The afternoon is over. Seven copies of Basil, Pepper, Salt, Garlic Greens: a Year in a Witch's Kitchen remain unsold. Further reports tomorrow.

Oops. I accidentally shared spoof info on Milli Vanilli. The surviving performer IS in the group and trying to make a comeback. Meanwhile, the musicians whose voices were lip synched say they are the real and only Milli Vanilli.

Dragonstairs Press is down to eight copies of the chapbook unsold. Will there still be copies available in the morning? Stay tuned!

Oh, and I just learned that Milli Vanilli doesn't include the surviving member of the original group. And that the new guys lip synch just like the old guys. But are STILL not desperate enough to commit to the president's vanity concert.

At the two-hour mark, there are eleven chapbooks left.

At the one hour mark, 17 out of the 80 copies of Basil, Pepper, Salt, and Garlic Greens: a Year in a Witch's Kitchen are still available for purchase at www.dragonstairs.com I think I'll take Marianne out to lunch.

Sales are slowing. It looks like there will be chapbooks available at the one-hour mark.

Coming up on the half-hour mark, there are only 20 copies of Basil, Pepper, Salt, and Garlic Greens: a Year in a Witch's Kitchen still available for purchase. At www.dragonstairs.com

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At the ten minute mark, 27 copies of Basil, Pepper, Salt, and Garlic Greens: a Year in a Witch's Kitchen are still available for purchase.

At the five minute mark, 33 copies of Basil, Pepper, Salt, and Garlic Greens: a Year in a Witch's Kitchen are still available for purchase.

49 copies of the chapbook are still available for purchase.

The edition is eighty copies of the chapbook, of which 77 are available for purchase. At www.dragonstairs.com

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Yodae.

Freedom 250, "the Great American State Fair" will be sixteen days long with big names such as Vanilla Ice & half of Milli Vanilli. Meanwhile, the Alaska State Fair has Megadeth, Ziggy Marley, Modest Mouse, Amy Grant, Lyle Lovett, & the Beach Boys. Also livestock. Real state fairs have livestock.

I am banging the drum for Dragonstairs Press's newest chapbook: Basil, Pepper, Salt, and Garlic Greens. Which goes on sale Saturday. Today, I present its opening paragraphs. If you read them, you'll know whether and how much you want to own a copy. floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2026/05/comi...

Cocktail Hour! Tonight: Stork Clubs. Accompanied by avocado bouquet white flowers bought to celebrate Marianne's first stork.

I can remember all the fuss around the Bicentennial fifty years ago. So it's really miraculous that our president has made us so ashamed of our country that the Semiquincentennial has been awfully quiet so far.

I thought surely the only award a story containing the line "She smiled like sunrise over a sink" could possibly win was the Lyton-Bulwer. I was wrong. This article about the latest literary kerfuffle is interesting from beginning to end: theconversation.com/what-do-the-...

Friends of Dragonstairs Press, rejoice! Marianne has created another beautiful and lovingly crafted chapbook! Details on my blog. floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2026/05/a-ne...

When was the last time you heard a republican say the words "balanced budget?"

Sneak peek at Marianne's next Dragonstairs Press chapbook in an larger than usual edition of 80. Not yet announced.

The storm front is passing through Roxborough. The temperature fell 23 degrees in only a few minutes, and the street filled up with water almost instantly.

Tachyon Publications has a 20% off sale this weekend. Details on my blog. floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2026/05/big-...

Pistil shadow.

Guardian cat.

Main Street is yuppified but Old Manayunk is only a heartbeat away.

Having a drink with my lady in Bar Jawn.

Cocktail Hour! Tonight, daiquiris served with baked brie topped with raspberry mostarda and crackers.