Friday, January 5, 2018
Friday, November 24, 2017
Friday Five (plus one)
It's the fourth Friday of November. Yesterday we had a nice, quiet Thanksgiving with just the two of us here (while keeping in touch with a number of distant friends through the day).
My hubby found a 10-pound turkey, which is a good size for a small group and still let's us have lots of leftovers. I used a recipe from The Science of Good Cooking as a guide. Short version: put turkey breast side down, drape bacon over the back, bake at 325º until meat thermometer reads 165 in the thigh; pull out and turn oven to 425º, remove stuffing and bacon, flip turkey over, drizzle with olive oil, put thermometer in breast, return to oven and cook until temp is 185. It came out delicious. We also green bean casserole, mashed sweet potatoes (as I continue me quest to replicate my Great-grandma S.J.'s heavy cream and molassis laden delicacy), giblet gravy, sweet potato pie, cranberry sauce, and a sinful collection of olives, pickles, pickled veggies, nuts...
It was a nice, laid back holiday. And I suspect all my conservative relatives heaved a big sigh of relief when Mom told them we weren't coming. But enough about that.
Welcome to my Friday Five: Only the top five (IMHO) stories of the week and five videos (plus notable obituaries and a recap of my posts).
John Crace on Milton's contribution to the english language .
At This Point, Evangelical Christians Are Persecuting Themselves.
Right Wing Group Blasts “Stalwarts Of Christian Morality” For Covering Up Sex Assault By Former Rep.
11 lives were lost in 11 days. For the LGBTQ community in Utah, enough was enough.
FCC looks to destroy the internet as we know it.
Gifted Singer and Actress Della Reese Dead at 86.
Della Reese, Singer and ‘Touched by an Angel’ Star, Dies at 86.
Remembering Della Reese, the tough angel.
David Cassidy, '70s teen heartthrob, dies at age 67.
David Cassidy was the biggest star in the world — for about two years.
Facebook (Still) Letting Housing Advertisers Exclude Users by Race.
Weekend Update 11/18/2017: More pictures, more words.
Tea and books and maintaining an even keel.
Assault, harassment, and cluelessnes.
Trying to remember to be thankful.
Day of Mourning.
open heart open mind:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Incredibles 2 Official Teaser Trailer:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
DEADPOOL 2 Official Teaser Trailer #2 (2018) :
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
A Wrinkle in Time Official Second US Trailer:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Steve Grand - Walking - OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.) P!nk - Beautiful Trauma (Official Video): (If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
My hubby found a 10-pound turkey, which is a good size for a small group and still let's us have lots of leftovers. I used a recipe from The Science of Good Cooking as a guide. Short version: put turkey breast side down, drape bacon over the back, bake at 325º until meat thermometer reads 165 in the thigh; pull out and turn oven to 425º, remove stuffing and bacon, flip turkey over, drizzle with olive oil, put thermometer in breast, return to oven and cook until temp is 185. It came out delicious. We also green bean casserole, mashed sweet potatoes (as I continue me quest to replicate my Great-grandma S.J.'s heavy cream and molassis laden delicacy), giblet gravy, sweet potato pie, cranberry sauce, and a sinful collection of olives, pickles, pickled veggies, nuts...
It was a nice, laid back holiday. And I suspect all my conservative relatives heaved a big sigh of relief when Mom told them we weren't coming. But enough about that.
Welcome to my Friday Five: Only the top five (IMHO) stories of the week and five videos (plus notable obituaries and a recap of my posts).
Stories of the Week:
John Crace on Milton's contribution to the english language .
At This Point, Evangelical Christians Are Persecuting Themselves.
Right Wing Group Blasts “Stalwarts Of Christian Morality” For Covering Up Sex Assault By Former Rep.
11 lives were lost in 11 days. For the LGBTQ community in Utah, enough was enough.
FCC looks to destroy the internet as we know it.
In Memoriam:
Gifted Singer and Actress Della Reese Dead at 86.
Della Reese, Singer and ‘Touched by an Angel’ Star, Dies at 86.
