Putting on the Ritz

For dinner tonight, we are spoiled by using as napkins special embossed
Tuscan-region paper, carefully separated and folded by an authentic Italian
grandmother! Such luxurious treatment!

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1 day ago

And a second milestone for the week. Today I (somewhat unexpectedly) retired.

https://hill-kleerup.org/blog/2024/11/27/and-another-milestone.html

2 days ago

I realize #RandPaul is a hack who will do anything to get headlines ... but the idea of him preaching the gospel of federal law being superior to state law is ... bitterly amusing.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5007771-rand-paul-mayor-denver-deportations/

2 days ago

A major milestone anniversary in my life today: 30 years ago this date, I arrived in #Denver.

Never regretted it.

https://hill-kleerup.org/blog/2024/11/26/rocky-mountain-milestone.html

4 days ago

Our helpful #trash company has provided, free of charge (except as some fractional amount of our trash bill over time) brand new giant #garbagecans which their new trash trucks can easily lift and empty.

Without being concerned, apparently, as to whether folk actually have the space (esp. those of us who keep our trash cans inside the garage, given our snowy winters) for these significantly larger cans.

So I spent the day re-configuring my garage shelving, dagnabbit.

#firstworldproblem

4 days ago

"GOP senator introduces bill to legally erase transgender people"

Dark times ahead, friends. The barbarians are not only at the gates, some folk decided they like the look of the barbarians better, and let them in.

#transrights

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/11/gop-senator-introduces-bill-to-legally-erase-transgender-people/

5 days ago

Time for "Once upon a Mattress" at the #ArvadaCenter!

1 week ago

Every time I think #Republican politicians can't be bigger assholes, they prove me wrong. Every single time.

Looking at you (today), #NancyMace.

#TransRights

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4997024-mace-introduces-bill-transgender/

2 weeks ago

My son sent this to me, and I am so proud.

3 weeks ago

"Elon Musk Criticizes Dana Carvey’s ‘SNL’ Impression, Says Show “Has Been Slowly Dying for Years”"

Is there anything so perennial, and predictable, as a thin-skinned celebrity criticizing SNL for hurting their feelings? It's almost as inevitable as people predicting the imminent demise of SNL.

#ElonMusk #snl
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/elon-musk-criticizes-dana-carvey-snl-impression-show-dying-1236057961/

3 weeks ago

The closing words of Russell's Autobiography.

I am finding them quietly inspiring.

https://wist.info/russell-bertrand/6348/

3 weeks ago

"I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken."

-- Bertrand Russell

3 weeks ago

Here's hoping. #election2024

3 weeks ago

So rather than spending the day doomscrolling, I spent much of it posting (and reposting) quotations about #elections, #voting, and presidential #character at my #quotations website.

Lucky for you, I made a consolidated post at my highly neglected blog, so you can see them all in one place.

#election2024

https://hill-kleerup.org/blog/2024/11/05/quotations-on-elections-and-character.html

3 weeks ago

I can only assume that half the voting public, according to polls, actually *want* things to get "nasty" for a while. Probably because they assume it will be nasty for someone else, and they are okay with that.

We've been warned.

#Trump #nasty

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-warns-voters-second-term-get-nasty-rcna178653

4 weeks ago

I both loved and was deeply disturbed reading the George Stewart's " #EarthAbides " -- a thought-out and morose tale of the collapse of civilization after a 99.9% deadly plague sweeps the globe.

I won't be watching the MGM+ adaptation, though, both because that's a streaming service I don't have, and because either it will be faithful to the original (and deeply depressing), or not (and so depressing in its own way).

#hammer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glHe-86W-4c

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