A Play in One Act by Trail Mix Contributor Blonde Wino
CHARACTER LIST
- DR. TINKER Physician, male, 45+
- MOTHER NATURE Female, ageless
- ADMIN Female, 30+
- TECH Male, 30+
Synopsis: Admin and Tech enlist the support of Dr. Tinker to find out ‘what’ is wrong with Mother Nature.
Read It Now (pdf file)
bravo! bravo! bw
uh oh
Russian ambassador told Moscow that Kushner wanted secret communications channel with Kremlin
noteworthy quote in wapo marcus column today:
In Dexter Filkins’s profile of Mattis for the New Yorker, the most striking moment comes when Mattis is asked what worries him most in his new role. Filkins expected to hear about the Islamic State, or Russia, or the defense budget.
Instead, Mattis went to a deeper, more unsettling problem: “The lack of political unity in America. The lack of a fundamental friendliness. It seems like an awful lot of people in America and around the world feel spiritually and personally alienated, whether it be from organized religion or from local community school districts or from their governments.”
Truly enjoyed seeing this again BW
Bravo. Excellent way to start the day.
On a sour note we bring up the floater. Seems he does not like Africa, or Europe, only certain Asian countries. What is interesting is how the world around him is shrinking, and rather fast. It should soon be squishing his fatness with his trusted (that is a joke folks) friends and family sitting in prison. You have to believe some of them will be more than happy to do the first draft of their soon to be written tell all books on the witness stand.
patd
That alienation and anger is a symptom not the disease. For most areas of the globe, the majority of human beings are simply unnecessary. It is supply and demand. When you can be replaced by the next cog in the machine, then the other cogs become the enemy to be eliminated. When your particular skills or even existence are unnecessary, then you become a drain on the system.
The only protections become the value you have to your particular tribe or the wealth and position gained in life that protects those beneath you. Welcome to the land of baron, skilled servants, knights defending the realm, jokers who keep them entertained, and the serfs who do their bidding . The barons, knights, servants and entertainers might have some hope of safety. The serfs don’t stand a chance and it tends to make them very angry.
It amazes me that when the twin towers fell…we knew we were at war…when the ruskies took down the democracy via the internets? Few noticed at first and now we are mired in a russian finger trap…related to the chinese finger trap. We have been attacked and the alleged winner is fomenting violence and denial…I believe this crime reaches into the RNC. Double secret agent, comey really played the russian roulette.
PS…thanks, Craig. I am glad you did get the Pluto stamp…Tombaugh is a hero in Las Cruces and I cannot get the New Horizons/Pluto stamps locally, I have to order online.
I’m baaaaaaack. Just want to give a shout out to Pogo… Congrats on the Cavs win. I sure hope the series with the Warriors is competitive…. may the best team win.
I did follow some of the news while away… this ain’t anything like Watergate… this shit really does go to the heart of our values as a country.
oh yeah… Mama Mia was awesome!
If that article patd linked above is true, Kushner, at least, needs to be tried for high treason, and the whole gang needs to be expelled from government TODAY.
bw, your mother nature character pointed to my favorite theory behind some of our current troubles: sex ratio imbalance. china woke to some of that when their 1 child law resulted in favoring the selection of male babies over female, leading to lack of same and more social problems. it would be interesting to see if the percentage of males left in the mid-east has diminished and will result in less war mongering. wasn’t there a similar turn down in civil hostilities in Russia after the wars that eliminated a big chunk of their male population?
bink, it’s possible (but maybe not probable) that Russia is pulling our chain and enjoying the keystone kops entertainment. who knows what is true anymore. to lose is to win, up is down, the poor should pay the rich ….
don’t look me in the eye tillerson…fomenting more muslim hate.
(patd…I wrote the play based on headlines from google regarding studies about the sex ratio imbalance, more estrogen in a society creates a calmer, more peaceful society…plus at that time, a nobel prize winning scientist complained that the females in his lab distracted him from his science projects. A woman’s mind is so sexy! This was the time peter thiel also started mouthing-off about women and immigrants ruining our economy — when the opposite was true.) pre-trump, ruskie invasion.
