Mr Quinn lighting up life

There are so many incredible journalists at CBS News. I’ve talked to the 60 Minutes team in the past, and I know them to be meticulous, fair, and deeply committed to getting the facts right. What a shame.

Made some pork tenderloin charcuterie

A load of persimmons to get ready to dry

#at40 This isn't Al Green doing the greatest, most needy, and erotic seduction of a past lover ever. But it's not bad.

#at40 "One man band" is kind of a really strained metaphor. If I was trying to convince a girl to be with me, I dont think I'd reach for that one

#at40 Pay to the piper, and you too can be absolved of your crimes, fast track to become an American citizen, be allowed to flout laws and pollute the environment, discriminate against people, or anything else an obscenely rich person is granted the divine right to buy

#at40 I recall this band, with this immigrant titled song, being honored at a place in DC back when Can't recall the name of the place

#at40 renamed "Donald Trump's and Your Song" Thank you for your attention to this matter

This is cruelly awful

They’re stealing from us. They are stealing from us and we have to put a stop to this. This cannot stand.

This year's Arctic Report Card from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration finds that the northernmost part of the Earth is warming faster than the global average, leading to melting glaciers, shifting fish populations, and rivers running orange. n.pr/4rYZwLP

#at40 "There ain't no good guy, there ain't no bad guy" Dave Mason being whimsical and talking about some fantasyland

#at40 Randy Newman with his, of course, satirical, song about ELO youtu.be/FtbKch8x37o?...

#at40 Björk released her first album in December 1977. She was 12 years old, and still several years from the Sugarcubes and her solo career. Not top40

This is just some ordinary dude no one had ever heard of, quietly getting by, and the administration has decided in a fit of pique to hound him for the rest of his life because otherwise they'd have to tacitly admit they're capricious incompetent villains. Just let him live, ffs

#at40 Mathis just retired at age 90

#at40 Meatloaf and Steinman, masters of the subtle moment

#at40 Patti Smith broke her neck falling off the stage while opening for Bob Seger in 77

#at40 My thought was that this was the 1st kinda meh song Seger had done after a fantastic streak of great music. I really really really hated against the wind lp which soon followed.

Tonight's dinner- broccoli cheddar soup

Covid vaccines released last fall sharply decreased the risk of ER and urgent care visits in children, according to new data released by the CDC — providing a striking counterpoint to Trump administration rhetoric about the shots Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/h...

Driving down the fantasy fiction section at the bookstore

Dec7, stil have one tree producing a few figs. Fighting the cold nights.

#at40 Sly was not listening to Desiderata. Probably the most sludgey hunk of stuttering noise to hit #1, a druggy treatise on the state of America, 1971

#at40 Chi-lites with sonic wonderfulness

#at40 Social justice dressed by Bob Mackie

#at40 Lennon does McCartney and has insomnia.

#at40 "You're my first love, you're my last" Well, shit.

#at40 A year after CSNY's "Everybody I love you" Very DEI

#at40 Cat. Welcome to 2025 where the world soccer organization gives a gold peace prize to a war criminal

#at40 1971, when we could still be innocent and write songs about roller skates....and keys. nvm.

#at40 Coming from MLK,which also spawned Aretha's natural woman, via Jerry wexler, Carole King and Gerry Griffin

#at40 I give you one Freddie Hart. The man of 71

#at40 Summer of 42, the condom movie

#at40 the image of 5 Mormons dressed in black and trying to dance "like a yoyo'" is forever seared into my brain

#at40 Does anyone "brush their shoes" anymore? From Morrison's very very very brief time as a contented human being, married to Janet Planet and writing googly eyed (and excellent) love songs

Feast of the goat

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus... Shocked.

“I became both heroine and heroin to him. And sometimes, a heron, for when we did bird play.”

Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.

Steve Cropper has died at age 84. An obituary from longtime LA music journalist Chris Morris: variety.com/2025/music/n...

Our daughter will, sadly, be leaving New Orleans next year, but will be returning to North Carolina (UNC this time) as one of the very few combined adult/ped heme/onc fellows, something she has long wanted to do and worked tirelessly to achieve It appears she may be at a place of drinking.

Whatever your opinions are about using grazing as a tool, it does require good, proactive management to implement it in a non-destructive manner

This may be the first time I've cooked black eyed peas.

#at40 At best, the third best tonight's the night. Not necessarily a bad thing

#at40 If it's any comfort, muskrats, like many rodents, do commit infanticide.

#at40 Another box. This time it's the funk box on rubberband man.

#at40 Not the Carpenters

#at40 The mind is a weird thing - I worked briefly at a vet office then - one of the techs said Beth was their wedding song. I don't recall her name, what she looked like, but I do remember she told me this odd bit of trivia.