Thingy

   I live on a fixed budget. I give myself a certain amount for the month and squirrel away the pittance for the future, mostly for my urn and money for my daughter who will have to be my closer. She will have to pack and get rid of my belongings. She will have to make the calls, close the accounts and grieve for her mom. The least I can do is pay for the end of the ride. In the meantime, this is my life. Food... The end of the month becomes what I call, "hacker week," where I create meals with one egg, a celery stick and a can of tuna. I eat mystery leftovers I have frozen during the month. Right now I'm eating meatballs with dumplings. It's not good, but I will not throw it away. I'm going to pick out the meatballs and make a sandwich with the last two pieces of bread I have. I might refreeze the dumplings. I will never go to a food bank as long as I have something in the house, which towards the end of the month consists of peanut butter and Bisquick. I like bo...

  "We are all going to die." - Joni Ernst. I was ten years old when my Mormor died. When I needed to run away from home, there was no other thought except to run to her. She was not a demonstrative woman, but I hugged her anyway. She pulled me in and let me wrap my arms around her. I remember clearly the day of her funeral. My father motioned me to walk with him, then kneel before the casket. I can still recall the overwhelming scent of flowers mingling with the sickly sweet odor of chemicals. My grandmother, my anchor, was gone. I turned to leave but just as I reached the door, the reality of never seeing her again washed over me. I stood in front of the door, wailing, until my father took my hand and led me away. My Great Aunty was a woman before her time. Widowed when young she raised her only son who was gay, always providing him love and a safe place when he needed to come home. Her summer cottage by the lake was our refuge during heat waves. Together we discussed books,...

  If you haven't watched a South Korean movie or tv series, you are missing out on some clever stuff. I have watched and enjoyed, 'The Squid Game,' 'The Extraordinary Attorney Woo,' 'Catch the Ghost,' and the movie, 'Train to Busan.' Right now I'm watching the Netflix series, 'The 8 Show.' It's listed as a comedy/drama. There are some humorous moments at the beginning until each episode becomes increasingly violent and stomach churning. It's 'Lord of the Flies' meets 'The Squid Game.' I won't go into detail but the setup is incredible. Eight people are invited to play a game where each player is on a different level. One has the least advantages, while eight has the most. In the beginning they work together to share food and water. Eventually, the upper four players want more and treat the lower levels like their playthings to control and hurt.  The procession of increasing violence is brilliant and disturbing...

 "Oh, man, gol' damn he's f-ing  dead , bro." "We gotta hide the shrooms and search for Ted." "Bruh, your face is bathed in a neon glow." "I miss my dog and my soft king bed." "I'ma calling for help, where's my phone?" "Bigfoot stole it, let's bang some rocks." "IS THAT HIM THERE LICKING AN ICE CREAM CONE!?" "It's a purple bear dancing with Goldilocks." "911, what's your emergency?" "Help me, ma'am, I can't feel my face! This is a matter of supreme urgency! We ate some shrooms, drank our pee, lost the trail, roasted weiners, kissed a tree, killed our friend, read a map, swallowed a slug, it was a snail, broke a toe, this is our end! We took a weekend hike in the Adirondack. Now we're lost and Ted's disappeared  It's cold and scary in this pitch black!" "Brain baked pother is what I feared." *Here's the story. Some dudes went o...

  Her name is Megan Cassella. She went there. She stood before the orange man and asked him how it felt to be a TACO? With his sixth grade vocabulary he called her nasty. Don't ever call him a TACO ever again as TACO once again backs down on tariffs which according to a judge, they are illegal. In the middle of the night, when Trump is all alone, this is when he usually attacks. The President of the United States is fiddling on his phone, looking for memes to send out as he threatens anyone who defies him, or even asks a question. Now he calls himself God's messenger. We call him, TACO. Cheeto. Rapist. Con. Liar. Demented. Narcissistic. Nuts.  I know we have all been through the ringer for too long, but yesterday I actually felt the anxiety fall away. TACO is crumbling. Oh, he'll continue to take money from thugs and murderers. He'll continue to make a personal profit as he uses the highest office to be a snake oil salesman. The good news is, his big beautiful bill is b...

