Arms Strong Enough to Wrestle the Deep State, & Yet Gentle Enough to Deliver His Own Grandchild

[mallorys_camera]

Like all things Trump, this one is being floated as a kinda/sorta joke. Satire! Like what’s the matter with you dumb fuckin’ snowflakes anyway? Don’t you have a sense of humor?

https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-shares-messianic-video-about-god-sending-him-to-save-world/

But, see, I don’t think it is a joke. Or rather, it is a joke but only now because Trump uses jokes as test balloons to measure the temperature of the electorate. In 10 months (not coincidently, November when elections occur) it won’t be a joke.

I can’t even…

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Aside from that.

Didn’t tromp yesterday. It was just too damn cold.

Did do laundry & shop. Went to the upscale grocery. All the bagels were gone! Bagels are the Perishable of Choice for upscale shoppers.

Everyone in the Hudson Valley is gearing up for the coming Big Snow Event!!!

When I first knew Ben, I was amused and sometimes annoyed by his avid weather forecast tracking. After all, on the California coast, the weather hardly ever changes: Temps fluctuate over a 15-degree range; sometimes, the marine layer is thicker than other times; and that’s it. You don’t need to pay attention to the weather forecast.

Now that I’ve been living in the East for more than a dozen years, though, I get it. The weather here is very changeable. You need to know how to navigate it.

In the evening, I did a mini-Ava Gardner film festival.

I’ve been binging my way through multiple Frank Sinatra bios, and Ava Gardner was the Great Love of Frank Sinatra’s life.

I’ve always had a hard time with Ava Gardner because she is always described as a beauty of mythic proportions, and I just couldn’t see it. The 50s hairstyle and makeup threw me off.



Styles that were popular in the 1930s through the 1950s remind me of the little old ladies I used to see on buses when I was a kid. My mind automatically draws a large red X through them. Then as now, women coast on the trendy cosmetic style they adapted in youth well into old age when it really doesn’t serve them well.

But, of course, well into old age, most of us still see ourselves as we were at 35.

I could definitely see how beautiful Ava Gardner was as I watched Mongambo & The Barefoot Contessa.

Mogambo is kind of a hoot for other reasons, too, notably the fantasy that Clark Gable’s jug-eared, geriatric big game hunter is somehow irresistible to women. Plus, it’s got some great gorilla footage!

Comments

[stormehowl]

It's absolutely chilling what comes out of Trump and his followers mouths. Chilling.


I wish we'd get snow! We'll just get a load of rain and wind!

[mallorys_camera]

Where are you located?

[stormehowl]

Northern Outer Banks (Roanoke Island specifically) - it is so rare for us to get snow. But when we have in the past it was almost like a freak blizzard! For us here it's truly a "snow day" that we all get out in and enjoy before it melts. Mostly we get nor'easters - a lot of unrelenting cold, wet wind. I grew up here but for 20 years I moved around the country before returning and settling back here. Many places I lived would get healthy amounts of snow on a seasonal basis. It could be such a long term annoyance in some places (like Western NY and in Maryland's back to back polar vortex years) but now I just miss it!

[adoptedwriter]

Cincinnati got nada in terms of the "Snow-ma-geddon" everyone was so hyped about. That's because the salty people used precaution and pre-treated the roads.

[mallorys_camera]

You got the snow/rain mix, didn't you?

always the question

[bb_lurks_here_too]

OK, God sent Trump. But was it like sending rain to make the crops grow, or locusts to eat it all up? Boon or scourge?

God has a track record in his Book that makes that always an open question.

Re: always the question

[mallorys_camera]

You know how when I play the Sims, I like to lock them up in bathrooms & watch them starve?

It's something like that with God, Trump, & humanity. 😀