The music (Mouret’s Rondeau) is my ringtone. I miss Alastair Cooke.
My childhood was long before this. Sunday night meant Bonanza, with the Cartwrights constantly risking their lives, using their fists and guns to protect the Ponderosa. At the time it seemed to make sense. That was before I heard Jefferson Airplane’s “We Can Be Together” with this lyric:
“All your private property is
Target for your enemy
And your enemy is
We”
My dad cheerfully heating a 55 gallon drum of water over a fire outside so we could take a warm bath in a galvanized steel tub.
@redmanlaw: You always have the best family stories.
In London I loved his Letter From America which was on the Beeb Steam Radio for years. It’s quite wonderful. When I was being maître d’ for a putrid restaurant in London while between engagements, he came in and I had the pleasure of telling him how much I liked it. He came back with friends and I gave him the best table going. Unfortunately they had to serve him the food.
One thing I’ve never understood about Masterpiece Theatre is the need for a ‘host’. WTF?
BURR DEMING • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 Thank you for this, nojo. He was a wonderful talent and, by all accounts, a wonderful human…
NOJO • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 Oh, and there’s a Catholic church across the street. Maybe I can do a little dance for them!
NOJO • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 Now that I’m in NYC, plenty of pigeons to poison in his honor.
NOJO • All the Vice President's Men 2025 update: Nothing happened. And here we are!
MANCHUCANDIDATE • Weeping Angel Imagine going from hope to Fascism in less than two decades enabled by greedy ass (millionaire)…
NOJO • Nightmare at the Museum From the last time he threatened to bomb Iran, 2020. Remember that one? All a misty blur now.
NOJO • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @ManchuCandidate: I have birthright citizenship in Cascadia, so I think I’m good.
MANCHUCANDIDATE • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @nojo: Only the sane parts... like the West coast, New England (minus the Bruins and…
NOJO • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @ManchuCandidate: So, can you guys annex us now?
MANCHUCANDIDATE • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! PP is done. 51st state, my ass.