Lettuce detectives …

Thursday, January 30, 2025 … It's Thor's day … overnight rains were slowly being replaced by fog as I walked to the Mailbox this morning here in TulseyTown. And, as usual, the first bit of flotsam was political . . .

It is possible Nixon’s system of polarization is reaching the end of its rope. How we got from there to here. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.

As to the jetsam:

Today in 1948, Gandhi was assassinated.

And it is the birthday of the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, born in 1882 Hyde Park, New York.

Two UK born actors share today's birth date. Christian Bale turns 51 born in 1974, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales; and Vanessa Redgrave was born in 1937, London, England).

And, not least:

Today is the birth date of the poet and novelist Richard Brautigan. Born in 1935 Tacoma, Washington, he turned my writing life's direction completely around with the novellas Trout Fishing in America, and a small collection of short – and I mean short – stories titled “The Revenge of the Lawn.”

Private Eye Lettuce

Three crates of Private Eye Lettuce,

the name and drawing of a detective

with magnifying glass on the sides

of the crates of lettuce,

form a great cross in man’s imagination

and his desire to name

the objects of this world.

I think I’ll call this place Golgotha

and have some salad for dinner.

– Richard Brautigan, “Private Eye Lettuce” from The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1968.