Saturday, December 29, 2012

missing my best girl

 




on the nineteenth anniversary of her birth.






stella by starlight 12.29.1993-9.30.2006

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

December daisies

























again this year....



















Roberta Josephine Smith Mills 11.24.1929-12.26.2008

Tuesday, December 25, 2012


Happy Channukah

Bon Nadal
Joyeux Noel
Gelukkig kerstfeest
Mele Kalikimaka
Feliz Navidad
節日快樂.
Frohe Weihnachten
Happy Kwanza
Merii Kurisumasu
Veselé Vánoce
Merry Christmas

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Saturday, December 22, 2012

sad truths


"I had never before been a special fan of that great comedian Phyllis Diller, 
but she utterly won my heart this week by sending me an envelope that, 
when opened, contained a torn-off square of brown-bag paper 
of the kind suitable for latrine duty in an ill-run correctional facility. 
Duly unfurled, it carried a handwritten salutation reading as follows: 

 Money's scarce 
Times are hard 
 Here's your f***ing
 Christmas card 



I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn't Christmas a moral and aesthetic nightmare whether or not the days are prosperous?” 
~ Christopher Hitchens


Phyllis Diller 7.17.1917 ~ 8. 20. 2012

Friday, December 21, 2012

he was right about one thing...



"monsters walk among us..." 



  ~  he is one.

there are others:


Fighting the NRA leadership means knowing who is in it http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/21/1172692/-Fighting-the-NRA-leadership-means-knowing-who-is-in-it

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

enough said?

do you really hunt with those? 


 I'd be more impressed if you went out armed with the same equipment as the deer - make things a little more fair, Ted.


 You'd probably be more evenly matched with your fridge.

Monday, December 17, 2012

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Friday, December 14, 2012

"Sensible people don’t mind 
        sensible limitations of their freedoms.
Especially when their freedoms 
                            have the power to kill 20 kids."
 
"I wouldn't change a word of it. I only wish the NRA and its jellyfishy, well-paid supporters in legislatures both State and Federal would be careful to recite the whole of it.....And then tell us how a heavily-armed man, woman, or child, recruited by no official, led by no official, given no goals by any official, motivated or restrained only by his or her personality and perceptions of what is going on, can be considered a member of a well-regulated militia." 
~ Kurt Vonnegut on the Second Amendment

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Saturday, December 8, 2012

Friday, December 7, 2012

Wednesday, December 5, 2012