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When we had the skylights taken out of the sunroom our contractor couldn’t match the wood on the ceiling so we agreed to just put bead-board up on the whole thing and I would paint it.

Last week Carlos stumbled upon some things we’d had hanging from the ceiling pre-renovation and he wanted to put them back up which started this conversation:

“I’ll just use the hooks we used before.”

“They’re gone.”

“Why are they gone?”

“Craig replaced the ceiling with bead-board so the hooks were taken down and I don’t know where there are.”

“They should still be up there.”

“Underneath the new ceiling?”

I told him I was going to get my cartoon frying pan and he muttered something.

“What that that?”

“I have a cartoon frying pan, too, you know.”

Now I’m sleeping with one eye open.

This Caturday is from May 2011 …

There are places in our house where cats are allowed to be … on the bed … on the couch in the sunroom … on the couch in the living room … on a kitchen table chair. There are not allowed on living room chairs ... or dining room chairs … or kitchen counters.

Tuxedo, however, because he's so delicious, gets away with murder. He is allowed on the bathroom counter, because he enjoys a sip of water from the faucet … he's allowed on one of the living room chairs … if he's in my lap. 

But now, apparently, he has granted himself access to a dining room chair. There he is, peeking at me when I asked if he was hungry.

And here he is, doing his Gargoyle impression from atop a living room chair. He doesn't use his front paws to hold on because he's been declawed … DO NOT DO THAT … so he looks like he's just hanging around. And he just looks so darned cute, that I looked the other way and ignored his infractions.

Luckily for us both, Other Daddy wasn't home.

Harriet Hancock—a Columbia attorney and stalwart advocate for the LGBTQ+ community and our families, and is the namesake of the Harriet Hancock Center, a Columbia institution serving that community—died September 23, just shy of her 90th birthday.

Harriet became a fierce advocate and ally for the LGBTQ+ community when her son Greg came out to her in the early ’80s. As she came to know other LGBTQ+ young people whose families had rejected or struggled to understand them, she realized how desperately South Carolina needed places of acceptance, support and belonging and so she built that place; the Harriet Hancock Center.

I first met her about eleven years ago when Carlos and I joined a group of LGBTQ+ South Carolinians who formed The Will of the People Fund to fight for marriage equality in our state. We achieved that goal in November 2014 following a federal court ruling in the case Condon v. Haley that struck down the state's ban.

Harriet helped establish the Columbia chapter of PFLAG—a national organization dedicated to supporting, educating and advocating for the LGBTQ+ community—in 1982. And she soon became a quite visible and active public spokesperson, combating prejudices and stereotypes on Columbia talk radio, writing letter after letter to state news media responding to the homophobic attitudes then commonplace in public conversations about AIDS and LGBT people.

She was a force of nature and she will be missed.

RIP Harriet, you’ve earned it.

The fact that MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezo’s ex-wife and one of the biggest single donors in history, has given out $26,300,000,000 to charity and not run out of money really puts into perspective how the arguments against a wealth tax are bull shiz.

When I saw these cakes the first thing that came to mind was, “Why on Earth would you cover those up?”

On September 24, 2026, Fox “News” hosts spent the day telling their audience that Democrats are Communists  and Communists are evil. And then they went home and put on gowns and tuxedos to run to the White House to attend a state dinner honoring an actual communist.

PS Then Cankles made a commercial about himself using OUR tax dollars in which he says he will take down the communists.

Was that before or after you invited them to the White House for Melanie’s goulash? And by goulash I mean she’s a Slovenian Hooker and goulash is one of her sexy time high priced moves. 

These are the rich white men at Cornell University who decided it would better suit them to protect seven rapists than the one girl who was terrorized by them and the fifty other young men in their text chain. They are as complicit as the seven rapists and their fifty coconspirators who did nothing when they learned of the rape.

Instead of teaching young girls how not to get raped howsabout teaching young boys not to be rapists. Oh, and in the cases of Kavanaugh, RFK Jr, and Cankles teach the old white men, too.