Remembering Della Reese, the tough angel.
David Cassidy, '70s teen heartthrob, dies at age 67.
David Cassidy was the biggest star in the world — for about two years.
Facebook (Still) Letting Housing Advertisers Exclude Users by Race.
Things I wrote:
Weekend Update 11/18/2017: More pictures, more words.
Tea and books and maintaining an even keel.
Assault, harassment, and cluelessnes.
Trying to remember to be thankful.
Day of Mourning.
Videos!
open heart open mind:
open heart open mind from Jared Crowelle on Vimeo.
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Incredibles 2 Official Teaser Trailer:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
DEADPOOL 2 Official Teaser Trailer #2 (2018) :
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
A Wrinkle in Time Official Second US Trailer:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Steve Grand - Walking - OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.) P!nk - Beautiful Trauma (Official Video): (If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Friday, November 17, 2017
Friday Five (hold tight)
It's the second Friday of November. That means it's NaNoWriMo time and I'm frantically writing every day.
Welcome to my Friday Five: Only the top five (IMHO) stories of the week and five videos (plus notable obituaries and a recap of my posts).
THE 50 BEST SUPERHERO MOVIES OF ALL TIME.
95% of corporate earnings go to dividends and stock buybacks ($1 trillion a year). That is money that used to go into R&D, wages, pension programs etc. Now it goes to Wall street and the top echelons of the income ladder.
How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met.
The Fungus That Turns Ants Into Zombies Is More Diabolical Than We Realized.
America’s ‘Retail Apocalypse’ Is Really Just Beginning. It’s not really Amazon and other online shopping, it’s the mountains of debt all the retail chains amassed buying one another.
The Strange, Sudden Death (65 years ago) of the Author of Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny.
Vincent Warren, love of poet Frank O’Hara’s life, passes away at 79.
Straightsplaining and ‘No homo’ are still very much things.
It’s been twenty years, but it still hurts.
John Oliver signs off for the season with these three warnings about Trump:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Roy Moore & Jeff Sessions Cold Open - Saturday Night Live:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Fall Out Boy - HOLD ME TIGHT OR DON’T:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
The moment the YES dropped. Marriage Equality result release Melbourne:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Alfie Arcuri Love Is Love:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Welcome to my Friday Five: Only the top five (IMHO) stories of the week and five videos (plus notable obituaries and a recap of my posts).
Stories of the Week:
THE 50 BEST SUPERHERO MOVIES OF ALL TIME.
95% of corporate earnings go to dividends and stock buybacks ($1 trillion a year). That is money that used to go into R&D, wages, pension programs etc. Now it goes to Wall street and the top echelons of the income ladder.
How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met.
The Fungus That Turns Ants Into Zombies Is More Diabolical Than We Realized.
America’s ‘Retail Apocalypse’ Is Really Just Beginning. It’s not really Amazon and other online shopping, it’s the mountains of debt all the retail chains amassed buying one another.
In Memoriam:
The Strange, Sudden Death (65 years ago) of the Author of Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny.
Vincent Warren, love of poet Frank O’Hara’s life, passes away at 79.
Things I wrote:
Straightsplaining and ‘No homo’ are still very much things.
It’s been twenty years, but it still hurts.
Videos!
John Oliver signs off for the season with these three warnings about Trump:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Roy Moore & Jeff Sessions Cold Open - Saturday Night Live:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Fall Out Boy - HOLD ME TIGHT OR DON’T:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
The moment the YES dropped. Marriage Equality result release Melbourne:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Alfie Arcuri Love Is Love:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Friday, November 10, 2017
Friday Five (flipping)
It's the second Friday of November. That means it's NaNoWriMo time and I'm frantically writing every day.
As I explained a couple of weeks ago, my long-running weekly round up of all the links I thought worth sharing has been retired, replaced by this, my Friday Five. Only the top five (IMHO) stories of the week and five videos and a recap of my posts.
No Matter How You Measure Them, Mass Shooting Deaths Are Up.
