Donald Trump’s Demonic Conspiracy to Take Over America

I stumbled upon this in some old archival material when I was researching something else - I think it must be shared with as wide an audience as possible.


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Possum Relocation, Again

Its been two years since the great possum scourge of 2012-2013, when I trapped and relocated four of them in just over a year or so. They're attracted to the food we leave out for the semi-feral cats who live in our backyard, but word must have gotten around because we do not see them as often as we used to - I've only caught one since 2013.

But last night I saw this guy stuffing his face, oblivious to me watching him:



They're cute from some angles.

Anyway, I set up the trap and this was the first possum that cooperated right away and climbed in the first night. This is him the next morning, sharing a Hannibal Lector moment with one of the yard cats:




And then I took him to the park and set him free:

 And he's now living happily every after with the other ones I've released there.
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Howard Cosell on John Lennon’s Death and “This Sick, Sports-Obsessed Country”

Several places have parts of this interview, but its originally from Jonathan Cott & Christine Doudna, The Ballad of John and Yoko (Dolphin Books 1982), at page 228. This book is a collection of Rolling Stone interviews and miscellaneous remembrances of John Lennon, published a little more than a year after he was killed.

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Random Pro-Reading/Book Bumber Sticker

Seen yesterday on the streets of New Orleans:



Many variations on this theme are available but the only one I could find with the coffee cup - NICE TOUCH! - is through a shop where you can personalize them for your own store. Need to find me a blank one, or get them for our library.
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Random Nude Art

In the "you never know what you'll find" category, we saw this on a routine walk in our neighborhood over the weekend:

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