Place your bets in the oval casino  Gold plated rust on full display  Cold, hard cash or virtual crypto  Serious inquiries only if you want to play  Check your rotten soul at the door Highest bidder is gained a chance  To beg his pardon, to be his whore No matter what the circumstance  Murder, fraud, sexual assault  If the price is right, your future's set Thirty pieces of silver to feed his vault House wins the grift, now pay your debt 

 Britney smoked a cigarette   On a plane, or perhaps a jet No special favors for the girl   So oblivious I want to hurl She thought she was the special one A has been star who wants some fun takes issue with the crew's response   Britney does what Britney wants  She's forty three but acts like eight  got off the plane and shown the gate She laughed and said, "It's kinda much."  in'Toxic'ated, girl's out of touch.

 I just read an article which had a list of books the writer claims we might have in the house but have never read. Of course the Bible was on the list. I don't own one. War and Peace was there. I once tried to read it but didn't get far. I made a comment on a blog that I would try again, but I'm not sure I can slog through a dystopian nightmare while we're living in one. Atlas Shrugged. Again, I tried. I do have The Fountainhead which I'm not supposed to like, but I did.  Here are books on my shelf I have tried and failed to get through. Dr. Zhivago. The movie was pretty, the bits that I saw with Julie Christie walking through a snow covered ruin. I'm sure there was a doctor in it and snow and Russian things like stale bread and gulags. Alice in Wonderland. It's just weird, too strange for me. I feel there is a lot of reading between the lines ... I don't like to have to decode a book.  Moby Dick. Come on. Really? I just don't get it.  Les Miserable...

 Do as we say, not as we do Atheist, Hindu, Muslim and Jew  All must comply in Texas public schools Do unto others, make them live by our rules  The bill will be passed on this Sunday of rests "Isn't it ironic," the Noble one jests. Believe what we say, not what you see Every rule broken by the Grand Old Party No idols before him, you bow before Trump  Cheeto the clown with a mushroom shaped stump  Who lies, steals, cheats and covets the Earth Mary Anne's baby, a bad omen from birth The hypocrisy abounds from your lying lips  Dismayed by the gall as we all come to grips   A mockery you make of the list you demand   Together we fall, divided we stand

   My Dad would sometimes start to bring up memories of when he was sitting in a trench somewhere in Korea, waiting for the enemy to fire upon them. I could see he was there again, reliving the sounds, the bitter cold and the fear. We listened for awhile, then ran outside to ride our bikes and build forts, chase fireflies into the night, never once feeling afraid or aware of the sacrifice my father and others made to quell a dystopian nightmare. Today we honor those who gave their lives to fight for freedom. My father came home, but, any innocence or naivety died on those frozen fields. I wonder what my Dad would have thought of Donald Trump? My parents were lifelong Democrats. I once saw a photo of my father at the Chicago DNC as a volunteer. It didn't register then how meaningful that moment was. I want to think he would shake his head as he read the Sun-Times in disbelief as the very ideals he and others fought for are being shredded and annihilated by the whims of one gree...

  Well, that's a new one. I've never been called a white supremacist before, but anything can happen on Bluesky, especially when I'm dumb enough to engage. The main topic on the timeline was that only white people are racists. I disagreed, yet, I understood her point of view. I should have written people of color can be just as cruel and spiteful and hateful as anyone. The above comment by one of OP's (original poster) followers notes that I only listen when I hear negativity.  I'm not one to listen to anyone's conversation. As an introvert I can barely stand the small talk I'm in, but when I hear someone say something cruel, it stands out. What I had the misfortune to hear was a group of African Americans traveling to Chicago who in their conversation continually called the city, "Jew town." There were children as young as five listening to this. Yet, according to OP and her posse, Jews are not oppressed, therefore it isn't racism.  It was cle...

"They don't reflect our views," they say To toss an elderly woman away  To shove her out, then stand about  Impervious to sworn duty, they flout To serve and protect, they swear For each other they will be there Then turned their backs to the broken one  shattered trust and bones, her caring son  Now sits beside her in wonderment  Is this the rule of government? From Canton cops who hide evidence  to back their own takes precedence  To be indifferent and purposely cruel Is this an exception to or from the rule? *In October of last year a Sacramento sheriff, Matthew Gurich, was seen on video pushing a 71 woman out the door of the police station. She suffered a broken femur. Shocking as it is to watch Gurich shove her so viciously, is the behavior of the officers who witnessed the incident and walked away. It wasn't until March of this year that Gurich was fired and now finally faces assault charges. If not for this video going public it would probably ...

