Read these and weep ...
WORLD WIDE DEATHS FROM JANUARY 1ST TO MARCH 24TH, 2020
21,297 - coronavirus
113,034 seasonal flu
228,095 malaria
249,904 suicides
313,903 traffic
390,908 HIV-AIDS
581,599 alcohol
1, 162, 481 smoking
1,909,804 cancer
2,382,324 hunger
9,913,702 abortion
Source: Worldometer.info
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Monday, March 30, 2020
Alas, O April Birthdays
It was announced that the state of siege that we are all living in is to be cancelled April 30th.
My 80th birthday is Saturday, the 25th. I'd set up the restaurant - which has an airy latticed patio - was about to create the invitations - "12 noon till the cops come. Table dancing optional."
Admittedly (and equally selfishly) I spent a few minutes feeling sorry for myself but quickly got over myself to think, "What the hell I'll move it to early in May' while mentally humming to myself, "You caint always git you want you waaant" Rolling Stones.
I wondered who else my fellow April birthdayers there might be. A rather distinguished list I must say.
Washington Irving
Maya Angelou
Booker T. Washington,
Billie Holiday
Charlie Chapman
Charlotte Bronte
John Muir
Ella Fitzgerald
and my astrological twin Al Pacino, 4-25-1940.
Sadly they're all dead and well beyond celebrating anything. Except for Pacino and me. And he has much bigger fish to fry.
My 80th birthday is Saturday, the 25th. I'd set up the restaurant - which has an airy latticed patio - was about to create the invitations - "12 noon till the cops come. Table dancing optional."
Admittedly (and equally selfishly) I spent a few minutes feeling sorry for myself but quickly got over myself to think, "What the hell I'll move it to early in May' while mentally humming to myself, "You caint always git you want you waaant" Rolling Stones.
I wondered who else my fellow April birthdayers there might be. A rather distinguished list I must say.
Washington Irving
Maya Angelou
Booker T. Washington,
Billie Holiday
Charlie Chapman
Charlotte Bronte
John Muir
Ella Fitzgerald
and my astrological twin Al Pacino, 4-25-1940.
Sadly they're all dead and well beyond celebrating anything. Except for Pacino and me. And he has much bigger fish to fry.
Friday, March 27, 2020
Virus Protection for Women Only
Ladies who work at home - wear a bra anyhow! If you don't, you can stretch Cooper's ligament and wind up with saggy breasts. Ignore if you are 65 or older or wear a 32AA.
Rip off those false talons you call "nails" or cut your own down to the quick. Virus can linger under fingernails I have read so why take a chance.
Rip off those false talons you call "nails" or cut your own down to the quick. Virus can linger under fingernails I have read so why take a chance.
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Dibs and Dabs
Sadness: the nearly empty refrigerated box with biscuits and Crescent rolls. The space for Sea Salt Caramel Chocolate Chunks … empty as a bimbo's head.
Coming soon to your local supermarket - Vons, Walmart, Albertson's Kroger, Whole Foods - are installing sneeze guards between cashier and customer.
Won't You Take a Sea Cruise With Me?
The USNS Mercy, a floating hospital is due to come into the Port of Los Angeles today or tomorrow. With a top speed of 17.5 knots, it took them a while to get up here from their base in San Diego.
Its to be used this time to cut the local hospitals some slack so that the hospitals can treat more virus patients. It has 12 fully-equipped operating rooms (very necessary in war time when people tend to get blown up and need being put back together) They have a 1,000 bed hospital for non-virus patients. There are radiology departments, pharmacy, optometry, CT scan machines and two Oxygen producing plants on board. With all of this 800 number of patients a day can be seen.
When it does get here and the port number is known, it would make a nice outing to motor stately down, find a good vantage point and eat take-out from Utros west of the old Ports O Call. They have a spacious patio with tables and umbrellas, too. All widely spaced out, let me add. Recommended for those whom the beginning of cabin fever (making gummy bear necklaces, for example - "A Beautiful Necklace That You Can Eat, Too! ) is announcing itself.
