"Notice how nobody is glad Jane Goodall is dead or claiming her quotes were 'taken out of context'?" ~ Alex Psmith

Roger Zelazny's "A Night in the Lonesome October" My post for today:

Kristi Noem: President Donald J. Trump should stay the hell away from the Superbowl in February. ... ... ... What? She ALSO said only "law-abiding Americans" should go and Trump is a convicted felon.

One of the few Halloween dog costumes I would consider buying if I could have a dog. And I'd make him wear it on every walk.

A funny video about ATTITUDE: www.facebook.com/reel/8102225...

I don't know why everyone is up in arms about Bad Bunny. I watch puppies and kittens during halftime, no matter who's playing.

If they renamed The Department of Defense as The Department of War, can we start using The Department of Revenge instead of the The Department of Justice, the Department of Subsidies instead of The Department of Agriculture and The Department of Real Estate instead of The Department of the Interior?

Can't really use this meme yet but sharing it so others can be prepared when the inevitable happens.

America isn't a melting pot. It's a charcuterie board with all these wonderful flavors but some folks keep insisting it needs more crackers. ~ paraphrasing David Nihill, a comedian who says it much funnier

The Addams Family were a cultural minority whose ways were unusual and sometimes horrifying to whitebread America. The Munsters were a minority (nonhuman) who LOOKED strange but had assimilated almost completely to whitebread America. And if you reject either as your neighbors, you're the problem.

I think I'm still in denial. I've read the statistics. I know the statistics vary depending on certain factors. I am unwilling to alter those factors in my favor because I can't think of a good reason to do so. If I had a pet, maybe I would, but I don't, and it makes no sense for me to get one now.

A.I. Tilly Norwood has an IMDB page. www.imdb.com/name/nm17737... You know what to do.

Such a weak president. Such lack of leadership.

I'm gonna try to comment on each day of "A Night in the Lonesome October" on the day, if I can. I will tag them #LonesomeOctober. October 1: "I like being a watchdog better than what I was before he summoned me and gave me this job." This line is so easy to miss but it raises so many questions.

You know what I hate about Texas? They have their own laws that forbid slandering the dead. That means I CANNOT say, "Charlie Kirk was pro-pedophile as long as HIS kids weren't the ones being diddled by Christian Republicans." But if you're not in Texas YOU CAN. (Check your local and state laws.)

TIL the British sent a spy into Poland in 1964 who was rumbled almost immediately because the spy they sent was actually named JAMES BOND. And Polish counterintelligence were fans of the movies. Oops.

Still think the Republicans are just playing by the rules? Explain why they refuse to swear in Adelita Grijalva who won the election for her Congressional seat. Then explain why Gov Abbott of Texas chose to wait EIGHT MONTHS before having an election to replace a Congressman in a Democrat safe seat.

Taps the sign: You can believe that falling birth rate is a problem, or you can believe that humanoid robots will soon be able to do most jobs, but you can't believe both. ~ John Socks

SCOTUS (trying to avoid getting themselves lynched) temporarily rules against Donald Trump, saying he cannot fire Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors yet, and saying they will hear oral arguments in January. I think they're hoping the orange treasonweasel will be dead by then.

It's "A Night in the Lonesome October" time. Time to re-read Roger Zelazny's classic, one chapter per day. #LonesomeOctober

That's one good way to create art. I'm in the "my doctor told me how I'm gonna die so I better write that book I always wanted to write while I still have time" mode. (It's not REAL SOON but it's less than a score of years.) I've created a protagonist. Now I need a plot to put him through his paces.

I prefer the original but, if this came on the radio, I wouldn't change the station. www.facebook.com/reel/3198677...

Trump just called us "the enemy within" Those are LITERALLY the words Adolf Hitler used to describe Jews in Nazi Germany. Literally the same words.

One of the reasons I am still on FB:

It's OCTOBER tomorrow. Here are my favorite movies & TV shows to rewatch in October: The classics: Dracula, The Wolfman, etc. Children of the Stones (British miniseries) Sapphire & Steel: Assignment One (tv show) Ultraviolet (British miniseries) The Addams Family (1960s tv series) Cat People (1942)

It's OCTOBER tomorrow. Here are my favorite books for October: A Night in the Lonesome October - Roger Zelazny The Earth Witch - Louise Lawrence The Dreaming Place - Charles de Lint The Dracula Tape - Fred Saberhagen the Winston and Ruby short stories by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

In the words of Stonekettle, which values are Christian? If opposing Christian values is illegal, you need to say WHICH values those are. And if a value is BOTH Christian AND radical leftist (like assisting immigrants), which one takes priority? Or is the POINT being able to arrest anyone they want?

It's tough to be pleasant when you're a short-timer, but I'm trying.

With today's revelations, I just wanted to watch this again.

*snort*

Cue the Benny Hill music: www.facebook.com/reel/7834644...

I learn the most amazing things on YouTube. Today, I learned 1920s slang. www.youtube.com/shorts/bgFmz...

#SoAllThreeOfUs decided to learn how to bone but, for some reason, I'm the only one in cooking school.

“Am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening?” I expect your average American citizen to wonder that, not the fucking President of the United States of America.

NSPM-7 is *the* fascist presidential order. Trump and his Toadies can use this to target *anyone* for *anything* from "Overthrow the USA" to "I don't think posters of the Ten Commandments belong in public schools." Text of NSPM-7 here: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Timeline cleanser 🐈

There's nothing quite like an elected representative standing with a school's GUN CLUB when students across the nation are being murdered with guns. (Flower Mound is a rich suburb which is only 3% black and 12% Hispanic, vs 12% black and 40% Hispanic for Texas as a whole, which explains a lot.)

A Blast from the Past ( #abftp ) has begun. The first song is "Cars" by Gary Numan. Not sure if this is going to be a rerun or if there's a new theme using this song. We'll find out. wicronline.org/wicrfm/

I miss being able to pick up the physical Weekly World News at the checkout line in the Supermarket. It was wonderful.

Reminder: #abftp creator and host-emeritus @joeotair.com currently works for New Hampshire Public radio (nhpr.com) and has his own music show on the last Saturday of the month. It's on RIGHT NOW and you can listen online. Here: www.nhpr.org/how-to-liste...

#Caturday !

Dan, you still don't get it. Neither do the Democrats. They're playing for points. Trump is playing for blood--theirs.

This post is an exception to the internet rules: READ THE COMMENTS. They'll make you laugh.

Chronic systolic congestive heart failure ... ... ... ... fuck ... ... ... I'm glad I retired as early as I did.