 Bullshi*t Barbi wears a cross  Spits lies behind a podium  Shilling for her evil boss Who sucks on coke with Imodium  Bore a son out of wedlock  To a geezer man of real estate  A maiden's duty for her flock Submissive to the potentate  As tariffs hit she fails to see The joke's on us, a laughing stock  So blinded by white supremacy  She'll eat his words and suck his _ock A bully of a Christian girl  Brainwashed in lies from the start  My body resists the need to hurl Behold the shrew who has no heart *I must add, "allegedly" to the _ock. The rest is fact.

He fills his head with Bible quotes  to silence the storm inside  An empty, hollow shell he mimics in disguise  You were not wanted You were unplanned  You are a nothing You have no stand  He bows his head and speaks in tongues  to still the flames of rage the pretender, fake, the fraud  hiding in plain sight You were a mistake  A thirty minute accident  a constant regretful memory  who seeks reason to breathe  from holy ghosts  and devils in red ties  the more you take the lesser man you are smoke and mirrors a shifting shape unseen  You are a mistake  You know it well A fake, a fraud, a lie. *Yes, I'm thinking of a certain someone we know.

   I'm going to guess many of these AITA tales are fake, but this one ticked me off, whether it's true or not. If you don't want to click on link provided you are stuck with my summary. A husband and father in his 30's enjoys building LEGO sets. With his seven year old son they built some Star Trek or Star Wars behemoth. When man's in laws visited he showed them what they made. FIL was impressed. MIL told him to grow up. Man, let's call him "Doug" shrugged it off. The next morning he goes into his Lego room to see MIL has destroyed his work, leaving a note saying it was for his own good. Doug goes to his wife and tells her and she doesn't seem too upset. Wow, I'm livid for him! Obviously the only asshole in this story is the MIL. And maybe the wife for not getting angry or supporting her husband. I cannot imagine what the child thought after seeing a project he and Dad created together be intentionally destroyed.  So, Doug says MIL is no longe...

  So oppressed. Little one has no Nike's  I'm curious how the 59 South African immigrants were chosen to be allowed to come here? Did they fill out a form expressing their belief they were being persecuted? I believe the official faux complaint is they are afraid their land will be taken from them by the government, although, no land has been taken at all. The majority of these people in fear for their lives are from Dutch ancestry. They've been in South Africa ever since their great great great great great granddaddies sailed the high seas searching for black people to seize, shove them on a ship where they sat in their own sh*t, where they starved, where they were forced to steer the longboats, where many did not make the passage, which might have been a blessing. The ones who survived were sold to be used as laborers and objects to rape and beat. Anyone with a brain, which excludes Herr Trumper, knows why these people wanted to leave. They can no longer keep "the co...

  Well let's take a look at the orange man's big, beautiful bill . It is big. Over 1,000 pages of Trump's wishlist, which every Democrat opposed. So, what's the problem? No tax on tips. Sounds good. It's only temporary, though.  Uh...and what else is beneficial to the American citizens? Hey, the government will contribute $1,000 to any account set up for children! It's called the MAGA account. Ok, nevermind.  Phase out clean energy tax credits. Lease public land to drill and mine. Reduce spending of food aid by $267 billion.  Parents who receive supplemental food credit must go to work if their dependants are over the age of seven. Zero money for planned parenthood, homeless shelters, drug programs. $700 billion in reduced spending for Medicaid. $46.5 billion to build The Wall, plus $4 billion for border patrol. Anyone seeking asylum must pay a $1,000 application fee. One million immigrants will be removed per year. 100,000 will be interred in detention centers....

