Raconteur Report

"I like a good story, well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself." - Mark Twain

Monday, July 20, 2020

Administrivia

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Sometime last month, the hit-meter rolled past 7,000,000. We are frankly astonished each time it rolls over another million views, and mor...
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Saturday, July 18, 2020

Your Hopeium Broker Called: Sell Short

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Read my last comments to the previous post. There ain't nothin' to be cheerful about, unless you' re where the Kung Flu isn...
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Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Just Wondering...

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So, you let your Gilligans drive the bus on dealing with Kung Flu. How's that working out for ya? FL ICUs are at 98% capacity statewi...
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Monday, July 13, 2020

Fixin' To Hope To Start To Commence...

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One more day chained to my oar, after which I should be able to begin blasting and shoveling the debris, in order to get down to installing ...
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Sunday, July 12, 2020

Ol' Remus

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We note via comments here that Ol' Remus, of The Woodpile Report, may have passed away from a recently diagnosed cancer. We have no wa...
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Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Working On It...Sorta

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Read my comment at the end of the previous post. I'd have cut and pasted it, but the pride of 2013 technology that is this back-from-the...
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Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Technical Difficulties

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Ye Olde Hard Drive has chosen today to commit irretrievably seppuku. Expect light posting while we catch up on our reading, shop for a repla...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2020

RIP Carl Reiner

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Gone: Carl Reiner, aged 98, of natural causes. Comedy genius, and comedy legend, terms strewn around anything but lightly where he is co...
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Sunday, June 28, 2020

Sunday Music: Mr. Bojangles

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Sammy Davis Jr. closed his act with this number. Having premiered at age 3, wandering onstage where his parents were performing, and de...
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Saturday, June 27, 2020

Yeah, About That "Hoax" Pandemic...

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Apparently  some people are still trying to sell the line that COVID isn't real. Probably with a barn shovel, but s...
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This Is Your Urban Defense Briefing

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For those enough salty enough to remember the '60s live, it goes by the period reference: Do unto others.  ...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2020

The Days Are Just Packed

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They really are. BTW, If you never saw this strip firsthand, catch up on it. Totally worth it. When my knees hurt like this, it's...
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Sunday, June 21, 2020

Sunday Music: Wildfire

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Michael Martin Murphey's one-hit wonder signature opus from 1975. He had plenty of albums, but nothing charted for him like this son...
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Thursday, June 18, 2020

The Revolution May Be Interested In Me, But...

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Frankly, I couldn't give a wet fart about it. 1) What I care about or not won't change it. 2) It's good to ke...
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Monday, June 15, 2020

Out And About II

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Last road trip I prudently rented a spiffy little car. What I saved on gas paid for the entire rental. Liked the car a lot...
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Sunday, June 14, 2020

Sunday Music: At Seventeen

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Grammy-winning Number 3 hit for Janis Ian, and her signature song. Musical proof in a wise-beyond-her-years way from Ian, for everyone t...
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Friday, June 12, 2020

Charitable Giving Update

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Boxed and shipped all my bags (plural) of yard clippings and raked leaves to C.H.A.Z. as an Emergency Vegan Food Shipment...
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Keep Honking, I'm Reloading

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Context The Left uses talk to fight. The Right does neither, as a rule. We generally aren't going to talk. We a...
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Thursday, June 11, 2020

Tick Tock

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Just wondering what the over/under is on some good old boy outside the city limits of New Wakanda deciding to build himself a new Killdo...
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Arts and Crafts

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h/t SiG Seems that, exactly like every other communist state in history, the latest one spontaneously aborted ont...
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