Famous
First Words: In sleep he sang to me... Phantom of the Opera
January
is Train Your Dog Month. Dog Training Hack: They'll give you lots of
treats, so play dumb for as long as you can. / Doggie Berlitz: Woof,
Woofs, Woofed, Woofing, Bark, Barks, Barked, Barking...
Favorites
from the Women's March 2018 – Lawrence: A small boy riding on his
father's shoulders chanting Hands too small, can't build a wall
... The sign Keep Your Tiny Hands Off My Rights was elsewhere
in the line.
..........The
best cows on 4 legs and the prettiest gals on 2..........Willie Tyson
…..Debutante Ball
50
ways to promote peace #41: Help the homeless / Volunteer at a shelter
It
is a windy (20 mph SSE) Friday morning. The sky is without feature –
no cloud, no jet trail – there is only a flock of a couple of dozen
medium-sized birds flying silently south into the wind. Cy (nickname
for Cyclone) and Cooper are in the backyard so Puck contents himself
with sitting in the side yard barking at the students waiting noisily
for the bus; he talks Cooper into joining in on a few howls. There
are no birds at the swaying feeders and every bare tree limb, top to
bottom, is dancing wildly. I turn my back to the wind; it is not cold
(41°F) but he wind leeches warmth from the fingers as it caresses
the skin and carries hair everywhere. When the Friday morning
laughter is replaced with the motors of three school buses at one
intersection, we move back into the house. There is no wind here,
only the aroma of brewing Moose Munch and the sound of dogs clicking
their toenails on the floor upstairs. A warm and familiar place.
And now here I am sipping hot creamy coffee and writing to you.
Can't get much better...
Hope
your weekend deserves a good scratch behind the ears, ePistliers.
I
don't care what it is spelled backward. You're a dog! Get off the
bed! / Dog Reviews: Roberta's Dog Obedience School ...what a bunch
of control freaks!
You
Can't Comb Over Misogyny … We Need To Talk About the Elephant In
The Womb
..........Well,
I got my learnin' on the Big Bend Tunnel..........I've Been Driving
…...Odetta
Trivia
Questions: It is National Peanut Brittle Day !!
^
Any idea where peanut brittle originated?
^^
About when did the name brittle first appear in print?
^^^
What is the brittle made of?
^^^^
Which NFL star has built a peanut brittle empire?
^^^^^
What are the 2 most important facts about making your own peanut
brittle?
Funniest
Thing I Read of the Week: Boy at a Women's March with a sign
reading: I'm Not Allowed To Act Like The President
Sad
Good-bye of the Week: Ursula Le Guin …
a weaver of stories and worlds and realities. “It is good to have
an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the
end.”
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
45%
of library QR codes are links to cat videos
https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Teddy's
Training Tips: Teach your dog the rules to games. One important rule
– when teeth come into contact with skin, stop the game
immediately. / Dog Confessions: I can make Pavlov smile and write in
his little book just by drooling.
We'll
Clean Up Your Mess, As Always … Chin Up, Fangs Out …
..........You
see I've been set free..........Amy Madigan …..He Made A Woman Out
Of Me
Moonbeam:
What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father. --Mary
Dapes Dodge
Something
to Think About of the Week:
Big
Hello: Hawn –
Maltese https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
So
This Is How The March Went of the Week:
This one is from the KC Star and has snippets of some speakers and
some of the march.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article195790594.html
Best
Video of the March itself of the Week:
https://vimeo.com/252015860
Malika Lyon's wonderful video of marchers crossing 8th
on
Mass street coming north. Eventually you can see the line going back
south on the other side of Massachusetts. It was a very compelling
site. And the beginning of the march looped down to 6th
and back up to the park before everyone had gotten out of the park;
so the march looped downtown Lawrence completely.
Week
of the Week: International Hoof-Care
Week (January 23-36) –The blacksmith who was wearing a shirt that
said “I was shaping metal before it was cool”, tried to shoe my
horse with suede pumps but the police arrested my for forging art.
To
Do List: Resist, Persist, Vote … Grab 'Em By The Midterms
..........I
never did believe in miracles.........Fleetwood Mac …..You Make
Loving Fun
^
Some believe that peanut brittle originated in the
American South during the southern peanut farming boom in the early
1900’s. But another version credits a Southern woman for inventing
the candy purely by accident in 1890. While attempting to make taffy,
she inadvertently added baking soda to the recipe instead of cream of
tartar.
