Cover Image: Summer Vinyard by Nanette Biers. Popping back in to do the dailies. Where to start. Let's see.... Some clean-up from last week: https://twitter.com/iluvdna585/status/1528523891186061312 Yeah, here's the thing about that...bishops have to resign. Cordileone could be pulled into the Vatican for a different job, but he can't just be removed. As for the timing … Continue reading Dear KAG: 20220524 Open Thread →

https://youtu.be/6985M7cEWSE Welcome to Wednesday. A few things Ukraine related came up, so here we go. From Archbishop Vigano: We come then to the Ukraine crisis, which is presented to us as a consequence of Vladimir Putin's expansionist arrogance towards an independent and democratic nation over which he is trying to claim absurd rights. The “warmonger Putin” … Continue reading Dear KAG: 20220518 Open Thread →

Cover image: Desert Bloom by Anthony Casey. I have all sorts of stuff in open tabs, so I'm just going to plop things here. First up: Dr. Judy Mikovitz has been working on making her presentations more user friendly as it were. Here she is with David Nino Rodriguez issuing a warning to humanity. It's … Continue reading Dear KAG: 20220517 Open Thread →

https://youtu.be/6lA5W_1T-ww Since we went from spring to August in these parts in the last forty-eight hours, that snow looks refreshing. 🥴 Okay, folks, if it feels to you that the "news" these days is lather, rinse, repeat, that's because there really haven't been any bombshells this week. There has been a lot of riding on … Continue reading Dear KAG: 20220511 Open Thread →

Cover image: Victor Higgins, Valley Spring, ca. 1940-1950, oil on masonite, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Arvin Gottlieb, 1991. https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1522959258375303169 At Church on Monday, I found out one of the maintenance guys is a conspiracy follower. He showed this to me and a friend who also is. With that in mind: https://twitter.com/RealAndyLeeShow/status/1523571325305950208 https://twitter.com/SwainForSenate/status/1523760767023333377 https://twitter.com/PotatoSmug/status/1523644271630295041 https://twitter.com/SparkyBru/status/1523349915799195648 It's … Continue reading Dear KAG: 20220510 Open Thread →

We take a break from the camels to indulge in one of the best movie scores ever written...which was inspired, I am quite sure, by William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast. (Seriously, we in the chorus heard the trumpet part in the middle and looked at each other saying, "Well, now we know where John Williams got … Continue reading Dear KAG: 20220504 Open Thread →

Cover image: asterworks of Tiffany and Prewar Design from the Warshawsky Collection led Sotheby's sale on May 19 to $8 Million total, topped by a Tiffany "Oriental Poppy" Floor Lamp which sold for $1.1 Million, an auction record for the model. The next day American Art fetched a total $38.3 million, just under its high … Continue reading Dear KAG: 20220503 Open Thread →

https://youtu.be/gXaXAIe4UJY If I sing the high lick in the one Queen of the Night aria, Ying does the same thing. The Couch Commando Claims she is critiquing. https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/1519152077322309632 https://twitter.com/MrAppalachian/status/1518773629743505408 Okay, folks, reaction to Elon Musk getting the job done of taking control of Twitter has been rather heavy. This is going to get long, so … Continue reading Dear KAG: 20220427 Open Thread →

Cover image: California Spring Landscape by Elmer Wachtel. Just in case you haven't heard: https://twitter.com/jimmyfailla/status/1518614912167288832 https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo_/status/1518750330611290117 https://twitter.com/thejtlewis/status/1518569469244633088 https://twitter.com/chieftalkbull/status/1518734965814349830 https://twitter.com/chieftalkbull/status/1518733107968442368 https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1518723931250774016 https://twitter.com/ZubyMusic/status/1518723798073286664 https://twitter.com/GardensR4Health/status/1518655763245371392 https://twitter.com/BillEnZed/status/1518726559326416896 Farm rat? I live in a major metropolitan area, and we get those in the yard all the time. One night, at 0430 am in the morning when it was still dark … Continue reading Dear KAG: 20220426 Open Thread →

https://youtu.be/ul4fq099EGs From Clandestine's Newsletter: I’m very glad I conducted this experiment. I was able to gather an overall understanding of how people define these words we use so often. And my hypothesis was correct, and that’s is, collectively, we do not posses the same exact definition(s). However, I think we all have a somewhat similar … Continue reading Dear KAG: 20220420 Open Thread →