Oh my darling! 😍

Remember this hilarious bit from THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR (1942)? 😁

Walker Art Center Severs Ties With Restaurant, Citing ‘Core Values’ Cardamom, a restaurant inside the Walker Art Center is replacing staff with QR code ordering. Walker announced they're cutting ties over "core values"

Three cheers and/or raise a glass for the Walker for doing the right thing!

I used to say my Dottie was the Veronica Lake of the dog world because of her asymmetrical "bang" over one eye (not to mention her sultry glamour!).

Then a friend gently corrected me: "No, Veronica Lake was the Dottie of the human world." 😁

IIRC there was a fanatical English Jesuit who was pushing hard for Isabella (distantly descended from English royalty) to succeed Elizabeth I.

Wasn't gonna Hapsburg. I mean happen.

I saw them, in person and close up, back when I was a kid. In Union Square!

I didn't appreciate it at the time, but now I love the fact that their androgynous looks made them seem more like twins than spouses. 😁

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I love it when museums have replicas of their objets in the gift shop.

I am not kidding at all when I say that every Democrat with a microphone should mock JD Vance every chance they get between now and 2028. Call him weird and feckless. Laugh at his eyeliner & dumb beard. Talk about the nazis & freaks he follows on Twitter. *Brand* him.

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a woman is sitting in a chair and says it is what it is . Alt: "It is what it is," as said by Bea Arthur in THE GOLDEN GIRLS.

My dog Dottie is only partly named for Dorothy Parker, but in my defense she is also named for Dorothy Zbornak.

Reluctant as I am to muddy great art with MAGA merde, the "bull" certainly flies copiously at CPAC and other Republican orgies.

"Da capo" or "decapitate" 😁👍

I remember that Hawaii case!

...gently pointed out that our own C17 New England ancestors had _civil_ weddings rather than church ones. She didn't want to hear it and stopped talking to me after that (permanently).

I really hate what MAGA has done to my family!

I'm reminded of a conversation I had with a once-favorite aunt back when SCOTUS legalized LGBT marriage. She was hearing from everyone in her ward that the Church would be _forced_ to perform those marriages. I tried to convince her otherwise, and 1/2

I just finished reading this, great work. Thanks for sharing the link.

And today the Hibernia Bank building (from 1892), recently restored inside and out, is one of the many glorious architectural gems of San Francisco, and a favorite of mine since I was a kid. That splendid portico!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiberni...

They Thought What? Unpacking the history (and present) of science

". . . turning a blind eye to science’s potential for harm tends to harm marginalized people the most."

Schrödinger's War.

The authors of the four Gospels of the New Testament.

Publicity photo of The Ink Spots

Alternatively, the Vulgate version 😁👍

(I saw The Ink Spots at a supper club long ago—though not quite as long ago as St. Jerome!—and they were all about 120 years old but still swinging!)

The authors of the four Gospels of the New Testament.

O illegitimate construction!

The authors of the four Gospels of the New Testament.

THIS. THIS. THIS.

The thing about this is, it's entirely performative with no legal value at all (because it's a *resolution*, not a law). So the legislature making the resolution and Bill Lee signing it is just 100% to signal that they're bigots.

The color of China: Classic Red China is a country full of cultural richness, and classic red plays a special and unique role in this nation. As a traditional auspicious color, classic red is beloved for its warm celebratory atmosph...

The luckiest color!

Willing to bet that this once-gorgeous marquee was originally bright red instead of sad, faded pink!

LOL this reminds me of that line from "Dance 10, looks 3" from A CHORUS LINE: "Different is nice, but it sure isn't pretty" 😂