At Indigenous Comic Con, Native American geeks have a con to call their own.
Hating Comic Sans Is Ableist. I understand what the author is trying to say: a lot of dyslexic people find Comic Sans' irregularities helpful for reading. But the fant is ugly and poorly designed. I reserve the right to dislike poorly designed things, sorry. And everyone else is allowed to disagree. Doesn't make any of us any -ist...
America Is Not a ‘Center-Right Nation’.
This fungus has 20,000 genders and can mate with almost every individual in its species just by bumping into them.
I will continue to share links to obituaries of people I think ought to be remembered, and they won't count against the Five.
Dick Gordon, NASA Astronaut and Apollo 12 Pilot, Dead at 88: Retired space flyer was one of only two dozen people ever to have journeyed to the moon.
Astronaut Richard Gordon, who circled the moon on Apollo 12, dies at 88.
The closet is a toxic place, and anything toxic can be weaponized.
It isn’t unfathomable at all!
Close the Boyfriend Loophole | November 1, 2017 Act 2 | Full Frontal on TBS:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Danica Roem On Historic Victory: Inclusion And Equality Won:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Democrats Get Their First Big Electoral Wins of the Trump Era: A Closer Look:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
The 'Stranger Things' Kids Were Nearly a Motown Super Group:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Pussy Riot - Police State:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
As I explained a couple of weeks ago, my long-running weekly round up of all the links I thought worth sharing has been retired, replaced by this, my Friday Five. Only the top five (IMHO) stories of the week and five videos and a recap of my posts.
Stories of the Week:
No Matter How You Measure Them, Mass Shooting Deaths Are Up.
At Indigenous Comic Con, Native American geeks have a con to call their own.
Hating Comic Sans Is Ableist. I understand what the author is trying to say: a lot of dyslexic people find Comic Sans' irregularities helpful for reading. But the fant is ugly and poorly designed. I reserve the right to dislike poorly designed things, sorry. And everyone else is allowed to disagree. Doesn't make any of us any -ist...
America Is Not a ‘Center-Right Nation’.
This fungus has 20,000 genders and can mate with almost every individual in its species just by bumping into them.
In Memoriam:
I will continue to share links to obituaries of people I think ought to be remembered, and they won't count against the Five.
Dick Gordon, NASA Astronaut and Apollo 12 Pilot, Dead at 88: Retired space flyer was one of only two dozen people ever to have journeyed to the moon.
Astronaut Richard Gordon, who circled the moon on Apollo 12, dies at 88.
Things I wrote:
The closet is a toxic place, and anything toxic can be weaponized.
It isn’t unfathomable at all!
Videos!
Close the Boyfriend Loophole | November 1, 2017 Act 2 | Full Frontal on TBS:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Danica Roem On Historic Victory: Inclusion And Equality Won:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Democrats Get Their First Big Electoral Wins of the Trump Era: A Closer Look:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
The 'Stranger Things' Kids Were Nearly a Motown Super Group:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Pussy Riot - Police State:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Friday, November 3, 2017
Friday Five (scientific serendipity)
It's the first Friday of November. That means it's NaNoWriMo time and I'm frantically writing every day.
As I mentioned last week, my long-running weekly round up of all the links I thought worth sharing has been retired, replaced by this, my Friday Five. Only the top five (IMHO) stories of the week and five videos and a recap of my posts.
'Scientific Serendipity' Spurs Discovery of New Orangutan Species.
Twitter Suspended Me for Trolling White Supremacists.
‘Kids are gross’: on feminists and agency.
'Higgs Bison' Is The Missing Link In European Bison Ancestral Tree.
Arizona court: Religious beliefs don’t justify refusing calligraphy to same-sex couples .
I will continue to share links to obituaries of people I think ought to be remembered, and they won't count against the Five.
Yvonne Burney, SOE agent and concentration camp survivor – obituary
Jane Juska, author of best-selling memoir, ‘A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance’, dies at 84.
For the birds.
It’s the second most wonderful time of the year!