   Looking out my hotel window last week, I saw it. You couldn't miss it. It was big and blue, and yellow. IKEA. I confess, I had never entered an IKEA in my life. Well, it was time to break that record. I had to know why people loved it. I needed a French press anyway and I have been curious about the meatballs that friends drooled over. Ja, let's go. The parking lot was pretty full for a week day which seemed a good sign. No tariffs hitting the Swedes, it seems. I entered and was soon within maze of individually designed cubicles, each one furnished to look move-in ready. In fact, I think there was a television show filmed in the store without the employees ever knowing ... Looking at an overhead map I saw my French press was on the other side of the store. Did I mention the store was big? There also was no way to cut through the merchandise to get to the other side. I had to follow the arrows like the yellow brick road to reach the Wizard. Fortunately, meatball heaven was j...

 Robert Reich rubs me the wrong way. He always has. Last night I read an article which mentioned several books which describe the decline of Joe Biden and the possible coverup during his presidency. He claims these books are distractions. We should be focused on the nutter in office. Hey, Robert, I can read a book and still remain in tune to what's happening in D.C.. Whether you believe it to be true or whether it's just sensationalized rhetoric I'm going to read it! And so far what I have read, just small bites from Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's book seem absolutely plausible.  Biden was not well. We've seen it! Jill Biden acted like his caregiver. We have video! Biden is one stubborn man who refused to see the reality that he was struggling. He had a circle of aides who ignored or enabled his decline. Again, you need only to look to see that it's true. So, because he was a decent president we are supposed to overlook the obvious? For days before 'Origina...

  😬 That's gotta hurt. The Chicago Sun-Times published a list of summer reading material, most of which is fake. How does this happen? Well, cutting staff to bare bones might be one reason. Being bamboozled and letting your guard down, another. I'm this old to remember Sunday newspapers being a standard in the Thingy household. You could hear them hit the ground when being delivered, they were that big. It took days to read it all, and we never questioned the validity of a story. We never had to wonder whether a human or a computer wrote it. The authors whose names were used in the summer reading list weren't thrilled to see fake titles, although some were amused. And angry. And appalled. That's where we're at with AI.  AI can be useful, but it can be very dangerous. It's not going away so we better learn to live with it and find ways to eliminate the danger. Also, there must be full disclosure stating what you are seeing is AI generated. Full disclosure: the ...

 Let's talk about sex.  I won't get into why I bring this subject up other than there was a rather heated exchange regarding overpopulation and what to do about it.  I say, do nothing. What exactly can you do, and yes, I realize global warming is due to people making a mess and not cleaning up after themselves. So, is the problem too many people, or just too many people who don't give a rat's ass about Mother Earth? I choose the latter.  Seems I'm getting into it. People do what they want to do. They will procreate because it's mostly a good thing. No condom? That's the woman's problem. No birth control? Thoughts and prayers. People are not going to stop having sex. I know all about sex. According to my one day tutorial in eighth grade at St. Joseph I learned everything I needed to know, which was, "Don't do it. Don't ever, ever do it." Strangely, the Sisters of No Mercy hightailed it that day and left the only male teacher to educate t...

  Yesterday, I published this post about Biden being diagnosed with cancer. I let my emotions get the best of me and was angry with comments I saw on Bluesky because like me, our emotions were absolutely raw. We are saddened and angry and we vent. I know I need to be more understanding and stop criticizing people who share their feelings. I've edited this and hopefully it will clarify my thoughts regarding yesterday's news. Bluesky is lighting up with the news regarding Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis. Not in a good way. It's melodramatic posts such as threatening to block anyone who says a bad word about him, or they are accusing the media of being f*cking meanies. They want blood from a man who wrote a book about Biden's failing health and mental capacity.  President Joe Biden has cancer. That is the reality. Other than that heartbreaking news, nothing changes. Life continues. A number of Blueskyers note life is unfair. It is. It just is. It's nice when bad peopl...

   My, my, my. We have several trials people like myself are interested in. The Karen Read trial should be wrapping up soon. Brian Kohberger's trial will be starting soon, and then we have P Diddy, already in progress.  I wasn't going to get involved in his trial where he is accused of racketeering and sex trafficking, but I started watching the testimony of Cassie Ventura, one of many of Sean Comb's ladies. She is the woman who was caught on camera running away from Combs as he chases her in a hotel hallway while wearing just a towel. It's an absolutely horrific video to view and any woman who is subjected to this abusive behavior needs to press charges and to distance herself far away from this creep. And yet... The hotel incident happened in 2016. She is still with him in 2018. In texts she claims to enjoy the freak offs, where apparently anything goes. Men with giant penises are paid to have sex with Ventura and other women.  Even during her testimony it is obvio...