Almanac:
It is Friday, January 26, 2018. The moon was first quarter on
Wednesday and is in Cancer. It is Dental Drill
Appreciation Day, National Peanut Brittle Day, and Toad Hollow Day of
Encouragement. In Arkansas it is General Douglas MacArthur Day while
in Dominican Republic it is Duarte's Day aka Dia de Duarte. India
celebrates Republic Day (1950) and Michigan honors Admission Day
(1837). Because
it is the last Friday it is also Fun at Work Day, National
Big Wig Day, and National Pre-school Fitness Day.
Among
those born on this day were Jean B Pigalle (1714), Johan F L Sievers
(1742), Emmanuel A Forster (1748), Benjamin R. Haydon (1786), Eugane
France (1804), Julia Dent Grant (1826), Mary Dapes Dodge (1831),
Douglas MacArthur (1880), Maria Augusta von Trapp (1905), Polykarp
Kusch (1911), Cora Baird (1912), Jimmy Van Heusen (1913), Paul Newman
(1925), Eartha Kitt (1928), Philip José
Farmer (1928), M R Turner (1929), Bob Uecker (1935), Angela Davis
(1944), Gene Siskel (1946), David Briggs (1951), Eddie Van Halen
(1957), Ellen DeGeneres (1958), and Wayne Gretzky (1961).
On
January twenty-nineth the fifth sighting of Halley's Comet was
recorded (66), Racine's Esther
premiered
(1689), Isaac Newton received Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit
problem, solved it before going to bed that same night (1697),
Venice, Poland, and Austria signed a peace treaty with Turkey (1699),
Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia
premiered (1833), Michigan became the 26th state (1837), Tennessee
outlawed alcohol (1838), Louisiana seceded (6th, 1861), Virginia
rejoined the US (1870), the electric dental drill was patented
(1875), Synge's Playboy of the
Western World
debuted (1907), Strauss's Die
Rosenkavalier
premiered (1911), Executive Order # 9981 ended segregation in the US
armed forced (1948), Albee's Seascape
was first staged (1975), and Webber's Phantom
of the Opera
opened (1988).
Night
Sky, 1/26: The
Moon, two days past first quarter, shines to the right of Aldebaran
and lower left of the Pleiades this evening. Later, the Moon's dark
limb occults Aldebaran as seen from far northwestern North America
during the early-morning hours of Saturday.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week:
Ohayocon 18 (January 26-28, Columbus, OH) Strap in, we've still got
plenty of surprises left I store. http://ohayocon.org/news/
Actual
Science Convention of the Week:
Science of Organic Regenerative Cannabis Conference (January 26-29,
Portland, OR) ...This
plant is truly in a class of its own
More
Details
Actual
Science of the Week:
Start
planning for the total lunar eclipse that will come on the morning of
January 31st for western North America and Hawaii. The eclipse
happens on the evening of the 31st for Australia and eastern Asia
local date. Click
Here
to find out if and when?
This
Week: Saturday, January 27 –
Holocaust Memorial Day & Vietnam Peace Day
Sunday,
January 28 – National Kazoo Day & National Pediatrician
Day
Monday,
January 29 – Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day & Freethinkers
Day & Library Shelfie Day
Tuesday,
January 30 – Croissant Day & National Plan For A
Vacation Day
Night
Sky, 1/30: Saturn
is becoming more easily visible very low in early dawn. About 45
minutes before sunrise, look for it above the southeast horizon a
good 43° to the lower left of Jupiter. Don't confuse Saturn with
twinkly orange Antares about halfway back toward Jupiter, or twinkly
Altair far to the left due east.
Wednesday,
January 31 – Inspire Your Heart With Art Day & Street
Children Day
Night
Sky, 1/31:
Total Lunar Eclipse: At this website you can put in the name of
your city and it will tell you when and how much of the eclipse will
be visible for you.
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/map/2018-january-31
Thursday,
February 1 – Candy Making Day & National Get Up Day &
Freedom Day
Most
dogs of families with babies agree, babies need a lot more training
than dogs. / Dog Confessions: I actually know more commands than I
respond to.
It
turns out, that Uncle Sam had a much older and classier sister named
Columbia,
the feminine historic personification of the USA, who has since the
1920s largely fallen out of view. She was at the march.
..........The
Richards woman said, “Any dude will do”..........Maria Muldaur
…..Richland Woman Blues
^^
The term brittle first appears in print in 1892. I
was unable to find exactly where it was printed, however.
