Roger Zelazny. Roger.

Didn’t get a picture, but as I walked the dog yesterday evening past the sandbox and swings in the park, there was a young Asian man standing there, playing an ukulele, and singing Country Roads to a three- or four-month old baby in a stroller. Made my whole day better.

Well, I have now. Can't dance to it ...

I love that everyone knows who "he" is. When you say you've go champagne for when "it" happens, everyone knows. When you say "big beautiful obituary", everyone knows. Even the cult members know. That's the cherry on top. 🤣

Daughter-in-law got me a hat:

Supposedly, a lab tech was infected with Yersinia pestis -- plague -- in Russia. Caught early, antibiotics can treat plague. The bacterium is much larger than the virus that causes Covid-19, and an N95 mask should protect a wearer. If it's the Black Death and it spreads quickly? We'll know.

Ahem…

With this monopolized media empire comes not just size but unprecedented power. The power to throw workers under the bus. The power to price-gouge because consumers have few alternatives. The power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told.

Some people asked about Sinners and here's my position: Sinners a vampire film but not genre film, which Near Dark certainly is. Sinners uses vampires as a metaphor for the European invasion and oppression & uses all the gothic tropes. Sinners is a great American film, not just a great vampire movie

Telnaes:

A crackers cracker with crackers … A perfectly good sentence with three different meanings for one word.