   When I'm up with the bats and racoons, I head over to YouTube to catch the latest Arkansas State police pit maneuvers or some judge giving probation to a murderer. The other night I found a channel, 'Boring History for Sleep.' The narrator, who I can tell is one cynical dude with a wry sense of humor walks us through what our very brave ancestors went through. The video I caught was about medieval times, and not the fun times with giant turkey legs and gallant knights. The reality is stark. You wonder why people would want to get out of bed, but their beds were usually hard wood planks animals had pissed on because sometimes they sleep with you. And everywhere are the fleas. Fleas, fleas, fleas. (I think they may have played an ominous role in that time if I recall) Anyway, gotta get up and make the coffee and have a donut. Oops, no, only pottage, which is scraps of whatever you have, thrown in a pot and nibbled on, continually adding to the pot, if you're lucky to ...

   Does this not make your blood boil? Kid Rock's restaurant closed its doors in fear ICE would be coming after illegal immigrants working in the restaurant. This actually happened on May 10th but seems to just now be making news. The owner is a Trump lover, Steve Smith.  What a bunch of hypocrites. The Reich wing is truly the most vile, disgusting, exploitive, morally corrupt group of slime to crawl the face of the earth. It pleases me to see they are not exempt as the SSICE marches towards their doors to tear away the help. But in the long run, Ugly Rock and Smith won't suffer. They'll wait a few weeks and rehire more cheap labor. I'm sure they'd be pardoned by the orange man eventually, a nice big tip for the man who can be bought. A box of steaks, perhaps? The Donald likes his burgers and fries. Kid Rock needs to pay Trump another visit. Apparently the kickback wasn't enough the last time he entered the circus in his clown costume.  So fair warning to the r...

  I'm so bad. I riled the feathers of a man. I feel it's my life's purpose. This post just set me off. I realize many of you see it as a compliment. I see it is as a man who needs to put the little lady in her place. If he really wanted to compliment her, just write she made a great salad. No, you have to add, she doesn't really cook, but wow, she sure surprised the hell out of me. What a great woman, making a salad. Wow.  My reply was: "Well give that little lady a pat on the arse!" Yeah, as you can see he wasn't happy with my comment. Tough shit. Learn some self awareness. I've known you for less than a minute and can see who you are.  And naturally he responded again with your typical insult which I won't publish. Please, block me. I want nothing to do with people who use baseball idioms and can't even reply with a good swear, although, a "condescending garbage person" is interesting.  Or maybe, I just need more coffee.

  I'm out of town and when I'm out of town I can watch HGTV. So, I do. That also means I have to sit through commercials, which have nothing to do with home improvement. I'm really confused about the commercial for Jardiance. It's an "antidiabetic medication" for people with type two diabetes. I don't understand why they are dancing as if in a high school musical. Is it supposed to be a fun, charming take on being a diabetic? I have never seen a group of mostly overweight people spontaneously get up and dance the most cringiest moves.  Being a diabetic is not a dance off type disease.  Another pharmaceutical commercial is where a bladder follows her mistress around town.  How about the dinosaur who sits next to a guy with asthma? Do people actually go to their doctors and say, "Hey, I want that stuff with the adorable bladder? Maybe the marketers are focusing on the boomers who sat two inches away from a tv screen to watch Saturday morning cartoons wh...

   Why do men think feces is funny? They laugh at fart jokes and poop jokes, the grosser the better, and yet, try and get them to change a baby's diaper. I mention this because I had the great misfortune of tuning into 'Bad Thoughts' on Netflix, starring Tom Segura. Segura is (allegedly) a comedian. He finds humor in sh*t and shock. 'Bad Thoughts' certainly lives up to the title. In the first short skit an assassin is up on a roof aiming at a man sitting at a sidewalk cafe. The sniper aims and ends up shooting the server, then for some reason has a massive fit of diarrhea which is shown in streaming technicolored vomit inducing reality. I sat through one more which was sort of funny, but still so vile and uncomfortable to watch. A business meeting where the MC notices a man in the corner wearing a VR headset and mimicking sexual acts, all the while claiming he's cleaning business files.  The only reason I stayed this long was because of the teaser in the beginni...