NaNoWriMo 2017: there will be sentences, so many sentences….
Don’t let anyone go hungry.
You’re a storyteller, so tell me a story….
And here are five videos for you Friday:
Jake Shears - Creep City (Official Audio):
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Fan-made Trailer Gives Arrowverse a Bang, Pow-tastic '66-Style Intro:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Black Panther is Coming to America:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
THOR RAGNAROK Final Trailer (Marvel 2017):
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
PHILLIP K. DICK'S ELECTRIC DREAMS Official Trailer (HD) Amazon Exclusive Series:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
As I mentioned last week, my long-running weekly round up of all the links I thought worth sharing has been retired, replaced by this, my Friday Five. Only the top five (IMHO) stories of the week and five videos and a recap of my posts.
Stories of the Week:
'Scientific Serendipity' Spurs Discovery of New Orangutan Species.
Twitter Suspended Me for Trolling White Supremacists.
‘Kids are gross’: on feminists and agency.
'Higgs Bison' Is The Missing Link In European Bison Ancestral Tree.
Arizona court: Religious beliefs don’t justify refusing calligraphy to same-sex couples .
In Memoriam:
I will continue to share links to obituaries of people I think ought to be remembered, and they won't count against the Five.
Yvonne Burney, SOE agent and concentration camp survivor – obituary
Jane Juska, author of best-selling memoir, ‘A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance’, dies at 84.
Things I wrote:
For the birds.
It’s the second most wonderful time of the year!
NaNoWriMo 2017: there will be sentences, so many sentences….
Don’t let anyone go hungry.
You’re a storyteller, so tell me a story….
Videos!
And here are five videos for you Friday:
Jake Shears - Creep City (Official Audio):
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Fan-made Trailer Gives Arrowverse a Bang, Pow-tastic '66-Style Intro:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Black Panther is Coming to America:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
THOR RAGNAROK Final Trailer (Marvel 2017):
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
PHILLIP K. DICK'S ELECTRIC DREAMS Official Trailer (HD) Amazon Exclusive Series:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Friday, October 27, 2017
Friday Five (new series)
It's the fourth Friday of October. It's also the final Friday October. Which means the NaNoWriMo is right around the corner, and we're careening ever more quickly toward the Yuletide Season.
Two weeks ago I posted “Friday Links (is anyone reading edition)” which contained far fewer links than my typical Friday Links post. I explained why I was feeling that the number of people reading the posts didn't seem to justify the number of hours I spend more weeks assembling the post. Last week there was no Friday Links... and not one person sent a message asking after them. So, clearly there isn't a gigantic audience that I simply wasn't aware of for my weekly round-up.
As I said in that post, I read news all the time, so bookmarking stories that might be interesting to share isn't the part that takes a lot of effort. And I like having routines, so having a task to work on a particular kind of post on a particular evening each week is something I can enjoy doing. So, I'm going to try a slight modification. Welcome to inaugural Friday Five post. It will consist of only the five stories out of everything I bookmarked this week that I feel must be shared. Here we go:
Four Quitters Walk Into a Bar.
A Beginner’s Primer to Black Queer Literature.
Ursula K. Le Guin on Power, Oppression, Freedom, and How Imaginative Storytelling Expands Our Scope of the Possible.
Warning of 'ecological Armageddon' after dramatic plunge in insect numbers.
Drug Companies Make Eyedrops Too Big — And You Pay for the Waste. It's not just eye-drops--but wasted prescription eyedrops add up to $3.4 BILLION dollars in wasted health care money a year in the U.S.--this and drug packaging issues (such as the doses of chemotherapy) add up to a whole lot more billions wasted.
Robert Guillaume, Star of ‘Benson,’ Dies at 89.
Fats Domino, Architect Of Rock 'N' Roll, Dead At 89.
We have birds coming to the bird feeder.
Gentlefolk, start your (word processing) engines!
Writer’s write: don’t let perfection be the enemy of the good.
The Night Was Sultry, part 5 — closing the circle, openings and endings.
