Rose Marie Passes
Some three hours ago, the legendary Rose Marie tweeted about opening the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas 71 years ago this… Posted by Steve Pollock on Thursday, December 28, 2017
Year: 2017
Unhand Me, Foul Knave-Churls!
His Majesty is NOT in a mood to be recorded. Rash is gone, ears are better, but not quite there yet. Annnnddd … we discovered a cyst on the Royal Tuckus, which will be medically treated. If that doesn’t work, lancing and draining will be required and that brings forth a nightmare of epic proportions…
Dragged Off to Hell
His Majesty is trying to magically blink away this followup vet visit, a la “I Dream of Jeannie” It’s not working. He’s… Posted by Steve Pollock on Wednesday, December 27, 2017
Wowza!
Floating Cup Pencil Carving The process looks so fun to watch! That turned out amazing!! Credit: Bobby Duke Art – goo.gl/4YU6ei Posted by Blunt Kommunity on Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Roy Moore's Gotterdammerung
“Antonio: ‘Mark you this, Bassanio, The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. Oh, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!’” Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act 1, Scene 3, Page 5. We thank thee,…
Sascha's Going Into Traction
Two days, two vet visits. Sascha, Queen of Our Hearts, seems to be steadily losing the use of her back legs. Not been a… Posted by Steve Pollock on Tuesday, December 12, 2017 [Update: She’s home resting. Ummmm. Herniated disks and arthritis and a messed up spine and has feeling lower down, but can barely move….
I Must Protest This Assault Upon Our Person
“I must protest this assault upon Our Imperial and Royal Person! We have been captured and drugged –DRUGGED, We tell… Posted by Steve Pollock on Monday, December 11, 2017
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They Don’t Like the New ‘America First’ As Much As They Did the Lindbergh Version
So let’s see if I’ve got this. Germany, a country in which there are still many women alive who were raped by invading Russian Red Army soldiers and in which the human products of those rapes are still living, now trust … Russia more than the United States.
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Questions. We Got ‘Em.
Why? Because, as reporter Anne Kingston notes, women are “female reproductive vessels” and not human beings. And because Long Dong Silver has always, and will always, get a free pass. And both of these are realities for reasons which surpasseth understanding.
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American Carnage: 3-Dec-17
Nazis are just “the normal people next door” and nothing bad should happen to either them or the New York Times for pointing this out, says The New York Times.
I'm Ignoring You. You Know What You Did.
His Majesty The Roux won’t deign to even look at me because of the whole Major we are not amused at the placing of a hat… Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, December 2, 2017
Bosco Has Gingerbread
Beloved Bosco gets a gingerbread bear. (He seems to feel fine; I just woke him up for his treat. I don’t think his… Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, December 2, 2017
Fergus Gets Gingerbread
Head Beagle Fergus gets a gingerbread lion too. Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, December 2, 2017
Goose Gets Some Gingerbread
Prince Goose is Loose gets a gingerbread lion. Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, December 2, 2017
Sascha Gets Some Gingerbread
Queen Sascha gets a gingerbread elefunk. Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, December 2, 2017
The Bribes Arrived
The aforementioned bribe came today … in gingerbread and pumpkin. His Majesty is … miffed but mollified. Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, December 2, 2017
We Are Not Amused.
A confession from the Churl: His Majesty is throwing his snit fit not about the tree, but because I had the temerity,… Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, December 2, 2017
Ebeneezer Basset Scrooge
His Imperial Majesty The Roux wishes it known that you can take your monstrous Christmas tree, which is blocking His… Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, December 2, 2017
Beagle. Anal. Glands. Urk.
Beagle. Anal. Glands. If you have/have had a beagle, you probably understand why we’re over the river and through the… Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, November 25, 2017
Tessa: Turkey Bird Good!
Shhhhhh. Turkey bird good. Don’t tell Mummy! Posted by Steve Pollock on Thursday, November 23, 2017
Resuscitate Net Neutrality
Look, give me an early Dec. 14 birthday present and make some calls. To put it bluntly, you ain't gonna like what… Posted by Steve Pollock on Wednesday, November 22, 2017 [Corporations suck. And they’re not people. Assholes.]
Say Your Prayers
My girlfriend Tessa is staying a week with us while her mommy Carol Miller Stewart is up nawth havin' Thanksgiving 'mongst her Yankee kin. She has a set of steps her daddy Rick made her to get up in bed, but always ignores them and wants me to boost her. (She's a tripod dog and…
David Cassidy, RIP
Yowza. Posted by Steve Pollock on Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Dressing Up
Newschannel Five must have seen my previous post about dressing Steve Layman like an Easter egg the other night…. Posted by Steve Pollock on Friday, November 17, 2017
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American Carnage: 17-Nov-17
The Diddler’s Club What we learned this week: • Al Franken is the latest member of the “People Who Diddled People Who Didn’t Want to be Diddled” Club. This Diddlers Club, of which we’re all so very proud, officially now consists of the nation’s President; at least two former presidents; two or three sitting United…
Dressing Down
As an old print journalist, I have little regard for tee-wee “news” – it ain’t news, it ain’t journalism; it’s local… Posted by Steve Pollock on Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Squirrel!!!
The demesne was invaded by a legion of one squirrel today, who made a mess in the driveway with, I think, a large… Posted by Steve Pollock on Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Casablanca, Here's Looking at You!
"Casablanca" is by far best on the big screen. Would have loved a cleaner print, but Ingrid is indeed luminous and… Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, November 12, 2017
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American Carnage: 10-Nov-17
Peckerwoods! What we learned this week: • Comedian Louis CK and Crusading Crazy Ass Roy Moore were accepted into that venerable old boy’s club, that newly-open-to-didlers-from-outside-the-church institution, The Ancient and Venerable Order of Priests Expecting Complete, Knightly Exoneration; Rewarded With Oodles Of Dancing Students (a.k.a. “P.E.C.K.E.R.W.O.O.D.S.”) Golf and Country Club. Greeting them at the door…
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The Own Us
It’s all a sordid mess and they need to be yanked hard.
To the Editor, Part Deux
In which we in the future answer “Letters to the Editor” of the Chicago Tribune written during the past that was called World War Two. “Globaloney Stamps. “Chicago, June 1. — Totay I received the shock of my life when I went to mail a package to my boy in service. I needed 20 cents…
Bad News
Just found out our court jester Bosco has a large, fast-growing osteosarcoma, which engulfed three ribs and is probably… Posted by Steve Pollock on Monday, November 6, 2017
Fiery Marble (FB 2017)
“I always knew I loved Maureen O'hara. Now I know why, thanks to this clipping from 1945.”
Fiery Marble
“I always knew I loved Maureen O'hara. Now I know why, thanks to this clipping from 1945.”
To the Editor (2017)
In which we in the future answer “Letters to the Editor” of the Chicago Tribune written during the past that was called World War Two. “Globaloney Stamps. “Chicago, June 1. — Today I received the shock of my life when I went to mail a package to my boy in service. I needed 20 cents…
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Coal Mining Health Study Is Halted by Interior Department
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