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Architecture Wednesday: 1893 Renaissance Revival Loft

This home, this magnificent loft at 21 Bond Street stands within the NoHo Historic District of New York City as a remarkable example of late 19th-century commercial Renaissance Revival architecture. It was commissioned by real estate operator Leon Tannenbaum and designed by Buchman & Deisler in 1893, the six-story loft and store building—with one residence per floor with private keyed elevator—with a communal rooftop terrace and ownership of one-fifth of the ground-floor store was conceived as a modern interpretation of the Renaissance Revival style.

Its cast-iron storefront, framed by brownstone piers, Palladian-inspired second-story windows, and intricate rosettes set within a triangular pediment, reflects the decorative ambition of the era. Grouped openings on the upper floors—highlighted by terra-cotta fleurs-de-lis and a dramatic fanlight-style arch—complete the building’s elegant vertical rhythm beneath a classic iron cornice.

Originally conceived as a storefront-and-loft building, the residence was reimagined by a noted New York architect who stripped away Sheetrock, exposing the century-old brick and timber framing and added a massive new skylight at the center of the living room, drawing sunlight through 14-foot ceilings.

The flooring was replaced with Dinesen white oak planks, crafted from trees aged between 80 and 200 years and individually selected for their grain and proportion; each plank is joined with traditional oak butterfly joints, preserving the natural character and integrity of the wood. And antique European elements throughout the home introduce a sense of lived-in grandeur, like the addition of a Provençal-style mantel from the Paris flea market that anchors the living room fireplace.

The living room also features four oak-framed arched windows with blackout shades, 14-foot ceilings and exposed brick walls; a remote-controlled gas fireplace, an 11' × 10' operable skylight and a Sony projector with 125” motorized movie screen.

In the adjoining kitchen are high-end Miele appliances, custom oak cabinetry with antique chicken-wire glass, a Julien sink with integral drainboard and garbage disposal, marble countertops and vintage 1950s drafting chairs at the island.

The primary bedroom has South-facing steel windows with oak Venetian finish, 13-foot ceilings, a remote-controlled gas fireplace and floor-to-ceiling oak wardrobes with mirrored fronts. The primary bathroom has radiant-heated French terracotta floors, a deep porcelain cast-iron soaking tub, an antique Empire vanity with Belgian black-stone top, dual sinks and custom brass electric towel warmers; there are extra-large dual medicine cabinets, a heated toilet with bidet function and an operable window with motorized Lutron blackout shade

The three additional bedrooms each accommodate a king-size bed, feature built-in desks and divided oak wardrobes and solar-powered skylights with blackout shades. The secondary bathroom features heated French terracotta floors, an antique mahogany vanity with dual sinks, mirrored walls and walk-in glass shower, custom brass towel warmers and a heated toilet with bidet function.

The powder offers an operable skylight with blackout shade, along with heated French terracotta floors, a mahogany vanity with Belgian black-stone top, mirrored walls and heated toilet with bidet function.
There is also an in-home laundry room with both a large-load LG washer/dryer and a small-load Miele washer/dryer, an extra-large stainless-steel utility sink with professional spray faucet and a towel warmer for delicate items and clothing care. The home also features a Mitsubishi concealed central air system, Nest-controlled steam heat, Nest smoke and carbon monoxide detection, Lutron-controlled lighting, Dinesen solid European oak floors throughout dry areas, custom 8-foot-tall, 2-inch-thick oak doors and E.R. Butler & Co. Empire hardware throughout.

Seriously worth every penny of the nearly $9 million asking price.

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Know the Facts and ...

As we inch closer to the midterm elections, let’s take another look at what the Right has done, and not done, for the last two years. And let’s note that Democrats win when Democrats vote. Check your voter registration, make sure you’re eligible to vote. If you vote by mail, use a drop box to turn in your ballot. If you can, vote early. Tell your friends to vote; offer to drive people to the polls who may have trouble getting there.

Be smart. Vote …

 

Cankles’ FBI Director, another DUI Hire Kash Patel, declared at a Senate hearing that under his watch the FBI has stopped 1,100 terror attacks.

So, Kash, where are the 1,100 indictments?

There are none because this is another lying drunk in the Regime.

 

Byron Donalds is a Republican running for Governor of Flori-duh who has had Cankles’ back for nearly two years, standing at his side, well, behind him actually, and praising Hair Furor every chance he got.

Until this week when Byron realized Cankles is a liability and had his campaign scrub their website of any mention of the current President.

Things are getting bad when the cultists stop talking about their Dear Leader.

