First, a word from Truman Capote and Holly Golightly:
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Now follow "Cat" over the fold.....
I'll never forget one of the third (fourth, fifth?) conversations I ever had with Bill in Portland Maine. He's my nearish neighbor down to Portland and occasionally we take nourishment together along with his long-suffering husband, Common Sense Mainer.
"Breakfast at Tiffany's!!!???" said BiPM. "Totally unwatchable".
"But....but" says commonmass......
"No buts. That movie is totally unwatchable. Totally."
I won't go into his response when I said "But what about the orange cat?"
Except for that, we seem to agree.
We agree on one other thing, too: Netroots Nation.
Go, if you can. I plan to. It's a real stretch for me right now and I think I can swing it because I have a place to stay, but if YOU can swing it, get on up to Minnesota and join us. Whom will you meet? One never knows. I'm the guy with the red goatee and ashy grey hair.
A lovely picture from The Rock in Coastal Maine:
A nice sunset in June
Alright. Now for the icky stuff:
Well, here I sit in my "summer office" on the rock, with a nice view of other islands to the West and a pretty stiff breeze, which is nice because last week was foggy and drizzly. Today we had thunderstorms but not the predicted hail in the afternoon and now cooler, drier air for the rest of the week, which is fine with me. I got my baking done this morning (I was up at 5:30, which is not unusual when I'm here) and have already baked a rhubarb pie and two loaves of wheat bread, had a salmon casserole and early lettuce and fiddleheads and a martini with anchovy-stuffed olives for dinner. The rain comes and goes. Like it always does.
I enjoyed a great day Monday up to Camden with Nance and Trev and Trev's girlfriend. Curried mussels (from the Rock), local lamb chops grilled outdoors, grilled corn and all sorts of other yummy things. Oh, and stewed local rhubarb for dessert.
Hurricane season starts here officially today. They say we may have some this year that hit land. Better get on my deadfall before it gets worse in a storm.
Pet Peeves Department
This morning on NPR, I heard a national NPR journalist presenting a little 1 minute story on some ducks that are having ducklings at a Home Depot in Bangor, Maine. Well, as she said it, "Banger", like Bangers and Mash.
The name of the city on the Penobscot River is "BANG-ore": BANG like what most people do with their head against a wall when they read my comments and diaries, and "ore" like what comes out of the ground. I looked this up: "Banger" is an appropriate way to pronounce the city Bangor in Wales. It is not how you pronounce the city in Maine. Please make a note of it.
Don't get me started on the "Nor'easter", which, if it were to be pronounced by folks "Down East" would more resemble "Naahth Eastah" than anything else. We drop "r"s, not "t"s. You may make a note of that, too. ;)
Historical Adventures in Scatology Department
From Samuel Pepys:
Going down into my cellar...I put my foot into a great heap of turds...by which I found that Mr. Turner's house of office is full and comes into my cellar, which doth trouble me.
sounds a great deal like turning on MSNBC in the morning, doesn't it?
Today's Mark Twain Moment
"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits."
Your Daily Paula Page, Franco-American Hero:
I wish. His name is Paul LePage, and he's the tea-bagging 31% winning governor of Maine. Guess what HE did the other day: he showed up drunk to the hand-off ceremony of a naval base in Brunswick, Maine. I wish I could find the link but he was DRUNK. Good. That will improve his performance. That's what the Bloc Quebequois says, anyway......
I would love to write more, but without further ado...
Top Comments!!
From Inland:
it's seven thirty a.m. and in Open Thread, amk for obama has already won the blog for the day, in response to Phil S 33's lead-in.
From ScottyUrb:
s a Catholic I was glad to see these remarks from I T, an atheist, lamenting the tendency to bash people's religious beliefs (or lack thereof):
As a community, we would not continually promote diaries attacking the LGBT, black, or Muslim communities. we cannot have a progressive political coalition that insults and alienates an important community.
From navajo:
I'd like to submit blue aarvark's comment today in jotter's HID diary. blue aarvark has a very clever comment every single day for jotter about his bharns. He deserves a shout out.
From trashablanca:
In blue ardvaark's diary, PPP Raising Cain, LuvSet made me laugh out loud. Maybe because I went to parochial school, but it really struck my funny bone hard!
From commonmass, your humble diarist:
This comment Kossack AUboy2207's diary for LGBT Kos celebrates a wedding in California of Kossacks Predictor and joustchr. I could not resist, as the picture in the comment has been posted here before, but I just couldn't resist. Read the diary, too, there's good stuff there.