BW
you are so good I hope you keep it up!
BW, from my life’s experience the perfect cast and audience would be the Junior and Senior classes of my Eastern prep school. Intuitively, this group of bright young people realized the inherent truth of your message; it what was the school’s founders, veterans of the horrors of World War I, never wanted to see repeated.
Yes, I see this as a one semester course in coping with the challenges of defective men. BTW, look-up one of my heroines, Admiral Grace Hopper. Very well done, Blondie!
11am and it’s only 84-deg. A little chilly to be doing the yard work, but I want to get it finished before nap-time.
best lines from Hillary’s Trump bashing Wellsley speech’
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/05/26/the_best_trump_jokes_from_hillary_clinton_s_wellesley_commencement_speech.html
US Rep from Nebraska, Adrian Smith, was discussing farm subsidies & food stamps on NPR. When asked if it was every American’s right to eat, the asshat did not say yes…either time he was asked. He could not bring himself to say yes, every American has the right to eat.
He started blathering on about how “nutrition” is important, but…taxes, blah, blah, blah…how things are handled…blah, blah, blah.
Scumbag.
Yo, Adrian! Maybe you’ll get IBS & sh/+s yourself silly.
and now a musical interlude for Kushner Kislyak bromance
I recommend you guys check out Good RX the next time you need a refill.
Baseball Hall of Famer and former US Sen. Jim Bunning dies – CNN
https://apple.news/AZ81siFlpSka40NzcJNwJ9w
GOP Congressman Declines To Say Whether Every American Is Entitled To Eat – HuffPost
https://apple.news/AlDEmPukzRoCn5XOXvZ5esQ
Good, I’m not over-reacting to what I heard.
“Let me ask you this bluntly: Is every American entitled to eat?” he asked.
“Well, nutrition obviously we know is very important and I would hope that we can look to ―” Smith began.
“Well, not just important, it’s essential for life,” Simon interjected.
Smith conceded that nutrition is essential to life.
“So is every American entitled to eat and is food stamps something that ought to be that ultimate guarantor?” Simon persisted.
“I think we know that given the necessity of nutrition, there could be a number of ways that we could address that,” Smith answered.
Yes. The correct answer, Adrian, was yes. You flunked the humanity test.
Greg Allman dead at 69
https://youtu.be/I3d31gcNPTI
Eat a Peach
Jamie – The Allman’s Brothers Band is one that I know but cannot place. Having no musical anything means I cannot place music and music players either. One quote from the Washington Post interested me:
A lot of women wanted to mate with him.
BB,
I know absolutely nothing about popular music. I have never been to a concert other than the single event that I attended at Carnegie Hall back in the 50s. Most of the names of musicians and actors and movies that are mentioned here, I just shrug–my bad. Of course, Sturg, our resident artist, is the exception.
Greg and Duane…….I was tuned into the Wilson Pickett, James Brown, Sam and Dave, Otis….and the Beatles end of the spectrum……..Wilson Pickett was required listening, so bam……his latest single hits and…….it’s weird……..really weird……but the guitar guy caught my attention because it was so weird……..then came the allmans, perhaps the world’s greatest bar band, ever…….and the skynnerds and the whole southern rock thing………that’s about when I started scanning different vistas but I always wished them well, cause they were rockers down to the red Georgia dirt…….
I’ve been to a bunch of concerts, somehow…….frank Zappa, Frank Jr, Hank jr, David Peel and the lower East Side, Tim Buckley, Liberace, Barry Manilow, Jerry Lee, Grease, Hair, Jeebus Slice Superstar, George Jones, Prince, The drifters, Lee Dorsey, the DixieCups, Ray Charles, Gordon Lighterfoot, Huey Piano Smith and the clowns, chuck, canned heat, the dead, doc severinson, bunches of Moz and Ludwig……I feel just like the guy in Clockwork when I can focus on listening to Lud……he was such a Wig…….
lotsa concerts under the barge…….hell, I was even in a few……..
Oh………Jr Samples, Chet Atkins, Steve Martin, Hendrix, and Jerry Clower.
