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Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory (1966 Emmy Winner)

Good morning everyone.
Well, Christmas is upon us again.
E2 and I will begin preparing dishes today for the big dinner on Thursday. We are expecting over 30 guests this year, so, 2 turkeys and a ham are on the menu.
We try to make as much as we can beforehand so as not to get in a jam on the big day.

The Longest Night

Each trip around the sun seems to speed faster and faster. We better treasure our time friends! I think, we in the west, are indeed in our longest night as our power continues to wane and the BRICS+ model rises. This is a time of great flux. The US, EU, and Israel are doing great harm to their international relationships with illegal wars, economic sanctions, and aggressive attitude. This is the nature of empires. These cycles have occurred over and over through human civilization.

Afternoon folks!

There's some awesome blues music here this week. Starting off is Big Mama Thornton with the Muddy Waters Blues Band in 1966, a really great album, followed by Junior Wells a few years later accompanied by Buddy Guy, Otis Spann and a bunch of other Chicago blues luminaries. After that is an EP that I picked up years ago from a cutout bin of some of Jimmy McCracklin's early hits on Chess records. Following that is James Harman, a fine harmonica player and we finish up with some bluegrass with Peter Rowan - great stuff!

Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!

Good morning, good people! I hope you are all enjoying your weekend and reading The Epstein Files!

I have promised a lawyer from Bryan-College Station that I would let him know if his 78 yr old cancer stricken, bad knees, bad bladder, almost deaf, lawyer Dad was making an ass of himself and maybe setting himself up for a malpractice suit. So, after 10 minutes of watching the man conducting a direct examination of an expert witness, I felt good about him. Later that ay, I asked the attending court clerk how it went, and she said my old, esteemed friend twisted a knife in the back of his young opposing counsel. (Court-speak for getting a win so decisive that appeals would be a waste of time and money.)

Happy Friday everyone. Welcome to Friday Night Photos your once a week escape from the day to day insanity of the world we live in. Post any photos, memes, music or whatever else you find of interest that helps tune out the madness.

(In my best Andy Rooney voice) Do you ever wonder why we say "I caught a cold"? There are a lot of things I would like to catch (your mileage may very}, an award winning photo, the game winning touchdown pass in a football game, the buxom redhead that works at the bank. Hell, I'm even good with catching a 2 for 1 deal on a dozen extra large eggs at the grocery store. What I'm not good with is catching a cold. Coughing, sneezing, body aches and pains, chills, lack of energy, loss of apatite. Snot to mention hacking up all that mucus and phlegm. These are not things anybody I know wants to "catch" So why do we use that term. I propose a change. Instead of saying "I caught a cold" I think we should say "a cold caught me". After all, nobody tries to catch a cold.

If the above rant wasn't a dead giveaway, I have a cold. Symptoms started last Friday with a sore scratchy throat. Things stayed that way through Tuesday. When I woke up Wednesday morning the sore throat was gone. Yippee! Colds gone! Nope. No such luck. A few hours after getting up the cold kicked into high gear with all the nasty symptoms mentioned above. No fun but better this week than next week.

Snowy Egret