'Nother
Funniest thing I Read of the Week: A co-worker said to me,
“Could you be any more annoying?” So the next day I wore tap
shoes to work.
Moonbeam:
Radical simply means “grasping things at the root”. --Angela
Davis
Late
Night Snacks: On Saturday, officials in Hawaii
mistakenly sent out an alert that said a missile was headed toward
the island. And Drumpf didn’t comment until the next day. That’s
classic Drumpf right there. I mean, the first time there actually IS
fake news, he’s nowhere to be found. --Jimmy Fallon / President
Drumpf is now claiming his approval rating among black Americans has
doubled. In other words, Ben Carson voted twice. --Conan O'Brien /
Of course, the nation is still reeling from the shocking news that
our president is perfectly healthy. Yesterday, the president’s
doctor declared Drumpf in excellent physical and cognitive health.
Yeah, Drumpf should be on the cover of “Men’s Health,” or
rather, “Men’s HEALTH?!” --Stephen Colbert / On the bright
side, Drumpf did magically grow an inch and lose 30 pounds just
before his physical yesterday. While his approval rating may be low,
his coronary calcium score is high — so high that Dr. Sanjay Gupta
of CNN said he believes the president has heart disease. In response,
Drumpf had Sanjay Gupta deported by ICE. --Jimmy Kimmel / According
to a new poll, Republicans are more likely to label news they don’t
like as fake, while Democrats are more likely to label news they
don’t like as Fox. --Seth Meyers / It was no surprise a Fake News
award was given to CNN. They won for falsely reporting that Drumpf
overfed fish on his trip to Japan. Glad he cleared that up, because
that’s the crisis in Asia looming on the horizon that everyone is
worried about. Not nuclear missiles — bloated koi fish. --James
Corden
Not
So Late Night Snacks: But first, before we
start, we have to address the elephant in the room. And that, of
course, is the president's Fake Media Awards. I'd say it was an
honor just to be nominated, but we weren't even nominated. And given
the work we put in this last year saying outrageously false things
about the president... Like the fact that he circles the Oval Office
endlessly muttering, I can't find the corner, I can't find the
corner... Or that when he entered the West Wing for the first time,
he asked, but how does it flap? --Peter Sagal Wait,
Wait, Don't Tell Me
50
Ways to Promote Peace #40: Read books about peace and recommend them
to your friends
Super
Callous Fragile Racist Sexist Nazi POTUS
..........You
know you got it if it makes you feel good..........Janis Joplin
…..Piece of My Heart
^^^
Traditionally,
brittle is a mixture of sugar and water heated to the hard crack
stage corresponding to a temperature of approximately 300 °F.
Worthless
Fact of the Week:
The problem that Leibniz & Bernoulli devised for Newton was: To
find the curve connecting two points, at different heights and not on
the same vertical line, along which a body acted upon only by gravity
will fall in the shortest time.
https://www.math.purdue.edu/~eremenko/bernoulli.html
~~Hint, the answer is not 6.
Weird
Word of the Week:
Theranostics – a blend of therapeutics and diagnostics...
Scientists
had been excited about “theranostics,” where implanted devices
would both diagnose and treat illnesses in people automatically,
giving insulin for diabetes, for example. New
York Times,
30 Nov. 2012.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/turnsofphrase/tp-the2.htm
Wacky
Uses for Common Products:
Protect an injured dog or cat paw from getting wet in the rain.
Unroll a Trojan Non-Lubricated Condom on the dog's foot. Or use four
condoms to protect your dog's paws from rock salt when walking in the
snow. http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/trojan.html
~~And it would greatly amuse the neighbors.
Not
only did my personal dog trainer teach Rin Tin Tin to let himself out
when he needed to go, she taught him to mop up his footprints when he
came back inside. / I've heard it's hard to teach adult humans new
tricks. / Ralphie had the hardest time teaching his new dog to eat
his homework.
Wise
Up Rise Up Time's Up … We Are Stronger Than Your Fear
...........But
I'll give you strength.........Aretha Franklin …..Chain of Fools
^^^^
Mike Lodish of the Denver Broncos sells
700 to 1,000 pounds of peanut brittle most weeks and as many as 2,500
pounds per week during peak demand.
Word
Shakespeare Made Up of the Week: Secure – to make safe.
King Henry VI, Part II Act V, Scene II Queen Margaret: Now
is it manhood, wisdom and defense, to give the enemy way, and to
secure us by what we can...