But I would have paid hard money to see The Marx Bros and the 3 Stooges on stage………lol
Carlin and Dylan, three each…….caught Rolling Thunder……..
At the bottom of the Rolling Thunder Poster……….”For Tickets, Make checks payable to BOB DYLAN”
One of the weirdest recordings ever made for its slot in time.
Trump children meet with RNC to discuss strategy – CNN
https://apple.news/ASAgAqG4KSHGkjf6CI0oYFQ
“Trump’s eldest two sons…assumed the reins of the Trump Organization when their father took office. Ethics rules prevent them from talking with their father about the family business, but Thursday’s meetings signal a role in laying the groundwork for future political activity, including the President’s reelection campaign.”
How is this OK??? They can’t talk to Daddy about his businesses, but they can conspire with Gooperz in Congress?
Tomorrow I have off……..I’m going to relish reading the play.
I’d like to have seen this guy
And these guys
And…….just in case you might be wondering whom might be Huey “Piano” Smith and The Clowns…….
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OO6Q-00AsPk
What crap they were feeding us on the radio back then……if I lose your stupid high school love I’m going to cry the rest of my stupid life, like I’m a clown? Like I “amuse” you? Hahaha
Manilow wasn’t really my kinda thing before I saw him on stage……but when i saw him……..the man is a wizard…
It’s just like that time I saw John Wilkes Booth………I think it was him, he was limping and all……..
He had one stupid line and he actually “broke a leg” delivering it.
So……the dumbass was gonna shoot the boy and then dramatically go to the fucking stage…….he probably had a stupid speech…….what an asshole…….him and Brutus both.
Hi, I’m John Wilkes Booth of the famous Booth family currently controlled by Edwin, that surly cur, and I’m going to shoot Abe Lincoln in the theater this Friday……..perhaps you could attend?
RSVP
Yeah, nobody saw that coming……..
Here’s a movie treatment for you:
The Monster……….Must stay ALIVE.
Sturgeone
I was never a Manilow fan of his power ballad albums, but then the record company let him make a flop just because he loved the jazz music. To this day, 2:00 AM Paradise Cafe is one of my favorites. If it was still in the original vinyl I bought, the grooves would be holes. It featured Sarah Vaughn, Mel Torme, and some of the best jazz musicians of the era.
BB
Greg was quite handsome and apparently charming until the alcoholism and drug addiction drove them away. He sobered up but the self medication took its toll.
Cher Mourns Ex-Husband
Ramadan Etiquette Guide
Helpful advice with a sense of humor.
Just saw one of those class action lawsuit ads. Apparently, ED drugs are now linked to melanoma. It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature, indeed.
Mr Bink & Ms Pat,
If the reports about kushner are correct, the Comey FBI should have acted to pull both his security clearance and his passport. kushner is as bad a risk of flight to avoid prosecution as anyone I’ve ever encountered, and lemme tell ya, I encountered a few.
During the S&L Crisis in the mid-80s one real estate developer and his gal flew to Dominican Republic with 3 suitcases each, stuffed with $9M!LL!ON in escrow money. In ’85, $9 M!LL!ON was a whole lot more than it is today. After 3 years investigators found him & his bank, and got the account frozen. Being penniless in the Dominican Republic was no fun, so the guy came home to do time. But, it cost the USA a ton of money to track the bastard down, and then to get the Dominicans interested in Uncle Sam’s claim.
Of course the perp’s poor lawyer had to endure the judge’s wrath when the perp failed to appear in court, on top of which, that bruised and shamed attorney was stiffed for his fee and costs. (Lemme tell you, a crook who steals from his defense attorney is a hell of a bad guy, besides being an idiot. What lawyer is going to defend him after that ? Prolly some newly minted legal aid attorney who has never seen a federal court before, that’s who.)
I’m guessing the j kushner is even more of an idiot, and a much greater risk for flight than our real estate embezzler.
Ms Dallas,
Wow ! ED drugs are associated with melanoma ! Yet the rippers want Big Gummint to pay for that shit for limp guys, but they won’t pay for a woman’s health care.
WTF is wrong with this picture ?