OK. I'm on vacation for a week when I celebrate my double nickel in July. And I already plan to go to the Norton Simon to see its Goya exhibit. I might also finally make it to the Broad. @slirt and I already have Hedwig and Dan Tana's planned. And I think the Bowl for Ballet Folklorico de Mexico with the BFF. Dinner out sometime that week with wifey.

The pig is a filthy animal.

Filthily delicious.

Wait, what? Rishi Sunak is worth £750 million?!

The internet will usher in a new age of knowledge and understanding.

My Chomsky phase is not one of my proudest...

Oh, Jon. Your irrelevance is stupefying.

Since I just read a piece on Eleanor Morton in The Times (UK), time to catch up on what Craig the Tourist Guide is up to.

#CosoHumor

https://youtu.be/8Qy0Qjd-Wt0

Literally the plot to the Alan Alda movie "The Four Seasons".

Toblerones for the win!

Hey, the Noo Yawk 'tude is its main selling point!

No. No. God, no!

Rainy days and Sundays get the Exchequer down...

"Don't compare me to the Almighty. Compare me to the alternative."

While this works in politics, you may not want to use it in your intimate relationships...

But hey, it got Baillie Gifford to divest from fossil fuels!

Oh, what, it didn't? Well, it got it to stop investing in Israel!

Oh, no, not that either? Hmm.

Well, people on Facebook are impressed!

𝐁𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐆𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐬, 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐑𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐎𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐧

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡-𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦’𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐥 𝐟𝐮𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐬𝐫𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬

https://archive.ph/7gi6B

to paraphrase the tzaddik George Carlin, consider how stupid people are, then remember that half of them are even dumber.

Seems that Rishi got a right pummeling in tonight's debate.

When I was growing up in NYC, I was not a basketball fan. I mean, can you blame me? All I had were the Knicks.

Then I moved to LA in 1985, and started watching a little team called the Lakers. This team was brilliant. It was fierce. It was loaded with talent. It was flashy and entertaining and wondrous. And it was put together by a guy from West Virginia, who, like me, was a transplant to this place of sun and possibility.

RIP Jerry West. You will forever be one of the greats.

#WritingCommunity #Blogging

Today at the Bar, a few words on Hunter Biden, strength, and grace.

https://establishmentbar.blogspot.com/2024/06/there-but-for-grace-of-god.html

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Mornin'.

Purty much.