 

Keep in mind that the bloated gasbag pedophile who once said he’d run into a school with an active shooter alert loses his shiz when a female reporter questions him.

 

Apparently a few years back Maine GOP Senator Susan “I’m very concerned” Collins promised a defense contractor millions of dollars in government contracts in exchange for a $150,000 donation to her campaign.

The FBI was ready to investigate Collins until Cankles returned to office and purged the FBI of the agents working on that case.

GOP corruption never ends.

 

This week Fox News cut away from a JD Vance speech, saying they would return to it if Vance started to make news.

Even Fox News is tired of the lies.

 

Pay attention: it’s no coincidence that Cankles’ Regime began banning news outlets  the week before a court’s deadline for AG Todd Blanche to release the interview notes with underage girls raped and threatened by Cankles.

That’s all.

 

Cankles says what’s going on in Iran is war.

J Dufus Vance says what’s going on in Iran is not a war.

Cankles says he did not initiate a media ban.

J Dufud Vance it is a media ban.

Cankles said in Texas that “everything is going great.”

J Dufus Vance begged for more time to get things right.

The clown car can’t even get on the same page.

 

In the days after Cankles banned CNN, MS Now and Politico from the White House he unveiled “[Cankles] TV.”

This is state sponsored media.

You will only see and hear what they want you to see and hear.

It won’t be the truth.

It won’t be journalism.

It will be propaganda 24/7.

PS Cankles TV is already failing.

One night, during Prime Time, the channel drew 3,000 viewers.

In the morning, during the morning news shiows that number dropped to 1,000.

Everything he touches fails.

 

On the upisde, Denmark just pulled off a diplomatic coup after getting Cankles to re-sign the 1951 Greenland agreement. But Denmark added a “poison pill” to the deal saying it is only valid as long as the US stays in NATO.

Cankles got a headline, Denmark got the win.

 

In solidarity NPR and PBS just announced that they will no longer air Cankles’ footage until further notice.

I think they’re calling it Opertaion Starve the Attention Whore.

 

In just nine months Muslim Democrat Socialist NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani has:

Secured millions in worker restitution from Door Dash and Uber Eats.

Launched the first stage of his universal childcare program.

Cracked down on bad landlords.

Balanced NYC’s budget without cutting major social services.

That’s what working for We The People looks like.

 

Apparently the US House of Representatives can sue a sitting president with a simple majority vote.

If Democrats retake the chamber they should do more than just investigate the corruption, they should sue him in Federal Court for the illegal ballroom, the Qatari jet, and all of his other crimes.

Lock.Him.Up.

 

Funny that out of nine Supreme Court Justices onky the three Conservatives—Roberts, the Frat Boy Rapist, and Handmaiden Amy—were invited to Cankles dinner with Xi.

Oh, and why are all these free market billionaires dining with a Communist?

I thought communism was evil and bad.

 

Remember that Cankles’ Big Beautiful Bill will remove up to 10 million Americans from Medicaid but won’t take effect until after the midterms.

They want to blame the Democrats for their own attack on Americans and their healthcare.

Punish the GOP at the polls this November.

In case you didn’t know … the DOJ lawyer defending Cankles’ ban on CNN, MS Now and Politico is Michael Velchik.

In college he wrote a Latin class essay from Hitler’s pointe of view that was do disturbing his professor made him redo it.

In 2013 Mein Kampf his favorite book that he’s ever read that year and praised Hitler’s grasp on propaganda without mentioning the Holocaust.

This is the man arguing that the press has no right to White House access.

This is the regime.

 

Republicans in Congress have cheered on Cankles’ Iran War since day one but now a lot of them have changed their tunes, saying they’re against the war because they know they're about to get wiped out in the midterms.

Vote them out.

 

This is a reminder that NO  federal election in the United States has EVER been canceled or postponed due to war or any other reason.

The US Constitution does not grant any president any authority to delay or cancel a federal election.

Period.

 

And lastly, a Blue Wave will not happen unless We The People make it happen.

Do not trust the polls. CAST A GODDAMNED VOTE.

Do not believe other people’s votes will be enough. CAST A GODDAMNED VOTE!

Go vote and encourage everyone you know to do the same.

CAST.A.GODDAMNED.VOTE!!

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