Business
Adventure of the Week:
A friend of mine has recently moved to Thailand and his collection
of Bukowski books is up for auction:
https://www.ebth.com/items/7906099-novels-and-poetry-by-charles-bukowski
Best
Photo Gallery of the March of the Week:
Still
Shots by Mike Yoder of the Lawrence Journal World.
http://www2.ljworld.com/photos/galleries/2018/jan/20/lawrences-2018-womens-march/
Puck
the Brave
Episode of the Week:
Here's our fearless Puck keeping and eye on the human while his
friend, Shiloh, keeps an eye on Puck's tail in the case of the
Playful Plott.
The
first rule of ripping and shredding a newspaper is make sure the
human has not yet read it. / I like to play laser ponce with my
human. I pretend it's light saber practice.
So
Many Issues, So Little Posterboard … March Like A Girl
..........You're
a fine one Timer.........Laura Nyro …..Timer
^^^^^Fact
1) It is easy to make great peanut brittle. Fact 2) It is easy to
make terrible peanut brittle.
http://freakytrigger.co.uk/pumpkin/2004/02/two-important-facts-about-peanut-brittle/
Month
of the Week: January is Teen Driving
Awareness Month --My
point, Sophie, is that just because the state of Florida thinks you
can drive a car, that doesn’t mean you actually can drive a car. As
far as I can tell after three decades on the roads of Florida, there
isn’t anybody that the Florida Department of Motor Vehicles doesn’t
think can drive a car. I cannot imagine what you would have to do to
fail the driving test here. DMV officer: OK, make a left turn here.
Test taker: Whoops. DMV officer: [Writes something on clipboard]
Test taker: Does that mean I failed the test? DMV officer: Nah,
she’s getting back up. You just clipped her. --Dave Barry ~~Just
so you'll be aware...When I worked at the school for the visually
impaired, I once shipped a copy of Defensive
Driving in
Braille to a student in Tonganoxie, KS.
Most
Beautiful Thing in the State:
Samuel H Boardman State Park, Gold Beach, Oregon. ...the
raw beauty of the southern Oregon coast ranks it alongside other
famous shorelines, among them California's Big Sur coast, Australia's
Great Ocean Road or South Africa's Cape of Good Hope.
http://www.oregonlive.com/travel/index.ssf/2015/07/boardman_state_park_is_crescen.html
Today's
Peace of History, January
26, 1950: The
Indian Constitution became law and India proclaimed itself a
republic. The new president replaced the King of England as head of
state after nearly 100 years of British colonial rule. The Republic
of India considered its sovereignty derived from the people, becoming
the most populous democracy in the world.
Today's
Peace of Women's History, January
26, 1961: J G
Travell became the first woman personal physician to the president.
Canine
Ethics 101: What does it mean to be a “good dog”? / I'm teaching
him to give me a treat whenever I lay real still. / Obedience School
10th Reunion: The faces have changed a bit, but everyone
smells exactly the same.
A
Woman's Place Is In The Resistance … Resist! Enlist! Persist!
Insist!
..........Learn
to coo, learn to moo..........Peggy Seeger …..I'm Gonna Be an
Engineer
Masthead
of the Week:
fRiday ePistle, ePistle uNleased, January 26, 2018. Online at:
http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
Well trained humor and wild peace. Exclusive editor: Christine
Smith. 1800 Goodell Ct. Lawrence, KS 66046
Final
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: If
you see your glass as half empty, pour it into a smaller glass and
stop bitching.
Moonbeam:
As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around
the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth. --
Philip José
Farmer
Cost
of War:
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 1/25/17: $796,220,500,005.
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 1/17/17: $795,585,192,634.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 1/25/17:
$821,202,592,473.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 1/17/17:
$821,184,024,568.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 1/25/17:
$1,812,579,758,745.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 1/17/17:
$1,811,252,973,861.
50
Ways to Promote Peace #39: Forgive others, even long-standing
enemies. http://uncustomary.org/50-ways-promote-peace/
..........It
would be so fine to see your face at my door.........Carole King
…..So Far Away
Can
We Please Put Some Smart People In Charge Now?
When
you get home, let your dog lick your face. Dog saliva is the most
effective anti-depressant you can get without a prescription.
Famous
Last Words: Si
soccorra ... ella muor. --Donizetti's
Lucrezia Borgia
May
Peace kindle your bark
And
Joy wag your tail
prairie
mama
christine
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