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Every Sunday morning Carlos makes pancakes and café con leche for breakfast; this past Sunday, after he finished the coffee, I started to clean the espresso machine and noticed the hopper had no coffee grounds in it. At first I thought the grounds were stuck inside the machine, but no … it wasn’t that. Carlos had forgotten to put coffee in the hopper when he made the coffee and was going to serve steamed milk and hot water! I laughed hysterically and told him I would put it on my blog.

Later in the day, however, I’d forgotten the story and asked him to remind me of what had happened, which surprisingly he did, but then added:

“Oh, is someone getting old and forgetful?”

“Says the guy who forgot to put coffee in the espresso machine?”

Never a dull moment.

This Tuxedo Memory is from January 2017 right before we went to Miami for a long weekend and is entitled:

“This.That.

Tuxedo wanted to go and tried to stowaway in a suitcase but, alas, was unsuccessful.”

Every time we packed for a trip, or even a quick getaway, Tuxedo would pout and sulk, and then lay down inside the suitcase in the hopes that we wouldn’t seem him.

On the stand this week Michael Cohen recalled asking Hair Furor how Melanie was taking all the news of him schtupping the porn star and then paying her off and, ever the gentleman who clearly loves his wife, Hair Furor said:

“How long do you think I’ll be on the market for? Not long.”

He didn’t care about Melanie, only the damage the story would have on his campaign.

From my last job interview:

Interviewer: Are there any accomplishments from your last job that you’re particularly proud of?

Me: I’m responsible for ten new rules in the employee handbook.

Interviewer: That’s great! You wrote them?

Me: That’s not what I said.

And yet I got the job and I bet my boss loves/hates it every day!

A federal judge has rejected another request from former Hair Furor minion Peter Navarro to cut his four-month prison sentence short. Navarro is in prison for contempt of Congress after ducking a subpoena from the House committee that investigated the January 6 insurrection and asked Judge Amit Mehta to cut 30 days off his sentence in exchange for 30 days of supervised release.

Mehta said no.

Sorry, not sorry traitor.

The other day I read a story about Rudy Giuliani’s latest whine about The Big Lie and crying about his victim hood, and I went to Twitter, er, X, to post about it using my usual Rudy hashtag, #DrunkleRudy, to describe him. I also wanted to tag him so I went to his X page and saw this:

My day had been made; I felt almost as good as when the late Kirstie Alley blocked me.

Make this make sense: nearly one in five voters in battleground states say that President Biden is responsible for ending Roe v Wade, despite the fact that he supports abortion rights and that it was the three judges Hair Furor appointed who made it possible to overturn Roe.

According to pollsters, however, those voters are Hair Furor supporters AKA voters and are clearly less educated.

MAGAts are stupid? You don’t say?

Mitch Walker is an Australian model-actor with a bachelor’s degree in psychology, but Would You Hit It?

Architecture Wednesday: The Bakery in Sydney

I love when a new house is created out of an entirely different space, and this house in Sydney, Australia, is exactly what I’m talking about.

The Newtown property is made up of two adjoined early 20th-century buildings; it was originally a commercial bakery and a corner store—and even later, a garment factory—before it was reimagined as a five-bedroom home. But while the interior has become new and modern, yet still retains some of the original floors and spaces of the bakery and shop, its façade—which still reads W Dribble 1922 and 1909, respectively—is an assortment of original brick, steel and chimneys.

Inside, however, the building has been reconfigured over 8,000 square feet light-drenched living spaces spread across two floors that retain their soaring volumes and industrial feel—albeit softened by polished concrete floors with underfloor heating and a soothing monochrome color scheme. Wooden rafters and painted metal trusses are reminders of the building’s storied past though a more modern free-flowing floorplan is now reconfigured for domestic use.

The large kitchen is outfitted with customized, hand-painted cabinetry and a giant island that merges with the living room; black metal-framed windows and doors have been custom-made, while demolished brick walls were hand-scraped and reused for new walls; there is also original timbers and exposed brick and layers of patinated paint throughout the home.

One space that I would die for is that library, with floor-to-ceiling shelving stacked with 30,000 books. There’s also a moody office, several bedrooms, his and hers dressing rooms and bathrooms—which could easily be reimagined as his and his. The home also includes a music room, an artist's studio, an entrance atrium  and, outside, an internal garden with a heated saltwater pool, lush greenery, including plantings for bees and birds as well as a vegetable garden and gravel pathways.

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This Is The GOP

Just when you think the members of the GOP couldn’t be more reprehensible, more faux-christian hypocritical, more lying POS, and more anti-women asshats, these bitches show up …

Mike Collins, a Republican from Georgia, was described as “sick and deplorable” ... and I will add "vile and inhuman" after posting a disgusting Tweet about the reports that a worm had eaten part of Robert F Kennedy Jr‘s brain:

His “joke” seems to refer either to the 1963 assassination of RFK’s uncle, former president John F Kennedy, or to RFK’s father, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, was also assassinated in 1968.

That’s what passes for the GOP ... mocking people who were murdered.

Marjorie Taylor-Greene has fired her District Director Travis Loudermilk after learning that the married father of two is being sued for adultery by his soon-to-be ex-wife, Sarah. Large Marge cut ties with Loudermilk out of fear that the story ‘made her look bad’ and that Loudermilk had become a ‘political liability.’

You will recall that several years ago the Daily Mail accused Marge of multiple adulterous hookups, including a dalliance with a self-professed “tantric sex guru.” And these days Moscow Marge is dating a far-right reporter who, like MTG, ditched his spouse shortly before their relationship became public.

With the GOP every accusation is an admission.

In Kristi Noem News … the same day as her combative interview on Fox’s sister network, the South Dakota governor bailed on sitting down with Fox News host Greg Gutfeld because of bad weather. A source says that the governor’s team specifically cited a snowstorm in her home state of South Dakota.

And, yes, while there was a winter weather advisory in the Black Hills, Kristi Noem was not in South Dakota, but was in New York City, having stayed there after appearing in-studio on Fox Business and Newsmax earlier in the day.

So, for Liar Kristi Noem, a snowstorm in South Dakota means she cannot travel across town in New York for an interview? Does the woman lie about everything?

Alabama’s GOP Senator Katie Britt has introduced a bill that would create a database for pregnant women.

Sure, it also requires child support throughout pregnancy and creates a clearinghouse of adoption and anti-abortion pregnancy crisis centers to combat decreasing birth rates, but a database of pregnant women?

Katie Britt is the same GOP asshat who recently denounced the idea of a database for gun owners.

Vote Blue in November, in Roevemeber, in Joevember.