C.’ (2016)

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All those dramatic predictions! All that rending of garments and gnashing of teeth! Sea levels gonna rise, rise, rise! And New York and Washington will wind up underwater. The new Atlantis!

Curses, Foiled Again! No Sea Level Rise for New York, Washington D.C.

Imagine their dismay when the sea levels there actually went down a bit.

None of this has ever been anything but a grab for power and wealth at the general population’s expense. “Give us all yo’ money! Give us all the power! Only then can we save you from Climbit Chains!” (“Don’t you wretched peasants listen to the Settled Science???”)

One wonders just how sad the rest of America would be if New York and Washington went under water.