Champagne taste, beer budget…

Friday, March 13, 2026. It's Freya's (Frigg's) day . . . Another mild Spring day is in the forecasts for TulseyTown today. Moderate Southeasterlies are to bring sunshine and mid 70's ahead of a even warmer day tomorrrow.

We never know the lives we influence, or when, or why.

Today is the birthdate of Susan B. Anthony, The activist and pioneer crusader for the women’s suffrage movement was born in 1820, Adams, Massachusetts.

Yesterday in 1930 Mahatma Gandhi began his famous 200-mile protest march against the widely hated British salt tax.

Yesterday in America. – Joyce Vance, on Civil Discourse.

The tragic failure of Trump and his war. How are we to respond? – Robert Reich, on substack.

And this money isn't even dark. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.

The Bank of Bukowski

Any more of Bukowski seems pointless.

Having written down what’s left to be said

and, being dead leaves me with

no address to which to send an inquiry

for help finding a publisher.

“To hell with that,” I can hear him say,

“if you want to write, write,

but only if you need to write, otherwise,

shut the fuck up.” Besides,

he no longer needs the money.

– jab

Still on the road . . .

Thursday, March 12, 2026. It's Thor's day . . . Strong Southerlies bring a mild, sunny, mid 60's Spring day to TulseyTown today.

What makes you think the river isn't singing?

James Taylor is 78 today. The singer/songwriter was born in 1948, Boston, Massachusetts.

Liza Minnelli is 80. The actress, singer, dancer and multiple award laureate was born in 1946, Hollywood, California.

It's the birthdate of playwright Edward Albee. He was born in 1928.

And, Jack Kerouac was born on this day in 1922 Lowell, Massachusetts.

The fate of the First Amendment. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.

Trump needs Robert's new hearing aids. – Robert Reich, My Marvelous New High-tech. On substack today.

Trump's cabinet officially becomes a cabal of cowardly clowns with shoes to match. – Miles Taylor, Defiance, 3.11.26

Not the sex you see in movies. Redefining beyond the norm. For women [and men]. Luminescence, 3.11.26

All this life and love and strife and failure—is it the twilight of nightfall or the flush of some faint-dawning day? – W.E.B Du Bois.

Galactic memory . . .

Wednesday, March 11, 2026. It's Odin's day . . . a mostly cloudy morning is forecasted to give way to a partly cloudy, windy afternoon in TulseyTown with wind chill in the 50's. Strong Northerlies are predicted througout the day, easy by evening.

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” – Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, whose birthday was today in 1952, Cambridge, England.

It is also the birthday of Rupert Murdoch who is 95 today. The publisher magnate was born in 1931, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

And the silent film star Dorothy Gish was born on this day in 1898, Massillon, Ohio.

On this day in 1811, in Ar-nold, Nottingham, textile workers staged the first major Luddite riot in England, breaking the machinery that was causing their displacement; the protest launched a movement that spread throughout the country. Luddites were not opposed to the use of machines per se (many were skilled operators in the textile industry); their issue was with organized manufacturers who were trying to circumvent standard labor practices of the time.

All we have is the present, and this is our practice in life, to keep returning to this moment even as it passes, just like looking out the train window, frame after frame. – Susan Moon, writing in “The Way of the Rails,” Tricycle.

You will remember

that time was like never and always:
We go where nothing is expected
and find everything waiting there. — Pablo Neruda, Time, in The Marginalian.