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Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: June 2025

  • Supreme Court decision

    “Age verification for porn – The Court upheld Texas’ law requiring age verification for accessing pornography websites, a decision that was criticized by some as infringing on free speech.” When does this law go into effect? Because I know there’s some 63 year old lady in Texas who tried to watch all the porn this…

  • TWIL: What I learned from the Led Zeppelin documentary

    Just a few weeks ago someone at work referenced the “drummer from Led Zeppelin,” and I said, “Oh the guy with one arm” and someone else said “JOHN BONHAM ONLY HAS ONE ARM THAT’S AMAZING” and then someone else clarified the difference between Led Zeppelin and Def Leppard. Not coincidentally, Gary and I recently watched…

  • Review: The Brutalist vs Paul Simon

    First, three and a half hours for a movie? No. I nibbled through the first half all week in twenty-minute-long chunks, then I watched the second half today. Second, I foolishly thought this movie was about a real person: specifically Riccardo Morandi, a Brutalist architect who encased bridge cables in cement, and no one saw…

  • Skunks: glamorskunk baby and plainjane mom

    This video is three minutes long, but there is some pretty solid baby skunk cuteness there. I assume this is a mother and child because the baby glamorskunk seems very invested in the other skunk’s undercarriage. Perhaps this is the result of the skunk mating I smelled in March. ;

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 6/26/2025

    This week the iris went from this: … to this.

  • New wig

    I have a new wig. On sale it cost 10% of what my usual wig costs. The curls are a little demented, as am I, and they are messy so you don’t get that Mary Todd Lincoln vibe. What amazes me is how it transforms whether pulled up or down. Usually I can’t do down,…

  • Opera Review: Don Pasquale

    Seeing our Don Pasquale made me wonder how other opera companies present Don Pasquale. I always think the OTSL production is the best, but then, I only look into the presentations I like. It’s possible the Met once produced a catchy, uplifting version of The Trial, who knows? The OTSL version nailed the ending, because…

  • Pre-Opera: Don Pasquale

    Food: We ate again at Big Sky Cafe. For the reliability. We know all the dishes. We’ve had all the desserts. And now? They’ve switched up the entire top middle of the menu. This is the second time this season this has happened at a place we ate. Why? Tarrifs? The final SalmonPants Update: SalmonPants…

  • TWIL: Music memory

    I was getting ready for the opera yesterday when Gary came in to chat. “WHAT OPERA ARE YOU GOING TO SEE TONIGHT?” I said “Donnnnnn … something. Don Giovanni? No, Don Pasquale.” “IS THAT ITALIAN? IS THAT MOZART? WHAT’S IT ABOUT?” “I have no idea, Gary. I never know until Anne reads the program and…

  • Raccoon babies: first steps 2025

    Even though Gary isn’t taking the trail cam videos anymore, I can still document the first baby raccoon sighting of the summer. On the night of June 19 these babies joined some baby skunks on the patio. Gary coaxes the wildlife close with a special feeding station right outside the back door. He’ll stay up…