And here are five videos for your Friday:
Fats Domino Ain't That A Shame:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Queen - All Dead, All Dead Lyric Video (Hybrid Version - long lost recording of Freddie Mercury paired with the instrumental track):
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
STRANGER THINGS Theme - Shirtless Violinist - Soundtrack:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
The Addams Family Original Theme Music:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Hocus Pocus - I Put A Spell On You:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Two weeks ago I posted “Friday Links (is anyone reading edition)” which contained far fewer links than my typical Friday Links post. I explained why I was feeling that the number of people reading the posts didn't seem to justify the number of hours I spend more weeks assembling the post. Last week there was no Friday Links... and not one person sent a message asking after them. So, clearly there isn't a gigantic audience that I simply wasn't aware of for my weekly round-up.
As I said in that post, I read news all the time, so bookmarking stories that might be interesting to share isn't the part that takes a lot of effort. And I like having routines, so having a task to work on a particular kind of post on a particular evening each week is something I can enjoy doing. So, I'm going to try a slight modification. Welcome to inaugural Friday Five post. It will consist of only the five stories out of everything I bookmarked this week that I feel must be shared. Here we go:
Links of the Week
Four Quitters Walk Into a Bar.
A Beginner’s Primer to Black Queer Literature.
Ursula K. Le Guin on Power, Oppression, Freedom, and How Imaginative Storytelling Expands Our Scope of the Possible.
Warning of 'ecological Armageddon' after dramatic plunge in insect numbers.
Drug Companies Make Eyedrops Too Big — And You Pay for the Waste. It's not just eye-drops--but wasted prescription eyedrops add up to $3.4 BILLION dollars in wasted health care money a year in the U.S.--this and drug packaging issues (such as the doses of chemotherapy) add up to a whole lot more billions wasted.
Farewells:
I will continue to share links to obituaries of people I think ought to be remembered, and they won't count against the Five.Robert Guillaume, Star of ‘Benson,’ Dies at 89.
Fats Domino, Architect Of Rock 'N' Roll, Dead At 89.
Things I wrote:
We have birds coming to the bird feeder.
Gentlefolk, start your (word processing) engines!
Writer’s write: don’t let perfection be the enemy of the good.
The Night Was Sultry, part 5 — closing the circle, openings and endings.
Videos!
And here are five videos for your Friday:
Fats Domino Ain't That A Shame:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Queen - All Dead, All Dead Lyric Video (Hybrid Version - long lost recording of Freddie Mercury paired with the instrumental track):
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
STRANGER THINGS Theme - Shirtless Violinist - Soundtrack:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
The Addams Family Original Theme Music:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Hocus Pocus - I Put A Spell On You:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Friday, October 13, 2017
Friday Links (is anyone reading edition)
The second Friday in October already. Where is the year going?
This week we have what is probably one of the shortest collections of Friday Links I’ve ever done (unless you count the few times I’ve missed the day). One reason is that I’ve been very busy and a little bit under the weather this week. So I just didn’t collection many. But another reason is that I’ve been thinking about how much time I spend on various activities and considering making some changes. There was a time, not that long ago, where the weekly round up of links was one of my most clicked on posts every week. And that’s just on my personal blog. I can’t get stats from the places where I cross-post the full text, so always assumed the actual numbers were higher. But now Friday Links is one of the least click posts on the blog, consistently.
(The rest of this post is at FontFolly.Net.)
This week we have what is probably one of the shortest collections of Friday Links I’ve ever done (unless you count the few times I’ve missed the day). One reason is that I’ve been very busy and a little bit under the weather this week. So I just didn’t collection many. But another reason is that I’ve been thinking about how much time I spend on various activities and considering making some changes. There was a time, not that long ago, where the weekly round up of links was one of my most clicked on posts every week. And that’s just on my personal blog. I can’t get stats from the places where I cross-post the full text, so always assumed the actual numbers were higher. But now Friday Links is one of the least click posts on the blog, consistently.
(The rest of this post is at FontFolly.Net.)
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