Coming soon to your local supermarket - Vons, Walmart, Albertson's Kroger, Whole Foods - are installing sneeze guards between cashier and customer.
Won't You Take a Sea Cruise With Me?
The USNS Mercy, a floating hospital is due to come into the Port of Los Angeles today or tomorrow. With a top speed of 17.5 knots, it took them a while to get up here from their base in San Diego.
Its to be used this time to cut the local hospitals some slack so that the hospitals can treat more virus patients. It has 12 fully-equipped operating rooms (very necessary in war time when people tend to get blown up and need being put back together) They have a 1,000 bed hospital for non-virus patients. There are radiology departments, pharmacy, optometry, CT scan machines and two Oxygen producing plants on board. With all of this 800 number of patients a day can be seen.
When it does get here and the port number is known, it would make a nice outing to motor stately down, find a good vantage point and eat take-out from Utros west of the old Ports O Call. They have a spacious patio with tables and umbrellas, too. All widely spaced out, let me add. Recommended for those whom the beginning of cabin fever (making gummy bear necklaces, for example - "A Beautiful Necklace That You Can Eat, Too! ) is announcing itself.
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
An Amusement/New Hobby During Quarantine!
Lets all get fat! We can't go to the beach, the park, hiking trails - we couldn't hike anyhow - coyotes, but you get the idea.
In addition to all of your favorite snacks, let me whisper what I found in the supermarket canned, ready to bake, biscuits and Crescent Rolls. Grab a pencil - Sea Salt Caramel Chocolate Chunk cookie dough. All you have to do is preheat the oven to 350, put the slightly smaller than a golf ball rounds on a cookie sheet, two inches apart and bake for 12 or 14 minutes. There are 12 rounds to make a dozen cookies.
I looked at these dough balls and thought, "Damn! Those are going to be biiig cookies!" So I halved them and set the timer. They all spread out and I had very nearly a single cookie, the size of Nova Scotia.
Next time I make these (and we're going to the store this morning) I will bake per instructions and cut the finished cookies in half. They are wonderfully chewy yet greasy - the label said something about "made with butter." They weren't kidding.
There are 12 golf balls at 160 calories each, but by cutting them in half, you only get 80 calories. Almost "Diet Sea Salt Caramel Chocolate Chunk" cookies so you can eat two of them and not feel guilty.
A funny thought: How long can this virus last anyhow - it was Made in China.
In addition to all of your favorite snacks, let me whisper what I found in the supermarket canned, ready to bake, biscuits and Crescent Rolls. Grab a pencil - Sea Salt Caramel Chocolate Chunk cookie dough. All you have to do is preheat the oven to 350, put the slightly smaller than a golf ball rounds on a cookie sheet, two inches apart and bake for 12 or 14 minutes. There are 12 rounds to make a dozen cookies.
I looked at these dough balls and thought, "Damn! Those are going to be biiig cookies!" So I halved them and set the timer. They all spread out and I had very nearly a single cookie, the size of Nova Scotia.
Next time I make these (and we're going to the store this morning) I will bake per instructions and cut the finished cookies in half. They are wonderfully chewy yet greasy - the label said something about "made with butter." They weren't kidding.
There are 12 golf balls at 160 calories each, but by cutting them in half, you only get 80 calories. Almost "Diet Sea Salt Caramel Chocolate Chunk" cookies so you can eat two of them and not feel guilty.
A funny thought: How long can this virus last anyhow - it was Made in China.
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
On the Inherent Goodness of the Human Race
The ink was barely dry on the You Can No Longer:" list when various groups began signing up to help.
The local Web site - NextDoor.com - covers Manhattan, Hermosa and Redondo Beaches with stuff for sale; coming events; Wanted items (nannies, cleaning people car seats for babies, etc.)
On what had to be the same day, people were asked to keep an eye on elderly neighbors; offer to bring them groceries, bring in the paper, give them a ride to wherever they want to go … very neighborly and useful, too. Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) writes that they have teamed up with Beach Cities Health District for much of the same thing plus such exotica as making sure smoke batteries are functional.