Oh look who's in the news ? Gerard Depardieu. He was just convicted of sexually assaulting two women and received an 18 month suspended sentence. Shocking. Not. Here's a ditty I wrote years ago after there was a kerfuffle on a plane when Gerard whipped out his wee wee and decided to take a piss then and there. Why? Because.... I am Gerard Depardieu, I shall piss on you I have no control of discretion or bladder  Oh be quiet you silly girl, I am Gerard Depardieu  If I must go with the flow, what is it that is the matter? Oui oui, I am a star, a beloved star like Jerry Lewis  We can piss on planes, piss on floors and piss on you. Do you know who I am!? The great Cyrano de Bergeriish And other French things, I like my croissants and vin blanc, too. I am a bon vivant without a bottle, you wannabe me, fool. I charm you with my crooked smile, because I am Gerard Depardieu, So I shall whisk it out and release my French tool I am Gerard Depardieu, therefore, I piss on you. Wee we...

  It's fucking infuriating when people who are supposedly on the same side are asshats to each other. I wrote a post about the "assassination attempt" on Trump. My theory is it was a set up. It's a theory. I have no proof, just a puzzle with pieces that don't fit.  Yet, people are so certain it happened. They make up facts when there is absolutely no proof, then go bonkers when I call them out on it. When I see false information on Bluesky I try to correct the misinformation. Some people thank me. Most get defensive and call me names, then block me. That's fine. I don't like when people purposely twist the narrative or are too damn lazy to verify the information. Just because we dislike red hatters and know they lie, lie, lie, there are bad eggs on the left who don't care about facts either.  We have zero evidence Trump and evil doers planned the assassination. Two men died. Would they go that far? Yes, probably, but we need proof. You can't say h...

   And they wonder why we hate them . This video of a Sacramento cop shoving a 70 year old woman to the ground is absolutely disgusting. What's worse is the other officers doing nothing to help this woman. I don't know what she did but no one deserves this. The pi* was fired. He should be arrested and charged with assault. A spokesperson said his behavior is not reflective of the views of law enforcement. Bullshit. It most certainly is the modus operandi. I firmly believe many police officers would easily switch to the dark side if not given the chance to protect and serve. Most are conservative, they'd fit in with the MAGA mentality. Most are alpha males who have no respect for women (think Michael Proctor) or people of color. They get off on the bromance and comraderie with their fellow male cops. They watch movies like Top Gun and The Godfather. They drink beer, drive trucks, eat steak, visit strip joints, smoke weed, spank their children, vote Republican, love Trump, c...

   Does anyone besides the brainwashed cult of Trump believe the South Afrikanners were allowed here because they are being oppressed ?  The Reich regime no longer even attempts to hide their intentions for a white Amerikkka. When my daughter worked the night shift at bakery there was a woman who had just emigrated from South Africa. My daughter said she was a hard worker and fun to talk with, a good partner to keep her company as energy flagged towards  dawn. Everything was great for a few weeks until the woman mentioned home and why she left- because the "coloreds" were taking over. My daughter felt sick to her stomach. She was young, this her first job and she didn't know how to handle the blatant racism she was hearing. When she relayed to me the conversation she actually tried to defend her co-worker. "Well, that's how they talk down there." No. That is not acceptable. She knew how I felt about it and she didn't bring the coworker up until a few wee...

 Speaking of diets ... Ferrerman's post reminded me of this skit . Lucy realizes she has gained twenty two pounds over the last ten years. She wants to lose at least twelve to be a substitute dancer in one of Ricky's shows. First of all, Lucy went from 110 to 132. She's 5'7". In today's world her ideal weight should be between 122-149. She was never overweight, but she goes through the Lucy process to try and lose the weight. I'm tall. I think I'm shrinking because I'm now 5'9". I was 5'10" and my lowest weight was 115, which was ridiculous and dangerous. I don't do diets anymore, but I've been there, done that.  Here's a few of my diets... For two months the only thing I ate was one hotdog per meal. Yes, I certainly lost the weight. I also fainted a lot. Then there was the Ayds diet. Eat one chewy square before a meal and the weight falls off. It doesn't. Like Lucy, I gained weight during my pregnancy and it was ne...