Oh, I Think So

Yes, yes, y'all, Halloween is in six days and it's time to get ready to decorate your head with frippery even if it's just for your own amusement.  Do you want to create a t-shirt?  We turn to Oonaballoona on YouTube who will teach us how to make a graphic t-shirt.  Want a face mask for the face that will fit over your regular face mask?  Thanks to the New York Times for teaching us how to make one out of paper mâché.  These things can be worn whenever you need a lift.  Boo!  Let's hope that Halloween is the scariest thing that happens in the next two weeks. And here is for the mask -- yes, you will need to copy and paste it. https://nyti.ms/35o8NUa

I have voted via mail, choosing to deposit the ballot in a secure box at the early polling place in my neighborhood.  My vote has been received and will be counted on November 3rd as that is how they roll in Illinois.  The only political thing I have to say is this:  A certain someone has some very unpleasant followers who know neither history nor facts nor the Constitution nor any other law.  They could make things go unpleasantly faster than anyone can imagine and so I tell you this:  Stock your pantry, buy toilet paper, have bottled water on hand.  If you can't go out then you can at least have food and drink and a way to wipe yourself.  Perhaps have some Wet Wipes on hand in case you want to freshen up and the water's not suitable for bathing. Meanwhile, here are Nanette Fabray, Jack Buchanan, and Fred Astaire from "The Bandwagon."  It would be fun to shoot the other two and be only one.  It was a different time, y'all. (Movie clip courte...

The person to whom I sent the postcard last week called our mutual friend and said, "I think I got a postcard from Lena."  I see her maybe once a year but she knows my sick humor and that is wonderful.  Another friend to whom I've not spoken in many years called other mutual friends and said, "I think sent me this card."  Yes, he laughed.  And yes, she had laughed, too. I talked to a friend on Friday for her birthday and I asked if she got her birthday card and a postcard.  "Postcard?" she asked.  I described it and she laughed and laughed.  She said she couldn't figure out who had sent it but laughed as if she had just gotten it in the mail. This week I sent out some more, including two that were not at all political; they were me, wearing a Covid mask and a sleeping mask.  My hair is awful and as one friend said when I sent him the picture as a text message, "Really?"  One recipient has already received it and she said she laughed and l...

 It has been a crazy busy news week.  Unfortunately, I've turned into my parents and convinced myself that I must follow all current events always which as hobbies go is depressing, overwhelming, disheartening, and exciting all at once.  This week featured the biggest clusterfuck presidential debate of all time.  It was described by one CNN reporter as a shitshow.  It was not even that dignified.  President Trump mocked Vice President Biden for wearing masks. Big masks.  The biggest masks you've ever seen. On Friday, we all woke up to find out that Trump had tested positive for Covid-19.  Later that day he had to be admitted to Walter Reed Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland.  A big military helicopter went from the front lawn of the White House -- why from the front lawn?  He could have gone from the back just like always.  (I think Mr. Fella wanted some sweet attention.)  This time he wore a mask.  Suddenly it's a serious ill...

In these very weird times, I've had to find something to make me laugh.  In his column of today, Nicholas Kristof of the NY Times shared a quote from George Orwell:  "Every joke is a tiny revolution."  I've been making as many tiny revolutions as I am able. Only one person has gotten two cards and there have not been too many sent but enough that I think about it and it makes me smile. Years ago on the website ICanHasCheezburger.com, before it is was bought and changed, before many of the categories like politics and graphs were removed, I used to have a delightful time writing memes.  It was a wonderful hobby.  There was a beautiful day that I had three different memes on the front page of each of three categories -- cats, politics, and graphs.  But the site became unwieldly as the new owner added in so many ads that it was hard to read the memes, let alone create them,  and I just gave up. My hobby of political memes is back in the form of postcards!...

YES!  It's Joan Ruth "Kiki" Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America.  One of the brilliant legal minds of ours or any age, Justice Ginsburg passed away on Friday at the age of 87.  Her dying wish was that her replacement be appointed by whoever wins the November election.  Trump and his dear friend, Moscow Mitch McConnell, will try to make sure she doesn't get her wish. When asked about being compared to Notorious BIG, wearing a crown and sunglasses in a meme like he did, RBG said, "He and I had lot in common."  The audience laughed and she said, "We were both from Brooklyn, born and bred." RIP, RBG. Bill Clinton introducing RBG as his choice to serve on the Supreme Court. Courtesy of NY Times Martin Ginsburg, standing, at the Senate confirmation hearing of RBG. Courtesy of NY Times A normal woman with an extraordinary mind and heart. Courtesy of NY Times