Personally speaking, a great deal more e-mails back and forth from relatives, friends - all very welcome, you may be sure.
This outpouring of offers to help reminded me of this associated-with- Louis- Armstrong- song:
.
"What A Wonderful World" performed by Louis Armstrong Can't you hear his gravelly voice?
I see trees of green
Red roses, too
I see them bloom
For me and you
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world
I see skies of blue
And clouds of white
The bright blessed day
The dark sacred night
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world
The colors of the rainbow
So pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces
Of people going by
I see friends shaking hands
Saying, "How do you do?"
They're really saying,
I love you
I hear babies cry
And I watch them grow
They'll learn much more
Than I'll ever know
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world.
Yes, I think to myself
What a wonderful world
Oh, yeah (and put some growl into it)
The local Web site - NextDoor.com - covers Manhattan, Hermosa and Redondo Beaches with stuff for sale; coming events; Wanted items (nannies, cleaning people car seats for babies, etc.)
On what had to be the same day, people were asked to keep an eye on elderly neighbors; offer to bring them groceries, bring in the paper, give them a ride to wherever they want to go … very neighborly and useful, too. Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) writes that they have teamed up with Beach Cities Health District for much of the same thing plus such exotica as making sure smoke batteries are functional.
Personally speaking, a great deal more e-mails back and forth from relatives, friends - all very welcome, you may be sure.
This outpouring of offers to help reminded me of this associated-with- Louis- Armstrong- song:
.
"What A Wonderful World" performed by Louis Armstrong Can't you hear his gravelly voice?
I see trees of green
Red roses, too
I see them bloom
For me and you
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world
I see skies of blue
And clouds of white
The bright blessed day
The dark sacred night
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world
The colors of the rainbow
So pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces
Of people going by
I see friends shaking hands
Saying, "How do you do?"
They're really saying,
I love you
I hear babies cry
And I watch them grow
They'll learn much more
Than I'll ever know
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world.
Yes, I think to myself
What a wonderful world
Oh, yeah (and put some growl into it)
Monday, March 23, 2020
Drag Queens - RuPaul Didn't Invent Them
Before our main library closed for the duration, I ran across "Drag - The Complete Story," by Simon Doonan This is a hardback; no helpful book flap with the name of the publisher or the price. 237 pages with many photographs. I went between a sort of fascinated horror to admiration for the obstacles they hurdled over triumphantly.
Drag didn't come in with Milton Berle and or television itself. The history section points out that Euripides play "The Bacchae" featured cross dressing. When King Theseus arrives in Athens, he was mistaken for a girl.
Starting around 3000 BC Egypt was home to Nefertiti Cleopatra. Mascara, elaborate gold-encrusted headdresses, long slinky dresses - and that was the men! Cleopatra's attempt to make rug rolling a popular "thing" failed.
The Table of Contents lists the types of drag - Glamour, Art, Butch, Black, Historical, Comedy- Enter Barry Humphreys; Dame Edna;Tyler Perry; "Madea" here then comes Popstar, Movie and finally Radical. Which consisted of a full page depiction of Donald Trump. Quite realistic looking down to the belly.
Drag on ladies!
Drag didn't come in with Milton Berle and or television itself. The history section points out that Euripides play "The Bacchae" featured cross dressing. When King Theseus arrives in Athens, he was mistaken for a girl.
Starting around 3000 BC Egypt was home to Nefertiti Cleopatra. Mascara, elaborate gold-encrusted headdresses, long slinky dresses - and that was the men! Cleopatra's attempt to make rug rolling a popular "thing" failed.
The Table of Contents lists the types of drag - Glamour, Art, Butch, Black, Historical, Comedy- Enter Barry Humphreys; Dame Edna;Tyler Perry; "Madea" here then comes Popstar, Movie and finally Radical. Which consisted of a full page depiction of Donald Trump. Quite realistic looking down to the belly.
Drag on ladies!
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