Martian Orthodox
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"Aim for full-spectrum semi-adequacy." Jack of all trades, master of fun. Deus Rex Patria. Amerikaner. Model citizen, zero discipline. Κύριε ελέησον.
I've said it before. Any mutual of mine or my wife's is welcome to visit us in rural north GA. Whether I'm a gentleman, IDK (opinions vary), but I can be hospitable in short bursts, so if you're passing through the ATL/Chattanooga hinterlands, HMU.
“George Washington once laughingly referred to his house as ‘a well-resorted tavern.’ Uninvited guests were not refused hospitality in Virginia by gentlemen. He once wrote that he and Martha had not sat down alone to a dinner for twenty years.”
Me: if there’s anything you learn from this kitchen, son, it’s that you measure garlic with your heart. 16 yo: with my heart. Me: yes. Some recipes will tell you some nonsense of “1 clove of garlic minced” and that is a cold-hearted person. 16 yo: they do not understand the…
Never submit to the longsleevehouse.
No. The short sleeve shirt and tie put a man on the moon and is found in most every airliner cockpit. America is an aerospace republic - and here we respect the short sleeve shirt and tie.
I did this charcoal drawing in 1981 of a tree at my childhood house. I must have read thirty books sitting in the shade with my back up against its trunk. I remember 'Treasure Island' & 'The Call of the Wild' were two. But it has been dying slowly & near the house, so it needed…
I don't think I've read a single stanza of Jane's I didn't adore unreservedly, but this little lyric hits as purely as the spirit it names — beautifully distilled, exacting. She was a lapidarist. We were lucky to read her in life, may we continue to read her in remembrance. 🕯🙏
I am very sad to report that the wonderful Catholic poet Jane Greer @NorthDakotaJane has died. Please keep her soul, her family and her husband Jim in your prayers.
Large old oak near me, dead now. Householder is elderly & can’t remove it, so bits are just breaking off. But it looks to me like it’s entreating God to take it home.
In 18th-century Britain and Ireland, some affluent landowners employed ornamental hermits to reside on their estates, serving as living garden features and subjects of intrigue for visiting guests.
Met two mutuals last night in Atlanta (you know who you are), one for the first time. One of the main reasons I put up with the cavalcade of nonsense here is to leverage into IRL. I am willing to meet or host any mutual.
Here’s a bit of fun treacle for ya.
The Cure covering The Beatles - “Hello Goodbye” (featuring James McCartney):
Unfortunately this was pulled from theaters after only a week because every woman who saw it became pregnant
Gene Kelly's cigarette kiss in, The Pirate (1948) Director: Vincente Minnelli
Reposting since a horde of fatherless zoomers infested the comments.
There is ONE deer I will not let Martian kill. She's got a limp from when I scared her last year and she fell trying to jump over the fence. I still feel bad and she's always alone. I can't do it.
If someone's going to act in a functionally-religious-zealot way, they should have the common courtesy to declare their faith with a symbol around their neck, a tattoo, or some such, so we can discern their likely priors.
the presumption of utilitarians in imposing their preferences on others as an objective reality is their second-most repellent trait
Gustave Doré - Cherub with a gun on a pile of skulls, c.1870
The same year the world saw the last rowed-ship naval battle (Lepanto, 1571), Franciscan monks planted peaches on St. Simons & Cumberland Islands in Georgia.
My maternal grandma, in WW2, worked in a textile shop making leg bags, musette bags, etc from thick canvas, for the Army. She had an big old black Singer & continued to do home work of this type part-time into the 70s. But I never knew Playtex made the Apollo spacesuits.
A shout out to the unheralded ladies who sewed the spacesuits used in the moon landings. They were sewn by the ladies who made Playtex girdles and bras. The suits had to be tough, able to withstand a temperature range of perhaps 500º, from –280º in shadow to +240º in sun, as