Rare roast? Or Pork?

Friday, April 24, 2026. It's Freya's day . . . Moderate Northerlies, mid 70's, and lots of cloudiness are in the forecasts for TulseyTown today.

The flower is always the bud’s undoing. So, let go and bloom where you are.

Michael Tilson Thomas, the American conductor, composer and pianist. died on Wednesday at his home in San Francisco. His 25-year tenure as music director of the San Francisco Symphony became a model of collegial music-making, artistic adventurousness and community engagement. He was 81.

Barbra Streisand is 84 today. She was born in 1942, Brooklyn, New York.

Shirley MacLaine is 92 born April 24, 1934, Richmond, Virginia,

Mystery novelist Sue Grafton was born on this day in 1940 Louisville, Kentucky.

Novelist, poet, and critic Robert Penn Warren—who became the first poet laureate of the United States, was born on this day in 1905 Guthrie, Kentucky.

On this day in 1904, artist Willem de Kooning, one of the leading exponents of Abstract Expressionism, was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

It’s unknown just how roast-like this Saturday's White House Correspondents dinner will be. Trump is attending for the first time. Some say it looks like a power move on his part. It's difficult to imagine Trump volunteering to be roasted at all, let alone by the media. – Jillian Wilson, Huff Post, 4.23.26

Epiphany

Because I cannot conceive the whole of creation,

judging the bits, pieces and parts with

these earth-bound eyes,

has become impossible.

That said – all these parts, pieces, and bits

somehow just now united in a new light

lifting a burden unknown before knowing

I was carrying.

– jab