Mother’s Day, as celebrated here on my home planet.

Call your mother!

OMG, I love her.  She even tells a boring story.
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Just when you think she’s more amused by this than you are, you get, “Put the cover on and let that boil until it cooks.  We’ll have to wait awhile.”
I love everyone over 85.  Her show should be called “The Watched Pot.”  It’s that good.  She [...]

So the first two episodes purged the oldest contestant–a Southern drag queen with little more than a persona and a routine–and a bizarre, crypto-Joan Crawford who was probably more of a performance artist than a drag queen since she wasn’t beautiful, passable or conversant in contemporary pop culture.
This augured badly.  I figured RuPaul was winnowing [...]

Awwww.  I know they’re in on it because it’s a great store.

There’s something so romantic about defleshing big pieces of meat.  Together, as a couple.

My friend Alison works for Etsy and has begun a new blog for them, a compendium of assorted delightful oddities from around the world.
This week’s is particularly great.
The bus-cozy is one thing, but the figure sculpted from tobacco products is like a deranged Muppet.  I fucking love it.  It reminded me of this childhood gem:
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Here’s proof.  Norm Dicks (D-Washington) looks like a porcine Huey Long.  I wonder if he uses Brylcreem on that hair, or if he’s a Dapper Dan man.

Carolyn Maloney of NY represents the “Silk Stocking” district on the Upper East Side (does anyone even call it that anymore?  Probably not since NY lost so many seats [...]